History Music / FallOutBoy

They have nothing to do with the mascot of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' game series, Vault Boy, and are named after [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Radioactive Man's faithful sidekick]]. They're often grouped together with Music/PanicAtTheDisco, Music/TheAcademyIs, Music/GymClassHeroes, and Music/CobraStarship, mainly due to being TrueCompanions, collaborating with each other on stuff (music or otherwise) often, and being signed to Fueled By Ramen (and to Pete's own vanity label, Decaydance Records, now known as DCD2).

They have numerous music videos, including one where they pretended to be vampire hunters that went on for about seven minutes (A Little Less SixteenCandles, A Little More "Touch Me"), one with Turk from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' along with ridiculous amount of Michael Jackson references (for their cover of "Beat It"), and eleven videos for one album mashed together into one movie with Elton John as God and Tommy Lee as the Devil (The Young Blood Chronicles). Other notable deeds the band has committed include one of them impregnating Ashlee Simpson ''and'' a model, wearing remarkably tight trousers, almost getting a Guinness World Record for playing a live concert on all seven continents in a certain amount of time, getting a Guinness World Record for doing the most press interviews within a 24 hour time span, being loved by [[Music/{{Blink 182}} Mark]] [[TropeCodifier Hoppus]], getting on ''Series/TopOfThePops'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdF9_uFFNw with a song]] with a past history of homosexual subtext, and having some really strange lyrics. 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.

The band is well known for songs such 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", "America's Suitehearts", and "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)". They have currently released six albums and have had better than a dozen singles total.

** ''MANIA'' is another source of contention on this; notably, "Young and Menace" drew enough criticism for being a poorly executed attempt at EDM that the band were quick to say that it was the only song on the album like that as to not scare more people off from checking out the album. They also had to delay the album by four months, although the final product doesn't seem to show any extra or special effort, which makes it appear that they announced the album before they were very far into production just for the hype and simply hoped they'd finish the album by the date they set (which they didn't).

* ''M A N I A'' (2018)

** However, the band has completely {{averted|Trope}} this post-hiatus. Every song they've released includes the title in the lyrics, even the OverlyLongTitle "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)."
** The trope is once again implemented in ‘‘M A N I A’‘ in the song “Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea”

* SellOut: They've been having this thrown at them since ''From Under The Cork Tree''[[note]]the album that first brought the band into the mainstream[[/note]], though the accusations really started to pick up around ''Infinity on High''[[note]]The first major GenreShift the band has had, with more obvious hip-hop and pop influence compared to the pop punk stylings of Take This to Your Grave and From Under the Cork Tree[[/note]]. Fall Out Boy's tendency for GenreRoulette and adapting to the pop music landscape over the years leads to the brunt of the accusations, mostly from fans of their first two albums, which were straightforward pop punk albums. Post-hiatus specific accusations of this come from experimenting with orchestration and synths, which some feel is at the expense of their main instrumentation, similar to prior complaints about the use of drum machines on ''Folie a Deux''. Some also note that there seems to be a larger emphasis on merch and marketing, such as the production of three separate music videos for one song ("Irresistible"), and constant touring (which was said to be one of the reasons for their hiatus).

** Now we have ''MANIA'' being another source of contention on this, since it has songs that are terribly produced and/or underwritten, 'Young & Menace' being the primary example, as it skews off into directions that they ''never'' should've attempted, like the terrible pitch shifts, the overly-long chorus, and bad instrumentation. The backlash was so big that they were quick to say that that was the only song on the album like that as to not scare more people off from checking out the album. It now feels like they're just cashing in on their success even more than the two albums before it. Not helping their case is that they delayed the release of the album by almost 4 months so that they could apparently work out the kinks, but it not really showing in the final product. When the thing was actually delayed, it felt like they were just writing songs as they went ''after'' announcing the release date rather than being well into production before releasing it, which fuels the cash-in feel of the album. Now they're even ''more'' accused of trying to be Music/Maroon5 than they've ever been; a band that sold out long ago and has been chasing current Pop trends, hoping to stay some semblance of relevant, but is actually growing less and less with each successive album. The only people defending them nowadays are the diehard fangirls, no one else.

** Now we have ''MANIA'' being another source of contention on this, since it has songs that are terribly produced and/or underwritten, 'Young & Menace' being the primary example, as it skews off into directions that they ''never'' should've attempted, like the terrible pitch shifts, the overly-long chorus, and bad instrumentation. The backlash was so big that they were quick to say that that was the only song on the album like that as to not scare more people off from checking out the album. It now feels like they're just cashing in on their success even more than the two albums before it. Not helping their case is that they delayed the release of the album by almost 4 months so that they could apparently work out the kinks, but it not really showing in the final product. When the thing was actually delayed, it felt like they were just writing songs as they went ''after'' announcing the release date rather than being well into production before releasing it, which fuels the cash-in feel of the album. Now they're even ''more'' accused of trying to be Music/MaroonFive than they've ever been; a band that sold out long ago and has been chasing current Pop trends, hoping to stay some semblance of relevant, but is actually growing less and less with each successive album. The only people defending them nowadays are the diehard fangirls, no one else.

* MostWritersAreMale: 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, his chilling out as a result, and it generally not being acceptable for a newlywed to publicly bitch about exes anymore. His being divorced hasn't changed this: only one of the songs on ''Save Rock and Roll'' is about the divorce and he's stated as writing it from a more adult perspective rather than simply lashing out.

* HellIsThatNoise / BrownNote: {{In-Universe}} in "The Mighty Fall" video. Patrick has a case of this when [[spoiler: the little kid who helped kidnap him starts chasing him with an old-school boombox, implying that Patrick knows what it's for. The kid turns it on, which plays something the audience doesn't hear but Patrick does and he turns evil as a result before Big Sean comes in, snaps the kid's neck and turns the boombox off, turning Patrick back to normal and leaving him confused.]] The noise shows up again and has the same effect in the "Just One Yesterday" video. In the commentary for the "Miss Missing You" video, the evil Patrick hears a girl playing with radio signals and tries to attack until Pete stops him. In the [=VH1=] commentary, Patrick notes the "evil" version of his had been conditioned to hate music and therefore treats ANY music as a BrownNote.

''Peroxide princes shine like shark teeth''\\

* WordSaladLyrics: Part of the accusations of selling out against them is the dumbing down, or lack of trying, when Pete writes the lyrics of their newest songs. There's been a noticeable increase of mixed metaphors, confusing and/or contradictory lyrics in some songs, or songs that seem to be written as they were just to sound good. 'Uma Thurman' (which they admitted to writing the way they did because the ''Munsters'' sample used in it reminded some people they talked to of ''Pulp Fiction'' and ''Kill Bill'') and 'Young and Menace' (though that song was less well-received than the other due to not even ''sounding'' good) are two noticeable examples of this, since the lyrics sound thrown together just because they sound good back-to-back. Again, though, 'Young and Menace' doesn't even ''sound'' good for people not to mind as much as they did with 'Uma Thurman.'

* TearsOfRemorse: Once Patrick snaps out of a BraindwashedAndCrazy episode at the end of "Where Did The Party Go" and realizes that he [[spoiler: killed Joe]], he breaks down in tears while Pete en Andy look on in shock.

* ''M A N I A'' (2017)

** Their 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.

* SellOut: They've been having this thrown at them since ''From Under The Cork Tree''[[note]]the album that first brought the band into the mainstream[[/note]], though the accusations really started to pick up around ''Infinity on High''[[note]]The first major GenreShift the band has had, with more obvious hip-hop and pop influence compared to the pop punk stylings of Take This to Your Grave and From Under the Cork Tree[[/note]]. Fall Out Boy's tendency for GenreRoulette and adapting to the pop music landscape over the years leads to the brunt of the accusations, mostly from fans of their first two albums, which were straightforward pop punk albums. Post-hiatus specific accusations of this come from experimenting with orchestration and synths, which some feel is at the expense of their main instrumentation, similar to prior complaints about the use of drum machines on ''Folie a Deux''.
** In addition to those, many accuse them of purposefully dumbing down their lyrical writing and going overtly Pop and following Pop trends as a means to not only stay relevant, but also to gain new legions of fans who they'll profit off of because those fans love Pop music. Pete's even stated, apparently, that he doesn't care if they make another song that can't be played on the radio again, signifying how money hungry he is. On top of that, the kinds of merch they sell at such ridiculously high prices can rub some people the wrong way, like recreations of them as bobbleheads from their 'Irresistible' music video for the Demi Lovato version. On top of that, did the band ''really'' need 3 different music videos for the exact same song? First the original, then the Doug the Pug version, then the version that, for some reason, acts like an sequel to Music/*NSync's 'It's Gonna Be Me', with Demi Lovato. The obvious lying from Joe Trohman about them trying to turn up their guitars on each successive album since ''Save Rock and Roll'', the constant touring like they did back in the old days, and constant music making (which is what caused them to majorly burn out the first time around) don't help either, since it looks like they're suffering a case of LaserGuidedAmnesia, considering they stated that they learned what to do differently from the first time around after they released their comeback album.

They have numerous music videos, including one where they pretended to be vampire hunters that went on for about seven minutes (A Little Less SixteenCandles, A Little More "Touch Me"), one with Turk from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' along with ridiculous amount of Michael Jackson references (for their cover of "Beat It"), and twelve videos for one album mashed together with Elton John as God and Tommy Lee as the Devil (The Young Blood Chronicles). Other notable deeds the band has committed include one of them impregnating Ashlee Simpson ''and'' a model, wearing remarkably tight trousers, almost getting a Guinness World Record for playing a live concert on all seven continents in a certain amount of time, getting a Guinness World Record for doing the most press interviews within a 24 hour time span, being loved by [[Music/{{Blink 182}} Mark]] [[TropeCodifier Hoppus]], getting on ''Series/TopOfThePops'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdF9_uFFNw with a song]] with a past history of homosexual subtext, and having some really strange lyrics. 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.

They have numerous music videos, including one where they pretended to be vampire hunters that went on for about seven minutes (A Little Less SixteenCandles, A Little More "Touch Me"), one with Turk from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' and one ridiculous amount of Michael Jackson references (for their cover of "Beat It"). Other notable deeds the band has committed include one of them impregnating Ashlee Simpson ''and'' a model, wearing remarkably tight trousers, almost getting a Guinness World Record for playing a live concert on all seven continents in a certain amount of time, getting a Guinness World Record for doing the most press interviews within a 24 hour time span, being loved by [[Music/{{Blink 182}} Mark]] [[TropeCodifier Hoppus]], getting on ''Series/TopOfThePops'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdF9_uFFNw with a song]] with a past history of homosexual subtext, and having some really strange lyrics. 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.

They have nothing to do with the mascot of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' game series, Vault Boy, and are named after [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Radioactive Man's faithful sidekick]]. They're often grouped together with Music/PanicAtTheDisco, Music/TheAcademyIs, Music/GymClassHeroes, and Music/CobraStarship, mainly due to being TrueCompanions, collaborating with each other on stuff (music or otherwise) often, and being signed to Fueled By Ramen (and to Pete's own vanity label, Decaydance Records).

As of February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy stated the end of their hiatus as they finished their recording of their newest album, ''Save Rock and Roll'', which came out April 16th, bumped up from its initial May release. They then allowed fans to hear the whole album a week early on their [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPa0TZwXH4pJQG1MjDHGX49lhY5jN1LWi YouTube]] and [[https://soundcloud.com/falloutboy/sets/save-rock-and-roll Soundcloud]]. They've released a series of often bizarre and disturbing music videos for each song on the record called ''The Youngblood Chronicles'' and released an old-school punk/hardcore EP, ''PAX AM DAYS'', produced by Ryan Adams. In the summer of 2014, they hit the road as co-headliners with Music/{{Paramore}} for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVWowXll98A Monumentour]], considered one of the most highly anticipated rock tours of that year. In late 2014, they announced their sixth studio album, ''American Beauty/American Psycho'', which was released on January 20, 2015.

* ''Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend'' (2003, remastered for reissue in 2005)

* AllThereInTheManual: Pete has annotated several songs on [[http://genius.com/falloutboy Genius.]]

* MinisculeRocking: ''Pax Am Days''. None of the songs are over two minutes.

* OverlyLongTitle: They seem to love these. To list them all would probably fill up the page, but one really notable example is their 2013 comeback song: "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.

** "Uma Thurman" samples {{Series/The Munsters}}'s them song, of all things.

** Thankfully averted whenever the band makes references to Creator/JohnHughes movies. Also averted when fans pointed out the resemblance of FOB's costumes in the Irresistble video to [[http://petewentz.com/post/111599758200/asluckyasus-fall-out-boy-meets-white-men-cant the costumes]] in Film/WhiteMenCantJump

** If you've seen the videos and you want anything resembling answers, you're probably gonna want to see Patrick and Pete's VH1 commentary and [[http://insincerelypete.com/post/86558044154/the-giant-white-unicorn-in-the-room this blog post by Pete]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The video for "Miss Missing You". According to Pete and Patrick's VH1 commentary, it was deliberately that way to make the trailer park occupants seem less narmy and also due to a lack of natural light in later scenes.
* DiabolusExNihilo: Let's face it, most people weren't expecting the briefcase to contain [[spoiler: a being that's either a HumanoidAbomination or just pure evil to appear, kill a bunch of people and then get killed (or not?) by Fall Out Boy]]. There was no foreshadowing for this because, according to the VH1 commentary, they only ''just'' decided to set up the idea of there being a darker group besides Courtney Love's and [[spoiler: a sinister being inside the briefcase]] with the final video. The situation is also glaring in that whatever the boys are seeing in the briefcase during "The Phoenix" video is ''definitely'' not what was in the briefcase in "Save Rock and Roll".

* HellIsThatNoise / BrownNote: {{In-Universe}} in "The Mighty Fall" video. Patrick has a case of this when [[spoiler: the little kid who helped kidnap him starts chasing him with an old-school boombox, implying that Patrick knows what it's for. The kid turns it on, which plays something the audience doesn't hear but Patrick does and he turns evil as a result before Big Sean comes in, snaps the kid's neck and turns the boombox off, turning Patrick back to normal and leaving him confused.]] The noise shows up again and has the same effect in the "Just One Yesterday" video. In the commentary for the "Miss Missing You" video, the evil Patrick hears a girl playing with radio signals and tries to attack until Pete stops him. In the VH1 commentary, Patrick notes the "evil" version of his had been conditioned to hate music and therefore treats ANY music as a BrownNote.

* MadeOfEvil: Hinted at in the VH1 commentary for Xibalba, [[spoiler: the thing in the briefcase]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: According to Pete and Patrick's VH1 commentary, those masked, cloaked people that do that creepy ceremony with the briefcase in "Save Rock and Roll" aren't part of Courtney Love's gang. Courtney apparently [[FreudianExcuse had anti-creative ideas drilled into her head when she was younger]] and is leading a group of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s convinced that the boys are bad news. These cloaked figures just want what's in that suitcase ForTheEvulz and might have been manipulating Love's group for that exact purpose.
* MythologyGag: In the video for "My Songs...", 2Chainz burns some drums, drumsticks, one of Pete's basses, a mic stand, the ''From Under the Cork Tree'' album, a Black Clouds and Underdogs tour t-shirt, the ''Take This To Your Grave'' vinyl, some old TTTYG-era FOB merch, the ''***: Live In Phoenix'' CD/DVD, the ''Evening Out With Your Girlfriend'' EP, and issues of ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks''. This wasn't intended as a TakeThat to any of those things (except for EOWTG, which Patrick acknowledged that he "wanted it burned" in the VH1 commentary), they just burned stuff there was plenty of copies of and/or could be easily replaced.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Courtney and her gang, according to Pete and Patrick's VH1 commentary.

* Sampling: The band does it quite a bit.

The band was on hiatus, ([[InsistentTerminology not a breakup]], no matter what your friend tells you they've read on the internet that isn't directly from the band.) During the hiatus, Patrick started a solo musical effort, Pete started a dancehall band turned EDM act called the Black Cards, and Joe and Andy have wrapped up work with rock supergroup The Damned Things (also featuring members of Music/{{Anthrax}} and Every Time I Die). Andy did guest drumming with Enabler and Joe started a new band called With Knives (where he [[HiddenDepths does lead vocals]]).

As of February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy stated the end of their hiatus as they finished their recording of their newest album, "Save Rock And Roll", which came out April 16th, bumped up from its initial May release. They then allowed fans to hear the whole album a week early on their [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPa0TZwXH4pJQG1MjDHGX49lhY5jN1LWi Youtube]] and [[https://soundcloud.com/falloutboy/sets/save-rock-and-roll Soundcloud]]. They've released a series of often bizarre and disturbing music videos for each song on the record called "The Youngblood Chronicles" and released an oldschool punk/hardcore EP, PAX AM DAYS, produced by Ryan Adams. In the summer of 2014, they hit the road as co-headliners with Music/{{Paramore}} for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVWowXll98A Monumentour]], considered one of the most highly anticipated rock tours of that year. In late 2014, they announced their sixth studio album, "American Beauty/American Psycho", which was released on January 20th, 2015.

* Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy [Split EP] (2002)
* Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003, remastered for reissue in 2005)
* Take This to Your Grave (2003)
* From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
* Infinity on High (2007)
* Folie à Deux (2008)
* Believers Never Die-Greatest Hits (2009)
* Save Rock and Roll (2013)
* PAX AM Days (2013)
* American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)

* SellOut: They've been having this thrown at them since ''Infinity On High'', as they ironed out most of the Emo sound introduced on their second album into more of an Alt. Rock and a more general PopPunk sound. However, the accusations ''really'' blew up post-hiatus with their sound changing to be more Pop and lacking in their main instruments in favor of orchestration and synths. Many see the band as being treated more like a business, as the amount of merchandise produced is ''much'' greater than their music production. This, along with the copious amount of touring, which is one of the reasons they got burnt out in the first place, seems to suggest they don't care too much about improving upon what they did wrong the first time around, and would rather make more money.