Fall Out Boy en China

A lot of famous people come on Battle of the Bands, but usually I have no idea who they are. So I was pretty excited about Fall Out Boy: even though I don’t listen to their music, at least I could brag to my friends.

ME: Sorry, I can’t go out tonight. I’m busy refilling ice buckets for Fallout Boy.
FRIENDS: Fall Out Boy? We didn’t really like you before, but NOW!

Apparently Fall Out Boy wanted to do a Beijing show, but couldn’t get their paperwork in order. So BOTB was a way for them to make an impact on China, a vast market indeed. Imagine how many CDs they’d sell if several million Chinese kids turned emo.

Probably several million.

Anyhoo, the press asked Fall Out Boy a bunch of insightful questions like, ‘what’s it like to be in a band?’

Pete Wentz was asked about the relationship between bands and brands, and how they can work together:
“The music industry isn’t where it was,” said Wentz. “If you want to remain competitive, if you want to make a creative music video that’s a real event like in the 80’s, you’re not going to get the budget to do that from your label. Hopefully you can find a brand with similar values. For me it becomes selling out when you just do it for the money. But if you’re making art and you can sleep at night knowing the brand isn’t doing any harm, OK.”

There were more people on set than usual because of FOB, including a hefty helping of models. There was this one model dude with a particularly gleaming chest that got totally wasted and wandered around sharing pearls of wisdom like “I love Chinese girls,” and “Relax, you only live once.” Show business is truly where the shiniest humans come home to roost.
Before the show, The Wheels covered a Fall Out Boy song backstage, and gave FOB a special custom skateboard deck they designed.

I bet all the other bands were wishing they knew a Fall Out Boy song, too.

What? Oh yeah, there were other famous people there as well.

Finger Family vs. Sweet Journey

Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman commented that Finger Family’s sound was coming through confused, which Harry Hui translated as ‘no good.’ There was something so awesome about Finger Family… what was that again? If this band doesn’t get their act together soon, they’ll STILL make it all the way to the final episode, their torturous doom stretched out over a ten- week period.
WINNER: Sweet Journey

The Wheels vs. Danke

Pete Wentz said The Wheels reminded him of bands from Fall Out Boy’s hometown Chicago, and that they could probably make it in America. He said this while stroking his new ‘The Wheels’ skateboard deck and winking suggestively. If Fall Out Boy love The Wheels so much then they should marry them.


MAS TARDE TRADUCCION!