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I know I've posted some of FOB's stuff before, even fairly recently, but I just stumbled across this jewel again. I found it a few years ago when I was first introduced to the group. Now, let's be honest, some of the interpretations are a little bit of a stretch, but it is hard to understand lead singer Patrick Stump a lot of the time, so much so, that it's not that much of a stretch to see how some of the interpretations could be genuine. The only thing missing here is a one interpretation I've seen that heard part of the song as "golf cart arse face."
I'll take any of their music over Stump's solo venture, in which it was clear he wanted so badly to be the second coming of Michael Jackson that it was practically painful. In the video below for the song "This City", he pulls a classic Jackson move, putting a fairly serious topic with an uplifting message of sorts to pop music. It also sounds like a tune Jackson would have done. I'm as big a fan of the Prince of Pop as anyone, but let's leave it to him.
"Scene" was from the group's third album, Infinity on High, their best release in my opinion, and their most commercially successful, according to the numbers. There are lots of interpretations of the song's meaning, but the band's bassist and lyricist, Pete Wentz, said, it's a "tongue-in-cheek look at the way we are so addicted and obsessed with new arts, cultures and loves..." I personally like the idea that it's about an "arms race" in the music industry, finding artists recording music for money instead of the passion for music.
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