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Pete Wentz (bassist/lyricist) : We could have easily regurgitated our last record which is what certain people expected us to do but, when it’s all over, we want to be remembered as a rock band that pushed limits and was sincere and totally honest to itself and its fans. When we are 90 years old and on our death beds, it will matter to us that at least we took chances.
I used to get Circus magazine when I was little, and there’d always be these little ads in the back where you could order posters. And there’d always be this super-amazing, awesome dirty picture of [topless model turned pop singer] Samantha Fox, who sang Touch Me. My mom would never let me order the poster, so I’d just cut the picture out of the magazine and carry it around with me.
And, we grew up near Shermerville, which is right near where all the John Hughes movies are set, so that’s where the Sixteen Candles reference came from. It’s really funny to me because nobody who hears the record probably knows who Samantha Fox is, but maybe they’ll look her up on the Internet and see all these amazing topless pictures and thank us. Either that, or they’re send us hate mail.
Stump (vocalist) : It’s always a struggle to figure out how to put someone else’s lyrics into music you’ve already written because everyone’s vocals have a different cadence and that can change the whole thrust of a song, so I’ve found stuff I really like in his lyrics and made music beneath it that compliments it.
Pete Wentz : With this record, we’ve got a bigger focus and a grander idea. We don’t want to disappoint the 200,000 people who are part of a very cult following that hangs onto our every word, and we won’t. But we wrote this record for all the people who haven't heard of Fall Out Boy before. When George Lucas did Return of the Jedi, he wanted it to appeal to the person who saw Star Wars, but at the same time, if somebody wasn't born when that came out, they can still go see the movie and have it be a very exciting thing for them. That’s the kind of thing we want to achieve.
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I used to get Circus magazine when I was little, and there’d always be these little ads in the back where you could order posters. And there’d always be this super-amazing, awesome dirty picture of [topless model turned pop singer] Samantha Fox, who sang Touch Me. My mom would never let me order the poster, so I’d just cut the picture out of the magazine and carry it around with me.
And, we grew up near Shermerville, which is right near where all the John Hughes movies are set, so that’s where the Sixteen Candles reference came from. It’s really funny to me because nobody who hears the record probably knows who Samantha Fox is, but maybe they’ll look her up on the Internet and see all these amazing topless pictures and thank us. Either that, or they’re send us hate mail.
Stump (vocalist) : It’s always a struggle to figure out how to put someone else’s lyrics into music you’ve already written because everyone’s vocals have a different cadence and that can change the whole thrust of a song, so I’ve found stuff I really like in his lyrics and made music beneath it that compliments it.
Pete Wentz : With this record, we’ve got a bigger focus and a grander idea. We don’t want to disappoint the 200,000 people who are part of a very cult following that hangs onto our every word, and we won’t. But we wrote this record for all the people who haven't heard of Fall Out Boy before. When George Lucas did Return of the Jedi, he wanted it to appeal to the person who saw Star Wars, but at the same time, if somebody wasn't born when that came out, they can still go see the movie and have it be a very exciting thing for them. That’s the kind of thing we want to achieve.