Fall Out Boy's new CD, Infinity on High was released on February 6, 2007, and I have to say it is by far their worst CD. I first started listening to Fall Out Boy back in 2001 and absolutely fell in love with them. Their concerts were amazing, and their music was even better. The best part of Fall Out Boy was their lyrics. The lyrics they wrote always had a deeper meaning that usually tied back to a girl. I remember back in I want to say 2004, maybe 2005…Fall Out Boy announced that they would no longer be writing songs about girls. They made it their New Year’s Resolution.
When their CD, From Under the Cork Tree came out, they blew up on MTV. Now, I’m not sure if it was their New Year’s Resolution or MTV, but something went wrong. They started playing concerts at big arenas, like Mid-America Center…but it was the fans that I couldn’t stand. I felt like I should have been at a Backstreet Boys concert with all the little teeny-boppers running around. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy to see them at a huge arena, I just didn’t know I wouldn’t be able to use foul language without having a parent give me an evil look. I mean, one day they went from playing an eight dollar concert at the Ranch Bowl in front of me and maybe fifty other people, to playing in front of thousands for 30 dollars a ticket. Great, they’re big, it’s what every band wishes for…but not every fan.
I was excited to get the new CD the day it came out. I popped in the CD and started to listen to what I was hoping would be the old Fall Out Boy. The first song, Thriller came on and right away I skipped it. Bad news, the first song on a CD should be the bait that lures people in. The second song, The Take Over, The Breaks Over, was awesome. My hopes started to go back up for this CD. The song went back to their old lyrics, with the twisted meaning behind it…like “They say your head can be a prison, than these are just conjugal visits, people will dissect us until this thing doesn’t mean a thing anymore.” The next song, I can’t stand. This Ain’t A Scene…maybe it was too overplayed on the radio, or maybe it just sucks…but it’s not a good song.
Now on to the worst part…I skipped right over four through seven. The first couple seconds of those songs freaked me out. The experimental phase they’re going through, is not, I REPEAT NOT, working for them. Having an orchestra play the beginning ten seconds of a Fall Out Boy song, a choir singing the Hallelujah song, and some 80s beat didn’t work for Fall Out Boy. STOP experimenting. Just because Kanye, or however you spell his name, tells you it’s going to be awesome, doesn’t mean it will be. In fact, it’s horrible. Fall Out Boy just needs to stick to their roots.
Overall, I liked three of the 14 songs on the CD. Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am? Carpal Tunnel of Love, and The Take Over, The Breaks Over were the only songs worth listening all the way through. I’m pretty disappointing, Fall Out Boy is gearing far from where they came from and that’s what got them where they’re at. I wouldn’t recommend buying this CD, it should just be free because it isn’t worth the 13 dollars I paid for it. Maybe the CD will pay off after I listen to it a bunch of times and decide that a song turns out to be alright, but for now, I wish I would have just downloaded the music for free.
