fall out boy's "so much (for) stardust" vs. emo nostalgia & tiktok pop punk

[@Chaotic_vampire]

I think people sometimes forget that the bands just make music that they happened to enjoy and that they don’t make music specifically to impress them. they do it because it’s what they like to do. I also think a lot of fans have this mentality that you have to enjoy everything a band releases but you don’t however you still have to respect it.

[@DEEPTRUSTX]

Yeah albums only come out sounding as good as FOB's early records if the writers are actually passionate about what they're making. I think FOB is just done with pop punk... as much as I wish it wasn't true

[@AlexanderFromTheStarDimension]

I think we have to remember that being a musician is a profession, and professions come with obligations. Pleasing the fans is part of the job description, in a way. Successful bands owe it to their fans to make music that caters to their tastes. Bands still SHOULD and DO have the creative liberties to experiment with music and feel fulfilled making the music they want to make -- but there needs to be a compromise, so that the artists are happy and the fans are happy as well. Saying a major label artist should make the music they want to make is a bit self-entitled, I think. That being said, I don't believe an artist should ever return to their older sound regardless of how loud their major fans are, because it's not a smart business decision. Nostalgia albums could be rewarding for fans, but it objectively may not be profitable. That's just a general sentiment, kind of applicable to FOB, but not in any way a disagreement with the video.

[@sarawalsh4660]

They don’t owe anyone anything. Art is an authentic expression from the artist, it’s not a Burger King order. Yes fans vote with their almighty dollar, but music is a gift from the artist. Their are plenty of other bands that can fit your taste if you don’t like how as bands shifted. I appreciate how experimental fob is. There’s something from every era that stands out

[@dysenteryworld]

you actually understand what fall out boy does and it's so refreshing to see someone finally explain it so well. it annoys me when people still think they need to do pop punk just because they did on their first album. just because that album was pop punk doesn't even mean they were ever aiming to be a pop punk band. they truly just do whatever they want, which is usually their own take on what's popular. people literally just set themselves up to not like anything new fall out boy releases (even ever since cork tree) when they continue to put them in that pop punk box.

[@Rex-golf_player810]

Its so epic that they call FOB sellouts, and then suggest that they should completely go back to their 2005 sound which would ironically be the most sellout thing ever lmao

[@KingdomHeart556]

Yea it’s called evolution people just don’t like change it’s understandable but shit stop crying about it you know?

[@hedgehog07productions91]

We have learned nothing from “The Take over, the breaks over” music video

[@Rex-golf_player810]

@@hedgehog07productions91 yeah and that was like 17 years ago, yet we have gotten nowhere lol

[@camerondodge2070]

I'd also like to point out that they haven't gotten lazy in the music video department either. They keep making cool, interesting videos instead of doing the usual live footage/band in a field type of video. They always deliver on the videos.

[@lemoncherri]

I grew up as a Fall Out Boy girl during the pop punk epidemic and honestly I find their new album very comfortable and fun. Nothing amazing and not really pandering just chill and being themselves. It's still got Patrick's interesting vocal 'tricks' too.

[@artvandelay48]

What about his terrible taste in hats is that there too lol

[@pumpkinspicetrashbag]

Never before were more comforting words spoken than “shut the fuck up. Cozy is here.”

[@bakbak1310]

This album is some of their best work yet As fall out boy said themselves, what a time to be alive

[@NASkeywest]

Owww no😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊😊who Wow I Ff😊I 😅dfd😊x 😢😮

[@Flabbergasted3]

You saying that SMFS re-contextualizes the 2010s albums is such a spot on way to put it. SRAR, AB/AP, and MANIA aren't bad albums. I actually really love SRAR, and the other two have really good tracks. I think fans understanding that SMFS is not "out of nowhere" and actually continues their progression as a band, but also utilizes what made them so good in the past is so important.

[@zinnamon9683]

This album is very special for me because it’s very careful in the way it’s created even the transition between songs is perfectly faded into each other that you could order it differently and it’s good but the pattern as is almost like a story

[@waywardlaser]

After Mania I was so worried the guys were gonna try to appeal to the TikTok generation and make songs that are like 2 minutes and 30 seconds max that don't have a bridge. Luckily I was wrong, for the first time in ten years it feels like they're just making THEIR music again and not following trends. So Much (For) Stardust is easily their best album since Folie a Deux, and I say that as someone who has enjoyed a great deal of their post-hiatus output.

[@XStormieX]

Everyone tends to forget that your favorite artists are human. They change and grow. Just like you don’t like or want to listen to the same thing forever, neither do they especially as they grow up. To go back to what you were doing, saying, and thinking when you were 18 would feel as weird as it sounds. Trying to recapture that just because it’s what someone else wants when you aren’t feeling it anymore, that would be the actual sellout. You may not like what some artists do as they grow but that’s fine. Nothing stays the same forever as much as we want it to.

[@Bren]

Hold Me Like a Grudge is probably my favorite on the album too. But I also love What a Time to be Alive for its dancability… I’ll always be that pop-punk girl who loves upbeat energetic music I can jump around to the most 💯 😁

[@lexidarling]

I agree with your take on their career as a whole, FOB were always making a commentary on whatever scene they were involved in. There’s a heck of a lot of cynicism in Pete’s lyrics in the 2000s that always gave me a very self-aware vibe. They were always on that high concept shit.

[@somethingsunting]

Been waiting to hear your take on this and damn, was that worth it. To me, FOB, as well as Panic and My Chem have always very much done their own thing. They got put into whatever genre and they've all transcended that genre in favour of doing exactly what they wanted to do. That's what made them great and that's what gave them staying power. They were actually there for the music. Do I love this album? Yeah, big time. But what I love even more is that they seem to love this album. They did exactly what they wanted to do and they happened to step into the zeitgeist with it. They would have made this without whatever revival or nostalgia simply cause they wanted to.

[@presleydodge6253]

i've been a fob fan for 10+ years and i feel like all of this was taken straight out of my brain. pete wentz changed my brain forever when i was a sad 15 year old kid and i'm always glad to see other people who seem to Really Get what he's doing with the band and how his creative influence has informed so much of who the band is. i love fall out boy and i love people who love fall out boy. just a really great video all around!!

[@sueblue3080]

I really liked his comments on the band. I always have liked Mania. The comment that Church or Heaven's Gate could be on So Much for Stardust was dead on. Great job Cozy Representative. Seems like you are coming of age

[@FoxtailCinematics]

Old heads forget they were once the younger generation that rebelled against the old heads of the time 😂

[@chasingstars4]

39:46 THIS right here is exactly what i've been thinking for a long time now and i'm glad you're able to articulate it so well. i honestly feel like with fall out boy it's impossible to truly appreciate all their music without knowing the history of the band and who each of the individuals are, especially pete wentz. another awesome video btw

[@connor_patrick]

i seem to be the expert at picking underrated fob songs as my favorites because i don't see a ton of people listing the kintsugi kid as a top favorite on the album but it is my absolute favorite. something about it just captured me that song changed me as a person

[@gerardwayisatimelord]

I love that one too!! So happy to see someone else list it as their favorite!

[@theripenedheart]

I feel that way about Flu Game

[@lexidarling]

That's my favorite song on the album too! My top three would be that, What A Time To Be Alive and the title track.

[@starlesscitiess]

HI I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH

[@Cynsearest]

Thank you for doing this video. I am a huge FOB fan. 🎉 Ten Years and Fake Out are two of my faves off this album.

[@alittleunimpressed]

i’ve been waiting for your take on this album!!!

[@patriciathorpe3150]

You took it to church. Preach it Cozy! I agree with you about embracing change and moving forward of life. I know a lot of people who dwell in the past or get stuck. I thought long and hard bout their lyrics so many times! It's like there is a secret messages to my soul in this album.

[@GraceMariex3]

I will forever be a FOB fan. Not only are they from the area I grew up in (my cousin literally went to high school with Patrick), but they have been apart of my teenage and adult years. I remember listening to Infinity on High for the first time with one of my best friends on the bus on our way to school and thinking I was so hardcore for liking them. I’ve seen them live 3 times and loved every moment of it. Save Rock and Roll came out during one of the most difficult times of my life and I feel it was exactly what I needed at the time. I will never give up on them ❤ Edit for grammer

[@apromisethatikeep2618]

It's funny that I got into emo in 2015 at the height of its unpopularity 😂😂 now I know why I was the only emo around 😂 also I love that cyberman voice

[@indigo-twin8459]

I never gave up on Punk Pop/Emo. I have to say that I call them my "forever bands" - bands that have been there making music through my teens, early 20s, and now mid-30s. Avril Lavinge, Paramore, Fall out Boy, Panic! At the Disco. I don't like every song or album they came out with. But, I do love that bands reinvent themselves because it's like I am still growing as a person - and so are they. I adore this channel, and have to save that your insights always get me falling in love with the music all over again. So glad you decided to become the Cozy Rep and share love of this genre with us! Thanks Julien! ~ Indigo-Twin/ Hales

[@estebanleal]

TW: This comment was written with the help of a translator since my native language is Spanish. I think that at this point saying "old music was better" or that the Mania album was bad is already boring. Fall Out Boy is a band with a lot of history and depth, it's a shame that a lot of people are missing out on that just because it's something you have to say to look good. We who believe that FOB is a great and influential band, that gives us art every time, we have to show ourselves proud. We don't have to be afraid to say it out loud. FOB is a band and that's it. Not a pop punk band. Emo became a cultural and artistic movement, beyond punk, beyond aesthetics, so it is our responsibility, as the generation that created Emo, to carry it forward with pride. Bye, I love your content.

[@kaiyotee2475]

I love them so much because each album is different and has its own mood, makes ot WAY easier to decide what to listen to for different moods. Sometimes you just want Calm Before the Storm and sometimes ya just absolutely need Twin Skeletons and Wilson.

[@EleesaVeganista]

Love the new record too and also love all the new stuff (including Mania) and old stuff. My sister and I are going to see them in concert at the same venue we saw them for their Inifinity on High tour. My sister informed me that young(er) people call FOB "mom rock" now, and I think we should embrace it!

[@sixteenratsmusic]

I've been waiting for this video since we first saw the seashell, jumped on it as soon as I saw the notification, let's fucking go

[@mythgirl123456789]

I feel like Save Rock and Roll was a taste of Patrick's solo music and SMFS has SO MUCH Patrick solo influence. Total random take but that's what I truly noticed and in interviews Pete made it a point that there were some songs that were really Patrick songs.

[@bandfan27]

been waiting for a new Fall Out Boy video!

[@Davidmichaelfrank]

Yo, I just want to say, I love your videos. I've been watching the deep dives since the Johnny Craig files (which were captivating). You're incredible and, as a creator myself, I know how important getting that feedback is. Honestly, after a career of craziness that still hasn't gotten me to a place of my own internal "success" in my eyes, an internal goal of mine is to (while I'm finally focusing on my debut SOLO record) make an album that you appreciate. I like your music taste and appreciate your perspectives. I grew up in the Seattle music scene playing shows opening for bands a few years older than me (The Scene Aesthetic / Danger Radio, This Providence, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground (which a few members became Portugal The Man), etc. I've had a relatively successful career playing the youtube/social media game and am finally focusing on prioritizing original music again. You'll appreciate this... as a fanboy of The Cab, I hired Dave Briggs (their drummer later on as you did mention) as my last touring drummer. It feels a little crazy that I'm currently not making daily tiktoks to try to go viral and, instead making something I can be proud of but I know this pause in my unoriginal content uploaded will be worth it. Anyways, just wanted to say that I really love your content and appreciate the hard work and research you put into it. Keep it up brother. Would love to shoot the shit with you sometime. If I'm ever on tour in your area, you are so coming on the RV and we'll hang. Rock on.

[@starlesscitiess]

OH MY GOD i’d been putting off this video for whatever reason and MAN you summed up my thoughts on it perfectly. heavy on the points about mania vs this album - people didn’t like mania and they like sm(f)s so they think oh they must be two separate things and fall out boy are just Better Now (i think the time difference between the two really adds to this feeling) but to me mania was such a necessary step to getting here. everything they’ve made up to this point has been necessary to get here. you really hit the nail on the head saying they’ve come full circle - given the absolute State of this tour as well (i mean pavlove live like come on???) i think fall out boy feel that way too. i love how comfortable they’ve gotten with their own music and history. that’s also why it bothers me when people call this album a ‘return to form’ as if mania or even the past ten years were just a misstep and not totally vital exploration. it’s not a return to form the way i see it, it’s completion. note: this is also why the thought of an impending fall out boy breakup for real this time terrifies me. with everything so perfectly in place, it feels like maybe they’ll decide they’re done with this particular project. but who knows, they could also just open a door i can’t see from here. it’s why i love them :)

[@wheelsofmercury]

I love the new FOB record, too! Nice to hear your thoughts on the new album as raw and as unedited as possible, Julian.

[@camrn_brian]

Pop punk never dies. Emo heads kinda fizzles and became more mainstream but through the 2010’s a lot of great bands have put out records that slap and and had underground success. Nothing has stuck like those that caught the wave in the early 2000’s but they still put out great music. It’s sad if you listened to radio between 2009-2015

[@Yukinebi]

Good vid Cozy. Your Fall Out Boy revelation blew my mind, and made total sense.

[@plumbytes872]

I personally was never too invested in FOB aside from whatever was on the radio growing up, up until my adulthood in 2023. When Love From the Other Side showed up on apple music, not even looking at the date it was released, i was convinced that song was from a FOB album from the mid-late 2000s that i just didn't hear before. Finding out that it was getting released **this year** as their newest album in 2023 absolutely floored me and i was even more hyped to hear the rest. When i listened to the entire album when it got released my fate was sealed, and now FOB is now one of my favorite bands of all time 👏👏

[@Dylanuqt]

I’m so happy I was waiting for fob video you made my day thank you

[@Mister_Superfly]

Been waiting so long for this video Cozy!!

[@amandajacobs57]

Thank you for making this I've been waiting for it. Also thank you for defending FOB because I get so sick of all the hate they get. I love all of their albums for different reasons and I'm a diehard fan and it makes me so sad to hear all the hate. I love this new album too its so good. I really enjoyed hearing your take on it.

[@charlottelarochelle-compto2650]

Discovered your channel right when they announced the new album and have been waiting for this video! Really enjoyed listening to your take and just wanted to say thanks for the time and effort you put into making this :) great channel!

[@nerdsrsocoollike]

As a huge Fall Out Boy fan for many years, I agree with everything you had to say in this video! The title track and Heaven Iowa made my jaw drop when I first heard them, two of the best Fall Out Boy songs of the post-hiatus era and entering into my top 15 FOB songs ever! Easily the best post-hiatus album and now my third favourite Fall Out Boy album period (first being FUTCT followed closely by IOH). Thanks for a great vid on it Cozy!!!

[@COU51N.Kyle.]

BRO! I have been patiently waiting for your feelings on this album! I really wanted to love this album but it felt just ok. Not something I'm going to be returning to often. What A Time To Be Alive is soo good. I'm glad people love this album though. I want Fall Out Boy to keep making music even if I don't like it... I just wish I liked it lol

[@daytonpowell6325]

Would love to see a history breakdown of Hollywood Undead.

[@nicholebaldwin1332]

I’m really glad that you made this video. It has definitely changed my perspective on the new album. I was 13 when I heard Grand Theft Autumn for the first time and subsequently got into Fall Out Boy. I loved them as a pop punk band. I loved the growth in the beginning and each of the first 5 albums holds a special place in my heart. I loved save rock and roll, despite it being a huge departure from their previous style. After that, I kind of fell off. I loved the singles I’ve heard (as pop songs) but it never felt like “fall out boy” to me. I haven’t really listened to those later albums. Obviously when I heard Love from the Other side, I was elated and expected a modern version of their original pop punk sound. I felt so deflated when I heard the album. It doesn’t feel cohesive to me and I felt a bit tricked by the first single. I really haven’t had much time or energy to analyze the album on this level, so I thank you infinitely for doing that for me. I just felt like it was another pop album let down from fall out boy. I don’t expect bands to re-make the same album over and over. I actually really love new paramore and P!ATD (except that last album man). I even loved Patrick’s solo project and still listen to those songs sometimes. Something about newer FOB just doesn’t connect with me. A lot of it feels disingenuous and like it’s trying “too hard”. I agree that this album definitely has more energy and ‘spark’ than their previous albums and I’m so happy to see that. To be honest, I’m a huge lyrics person. I haven’t been able to relate much to newer FOB lyrics. From this album, their were songs I liked, but nothing I felt connected to on first listen. I think I’ve grown a lot as a person and Pete’s lyrics have grown/changed as well since the beginning. I’m definitely going to give this album another chance in the context that it is FOB’s take on their own discography.

[@juice1623]

As soon as the album came out, I was so excited to hear your opinion! I'm seeing them for the first time and my teenage heart couldn't be happier about seeing this album performed live.

[@hithereimhereguys]

Wow you really nailed my thoughts on it. I was trying to define it and “nostalgia” was kind of it but not really, but you’ve just put it into words how I couldn’t comprehend

[@faerielight412]

I was so happy when I saw the new single a few months ago, and my hopes were high for the new album and I have to say that the new album was incredible. First, the production on this is astounding. I love the sound on every song. it kind of reminds me of folie a deux, but also feels like they wanted to incorporate new things like mania. I remember hearing the track “heaven, iowa” and I had chills from that second chorus when the electric guitar comes in. Lyrically, it does well. i relate to those songs, and they mean a lot to me, a month after it’s release. The album itself got me back into fall out boy. now, i didn’t grow up with albums like “take this to your grave” or “from under the cork tree”. I didn’t really get into fall out boy as a whole until mid-2021 to be honest. But this album has honestly changed my life a little bit, and given me something that helps me through hard times. getting this new album, and a month prior we got paramore’s new album which was amazing. These two have something special and I love them for those qualities. Everyone’s gonna have their own opinions and whatnot. no one is obligated to like every album a band shoots out. Everyone is different with their tastes and some people like what bands spew out. and that’s okay. of course just don’t be disrespectful about the bands efforts or authenticity, especially when it comes to fall out boy. my point is is that i enjoyed so much (for) stardust… and that’s honestly it.

[@xasyouwishh]

Thank you so much for this! The fact that there is a channel I can watch that so closely represents the music that I love, really makes my heart happy. Keep doing what you’re doing. ❤

[@juliabuonsante779]

every time you make a fob video my eyes tear up, idk why but I just appreciate your interest and love for them, I love when I see u post a new video !!!!!

[@joseph_lawless]

Man I have been WAITING for you to make a video on this record 🙌🏻🖤

[@danicalifornia1803]

Thank you for this!! So much for Stardust is right up there with Folie A Deux and Infinity On High for me. May even be number 1 on my list of their best albums. I also love Mania and wish it got more love. Id love to see Stardust get a Grammy nod. It's THAT GOOD and the love they put into it shows. I get to see them in April!!

[@jasonflanders5643]

What you said about SMFSD making mania make more sense now is exactly how I felt about Last Young Renegade after Wake Up Sunshine came out.

[@Rowan132]

This is brilliant! I remember hearing Heaven, Iowa and my jaw just dropping at the drums and guitar and just loving the more rock direction that the album seemed to go with. This is genuinely one of my favourite albums of theirs! Honestly a brilliant transition from mania coz you can still see the experimentation that mania had but it still is a heavier album overall.

[@leteveon]

Great video. None of my friends are fall out boy super fans like me so I don’t have anybody to talk to about this album.

[@FearTheTurle21]

I prefer the pre-hiatus FOB, but never considered them sellouts or anything. They evolved and that's totally fine. I like some of their songs since then, but have not been big on their post-hiatus album. That being said, I really liked So Much for Stardust. Was legitimately surprised how much I enjoy it. Also, I don't want bands like them or Paramore to do full nostalgia albums, even if I prefer that era. Ironicallty, that would be the actual sellout move that people complain about. The Wonder Years did it well where they put out a couple songs in the style of their Upsides era. They were standalone, not them returning to that style, as seen on their newest album continuing their evolved sound. I thought that was really cool. If you're gonna go the nostalgia route, I think that's the way to do it. Throw fans a few songs in that style, but keep your current sound for your full lengths and stuff. Awesome video, Cozy. Always love your content. This channel is such a gem.

[@TJZapper]

The album is incredible! Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the album and FOB in general

[@skyboxAngel]

new subscriber here, fall out boy is also my favorite band and even though i've liked them since middle school, i'm only just recently getting into their older stuff (and absolutely loving it) and learning about their early days, and your channel has been invaluable for that. been binging your videos while working on my jean jacket i'm wearing to see them live for the first time this year and i love hearing you talk about their music :)

[@AlexanderFromTheStarDimension]

You've gotta do a video on Viva Las Vengeance now lol

[@djr_drums]

"Im not sure about this, Pete" "Patrick, the guys a fucking visionary"

[@apierre6]

Great video. I stumbled upon your channel recently and have been watching more of your stuff and I want to tell you you're doing a very good job. You do a great job of providing perspective on their career and how they got to this point. I'm a huge FOB as well and this album really shows how they come full circle. My favorite song is the title track, so much for stardust, because it encompasses everything I like about FOB. For me the thing that has made them so great is how they can draw from so many different influences. On so much for stardust they open up with a string section and end with a gospel choir. There are too many bands from any genre who can do that effectively.

[@xEvelynx]

this is the most interesting channel I’ve came across in a while, I’m obsessed with all of your content cx

[@tchr9206]

Yessss happy for the video and you’re right about hold me like a grudge. And the intro to this video was a masterpiece in itself.

[@annimagzombies]

Thanks so much for giving your insight into the new album. I totally agree on everything you said about it and what it means in terms of the bands history. I've been one of those little haters of the comeback era that you talk about for some time and listening to the new album was at first pretty disappointing to me. But then after relistenung a few times the original FOB spirit of the songs really got through to me and made me look at all of their newer stuff in a different way. I think it really is just about embracing the change and this record really builds a metaphorical bridge for that.

[@dkarahtee5340]

Good to see you back, man. Been waiting impatiently to hear your take. Great job.

[@connor_phillipz5689]

I've been excited to see this video pop up in my feed for a while now. This album is by far my favorite post hiatus album FOB have released and after numerous times relistening to it it has become my 2nd favorite Album they've ever released. 2nd only to Folie. I'm very curious what you have to say about it.

[@sumspring4112]

I'd love to see you talk about blink one day. ESPECIALLY Untitled as I feel that's their best album.

[@mackenzie5353]

When I woke up this morning I wasn’t expecting to cry over a FOB album review. But here I am.

[@user-iw9ow2jy6r]

i share so many of your sentiments. one day i’ll put out my own review / analysis / thoughts on this band and album

[@magnifique909]

Heaven, Iowa gives me chills. Truly special song with interesting message. I love LOVE this album! Amazing video, thank you!

[@modernantiques9348]

really love these videos my guy knocked it out of the park with this one

[@leahnibert3849]

First, thank you for this video. I can tell you put a lot of effort into this, and it was very enjoyable. I consider myself a loyal and lifetime Fall Out Boy fan. No matter how much they change, I believe I will always love them. I enjoyed some of the post-hiatus music, but not nearly as much. While I definitely do prefer classic, original Fall Out Boy, I do appreciate how they've evolved over time and have explored different musical styles. I liked Mania from the first listen of the album, and I found myself quite disappointed with So Much For Stardust. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. I didn't hate the album, but I don't think that I liked it. After listening to your speech, I revisited both Mania and SMFS. I have a greater appreciation for Mania than I did before. And because of you pointing out certain things in the album that I didn't pay attention to before, I have an appreciation and respect for Stardust. I found Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco both in 2007, and they've been my favorite bands ever since. I really enjoyed listening to you talk about Fall Out Boy, getting into the history and the details. I look forward to whatever FOB creates in the future. 🥰

[@joe_esque]

You are a REAL one Cozy. Thanks for doing what you do and for doing it so damn well

[@ErickVideoGameGuy]

I'm starting this comment saying that I'm not the biggest fan of the early pop punk sound, I can enjoy it but I'm more into the stuff after 2007 like Infinity on High or Folie and more pop stuff like Patrick's Soul Punk or SRAR. With that being said, So Much (For) Stardust it's a great evolution from what they did from the start and in the 2010s while creating something new and unique. I listened MANIA a few weeks after SM(F)S mostly because I already listened to more than a half of the songs from it, and I liked the direction they did there, but I felt that they could have tried more with it. SM(F)S was a step up after MANIA and they definetely thought on doing something better, unlike MANIA that I felt it a bit rushed, and maybe this has to do with the delay. About their post-hiatus work, while they are really different to their work it wasn't bad. Save Rock And Roll was amazing, it's a no skip album with one of their BIGGEST collabs to this day, being the one with Elton John. American Beauty/American Psycho was a good successor to Save Rock And Roll but a bit lacking compared to the last one, and they relied WAY TOO MUCH on sampling like in Uma Thurman or Forth of July and hooks like in Irresistible. And then there's MANIA, which as I said previously, they had great ideas and the best songs shows it but it didn't manage to complete it. Honestly, I feel that So Much (For) Stardust is an amazing record, every song is amazing with the instrumentation, the outstanding vocals of Patrick and the great lyricism of Pete. I want to see the different styles they try to do in the future and the direction they will take, but for now let's enjoy So Much (For) Stardust because I think we have it all.

[@AJDelRose]

The more I look at Save Rock And Roll the more I see it was a spiteful album to their former fans. FOB is interesting they can make an album attacking their fans and it works hahaha. Overall the new album is decent. I haven't been truly excited for a FOB album since Folie and this at least excited me with the first single. At the point in my life right now this album hits right I have been enjoying it.

[@victoriastewart2089]

Speaking of say anything, have you seen what’s going on w Max and his wife lately? But also as a Mania defender since day one, I’m so tired of the strictly pre-hiatus fob fans and I just wanna know how anyone can think Pete Wentz is a “soulless businessman” or whatever 😅

[@drewdier]

If I try to remove bias from the equation, Stardust is arguably the bands best record. It’s incredibly impressive.

[@Wetzeem]

Okay I guess I’ll listen. I went to Hella Mega tour, as well as Panic’s last tour. Took my 15 year old. This music continues to evolve in my life - I have this link now with my teen and it reminds me so often of how hard it is to be a teenager. Idk. Patrick can wail. He was the best part of Hella Mega for me.

[@jellymop]

You should do a video about a little band called Yesterdays Rising. I’ve never heard anyone else talk about that short lived band I used to listen to.

[@priscillab.3004]

Plsss alesana next!

[@adrianvid8260]

Brozy! Hope this reaches you. Your succintness on delivering this type of knowledge is unparalleled. If you remember there is a little know band from the 00s named Kane Hoder that I think to this day is drastically underrated. Do you remember?

[@summerchild_]

My knees jerk reaction the thw old album was an automatic "oh I miss the old fob" but a few days ago I found myself singing the choris to Heartkbreak never felt so good and I realized that I actually can her the old fob in this new record.

[@MiissMandii]

i listened to SMFSD the day of released and absolutely... fucking hated it... except for the 2 singles they released. but then like 9 months later i came back to it after accidentally binging FOB interviews about the album.. and fucking LOVED it. Folie is my favorite album by far, but i was not a fan of ABAP... but i do REALLY like Novocaine... some songs on Mania i do enjoy. i i love patrick stump so much as a musical creator and visionary, and his experience in the music production industry really shined so much here... his vocals on this album are the best i have ever heard... he is easily one of the best vocalists of the past 2 decades. an amazing album that i can listen to front to back. Kintsugi Kid makes me cry every fucking time i listen to it...and i love what you said about Heaven, Iowa. "Golden" is that song for me, i can't listen to it without starting to cry. i fucking love this band so much.

[@userkeepinglock]

me waiting for you to name drop maroon 5 knowing ur obsessed rn with them

[@shwbz]

Cool video, very interesting thoughts This made me think about other artists, like Demi Lovato, where she basically did similar career shifts, assumingly because of the similar reasons, and their collaboration with Fob on Irresistible is the pinnacle of it & their “pop phase” so to speak

[@1-eye-willy]

WHERE IS YOUR BOI TONIGHT? I HOPE HE IS A GENTLEMAN 🎶🎵🎶🎸🎤

[@mcraul]

Nice! Been waiting for your take bro

[@robthomas793]

Been waiting for this one!

[@katrinahagerman1198]

What do you think about Lake Effect Kid? I think that was a great way to display their roots and get some old fall out boy sound without feeling like they were regressing. Probably my favorite newer song of theirs.

[@soysaucehairdye7869]

Please do a rise and fall of one of the most underrated post-hardcore bands, Scary Kids Scaring Kids. ‘The Bright Side of Suffering’ is like the Mineral ‘If I Could’ of the 2000s.

[@binkycat]

Every FoB album I really like a couple songs off of and the rest I don't hate I just don't really listen to it. Sort of the same with this album, but I enjoyed it more than the last couple albums listening to it from front to back. So I was pretty satisfied even as a casual fan.

[@Kthespacewhale]

It’s interesting being in a later wave of emo/pop punk fans than it’s hay day , I found emo/pop punk during the emo trinity/tumblr wave where it was kinda of cool but still kinda not, where as you see emo starting to become quiet around 2014 and that’s when it started for me and the sub genre was still very much active and alive, just not in the same way. This isn’t a bad thing or anything jsut an interesting observation of small generational differences

[@luanacoutinho8993]

Eu amo MANIA, foi o único álbum que conseguiu ocupar o posto de favorito depois de from under the cork tree. Não é como se eu não gostasse de so much for stardust, mas não gosto do álbum inteiro como eu amo MANIA e Cork tree.

[@nathananderson7582]

Heaven, Iowa is one of my fav songs already. Definitely was disappointed by Mania but there are some bangers there for sure

[@Nick-Nasty]

I love your take on it and agree totally

[@nickjuarez4062]

Very cool vid man 👍🏼

[@djr_drums]

Totally agree that the 2010's albums are better in retrospect. Im jamming ABAP right now and im LOVING it. Im a FOB diehard, so I have a bias.....but those albums arent as bad as people were saying at the time

[@internetguy9531]

i love you cozy

[@304Dolo]

Ur vids are the best

[@idontuploadanym0re]

the 10 year rule can apply to so many things. just look at minecraft! big in the early 2010s, died out in the middle 2010s, massive resurgence before and during covid

[@EducatedNation2]

I’m way more of a lyrics person than music so I don’t think I felt the 2010s shift as hard as others. I’ve liked all their albums. I have a ranking of course of course but I think every album has standouts. Though it is funny that my favorite mania song is the piano cover of young and a menace.