{"id":28954,"date":"2020-04-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=28954"},"modified":"2020-04-12T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:01:07","slug":"looking-back-on-fall-out-boy-folie-a-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2020\/04\/12\/looking-back-on-fall-out-boy-folie-a-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back On: Fall Out Boy, \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d came out when I was eight years old. Fall Out Boy (FOB) was a band I enjoyed but it wasn\u2019t my favorite yet. That didn\u2019t occur until 2010 when I got my first laptop and suddenly had access to play any music I wanted. After countless times listening, I came to think of it as one of the most musically intricate and well-developed albums FOB has ever produced. However, \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d didn\u2019t sell well and ultimately contributed to FOB\u2019s hiatus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a plot in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux,\u201d however, it is very hidden and not really understood without the additional \u201cFall Out Toy Works\u201d comics, which was published in \u201809 and continued into \u201813. The comics are mostly unknown by many which makes talking about them all the more fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A strip from “Fall Out Toy Works”
(Source: Youtube\/peterkingstonlewis)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFall Out Toy Works\u201d was created by Pete Wentz of FOB, Darren Romanelli and Nathan Cabrera. It is written by Brett Lewis and illustrated by members of Imaginary Friends Studios. The story is a cyberpunk tale set in futuristic LA centered around a gynoid (female android) named Tiffany, the Toymaker\u2019s perfect creation. Think \u201cPinocchio\u201d meets \u201cPygmalion.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baron is the main antagonist and his company controls the production of pretty much everything in Los Angeles, even the weather but he has no control over his relationships. He asks the Toymaker to create a robot wife for him, named Tiffany. Talking about the story any farther without spoiling the ending is hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trade paperback and webcomic version both had the final page of issue 5 removed, which changed the entire tone of the ending. (It is relatively easy to find online, though.) There are so many things that the comics explain, even the meaning of the album\u2019s cover art: the bear is a boy robot named Crybaby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To promote \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux,\u201d the whole label of Decaydance Records artists did a mixtape of demos and custom songs called \u201cWelcome to the New Administration.\u201d The promotional campaign began on Aug. 18, 2008, when Decaydance\u2019s website was supposedly hacked by a shady group called “Citizens For Our Betterment<\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The link led to the group’s website which was red, white and blue. Links on the page were blocked needing specific IP addresses to work. The Decaydance site was normal the following day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Citizens for Our Betterment web page was updated every day, many posts referring to Nov. 4, the same day as the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The locked links were gradually opened and by Aug. 24, one link led to a page saying “FOB – The Return – November Four” in large big bold letters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This caused some fans to believe that Fall Out Boy would release their new album on Nov. 4. Others theorized that this was another one of Pete’s attempts to raise political awareness as he previously held a rally for then U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama.\u00a0Members of FOB members are publicly democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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