| i fob hanno fatto un sacco di interviste con l'occasione dell;uscita dell'album però ho trovato questo molto interessante . farò anche la traduzione se serve XD
MSN Music: This CD has a great line for going into the holidays in the opening line of "27": "If home is where the heart is, then we're all just f---ed."
Patrick Stump: Yeah, that was one of my favorite lines, too. Pete had given me a lot of the lyrics to this record, and I just noticed a lot more immediacy to them. It's still at times fairly abstract, but it's as close to spelling it out as we've ever been. That's just one of those lines that I fought for. A lot of people were uncomfortable with it. I curse like a sailor in person, but I never really swear in music ... there was no other way to properly express what we were trying to say there without resorting to the F-bomb.
What kind of growth do you try to achieve with each album?
I never think about growth ... I always feel like you either should change with purpose, and if it's not supposed to change, you shouldn't. AC/DC has put out records that sound almost identical. I mean that absolutely positively because that's really hard to do -- to make music and be inspired and find so much fertile ground in that ... I like to think of our first record as a blueprint. Anything that wasn't on the first record, I don't think is fair to be introduced. I don't mean like, "Well there weren't horns on your first record." Not that. I just mean melodically, rhythmically, anything that would feel alien to me for that band to do, I don't want to do.
To promote "Folie," you and Pete did 72 interviews in 24 hours. What question did you get asked more than any other?
The most occurring question was exactly that, that self referential, "So everyone's asked you that same question today, huh?" ... And the other thing is you got some people who were really sort of bitter: "Oh, so, I'm like, I'm just another one of these interviews today." And I'm like, "I'm talking, man. I'm listening" [said very earnestly]. It was a really interesting sort of social experiment.
Much of the lyrics reflect on our obsession with pop culture. Pete Wentz and wife Ashlee Simpson are surrounded by paparazzi. Did that influence the album?
No. Look, that's definitely going to affect anybody when you're in a situation like that, your daily life is affected to the point where you can't go to the grocery store. But there's really no direct referencing to anything. I think I'm much angrier than he is right now. He's got a kid; he just got married; he's in a much better place right now. I'm pissed off.
What are you pissed off about?
I feel like there's just this overwhelming consumerism ... OK, here's another thing: Socialism gets thrown around, like, "Watch out for the socialists, they're coming to get you." Socialism doesn't mean anything. Did you ever pay your taxes? The problem is if you don't have any kind of socialism in the United States, then you can't pay for your crazy wars, man ... Just as I have to abide capitalism sometimes, everybody else has to abide socialism sometimes because that's how we maintain the union, we pool our money together sometimes ... When I look at everywhere in the world, right, the root cause seemingly of all problems, aside from natural disasters, is because of somebody not wanting to share their toys and so that's what the album's about.
Capitalism has been pretty good to you the last couple of years.
Totally, but you want to know what? I have been put into the highest tax bracket in the United States; I am at the bottom rung of the highest tax bracket.
I am totally fine to pay however much I have to if that's going to make the country run better. I was never interested in money anyway. I could give a f---. In the meantime, I'm basically just pooling [my money] until I decide what to donate it to.
Why did you move the album from its original Election Day release date?
The aim that we had with the whole record in the first place was, "We're putting this record out on Election Day and we're going to talk about voting," [and] it didn't work out that way. People wanted to talk about, I don't know, Pete's baby ... They wanted to talk about what we thought about Britney Spears' comeback. So we were like, well, this is bordering on profane, you know, to be putting a record out on Election Day. It doesn't feel right at all.
The video for the first single, "I Don't Care," has former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke taking the piss out of you. Do you do that as a preemptive move to make fun of yourself first, or is it to remind you not to take it so seriously yourselves?
It's a little bit of both, and it's also to remind our audience not to take us too seriously. We've gotten the emo tag a lot, and I'm perfectly fine being called whatever. But the one thing I worry about is when people take us too seriously as, like, this is a culture, this is a movement, "I have to wear my hair like this." ... And I'm like, "No you don't, dude ... you don't have to be a uniform." The funny thing is that Gilby is a friend of ours. A lot of the older generation of rockers have been very welcoming to us. A lot of the other rock bands, current rock bands, are not very cool to us and I feel like there's this self-conscious, almost king-of-the-hill aspect to it. It's like, "No, you're, like, in that other scene. You guys aren't cool." And I'm like, "I don't see the value in that."
You've sold millions of albums and sold out arenas around the world. What career accomplishment so far makes you the most proud?
I remember one time a picture of us made it in one of the Chicago papers. My grandpa is very silent and stoic, and I'm on my way out the door, and he holds up the paper and he just kind of taps my arm and says, "Good job," and that's it. That was all I got out of him. This was maybe a couple of years in. I kind of pissed off the family a little bit: I didn't go to college, I took a lot of crazy risks; and they were like, whatever. To know that it met Grandpa's approval was pretty big.
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