segunda-feira, 22 de dezembro de 2008

What they look, how they look, and why they look like this.

It's not like I hate Pete. I had a period where I just read about him, just talk about him, just take pictures of him. He's a good boy, and he looks handsome – girls just get crazy. He's the soul of the band, even if his voice is not, exactly, the prettier I ever heard. And just a soul can't do anything. A soul needs a body, and the three guys could constitute a body.

But this ain't so simple. Pete loves the spotlights, the interviews, the photos, the fame. And, though his jokes between songs in shows are very good, he gets all the sights and all the spotlights, always letting Andy and Joe in the shadows. Patrick also gets the attentions. But Patrick is the vocalist, man! He NEEDS to get the holophotes.

I must confess I hear some bands I only know the name of the singer.

Pete is the composer – a thing he does very well –, the baser, the backing singer and the spokesman in the band. He just could let Andrew and Joseph get a little of space.

Don't you know who are Andrew and Joseph? Do you think I'm talking about the wrong band?

Nice to meet you, Andrew John Hurley plays the drums since 2003, and Joseph Mark Trohman, the co-founder of the band with Peter, plays guitar and does some backing vocals when Pete let him.

It's hard to see these two guys like they were just co-operating to the success of a band that looks that is composed of just two guys.

They don't know Peter. They think he play guitar, that "Pete" is his true name, they don't know the name of his son, don't know the name of the other guys of the band. Don't know nothing, but that the name of the songs are giant and that Pete is gorgeous. It's not only about him. It's about the girls and boys that put him in eternal glory.

Andy and Joe are always the dislocate guys. I really think they are the greatest guys in the band – musically, and humanly.

The last time I heard news about them was in a article in Alternative Press, where Andy talked about his house in Milwaukee, and where Joe said he felt like it wasn't the band he dedicated his life on.

"It's hard to hear, Joe and Andy are just along for the ride", he declared. Patrick argued that all the guys, in some moment, have ever felt like this.

Maybe it's true. Patrick was a cute child when he became the singer. Pete was as busy as a bee trying to suicide. Andy was the new guy when they were already a band.

But this tension is not something new. And it seems never ends to Joseph and Andrew.

We can notice it by the clips – Pete and Patrick are always starring. We can notice it by the last songs – I can't hear anything similar to the musical influences of Joe and Andy.

FOB is an experimental band. They begun in a split CD with Project Rocket, with cute songs, like "it's not side effect of the cocaine I am thinking it must be love". In the same year they launched the CD evening out with your girlfriend, something we can call pop punk.

As the CD wasn't a hit, they changed a lot the style in its successor, take this to your grave. Emo style worked, and the guys reached the fame.

After a positive result with this style, they kept some aspects of the songs of TTTYG and mixed this up with hardest songs. From this mixture, rises from under the cork tree, with nineteen tracks, between them the great hit dance dance. It's a big jump in the history of the band, and the guys become the bigger emo band of USA.

But this all fades with infinity on high, bringing tracks with a style absolutely different from the band the fans once knew. The salvation was the impact that the single, this ain't a scene it's an arms race, caused in the fans.

The CD mixed up tracks with new influences, and tracks that pleased the fans, for being similar to FUTCT's songs. So, it was the salvation, although most of fans considers this the worst CD.

After two years, the guys announce a new CD. The name, the cover and the style is different from all – what proofs how experimental is the band.

It's not like folie a deux, launched in December 16, is a horrible CD. But the track they chose to single was a bad idea – I don't care is, safely, the worst song of CD. Although the clip is very good, it doesn't work too much to conquer the fans and convince them to buy the CD – it's not the blame of internet, for publishing the songs some days before to the launch.

The CD sins for the single and for the backing vocals – Patrick Stump does most of them. At once, the songs in the shows won't be so good.

But the best part of the CD is the way how they mix up all the things we ever heard in FOB with a dancing beat. If you ask me to compare FAD with some CD, I'd say that it's similar to a fever you can't sweat out (panic! at the disco).

What's not too bad… but let's hope the next CD of FOB will be a revolution, like Pretty. Odd., the successor of a fever you can't sweat out, was.

And even if this CD is not like the FOB I know and love, I liked it. And a lot of people liked too. And a lot of people hated. We can't always please both sides.

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