This morning, Fall Out Boy dropped by the RS offices to feed us breakfast and play a few tracks off their upcoming album, Folie A Deux (out November 4th). On their fifth disc, the guys pump out chunky, Eighties-inspired riffs and lung-busting choruses sure to hook anyone who’s not already a FOB fan. “I must confess, I’m in love with my own sins,” Patrick Stump sings on “America’s Sweethearts,” a strutting, tongue-in-cheek ode to narcissism that cops Beatle-esque harmonies. (A snippet of the song was on FOB’s recent Welcome to the New Administration mixtape.)
Another standout track was “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet,” a dark, New Order-reminiscent stomp about an unfaithful chick. (The title originally name-dropped Pete Rose, but the band was discouraged because of the lawsuit brought against OutKast over the reference to Rosa Parks in the title of an Aquemini single. This bums Pete Wentz out: “I wanted to see Pete Rose in Cooperstown,” he says. “I was all about it.”) Stump shows off his soul chops on the cut, belting, “Does he know the way the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?” before ripping into the defiant refrain: “I will never end up like him.”
After the listening session, we asked the blog-happy Wentz for some tips on improving RollingStone.com. “I’m absolutely the wrong guy to ask,” he admitted sheepishly. “I put the wrong stuff on the Internet.”
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