Monday, October 31, 2005

Why I'll never do a Fall Out Boy review

I'm finally getting in requests now, so I'll start with saying that the most common request I get, Fall Out Boy, is never getting a review. At least, not for what they've done so far, and for nothing in the forseeable future. Here's the deal.
I remember when Sugar We're Going Down came out. Like, I saw the video when it first premiered. I was never a huge fan. It was a fun song, a good one even, and a band I considered checking out. Then that song got played again. And again. And again. And shut it up. Around that time, I finally heard the rest of the album, and I had to be honest it was really great. I liked it a lot. Woulda probably gotten a B+. But then, like a lot of people, I just got sick of that damned band. They're fucking EVERYWHERE. The CD, the song, all of it. They're not THAT good. Fall Out Boy is a band suffering from a grand amount of overexposure, but unlike other bands that have had that recently (see Green Day), they've done nothing good enough to earn it. Their overexposure has reached the point where even though Dance, Dance, their current single, is new and not overplayed (yet, mark my words, it will be), the band it comes from makes it feel like it is. And please note, I'm trying my best to not rip on them. If I wanted to do that, I'd start talking about their song titles.
Sadly for them, even beyond all that, they also seem to have no other redeeming features. Despite being loved by masses too huge, they have developed a reputation as being one of the worst live bands in the world right now, even with their biggest fans. So that won't be able to save them in my eyes. Personally, I haven't seen them, and I don't plan to for obvious reasons, but even if I did, I'm under the impression that I'd be seriously underwhelmed.
So here's my point: I don't hate Fall Out Boy, but dear god, give them a rest. I'll probably be avoiding them until they release a brilliant, groundbreaking album. And even if that does happen (it won't), it's only a possibility that I'll review it. Sorry.

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