SR-71 wrote this song from the perspective of people whose dreams more or less came true. The statement requires a qualifier because it is not immediately clear what SR-71’s goals were when they started their band, nor is it clear just how much SR-71 enjoyed being somewhat-famous recording artists, especially…

“And everyone’s looking for relief/A bidding war for an old flame’s grief/The cause, the kid, the course, the charm, and the curse” Fall Out Boy’s older material, the work that attracted major label attention, was about their relationships, girls they pined for, girls who broke their hearts, girls they ended…

Now more than ever, Fall Out Boy is inconsequential. The notion they ever could have been infamous is laughable. They were never evildoers. They were never truly hated. People didn’t like them for the same reason they didn’t like Fred Durst and the same reason they don’t currently like Post…

We don’t actually learn about Cinderella’s father in Cinderella. We learn that, when his first wife died, he wanted to re-marry to give his daughter a female role model, and he didn’t want to marry below his station like a poor, so he took up with a woman of good…

My dad is a good man, but he’s never been my go-to source on matters of the heart. He’s been married twice and divorced twice; between marriages, he had a long-term girlfriend who I never really saw, the source of ill-fitting clothes from Old Navy and the voice on the…

I should’ve just watched the lyric video. Happy Tree Friends is exactly what it intended to be, which, I will concede, is more than can be said for a lot of content. Someone wanted to visit bodily horror upon adorable forest creatures that they drew, and look: that! And so…

Sometimes, you’re able to immediately pinpoint the reason a band didn’t get more popular after a hit song. In this case, it’s that the album was titled Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! It’s an extremely online-in-2006 aesthetic being communicated by both the title and the cover art, and there’s probably a…

Fall Out Boy is a rock band that does not rock particularly hard. “Rock” is a verb representing something unrestrained and primal, and Fall Out Boy is here to represent Fall Out Boy. It is hard to let go of yourself when the entire point of the project is to…

There’s not a lot to talk about here. It’s a very standard pop/punk song, which comes as a letdown when placed in the middle of a fairly adventurous album. The lyrics don’t do much to push boundaries, generally and thematically speaking. It’s just not a very good song. And yes…