How I Came To Love Fall Out Boy
Summer 2007. One of the best times of my life I can ever remember. I hung out with my best friend and my boyfriend. I went to the Renaissance Festival with him, his family, and a mutual friend of ours (but he was friends with mike first).
I hung out with my favorite cousin, Josh. He got me interested into a lot of cool music that summer, like Dashboard Confessional, Deathcab For Cutie, Copeland, even a little Panic (!) at the Disco, though he doesn’t like them or Fall Out Boy as much as me. We would listen to the music he like (Pink Floyd, ACDC, and stuff like that) and he would play the guitar for me, he is so awesome. Honestly I think I’m closer to him than anybody else I know. We were over at my Grandmas house listening to music on his sisters computer one day, I was scrolling through the songs and I spotted Dance Dance, and I had heard it a few times before so I’m like, ok cool lets listen to this! I noticed she also had a lot of other songs from them and I listened to them more and more and more. It got to the point where I was downloading them all the time.
When Josh had to leave me for a few months over the summer I was extremely upset and depressed. I missed him so much, he was still gone when school started, I was having problems with a class and some people in it and the teacher. I was upset because the people in the class would pick on me because I didn’t like the class and was very stubborn about it.
So I was depressed and I liked being alone. i would get home from school and go upstairs until dinner. I was reading some old entries in my diary one day and I talked about wishing I could fall asleep and not wake up until all my problems were solved, and running away from home, starting to smoke, and some other stuff that I didn’t realize sounded so bad when I actually wrote it. Thank God I never actually did anything. This was when my love for Fall Out Boy began to grow. I truly believe that Fall Out Boy saved my life. Not nessasarily in the sense that i would kill myself, which actually thought about, and Im very ashamed of it, but in the sense that i would be a totally different person. I would proably be like alot of my friends are: smoking, drinking, getting in trouble with the PoPos. I didn't want to be that way, so i turned to music for support.
Fall Out Boy makes me feel safe and in my comfort zone. The lyrics are just so real and describe life so well. The music is so different from anything else I have ever heard, it just….gah…..it’s hard to explain. Fall Out Boy’s music speaks to me and lifts me up when I’m down. And yes I’m aware how cheesy that just sounded, but I don’t really care.
My top 5 favorite songs from FOB are:
- Saturday
- 7 Minures In Heaven
- Sugar, We're Going Down
- Thriller
- The Carpal Tunnel Of Love
my favorite album is From Under the Cork Tree, and Pete and Patrick are my favorite band members.
Thank you Fall Out Boy, you guys are my heroes and I will admire you for the rest of my life.
