Fall Out Boy Members React to New Blender Article: ‘This was not what any of us said in those interviews’

These friends, they don’t love you They just love the hotel suites, now-Fall Out Boy “I Don’t Care”

For those of you who were looking forward to reading about Fall Out Boy and their new album, Folie a Deux, in the upcoming issue of Blender, you might want to think again. Because the article, which you can read in it’s entirety on Ice Cream Headaches on livejournal, paints a much different portrait than the other media we’ve been given on the band for this album.

The article makes the band look seconds away from an explosive break up, claiming that lead singer Patrick Stump actually temporarily quit the group during a 2007 Australian tour, that guitarist Joe Trohman is angry about his role in the band, and that drummer Andy Hurley is, to put it lightly, a psycho.

So far, we’ve seen reactions from two of the band’s four members. Pete Wentz, being Pete Wentz, went the slightly more subtle route, posting the following to his blogs:

Wentz has since deleted copies of the blog which had included links to several different Wikipedia pages, including the pages for “Controvery” “Pinnochio” and “The Book of Revelations.” He has replaced these entries with the following:

just for awhile. see you soon.

un·plug (ŭn-plŭg’) Pronunciation Key v. un·plugged, un·plug·ging, un·plugs

v. tr. To remove a plug from. To free from an obstruction. To remove (an electric plug) from an outlet. To disconnect (an electric appliance) by removing a plug from an outlet. To remove (an electric plug) from an outlet. To disconnect (an electric appliance) by removing a plug from an outlet. v. intr. To become unplugged.

By contrast, drummer Andy Hurley has been very vocal via the FUCK CITY Twitter about the way the article as handled. In replies to other users, he says “there was no secret breakup. its all bullshit they made up for a story. they just tear pete apart on bullshit and twist our words. im not super stoked with how that article came out. it makes charicatures of us all. it makes me look crazy,” and “everyone, the blender article is pure bullshit. its sensationalist bullshit made up to sell a story. its out of context quotes.”

The article claims “The first time I meet Andy Hurley., in his dressing room at the video shoot, he’s feeling suicidal. “If the Packers don’t get this first down I’m going to kill myself,” says the drummer, watching his beloved Packers struggle against the Vikings. When Green Bay’s kicker misses the game-winning field goal, Hurley slams his iPhone onto the table, gets up and, without a word, starts punching the metal door frame, and doesn’t stop for 45 seconds.”

Andy’s response to this? “i never hit a door for 45 seconds. i may have been yelling, like all my friends and i do, but if i did anything that crazy, it was as a joke for everyone there.”

Still no word from Joe Trohman or Patrick Stump, the two members who the article made out to be ready to leave the band at any moment. However, Hurley says “patrick and joe were specifically taken WAY out of context with some of their quotes.”

Hurley did, however, provide perhaps the best summation of the situation: “this was not what any of us said in those interviews”

What do you think, Buzznet? How do you feel about people trying to mislead you with articles such as this? What do you think it says about the professionalism of the writer and the publication in question? And how strangely prophetic was it that this article releases right after a Fall Out Boy video which seems to be about the media building people up and then tearing them down?

EDIT: Andy’s comments after reading the whole article:

ok, i just read the whole blender article. its not as bad as i thought, and as you guys made me feel it would be. it is misrepresenting us GROSSLY. but, mainly just pete. and that infuriates me. and the joe part, about him feeling like not a part of the band…i know that was COMPLETELY taken out of context. it wasnt said like that, and wasnt meant like that. weve talked about it. and pete was not acting like any of how he was represented. not at all. i was there. that makes me mad. that being said, i dont think i was actually represented that bad i didnt take the suicidal thing as being written in a serious way…but it is a dumb thing to write in an article a bunch of ppl who dont personally know us will read, and who take it as the gospel truth of what happened. so that was bad..but i know it was meant jokingly. anyway, fuck that article. its dumb. nothing to get bent out of shape over. listen to both ‘the solution’ records. amazing soul band, featuring nick ‘royale’ andersson from the hellacopters/entombed. fucking amazing. “