This is the "battle cry" of the album. Telling the younger generation that what they call music (i.e. rock and roll) isn't music at all.
This is the head on the pike to serve as a warning to all. They are saying that the world is falling apart around us and the younger generation that were given the "torch" of rock to protest and disrupt aren't living up to their responsibilities. It's also the tough love lesson to those same misguided "young bloods".
Kind of saying, "Hey Beiber! You fucking suck! Now let me show you how to be a rock musician you pussy!"
"Hey young blood, doesn't it feel like our time running out?" Is a sarcastic line basically saying, "We need to get working at changing the world now or we lose our chance."
"I'm gonna change you like a remix. Then raise you like a phoenix." is where they say, "We're going to show you how to do this. Take your musical queues and put meaning into them, and then it's up to you to carry the torch properly." It's the Kung Fu master using the young student's moves against him.
Look at it in the context of the rest of the songs (except the last one, which is the other bookend where the torch is passed): Perfect example is "Just One Yesterday". Musically this is calling out to Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" which is shallow song about a jilted lover telling her ex how much he'll miss her. Fall Out Boy "remixes" it and then raises it to give it a deeper and more complex meaning, but still keeping in the same "jilted lover" vein. I mean holy crap: "And now I'm here to give you all my love, so I can watch your face as I take it all away." Brutal to say the least, and this is the warning in "The Phoenix"
@naunga I actually disagree. I obviously don't have any proof at all, and it could well be that you're right, but I don't really see any evidence for the idea that Fall Out Boy were trying to call out people like Beiber, or people like Adele (and they're not the same kind of people; Adele's music is massively different to Beiber's, it has a significantly different fan base, and she actually writes/co-writes all of her songs).
@naunga I actually disagree. I obviously don't have any proof at all, and it could well be that you're right, but I don't really see any evidence for the idea that Fall Out Boy were trying to call out people like Beiber, or people like Adele (and they're not the same kind of people; Adele's music is massively different to Beiber's, it has a significantly different fan base, and she actually writes/co-writes all of her songs).
This song is clearly primarily about Fall Out Boy themselves, and perhaps also about them compared to inauthentic musicians in a general sense,...
This song is clearly primarily about Fall Out Boy themselves, and perhaps also about them compared to inauthentic musicians in a general sense, but I don't get the sense from it that they're trying to call out anyone in particular.
And "Just One Yesterday" is simply another jilted lover song; the idea that, because both that song and "Rolling in the Deep" are jilted lover songs, Fall Out Boy must've intended their song to be calling out that song is frankly ridiculous.
There are an incredible number of jilted lover songs, because it's a common emotion.
And, incidentally, "Rolling in the Deep" is actually not a "shallow song about a jilted lover telling her ex how much he'll miss her"; it's much more like a song of anger and bitterness at an ex, with such lines as "Don't underestimate the things that I will do" and "And I'm gonna make your head burn / Think of me in the depths of your despair".
I get the sense that you've just jumped aboard some bandwagons of criticism without actually looking into what it is you're criticizing. You seem to have a really odd idea of Adele and to be projecting your own opinions onto Fall Out Boy.
But at least I'm sure we can agree that this song and album are awesome
This is the "battle cry" of the album. Telling the younger generation that what they call music (i.e. rock and roll) isn't music at all.
This is the head on the pike to serve as a warning to all. They are saying that the world is falling apart around us and the younger generation that were given the "torch" of rock to protest and disrupt aren't living up to their responsibilities. It's also the tough love lesson to those same misguided "young bloods".
Kind of saying, "Hey Beiber! You fucking suck! Now let me show you how to be a rock musician you pussy!"
"Hey young blood, doesn't it feel like our time running out?" Is a sarcastic line basically saying, "We need to get working at changing the world now or we lose our chance."
"I'm gonna change you like a remix. Then raise you like a phoenix." is where they say, "We're going to show you how to do this. Take your musical queues and put meaning into them, and then it's up to you to carry the torch properly." It's the Kung Fu master using the young student's moves against him.
Look at it in the context of the rest of the songs (except the last one, which is the other bookend where the torch is passed): Perfect example is "Just One Yesterday". Musically this is calling out to Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" which is shallow song about a jilted lover telling her ex how much he'll miss her. Fall Out Boy "remixes" it and then raises it to give it a deeper and more complex meaning, but still keeping in the same "jilted lover" vein. I mean holy crap: "And now I'm here to give you all my love, so I can watch your face as I take it all away." Brutal to say the least, and this is the warning in "The Phoenix"
@naunga I actually disagree. I obviously don't have any proof at all, and it could well be that you're right, but I don't really see any evidence for the idea that Fall Out Boy were trying to call out people like Beiber, or people like Adele (and they're not the same kind of people; Adele's music is massively different to Beiber's, it has a significantly different fan base, and she actually writes/co-writes all of her songs).
@naunga I actually disagree. I obviously don't have any proof at all, and it could well be that you're right, but I don't really see any evidence for the idea that Fall Out Boy were trying to call out people like Beiber, or people like Adele (and they're not the same kind of people; Adele's music is massively different to Beiber's, it has a significantly different fan base, and she actually writes/co-writes all of her songs).
This song is clearly primarily about Fall Out Boy themselves, and perhaps also about them compared to inauthentic musicians in a general sense,...
This song is clearly primarily about Fall Out Boy themselves, and perhaps also about them compared to inauthentic musicians in a general sense, but I don't get the sense from it that they're trying to call out anyone in particular.
And "Just One Yesterday" is simply another jilted lover song; the idea that, because both that song and "Rolling in the Deep" are jilted lover songs, Fall Out Boy must've intended their song to be calling out that song is frankly ridiculous. There are an incredible number of jilted lover songs, because it's a common emotion. And, incidentally, "Rolling in the Deep" is actually not a "shallow song about a jilted lover telling her ex how much he'll miss her"; it's much more like a song of anger and bitterness at an ex, with such lines as "Don't underestimate the things that I will do" and "And I'm gonna make your head burn / Think of me in the depths of your despair".
I get the sense that you've just jumped aboard some bandwagons of criticism without actually looking into what it is you're criticizing. You seem to have a really odd idea of Adele and to be projecting your own opinions onto Fall Out Boy.
But at least I'm sure we can agree that this song and album are awesome
@naunga You spelled Bieber wrong
@naunga You spelled Bieber wrong