SUMMERS: I know you all are about to be kicking off a major tour. (SOUNDBITE OF FALL OUT BOY SONG, "SO MUCH FOR STARDUST") I was like, yeah, I want to make the kind of song that you play at a wedding and don't really pay attention to how absolutely bleak it is. WENTZ: "What A Time To Be Alive" had this just double meaning where I saw that line and it just inspired me. WENTZ: Like, you're like, that was, like, the worst year of all time.įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) What a time to be alive, what a time to be alive. So I feel like we - like, "Quarantine Blues" is maybe kind of the only real reference, but, like, I love the idea of the saddest New Year's song ever. In the - you know, where you can see that big line in the stone, you know, on the side of the mountain.
But I think we were nervous to be, like, heavily referential of it in the way that, like, you know, it just feels like there is a lot of art, and it really cements it as, like, this happened at this exact moment, like, and doesn't let the art, you know.
WENTZ: It's interesting because - right? - like, the pandemic and quarantining was, like, such a big part of everyone pretty much on the planet's life. So how much is this song, and really the whole record, a product of that isolation that we all lived through during the pandemic? SUMMERS: And later in the song, you say that you've got the quarantine blues. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE")įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) We're out here and we're ready, we're here and we're ready to livestream the apocalypse. We're ready to livestream the apocalypse, for example. SUMMERS: But the lyrics, if you listen closely, are a lot gloomier. (SOUNDBITE OF FALL OUT BOY SONG, "WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE") SUMMERS: I want to ask you about another song on the record, the song "What A Time To Be Alive," because it has this, like, almost disco vibe to it. SUMMERS: Dialing in to that sound also netted the band their first-ever number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart decades into their career with the lead single "Love From The Other Side."įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) Sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse, and I just about snapped, don't look back, every lover's got a little dagger in their hand, love from the other. STUMP: I really missed having to tune a guitar for an inordinate amount of time or having to place microphones. SUMMERS: Patrick Stump says getting back to that sound meant a welcome return to the basics in the recording studio. Nowhere left for us to go but heaven, summer falling through our fingers again, and you were the sunshine of my lifetime. PETE WENTZ: When I look at artists whose art I love, like, sometimes after they make something polarizing, maybe the next thing they do is something that's more recognizably that artist.įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) I'm not sure. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOVE FROM THE OTHER SIDE")įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) Generation sleep. SUMMERS: The band's bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz says the album was sometimes purposely polarizing and that provided some artistic direction for their new album, "So Much (For) Stardust." Just make things weird.įALL OUT BOY: (Singing) Young, young, young and a menace, and a menace, and a menace, young and a menace. PATRICK STUMP: How much you can bend the sounds and distort the sounds and make them into different things - you know, make guitars into synthesizers and make voices into - you know, into guitars or whatever. SUMMERS: Vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump says he was playing around with technology. Shoes again but somewhere you exist singing, oops, I. JUANA SUMMERS, BYLINE: On Fall Out Boy's 2018 album, "Mania," experimentation was the point.įALL OUT BOY: (Singing).
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