Welp … it sounds like they’ve actually gone and done it … the most prominent members of Fall Out Boy, namely Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump, are confirming that FOB are no longer together as a band. Words like “hiatus” and “break” are being thrown into the mix but it really sounds like the band is dunzo for good, at least for now:
It looks like the members of Fall Out Boy may be on the outs – for good. After months of speculation, Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump have confirmed that their band, Fall Out Boy, is not together at this time. “As far as I know,” bassist Wentz wrote on his blog Tuesday, “Fall Out Boy is on break … I can’t predict that I’d ever play in Fall Out Boy again.” Meanwhile, frontman Stump issued a more definitive statement. “I’m not in Fall Out Boy right now,” he told Spin.com. Wentz added via Twitter that to continue in the band, “Something would have to change in my head or my heart – not my wallet. It’d have to be real.” And this is a real ending, at least according to Wentz, who Tweeted, “A hiatus is forever until you get lonely or old, [and] I don’t plan on either” … “One way or another, the band will always be around,” said Stump. Echoed Wentz on his blog, “There is the possibility that FOB will play again with or without me.” What’s next for the former bandmates? Stump is already at work on a solo album, but Wentz – who has a 1-year-old son with wife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz – is eager to move forward with new project, and maybe a tour. “Letting go of this giant part of my life has been hard,” he blogged. “But I want to be back on tour having my son watch me from the side of the stage.”
Yeah … I think we all saw this coming for some time now. It makes sense that the guys would start to grow apart and it’s natural that they would want to spin off and do their own projects (as in Patrick‘s case) or settle down and enjoy life (as in Pete‘s case). I suspect all of the members of Fall Out Boy will be just fine in the short term and, who knows, they might get the itch to make new music again sometime in the future as a singular unit again. I predict Fall Out Boy will reunite again in the future … but for now, it seems like the right time to give them a hearty Peace the Spork Out.
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OH NO :(
wait…
I don’t think I care.
what did they even sing? were they ever very popular ’cause I don’t remember them?
I really liked FOB…they were awesome live
i kinda liked them, they had a few songs that were pretty good.
LMFAO good riddance… one less whiney-voiced band to have to hear about. In MI, I honestly don’t remember the last time their stuff was even played on the radio so it’s really not that big of a loss
I loved them! They were the little emo band I listened to once a week. Where am I going to get my weekly dose of “I hate myself”?…myspace?Noooooooo!
Oh well. It’s for the best. If they kept going then they would have started making terrible music. I’d say they went out on top, but that’s not quite true. They just split…
Could be worse. One of the band members could have died like in A7X. (R.I.P “The Rev”)
I also have no idea what songs they sing
I guess they didn’t “go down swingin’”.
Happy day :D
Actually, I didn’t mind them. I wasn’t a /fan/, I just hated Wentz. Its like, the law of music that the singer is most popular, then the guitarist, then the drummer, then any extras, THEN the bass player.
Im convinced the poor singer developed some Wentz-related eating disorder.
whoo finally!!
Well the media only cared for the cute one.
He really milked his “cuteness” to death.
It’s the first band where the lead singer ain’t that useful to the band’s success.
Hmm… I smell a Papa Joe Simpson lurking on this one! Pete left to enjoy life, yet he’s working on a solo project? Meh, I think someone told him he’d have more control if he went solo. I was a closet fan, I’m not gonna lie, but I was not a fan of thier last album and really they haven’t had the fan base they used to have. So long, I’ll always keep A Little Less 16 candles in my heart… until something better comes along!
It’s all Ashley Simpson’s fault!! ;)
I’ve never even heard their music only know of them through the internet.
Trent, where is the spork?? I miss it!!
Some people were freaking out recently about Trent’s spork being *insensitive* – lol- maybe he threw it away? I like it, too
Aw I actually like their music. Sigh…