Fall Out Boy's new video for the single Phoenix came out recently and I just watched it. This band frustrates the hell out of me because Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, Take This To Your Grave, and From Under The Cork Tree are three of the best albums in pop/rock history... then they just sold out, and they are proud of that fact. They featured shirts with "Sell Out Boy," on them. I don't really care about their yearly projections or their home lives, but since Infinity On High they've been making music that is a total 360 from the substance they used to deliver. Stump's lyrics have always been hard to follow, but they used to at least challenge thought. His vocals are now obnoxious.
I'd like to take this moment to acknowledge the bands out there:
1. Not in this for money, but the passion and physical need to express ones self.
2. Bands that stay true to themselves and their supporters by continuing to challenge and keep their sound, but improve upon it.
3. Individuals as well as bands that are rising through the airwaves providing listeners with more than just words to chords, but actual meaning and thought provoking hope giving, and change inspiring, powerful lyrics.
As much as I hate giving this more views, form your own opinions.
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