Folie à Deux
因与美国总统大选撞车而被迫延后六周发行的Fall Out Boy新专辑《Folie àDeux》，如今总算是千呼万唤始出来了，他们确实如早前的许诺那样给歌迷带来了惊喜：除了当中的《What a Catch, Donnie》和《Tiffany Blews》等曲目有Elvis Costello(听歌)、Lil Wayn一众明星助阵外，在专辑的限量版本里，还收录有他们翻唱自Michael Jackson(听歌)的知名单曲《Beat It》。 当人们还在费尽周折地确定Fall Out Boy是否属于EMO团体的时候，他们这第五张录音室专辑正是通向EMO天王道路上最掷地有声的作品。从九月份便出现于Fall Out Boy官网的新专辑封面来看，血红的背景、套着熊皮戏服的小丑背着一只真正的黑熊，这张由美籍华裔EMO插画家Luke Chueh创作的封套画传承着EMO文化当中阴森、黑暗、凶残的一面，也巧妙贴合着这张新专辑的名称“Folie àDeux”，在法文当中，“Folie àDeux”意为精神病患者出现的一种共享于二者间的癫狂状态。 整张专辑由一阵犹如丧钟般的管风琴旋律开启，主唱Patrick Stump略显低靡的嗓音随即唱响第一句歌词“I'm coming apart at the seams”，这句略显消沉的歌词几乎奠定了整张专辑的情绪基调。旋即，《Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes》描述了一种在精神失常和强制戒毒过程当中出现的恍惚状态，这是乐队核心人物Pete Wentz带着玩笑性质的自我批评；《The (Shipped) Gold Standard》更将这种自嘲发扬光大，虽然这首歌的名称是乐队对这张新专辑的销量妄自尊大的期许，但歌词主体抨击的却是音乐工业的流水化、形式化；当然，乐队在这张专辑当中仍旧继续思索着他们从刚一出道时就在思考的那个问题——他们将以怎样的姿态在这个“长江后浪推前浪，前浪死在沙滩上”的音乐圈里立足呢？Patrick Stump于是在《Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet》当中唱道：“I don't just want to be a footnote”。 专辑发行没多久就有乐迷对Fall Out Boy这种愈加流行化的旋律大加诟病，而EMO作为一整个文化体系，却并没有具体要求EMO这种音乐类型在旋律和曲风上不能趋向于流行(不能趋向于商业)，反之，如若将Fall Out Boy以及他们自2000年成立起便发行的五张专辑看成一个整体的话，他们正好反映着EMO文化的精髓。在这张专辑的《I Don’t Care》曲目当中，他们甚至还有这样一句歌词：“I don't care what you think/As long as it's about me”，揭示了Fall Out Boy从一而终遵循的教条，同时也正是EMO文化的精准摘要，那就是，他们能在痛苦当中找寻到最深刻的幸福和欢愉。 Multi-platinum three-time MTV VMA-winning Island Records group Fall Out Boy have officially announced their upcoming new third Island album FOLIE A DEUX, to be released on December 16th 2008. The band told a packed audience about the release last night at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, when they headlined the "Rock the Vote Ballot Bash." FOLIE A DEUX was produced by Neal Avron at The Pass Studios in Los Angeles. The first single will be the track "I Don't Care." Radio dates to be announced shortly. For FOLIE A DEUX, Fall Out Boy spearheaded a politically charged group that unveiled cryptic "Big Brother" type messages in order to support and ignite a democratic process. Impressively, the creative album roll-out garnered over 1 Million impressions in just one week online across literally hundreds of websites such as absolutepunk.net, friendsorenemies."This roll-out was started to engage people and let them tell their own stories. We came up with the beginning and the end, while the rest happened organically." says FOB bass player Pete Wentz. Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" has been nominated for Best Rock Video at this year's 25th annual MTV VMAs. The worldwide cablecast takes place live from Paramount Studios in Hollywood, on Sunday night, September 7th at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern). Since their first major market headlining North American arena tour in spring 2006, Chicago's Fall Out Boy - Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Troh man (guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums) - have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender, and Alternative Press and have performed on NBC's The Today Show, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and more