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fandomsecrets2022-12-19 06:09 pm
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(Anonymous) 2022-12-19 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)I was 18 and a fan when it came out, so it's been a while but I remember Fall Out Boy backlash setting in in the mainstream around the time "I Don't Care" was released as the first single. They were everywhere (and Pete Wentz & Ashlee Simpson had their baby like a month before the album came out and were all in up in the tabloids with that), they had been wildly successful for several years now, and I think the tone of "I Don't Care" made people feel they were buying into their own hype. A lot of my friends were fans of From Under the Cork Tree and viewed Fall Out Boy as this underground, I guess almost indie band. So by the time they released "I Don't Care" (and its music video featuring 7 celebrity cameos including Sarah Palin [2008 was a weird year]), their favorite band wasn't this well-kept secret anymore so they weren't as invested as they were in the past. And we all know how "I liked them before they were cool" things are both in the music industry and when you're a teenager.
TL;DR - I think the album was more a victim of timing than of having bad songs on it.