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Fall Out Boy are a pop-punk band from Illinois, home of Screeching Weasel, Alkaline Trio, and the Smoking Popes. Whether or not they belong to the "[[Emo
The band consists of Patrick Stump (vocals, rhythm guitar) Joe Trohman (lead guitar) Pete Wentz (bassist, lyricist) and Andy Hurley (drums).
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The band is well known for such songs as "Dance, Dance," "Sugar, We're Going Down," "This Ain't a Scene, it's an Arms Race," "I Don't Care,", "Thnks fr th Mmrs" and "America's Suitehearts." They have currently released five albums and have had better than a dozen singles total.
They have numerous music videos, including one where they pretended to be vampire hunters that went on for about seven minutes, and one with Turk from ''[[
They have nothing to do with the mascot of the ''[[
The band is currently on indefinite hiatus. Patrick has started a solo musical effort, Pete has started a dancehall band called the Black Cards, and Joe and Andy have joined a metal band called The Damned Things.
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** "Thnks fr th Mmrs," which tells the story of two people having sex just to get over people they broke up with
** "Hum Hallejah": ''Like two teenagers in a parking lot, till tonight due us part''
* [[Better
{{quote| "best friends, ex friends till the end, better off as lovers, and not the other way around"}}
* [[Concept Video]] - Pretty much always.
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** Melancholic: Patrick
** Phlegmatic: Joe
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - The video for their cover of "Beat It" features Donald Faison (Turk from ''[[
** Most of their music videos also include a host of friends from bands on Pete's record label Decaydance.
*** Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg (both from ''[[
*** Brendon Urie and Spencer from Panic! at the Disco make an appearance in the video for "What a Catch, Donnie", as well as some other famous musicians who lent their voices to the song.
*** The "A Little Less Sixteen Candles" video has William Beckett and Mike Carden from The Academy Is..., Travie McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, and Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith from Panic! at the Disco all as various vampires from different clans.
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* [[Most Writers Are Male]] - Some of Wentz's lyrics are uncomfortably unsporting and spiteful regarding ex-girlfriends, but aren't necessarily aimed at women in general. This is toned down on later albums, though.
** Fan consensus assumes that was due to his getting married to Ashlee Simpson, and it generally not being acceptable for a newlywed to publicly bitch about exes anymore.
* [[No Such Thing
* [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope]] - The title of the first track on ''From Under The Cork Tree'' is a parody of this. (Though it is rumored that their lawyers actually did make them change the name of the song, from "My Name is David Ruffin...and These are The Temptations.")
* [[Real Person Fic]] - Scores of it on livejournal. Patrick/Pete is the OTP of many, and much of it shockingly well written.
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