Patrick Stump, lead singer of Fall Out Boy:
Fall Out Boy’s last album Folie A Deux was our most critically panned and audiences openly hated it (it was also our poorest selling major label album even if one adjusts for the changing music economy). Now, that’s not to say it didn’t have its fans, but at no other point in my professional career was I nearly booed off stages for playing new songs. Touring on Folie was like being the last act at the Vaudville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in Clandestine hoodies.
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Still, there’s no amount of money in the world that makes one feel content with having no self respect. There’s no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Fascinating read. Unfiltered insight from the singer of one of the most maligned bands of the 2000’s.
(I met Stump around 2005 before the band really broke big. He was a humble and very musically talented kid. Totally seemed out of place next to the tabloid nature of bandmate Pete Wentz.)
Patrick Stump — WE LIKED YOU BETTER FAT: CONFESSIONS OF A PARIAH.