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"The Story Of Ferdinand", by Munro Leaf stories about a bull who sits under the cork tree and indulges on the scent of blooming flowers instead of going against bullfighters in the ring, because he likes it. From this inspirational children’s book, Pete Wentz — bassist and vocalist of rising band Fall Out Boy — came up for the title of their second album From Under The Cork Tree. First single "Sugar, We’re Going Down"’s already topped charts, and now their second single "Dance, Dance" is on the way to the top. Wentz pretty much finds this metaphor interesting, as in how humans should do what they truly admire and not follow what most people would expect them to do. I’d assume spirit to make From Under The Cork Tree was also fueled by this, as most would see in the end result!
I remember first listening to Fall Out Boy, unfortunately I was listening to "I Slept With Someone From Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" and of course, like every 99.9% other people the first two thoughts that ran through my mind were holy crap that’s one long song title and oh this sucks, back about 4 months ago. Well, Fall Out Boy’s known for very very long song titles, the longer it gets the more emotional it is heh! But anyways, 4 months ago, I thought FOB as another ’sure-drop’ newcoming band, but I got hooked to "Sugar, We’re Going Down" just as soon as I heard it on Pre-RL and sureshot. I still remember how I’d hit on anything I’d find following drummer Andrew Hurley’s beats, and eventually I got into playing the song itself where I discovered that it runs on double pedals, and the fusion between the vocals, guitar and drums are amazing!
Then I saw the whole video on FOB’s website for the first time, and even the video carries a significant resemblence to the Ferdinand metaphor. One boy, one girl and one dad. The boy who had antlers and the girl who got her kite stuck in his antlers, eventually the boy would meet the girl’s father who disadmire’s the boy’s unorthodox feature and in an attempt to console to needs and be with the girl (simply because there’s chemistry, let’s assume) that he tried to cut his antlers off, until he’s stopped by the girl. You see, not everyone has got it off easy in life, not everyone - doesn’t matter financially or physically - can accomodate to everyone else, and if you’re different than others, you should make that as your standpoint as you are unique and have something different to offer. Just by watching this 3 minute video my outlook on life got brighter, heh.
Apart from that, you’d think that Wentz came up with the idea since it has similarities, but nope, Wentz actually gave a different idea that was passed on to make way for this one which he himself claims strange, but has meaning. To me, Fall Out Boy is a slightly emo punk band which has passion and engraves that in their music, as akthough most claim it as emo, I see it as inspirational. And of course enjoyable to the ears. Now they’re out with "Dance, Dance" which, I’d assume (no pun intended) is imminently 85% emotional elements and the rest donates to catchy guitar riffs and drum rounds. Still enjoyable, and is definetly something that you’d be able to move to.
All in all, bands that can make changes to one’s personalities and outlook are definetly living legends in my books, and Fall Out Boy is one of them, there’s just something about not being able to grasp the tune of the song due to either sophistication or sophisticated simplicity. It’s subjective to one’s ears, but that’s my personal opinion. Vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist and vocalist Peter Wentz, lead guitarist and vocalist Joseph Trohman and drummer Andrew Hurley end up creating this awesome Chicago grown band, and charms most that it has infected with longing vocals from Pat and catchy joint riffs and not to mention Andrew’s cool drum beats. I hope they tour Malaysia!
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