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patrick saying his we made it moment is seeing people stay for saturday is making me feel sooo insanely emotional because it’s like. such a personal metric of success?? like. saturday was never a big hit, but they chose to end every show with it years ago anyways. even when they could see people leaving during it, they chose to keep playing it. because it meant something to Him and to Them, and to the diehard fans too. and just imagining, as time goes on, seeing people choosing to stay. actively seeing peoples opinions and hearts change over time and decide that its worth it to stay, to feel the love and importance that song holds for the band. it’s beyond just a symbolic show that your music is resonating with people and making it into their hearts- people staying Literally shows that. all us believers still believe everytime we sing two more weeks, y’know? and with every show, maybe they’re picking up more believers. and That is how patrick measures his success— in how many people are choosing to believe and to stay.

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Idk if you have talked about this (you probably already did) but I'm just curious, in your opinion what is the kids aren't alright about? Have you done any analysis on the song?

i probably Have analyzed it but i can't find it and its been so long so. will Happily ramble here about what i think its about <3 tbh this is the most beautiful ask i could ever get thank u <3

since you asked what i think tkaa is about, i'm not gonna do this in the normal way i analyze songs, which is a more line-by-line style to paint a picture of the whole story of the song, but instead just wanna like. ramble fksjdnf about it and what it means to me

i think the entire meaning of the song can be summed up by the line, "and in the end, i'd do it all again / i think you're my best friend", which really is to mean that i think that the overarching theme of the song is that life can be worth repeating and going through again for the people that you go through it with. connection and relationships give life incredible meaning, even with the bad things, even with sorrow and darkness, love makes it worth it- i'm yours, when it rains it pours, stay thirsty like before, as the song goes. when the storm comes, as the rain starts pouring and destruction closes in on you, wouldn't it be more comforting to have somebody beside you? facing the chaos with their hands in yours? wouldn't it be worth going through the storm again (stay thirsty like before) just to have those moments with the people you love?

and normally when i analyze songs, i very much try to stay away from analyzing them in a way that is very personal to pete/the members of the band just because... i don't wanna be presumptive! but, this song feels like one of the few that i Can't look at separate from pete and the band. no song feels more like a love letter to the band, and even to the fans, than the kids aren't alright. this band has known each other for over half their lives, they have been best friends and brothers for longer than they haven't been. every up and down each of them have gone through since they met each other, they have gone through together, they have seen their darkest sides and deepest depressions and through it all have Still chosen to love each other and stick together. as the rain has come and poured on them, as the storm that is life shipwrecked the band and sent them stranded in seemingly opposite directions, the love remained. the found each other again, because they were willing to do it all again for each other. their love and friendship is the purest embodiment of the song, and is the thesis of fall out boy as a band, to me. even through destruction and overbearing egos and inner turmoil each of them were experiencing that we are likely to never know the depths of- they Chose that their bonds were worth it, their bonds made life worth living and fighting for.

i feel that spirit, that life is worth fighting for if you have someone/something you love to Live for, is perfectly encapsulated by the lyrics, "and it's our time now if you want it to be / maul the world like the carnival bear set free"- if you want, life is ours for the taking regardless of the rest of the world. carnival bears were often mistreated and repressed, beaten down for acting in their nature, if one were set free they would finally truly be Free to be how they wish to be. in the context of the song, because we have each other, we can take the world on how We want, we can be who We want to be, Together. This is also something that i think is the thesis of fall out boy- the band of underdogs for underdogs, fighting for a space in the world to be safe and express themselves how they want to, and because they've found each other and an audience that Understands them, they can maul the world like the carnival bear set free. they are mauling the world, with every song released and show performed, they're taking on the world on their terms as a united band of best friends. and with their fans behind them, that spirit is embodied tenfold, making this song not only feel like a song for the band, about the band, but Also about the fans and for the fans.

before coming to any sweeping conclusion, i wanna talk about the bridge, because i feel like it is the last piece that does fully show what i think the song is about in totality. The bridge goes, "sometimes i just want to sit around and gaze at my shoes / and let your dirty sadness fill me up just like a balloon"- other than the carnival bear line, i believe this might be my favorite lyric of the song (which is saying a lot in a song of banger after banger line), as i feel the imagery it paints is just so heartaching and melancholy in such a beautiful way. there's a lot here in these lyrics, from how in the genius annotations pete annotated this line with a still of someone's shoes and a bunch of guitar pedals on the ground- something he would no doubt gaze down at when gazing down at his shoes while recording or performing, hammering home the meaning of this song being about/for the band and the fans. they share their sadness with each other, with the fans (to an extent), and the fans share their sadness back- music is always a reminder of the bond we all share in our heaviest moments, as is the guitar pedals being present when gazing down at your shoes in sorrow or guilt. another point i want to make is about "gaze at my shoes" perhaps being a play on words about "shoegaze" as a genre of music defined by guitar distortion and effects and a dreamy/ethereal feel- connecting the picture, the lyrics, the meaning of the band and fans always being there and music being a connection between us all, in a way. essentially, i feel this lyric is just a very melancholy, beautiful way to say sometimes its very easy to just wallow in your feelings, but having somebody with you to help take on your sadness, having these connections and these bonds, can make it lighter.

to try and find a way to summarize it, i really do just think the kids aren't alright is about love. in its purest form, it's about love. loving other people enough to live for them, finding the bonds and connections that give meaning to a meaningless existence, allowing yourself to feel pain in equal measure with pleasure. these are things that make life what it is, without these things life would be numb, meaningless nothingness. in the purest way, i believe the kids aren't alright is about what it is to be human and to love with reckless abandon, to be free to be and feel and love even if pain is present. Because pain doesn't diminish the love or light you can experience in life, and allowing yourself to believe anything less is to deny yourself a instrumental piece of the human experience.

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two ouppy…

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"atlas you ever think about how you saw this one live?" lu bestie you bet i think about getting the rat a tat live debut Constantly like. absolutely insane song to live debut at the last show, insane song to witness live i can't believe it happened. same with you and alpha dog though like... they love us <3

I'm SO grateful I got Alpha Dogged bc like. INSANE. on the same night that Pete Wentz told Patrick Stump "as you wish" live onstage in front of me, @theladyjojogrant, and all of Orlando. but something about Rat A Tat... singing "are you ready for another bad poem?" on the last night of the best tour they've ever done... something very fall out boy forever about that to me. and like, "remember me as I was not as I am"... it's just, no, we'll remember them HAPPY, as they are now. not to mention the parallels in the second verse of Rat A Tat all the way back to Hum. something something healing tour, yknow? towards the end of tour they started doing this thing where they were talking about the hiatus more in such a condensed period of time than I think they really have very much before? and it was all offhand references, 8 Ball intros and the like, but seeing as one of those instances was my show, it really stuck out to me. the healing of it all, yknow? all of it culminated together at the end, all the healing and the joy and the looking forward into the future. it's Patrick saying he wants to do, like, 20 more albums, write music to Pete's words for as long as they physically can. no matter how obsessed you've been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who wants you whole. are you ready for another bad poem? Fall Out Boy forever. yknow?

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i can’t die happy until i convince the world that pete wentz is THE lyricist of not even a generation, but multiple generations. i want him to be given an award. i won’t know peace until it’s agreed upon by a majority of the human population

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love is a weapon, there’s no second guessing

rat a tat // fall out boy

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other people were obsessed with srar patrick for uwu reasons, but to me the appeal is that he looked like a tumblr hipster lesbian

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fall out boy being awkward on iheartradio for 1 minute straight

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we need a🧍except the guy is covered in blood

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crystal ball snail 🔮

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*gets up on my soapbox* like Hand of God gets interpreted through a very p2 lens a lot which is fine but I do think I'm probably closer to objectively correct when I say that "the boy who writes the songs [and] the boy who's in them" are one and the same. in my mind Hand of God is almost a prelude to The Music Or The Misery, and as such deals with much the same themes. "who's the girl/ is this truth or is he writing fiction" are all things that fans asked of Pete — meanwhile, in a way, the media and critics were treating Pete himself much as they would a girl. something about such a largely female fanbase and a mixed guy being the face of the band and the general attitude of media regarding artists in general. I don't mean to minimize actual misogyny at all but I think there's a point to be made about Pete being treated somewhat similarly to a girl in the scene, if that makes sense. my point is: the boy who writes the songs and the boy who's in them doesn't mean Pete and Patrick. it's just Pete, constantly scrutinized, criticized, taking the fall for the entire band. it's not gossip if it's the truth.

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Pete Wentz so unintelligible that even his own kid is like "what???" when he talks