History Music / FallOutBoy

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The llamas from "Young & Menace" went from "monster representation of a young girl's abusive parents" to semi-mascots for the band during their album cycle. They got names (Frosty and Milk Tea) and their own LLAMANIA EP[[note]]featuring three FOB demos from MANIA, released for free to fans as a "thank you" gift from Fall Out Boy for sticking it out during MANIA's delay[[/note]]. During the MANIA tour, they showed up on stage and in pre-recorded footage where they played [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}]] and heckled the band [[Series/TheMuppetShow Statler and Waldorf]] style. They also showed up during Fall Out Boy's live TV performances.
** During the video for Wilson (Expensive Mistakes), Frosty and Milk Tea are marketed as adorable llamas...then they suddenly revert back to their music video characterization and start trying to kill each other.

** The band completely {{averted|Trope}} this post-hiatus until the release of ''M A N I A''. Every song they released included the title in the lyrics, even the overly long "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)." The only exception was the ''PAX AM Days'' track "We Were Doomed From the Start (The King is Dead)" which does, however, contain the subtitle in the lyrics.

* PrecisionFStrike: Featured near the beginning of "Save Rock and Roll", along with SuddenlyShouting.

[[http://falloutboy.com Fall Out Boy]] (or FOB for short) are an American rock band, formed in 2001 in Illinois. The band consists of Patrick Stump (vocals, rhythm guitar), Joe Trohman (lead guitar), Pete Wentz (bassist, lyricist), and Andy Hurley (drums). They have nothing to do with the mascot of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' game series, but are instead named after [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Radioactive Man's faithful sidekick]], as Trohman and Stump are diehard ''Simpsons'' fans.

* JustForPun: Patrick's hand gets cut off in the music video for "The Phoenix". All he's left with is a ''Stump''.

--->"She's in a long black coat tonight/Waiting for me in the downpour outside."

* AnimatedMusicVideo: "Carpal Tunnel Of Love", which stars WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends and features Happy Tree Friends versions of the band themselves.

Other notable deeds of the band include almost getting a Guinness World Record for playing a live concert in all seven continents in nine months[[note]]They only missed Antarctica, where they were planning to play in partnership with Greenpeace for an audience of scientists; they were unable to fly there from Chile due to poor weather[[/note]] and actually getting a Guinness World Record for doing the most press interviews within a 24-hour time span (seventy-four). They also have a comic called ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'', a {{Cyberpunk}} love story with [[GainaxEnding one big mind screw of an ending]] -- as is to be expected from them.

Other notable deeds the band has committed include almost getting a Guinness World Record for playing a live concert on all seven continents in a certain amount of time and actually getting a Guinness World Record for doing the most press interviews within a 24-hour time span. They also have a comic called ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'', a {{Cyberpunk}} love story with [[GainaxEnding one big mind screw of an ending]] -- as is to be expected from them.

** Their ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''-themed live performance on Television/{{Conan}} got some fans spooked when Pete got "stuck" in one of the pods... Not even Harry Shearer showing up seemed to tip people off that it was staged. Thankfully, Team Coco provided a link to the exact scene in Spinal Tap that FOB was referencing in their performance for the benefit of those who didn't get the reference and also didn't get the show where they're at.

* ExtravertedNerd: Patrick Stump (and to a lesser extent the rest of the band) in "Dance, Dance".
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Favorite Record" into "Immortals."

* EmoMusic: One of the most contentious topics you'll hear discussed about the band, as the page intro would tell you. Your understanding of emo likely informs whether or not you think emo was a footnote in FOB's story or a defining aspect. In the mid-00s, Fall Out Boy were seen by some as the poster children for "emo pop", described as a style mixing the gloominess and hardcore punk elements of emo with catchy pop punk. That being said, a lot of bands including Fall Out Boy were lumped into that categorization and mocked to the point where that categorization would be considered a smear rather than an accurate assessment of their genre. As mentioned in the note on top of the page, Fall Out Boy took influence from early emo acts such as Music/{{Jawbreaker}}, Music/TheGetUpKids and Braid (The title of "Grand Theft Autumn" is a direct reference to a Braid song of the same name), but the band started swerving from that path by the release of ''Infinity on High'', even as soon as ''From Under The Cork Tree'' if you're feeling charitable. The early emo influence fell out in favor of general pop rock with a particular emphasis on the ''pop'' and [[GenreRoulette experimentation in other genres]] by way of incorporating elements of hip-hop, electronic music, and others. Even with the early emo influences, Fall Out Boy never considered themselves an emo band and often rejected being lumped in with the other bands that got put into the category around the mid-00s, even calling the tendency out lyrically on Thriller[[note]]Make us poster boys for your scene, but we are not making an acceptance speech[[/note]] and the entirety of "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race".

* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Take This To Your Grave'' gets one in "The Patron Saint Of Liars And Fakes". ''Save Rock and Roll'' gets one in, [[TitleTrack you guessed it]], "Save Rock and Roll". Ditto for ''American Beauty/American Psycho''.

In 2013, the band confirmed the end of their hiatus as they finished recording their fifth album, ''Save Rock and Roll''; their sixth, ''American Beauty/American Psycho'', was released in 2015. After a cryptic trailer release stunt in Chicago-area movie theaters that went horribly wrong when they didn't air at the time the band advertised, fans eventually discovered what was next: the band's seventh album ''M A N I A''. Originally planned to release in late 2017, the album was instead delayed to early 2018, as the band felt it was being "rushed" and wanted to make something they felt more comfortable with releasing. January 2023 saw the announcement of their eighth album, ''So Much (For) Stardust'', due for release in that same March.

* AndAllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt: Variation: "[[LongTitle I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me]]".

* LongTitle: Long, often parodic and/or pop culture referencing, song titles are part of their SignatureStyle. Although they've largely avoided this post-hiatus, they're known for it to this very day.

** The band completely {{averted|Trope}} this post-hiatus until the release of ''M A N I A''. Every song they released included the title in the lyrics, even the OverlyLongTitle "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)." The only exception was the ''PAX AM Days'' track "We Were Doomed From the Start (The King is Dead)" which does, however, contain the subtitle in the lyrics.

* OverlyLongTitle: Pre-hiatus Fall Out Boy loved these as a means of standing out from the crowd, but eventually dumped them after enough people commenting on their long titles made them realize it was getting played out. Despite it being treated as a defining element of the band from some, long FOB song titles started becoming less prominent from Folie à Deux. One of the few post-hiatus examples of this is: "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)". On the radio, it's usually referred to as "Light 'Em Up" to save time and space. All of this longrunning long song title talk might have given Fall Out Boy a small complex; ''Young and Menace'' was originally titled ''Young and a Menace'', but they removed the "a" thinking that it might make the title too long for people.
** Lampshaded with ''Thnks fr the Mmrs'', whose title was born from too many complaints from their label about their song title lengths.

While they've tackled a number of genres, the band's most popular and acclaimed work falls pretty squarely under {{pop punk}}, and they are considered one of the most influential bands in the genre of their time. They're also regularly considered as one third of "the Holy Music/{{Emo}} Trinity"[[note]]a moniker generally applied and agreed upon by younger fans on social media[[/note]] alongside Music/PanicAtTheDisco and Music/MyChemicalRomance, but whether or not they can be classified as emo depends on your definition of emo.[[note]]They might not define themselves as such anymore, and the influence they took from early emo acts like Music/{{Jawbreaker}} and Braid (which were already becoming less apparent by the time they rose to stardom) were all but gone from ''Folie A Deux'' onward, but since when has that ever stopped anybody from trying?[[/note]]

* HighSchoolDance: In the video (and the lyrics) for "Dance, Dance".

** And if anyone can see the connection between [[StalkerWithACrush the lyrics]] of [[IntercourseWithYou "Sugar, We're Going Down"]] and human-deer hybrids, that would seriously en-[[{{Pun}} deer]] them to us. (The band originally kept getting video concepts that made just as much sense but were woefully generic, including one involving a pool party, so when the video treatment with good ol' Deer Boy came along, they leapt at it.)

* SingerNameDrop: One of Fall Out Boy's songs is called "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me". The title is never actually sung though.

** Some of their post-hiatus work, as well.