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this is basically a love letter about my favorite band. a "letter" i've been trying to mentally plan out for the last six days and have already scrapped once but decided to write tonight in wake of telling crows that i would. this week was (besides the eleventh anniversary of infinity on high) the five year anniversary of the day they came back. the day they lit their legacy on fire and rose from the ashes. feb. 4th, 2013.
if you are at all a fan of this band you may be familiar with the above picture. this photo was taken at 6am in the morning fall out boy went out to old comiskey park in chicago and decided to literally burn their old records and symbolically rise out of the flames. that day was when the future of fall out boy started.
without writing a novella about my Tragic Backstory of how this band and their music helped me through a bunch of bad shit, which they most certainly did and i cannot thank them enough for, the real reason i am writing this is to try and put into words how much i love this band.
i cannot express completely what it feels like when you find something that just clicks. something you just vibe with on a very stripped down and raw level. that is fall out boy for me. i don't know why but i have yet to experience that with any other band in their entirety. i have found songs and occasionally albums that i feel resonate with me on such a personal or aesthetic level that i have no choice but to add them to a narcissistically motivated playlist about myself but there has not been another band thus far that has completely made me feel mortal and glad to be alive.
patrick stump may have been the first person i really completely loved. his smile, to this day, makes my chest experience all the heart emojis at once and his voice still makes me feel safe and not alone. pete wentz was my first therapist. his lyrics gave me something to relate and to hold on to. something to call mine while everyone around me beat mindlessly in time with the world's drum. i clung to those lyrics like they would be my last words. joe trohman and andy hurley were the first people i felt like i could trust with something as valuable as my broken character. this band fixed me, or rather, helped me fix myself.
to this day fall out boy remains my favorite band. my music taste has expanded exponentially thank god but this one thing remains the same. i truly love them and not only for everything they stand for and believe in but for the art they put out and the lives they have changed. that would not be possible if they hadn't come back and started their revolution. there is no need to go into the finer details of how successful they were in their comeback and how well they did and do today because this isn't necessarily about that. this is about a band that reemerged from the shadows and started making music for themselves and the sad kids again. a band that wouldn't have done this if they didn't love what they were making, and that is what sets fall out boy apart.
when fall out boy returned old fans came back with pride and new fans found a band they could call their own. we'd been missing them to death and they got to see that believers never die.
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[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 8pt; line-height:13px;"]feburary 4th, 2013 / legends get sappy over a band? it's more likely than you thinkthis is basically a love letter about my favorite band. a "letter" i've been trying to mentally plan out for the last six days and have already scrapped once but decided to write tonight in wake of telling crows that i would. this week was (besides the eleventh anniversary of infinity on high) the five year anniversary of the day they came back. the day they lit their legacy on fire and rose from the ashes. feb. 4th, 2013.
if you are at all a fan of this band you may be familiar with the above picture. this photo was taken at 6am in the morning fall out boy went out to old comiskey park in chicago and decided to literally burn their old records and symbolically rise out of the flames. that day was when the future of fall out boy started.
without writing a novella about my Tragic Backstory of how this band and their music helped me through a bunch of bad shit, which they most certainly did and i cannot thank them enough for, the real reason i am writing this is to try and put into words how much i love this band.
i cannot express completely what it feels like when you find something that just clicks. something you just vibe with on a very stripped down and raw level. that is fall out boy for me. i don't know why but i have yet to experience that with any other band in their entirety. i have found songs and occasionally albums that i feel resonate with me on such a personal or aesthetic level that i have no choice but to add them to a narcissistically motivated playlist about myself but there has not been another band thus far that has completely made me feel mortal and glad to be alive.
patrick stump may have been the first person i really completely loved. his smile, to this day, makes my chest experience all the heart emojis at once and his voice still makes me feel safe and not alone. pete wentz was my first therapist. his lyrics gave me something to relate and to hold on to. something to call mine while everyone around me beat mindlessly in time with the world's drum. i clung to those lyrics like they would be my last words. joe trohman and andy hurley were the first people i felt like i could trust with something as valuable as my broken character. this band fixed me, or rather, helped me fix myself.
to this day fall out boy remains my favorite band. my music taste has expanded exponentially thank god but this one thing remains the same. i truly love them and not only for everything they stand for and believe in but for the art they put out and the lives they have changed. that would not be possible if they hadn't come back and started their revolution. there is no need to go into the finer details of how successful they were in their comeback and how well they did and do today because this isn't necessarily about that. this is about a band that reemerged from the shadows and started making music for themselves and the sad kids again. a band that wouldn't have done this if they didn't love what they were making, and that is what sets fall out boy apart.
when fall out boy returned old fans came back with pride and new fans found a band they could call their own. we'd been missing them to death and they got to see that believers never die.
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