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FOBruary DAY 24 - "Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year" 🩺👔🧪

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idk why but this post reminded me of this fobr q&a

no like really even without the timeline context of when it leaked Hand of God is so incredibly messed up like???? FOB's always been good at public indictments of the way they've been treated, that's like, a significant amount of their discography especially prehiatus and ESPECIALLY Cork Tree which does it very bitterly and sardonically but Hand of God feels like it takes it a step farther with "which is it, the boy who writes the songs or the boy who's in them?" because like YES there is more than one way to interpret that and I'm cool with that but it's doing a massive disservice to FOB and to Pete's writing to skim over the point within the larger whole of the song that they are one and the same. the boy who writes the songs IS the one who's in them, that's been true for most of Fall Out Boy's career. they're SUPER vulnerable in their songwriting, even when it's sarcastic and tongue in cheek, there's always a piece of truth in it. they wrote an entire fricking song about Pete's suicide attempt. the boy who writes the songs has always been the one who's in them, this isn't mutually exclusive. and Hand of God is IMMENSELY self-referential. it's literally Pete writing about himself. "who's the girl, is this truth, or is he writing fiction?" were all questions asked repeatedly on their forums and in Q&As with Pete.

"I am the worst liar I know" coming from the song that is possibly the most raw, honest draft or demo from Cork Tree — which also contains lyrics such as "we're only liars, but we're the best" (tongue in cheek turnaround of criticisms against the band) and "you only hold me up like this because you don't know who I really am" and "if you say this makes you happy then I'm not the only one lying" and "it's just a matter of time until we're all found out" and "I'll keep singing this lie if you keep believing it" (in a song that was essentially the band's mission statement, for lack of a better term) and "the record won't stop skipping and the lies just won't stop slipping and besides my reputation's on the line" (in a song that Pete himself said was way too personal to play live and has also said was the first half of a story that Hum Hallelujah, which is explicitly about his suicide attempt, later completed) and "I went to sleep a poet and woke up a fraud" (Music or the Misery is on a different edition but the point still stands) and "I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type" (in a song titled sarcastically after the medication Pete overdosed on) — is fricking insane. there's a completely unfiltered, untwisted-into-sarcasm honesty in Hand of God and even though it (rightfully, because it would have been Too Much) didn't make it onto the final album, it functions as as much of a thesis statement as Sophomore Slump does. it functions as as much of a confessional as Dark Alley. Hand of God is at the heart of Cork Tree, practically haunting it, and it isn't even on the album.

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"like a sledgehammer to a disco ball-crushing all my low low low lows" ⚒💫

mixed media piece inspired by 'so much (for) stardust' [[prints]]

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getting ready for 2ourdust msg !! 🌜🌞 ✨ @falloutboy

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fall out boy / my heart will always be the b-side to my tongue

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thnks fr th mmrs

(alter ego 2024)

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this white hoodie?

Shield (noun): something or someone that protects or defends

Pete Wentz's blog - archived (April 25, 2008) / Fall Out Boy: Take This Back To Your Grave - Alternative Press Issue 303 (October 2013) / Patrick Stump - Warped Tour (2005) / Fall Out Boy Q+A - archived (Mary 15, 2006) / Pete Wentz's blog - archived (June 15, 2006) / Fall Out Boy - Smoke and Mirrors (January 2018) / Pete Wentz - Pete Wentz's Instagram story (2023) / At Home With Pete Wentz - excerpt from Q magazine (2007) / One and Only

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GIRL?

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pete in birmingham [source]

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smiley :) [video credit]

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memphis_nick #FallOutBoys concert. #CMGSoar2015

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riff with patrick, again! plus a bit of the piano medley. much fun many happy.

(it started with pete saying last time they were here, apparently a guy in the audience had 50 beers)

fall out boy - forest national, Brussels - Oct 25, 2023

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the same way I think of you.