Fall Out Boy Takes 50 Cent On Tour

Fall Out Boy Takes 50 Cent On Tour

It was 50 Cent’s proposal to play some shows with Fall Out Boy this month. But he didn’t have to ask twice.

“He came up with the idea, and we were like, ‘Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Why not?,” frontman Patrick Stump tells Billboard.com. “He had been talking for awhile about doing something together. We definitely like hip-hop a lot, and I think a lot of people know that at this point. We’ve toured with Paul Wall. We’ve had Lil Wayne on our record. I worked with Gym Class Heroes extensively. So I think it works.”

But Stump acknowledges that hasn’t been a universal sentiment.

“We’ve encountered a little bit of negative feelings about it,” he says, “but I think that you should challenge your audience a little bit. And I think the reality is that, OK, if you don’t like 50 Cent, if you’re that stuck-up that you’re going to stand there and hate him actively, then go to the concession stand during (his set). Go get a T-shirt or go to the bathroom if that’s how you feel. Otherwise, challenge yourself.

“I’m excited to see how it goes because it will certainly add something to the tour in a different way that I think is worth seeing. I think it should be interesting.”

The rapper — whose new album, “Before I Self Destruct,” is due in June — is playing five shows with Fall Out Boy, starting April 14 at the Fillmore in Denver. Both acts are also playing at this weekend’s Bamboozle Left festival in Irvine, Calif. Stump says there are no plans yet to collaborate on stage, but he doesn’t rule it out, either.

“We haven’t really talked about it,” Stump says, “but I think a tour kind of has a life of its own. On the first day it’s just like summer camp — you’re really awkward. But by the last day you have your group of friends and you’ve figured yourself out, so who knows? It may happen. I could just as easily see him and Cobra Starship hanging out, so we’ll see.”

Fall Out Boy kicks off its Believers Never Die Part Deux tour today (April 3) in Mesa, Ariz. Other opening acts on the tour include Metro Station, All Time Low and Hey Monday.

Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux

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“”Change will come,” Patrick Stump sings on “(Coffee’s for Closers),” a typically excitable cut from the new Fall Out Boy album. Considering the Chicago band’s original plan to release “Folie à Deux” on Election Day, that lyric was likely intended as a tip of the hoodie to Barack Obama. Now it plays more like an acknowledgement of the evolution of FOB’s sound, which since 2005’s breakthrough “From Under the Cork Tree” has taken on new complexities without losing the fist-pumping qualities that made Stump and his bandmates mall-punk superstars. “Folie” is easily the group’s most adventurous outing yet, with assured forays into blue-eyed soul (”What a Catch, Donnie”), arena-ready glam (”I Don’t Care”) and ’80s-style electro (”Tiffany Blews”). Next time, maybe we’ll get that long-promised polka jam.—Mikael Wood”

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“Fall Out Boy have become the kings of emo — without actually showing much emotion. Sure, they make all the signature emo moves: Singer Patrick Stump bellows cries of hurt, catalogs of grievances and confessions of inadequacy over guitars that hurtle toward big choruses. The group’s fourth album, Folie à Deux, begins in high-angst mode, with him crooning “I’m coming apart at the seams” over a funereal organ.

But behind the melodrama there is a smirk. In the galloping “Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes,” Stump sings about nervous breakdowns and detox stints before delivering a jokey self-critique: “Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy.” The title of “The (Shipped) Gold Standard” is an in-joke about record sales, and the chorus rises to winking couplet: “You can only blame your problems on the world for so long/Before it all becomes the same old song.” In Fall Out Boy’s world, tongue-in-cheek always trumps heart-on-sleeve.

That’s certainly the case on Folie à Deux, their most exuberantly cheeky release yet. It’s also their most rock-star-ish. The guest list boasts names that only an A-list band could corral, from emo homeboys (Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy) to rappers (Lil Wayne, Pharrell) to eminences (Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry). The music suggests that Fall Out Boy, now firmly established as leading Gen Y rock torchbearers, are starting to think about their place in history. In “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet,” Stump sings, “I don’t just want to be a footnote.” This heightened historical self-consciousness registers most strongly in the music itself, which mashes up the band’s staples — caffeine-injected punk pop and bursts of prog-rock pomp — with more old-school sounds: Beatlesque backing vocals in “America’s Suitehearts,” string-swathed soul balladeering in the glorious “What a Catch, Donnie.” Fall Out Boy began dabbling with R&B on 2007’s Infinity on High, and they further explore their funky side here: Stump is emerging as one of the world’s most unlikely blue-eyed-soul stars, breathing life into classic R&B chord progressions and flaunting his agile voice. (He seems determined to give Robin Thicke a run for the Best White Boy Falsetto prize.)

The musical mix on Folie à Deux suggests a band with an advanced case of ADD, ricocheting between genres and eras, tempos and time signatures, often several times in a given song. But there is monomaniacal focus in the lyrics of Pete Wentz, FOB’s bassist, pin-up and poet/jester. Wentz is, as always, hyperverbose and infatuated by puns. (The wordplay is sometimes not quite as clever as Wentz thinks: “The mad key’s tripping/Singing vows/Before we exchange smoke rings.”) Above all, Fall Out Boy remain obsessed with Fall Out Boy. “Throw your cameras in the air/And wave them like you just don’t care,” Stump bellows in “(Coffee’s for Closers).” Rock stars have been making records about rock stardom for decades, but few have had such fun singing about the absurdities, the narcissism — and, as the album title suggests, the follies — of a life lived in fame’s strobelit glare. “I don’t care what you think/As long as it’s about me,” sings Stump in “I Don’t Care,” adding what could be FOB’s credo, a summary of their trickster-ish approach to the emo game: “The best of us can find happiness in misery.”

Fall Out Boy - America’s Suitehearts

This should be a huge hit on Rock / Alternative radio and has a great shot at crossing over to mainstream. Great track! 8/10

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Fall Out Boy - What A Catch, Donnie

Pretty slow for Fall Out Boy’s standards, but it’s nice to see another side of them. This track should do really well. 8/10

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Fall Out Boy Album Moved Back Six Weeks

Updating a story posted earlier today, Fall Out Boy’s new Island album, “Folie a Deux,” has shifted from its original Nov. 4 release date to Dec. 16. A post on the band’s Web site cited concerns over the planned election day tie-in as one of the reasons for the shift.

“Six months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute,” the band says. “We felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick.”

Later today, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz said Dec. 16 “is not the date we had originally planned nor the optimal date according some demographic marketing analysis, [but] we put our eight feet down told our label it must come out this year. We’re already bummed enough that ‘Chinese Democracy’ is gonna beat us to release.”

An Island spokesperson was unavailable for comment at deadline.

To offset the delay, Fall Out Boy promises “a surprise or two” (one of which has been identified as an Elvis Costello guest appearance) as well as “an extensive preorder campaign that will take into account the current state of our economy” and both new songs and a podcast series via iTunes.

The first single from the album, “I Don’t Care,” has sold 167,000 downloads in four weeks of U.S. release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

As another olive branch to expectant fans, Fall Out Boy will play “extremely small club shows” in the U.S. in November, with tickets only being available on the day of. Details have yet to be announced.

“Folie a Deux” is the follow-up to 2007’s “Infinity on High,” which has sold 1.3 million copies.

Fall Out Boy - I Don’t Care

Decent track, but I expect more from Fall Out Boy. 6/10

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