Fall Out Boy Album, Folie A Deux
Preview of Folie A Deux, Featuring "I Don't Care,"
The new Fall Out Boy album Folie A Deux finds the band extolling the same energy and style that made thier last album a major success. It follows the same rock formula as Infinity on High, and 2008's Folie A Deux serves as a mainstage for frontman Patrick Stump. Thier singles include "I Don't Care" and "America's Suitehearts," as well as "Tiffany Blews," a new stop for Fall Out Bot, featuring Lil' Wayne.
America's SuiteheartsFolie A Deux was released on the same day as fellow rocker All American Rejects' 16 December album. The new Fall Out Boy album features guest appearances, a limited edition bonus disc, and high expectation and praise from critics and fans. The bonus disc features alternate versions of "I Don't Care" and "America's Suitehearts." The band has been a sweetheart of American rock since 2003, and Folie A Deux will likely continue the love affair.
Folie A Deux tracklisting: "I Don't Care" and "America's Suitehearts"
1. Disloyal Order of Water Buffalos
This song features a title parodied from Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble’s Loyal Order of the Water Buffalos in The Flintstones. Patrick Stump opens Folie A Deux: “I’m coming apart at the seams / pinching myself for leads in other people’s dreams / Like buzz, buzz, buzz / Doc, there’s a hole where something was.”
2. I Don’t Care
The album’s first single, “I Don’t Care was released in September 2008, and features one of the album’s most catchy rock riffs. Including the chorus: “I don’t care what you think / As long as it’s about me / The best of us can find happiness in misery.”
3. She’s My Winona
Another rocker, this one has Pete Wentz at his most punk rock pessimistic: “Life’s just a pay stub on death / only less diligent / And when the two collide / It’s no coincidence.”
4. America’s Suitehearts
Folie A Deux’s most pronounced vocal features a ride through Pete Wentz’s lyrical mind. He laments the band's spot in popular culture, and the need for sin and repentence. He knows the band's place, and his lyrics show it: “You could have knocked my out with a feather / I know you heard this all before, but we’re just Hell’s neighbors.”
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5. Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet
An homage to banned-baseball player Pete Rose, this song features an 80s instrumental vibe, with a drum machine sound and some distorted vocals. Goes the chorus: “Does your husband know the way / that the sunshine gleams from your wedding band.”
6. The Shipped (Gold) Standard
A start-and-stop vocal performance, as well as an instrumental vehicle for the band, this one features the opening: “Sometimes I wanna quit this all and become an accountant now / But I’m no good at math / And besides the dollar is down.”
7. (Coffee’s For Closers)
Another rocker from the New Fall Out Boy album. This one features a marching band-type drum under heavy guitars and a call-and-response chorus. Sings Patrick Stump: “I’m a mascot for what you’ve become / and oh, oh I love the mayhem more than the love.”
8. What A Catch, Donnie
The slowest song on Folie A Deux, this song features Elvis Costello. This one is an homage to the singer-songwriter who helped mold the kind of music that Pete Wentz has writtem for five years. Elvis Costello was writing punk songs and singing them when the lyricist was but an adolescent, and the admiration shows. It features the throwaway lyric: “You’ll never catch us / so just let me be / Said I’ll be fine till the hospital / or the American Embassy.”
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9. 27
This track represents the type of teenage angst that Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz borrowed direcly from the Ramones and the Clash, and the kind he has brough to a new generation. Opens Stump on the throwaway rocker: “The milligrams in head / burning tobacco in the wind / Chasing the direction.”
10. Tiffany Blews
A new twist, Fall Out Boy featuring Lil’ Wayne. The crossover rapper brings a new audience to the rockers who have collaborated with Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco in the past. Sings Stump before a verse from the rapper: “Oh, baby, you’re a classic / like a little black dress / You’re a faded moon / Stuck on a little hot mess.”
11. w.a.m.s.
A rocker like “America’s Suitehearts” or “I Don’t Care,” this is Wentz's most overtly sexual offering. It follows in a long like of Dylanesque laments to the opposite sex, never quite in love, but never quite out of it. It features the chorus: “My head’s in heaven / My soles are in hell / Let’s meet in the purgatory of my hips and get well.”
If Fall Out Boy featuring Lil’ Wayne wasn’t enough on a New Fall Out Boy album, the band brings in production from Pharrell Williams, and includes a bonus disc of remixes and acoustic versions for the hardcore fans of Patrick Stump and America’s Suitehearts.
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