The Celebrity Truth

Fall Out Boy have pushed the release of their new album ‘Folie á Deux’ back from it’s original date of November 4, the same date as the US presidential election, with the band saying they felt the tie-in had become a gimmick. 

The band wrote on their official website, “Six months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute.  This is the most important election of our time and, as much as the record is a social commentary and the term ‘folie a deux’ is relevant to the candidates, we felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick.

“While we have all individually expressed our positions on the candidates that we support we feel that many of the interviews and press for the record have skewed us into a partisan band. While it may be obvious where we stand. We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down peoples throats. We only hope people look at the bigger picture and investigate the issues further on their own.”

Bassit Pete Wentz announced in a seperate post that they will now release the album on December 16 saying, “Though this is not the date we had originally planned nor the optimal date according some demographic marketing analysis, we put our eight feet down told our label it must come out this year.  We’re already bummed enough that Chinese Democracy is gonna beat us to release.”

Photo courtesy of Fueled By Ramen.

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