But anyway, I'm going to apply that narrow-mindedness to music. For the longest time, I was a music supremacist and essentially thought that any music I didn't like or know enough about was bad and wrong. I thought like this forever. First it was 80s rock, then pop music, then punk and its subgenres. Boy, was I wrong. Now I don't think I could live without my 80s rock, pop, and pop-punk. And I mean, there's stuff I don't care for, like pretty much everyone, but I still appreciate the fact that it's music. Honestly, musicians work so hard that I think they should get to play whatever makes them happy. It's only fair. Music is so amazing and we shouldn't judge people for what they love.
Now onto the Fall Out Boy (FOB for the rest of the post) portion of the post: I was about six years late to my FOB obsession. My first exposure to FOB was in elementary school when we got "Dance Dance Revolution" and the song "Dance Dance" was one of the songs you could dance to. My middle school scream-along music was Nickelback, Hannah Montana, and Taylor Swift (and even then, can we call it scream-along?). ANYWAY, the only song of FOB's that I knew was "Dance Dance" and I was like "okay cool I can dig this", but I never really thought anything else of it.
Then, I got an iPod for Christmas, and the only FOB song that was "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and I liked it well enough. For the longest time, that was the only FOB song I really knew because I hadn't bothered to look into them in the two years between getting my iPod and FOB going on hiatus.
Then, during my junior year of high school, FOB was suddenly back. I lied about my love of FOB a lot but that's only because I was lame and hated everything that wasn't a song from a Broadway show and I had really only heard and liked one FOB song.
So, at the tender age of just-barely-17, I was formally introduced to FOB and my life hasn't been the same since. And yes, my first introduction was Save Rock and Roll, which is a helluva lot different than the rest of their music, so I felt kinda bad about liking this new album that was apparently "too different" and stuff, but it made me fall in love.
Finally, I decided I would actually go and buy some of their music. I first bought "Alone Together" because it was my favorite song from Save Rock and Roll (as far as I knew) and "Thnks fr th Mmrs" because duh. Then, I started listening to all of their stuff on Spotify because that's what you do when you're a young teenager who doesn't have any money. But holy shit, has FOB been an amazing force in my life. To be honest, I really did find FOB at a time in my life when I was struggling with a lot more anxiety than what I struggle with today, and it was good to have music where I could be angry at the world without hurting anyone's feelings. I mean, I did plenty of hurting people's feelings, but music has always been an outlet for me, no matter what the situation (check out my other post x for more about my relationship with growing into music). But there is something so raw and amazing that comes from FOB, which has honestly made them my favorite band (Sorry, KISS!).
I'm going to try to convince you all how great FOB is:
So, expand your horizons. Listen to something you might have heard and kind of liked. Maybe you'll find a gem somewhere. I did. Go forth and listen, lovelies! Peace out!
(FOB lyrics pic x)
