#got some American Psycho vibes goin on

[kineko-fab]

gimme a FOB color rundown for the uninitiated (me)

HGHGHH YES WILL DO Note: I am only going to do the main studio albums because I know those best also its long i am sorry

FOB1: Take This to Your Grave

This is their first album and is also the first blue album! If you know any song off this album, it's probably Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy FOB2: From Under The Cork Tree

Their second album has some of the classic major hits of Fall Out Boy, such as Dance, Dance and Sugar, We're Goin' Down, and is their first red album! FOB3: Infinity On High

At this point, you can: 1, start to see the pattern forming and 2, notice you can sort of generally tell red or blue album by the color. This is their second blue album and has more classics like This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and Thnks fr th Mmrs FOB4: Folie à Deux

Their second red album, continuing the pattern, and with another classic, I Don't Care! This one (much like a later album) is either loved or hated, so while I Don't Care got popular, not much else did I think??? FOB5: Save Rock And Roll

"Hey wait a second," you might go. "This breaks the pattern! This is another red!" Well, yes. This album is their third red. HOWEVER! Between Folie and Save Rock And Roll, there was a hiatus. And IN that hiatus, they released Believers Never Die, a compilation of their greatest hits

WHICH IS THE THIRD BLUE! Anyways, on Save Rock and Roll, we get some of their more "recent" popular songs (it came out in 2013 it feels wrong to say its a classic but its also not. exactly recent) such as The Phoenix, My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up), and Young Volcanoes! FOB6: American Beauty/American Psycho

ABAP is their fourth blue and has the hits Centuries and Immortals, one of which was featured in a movie! FOB7: M A N I A

"Well hey now. That's not blue or red. thats purple!" EXACTLY! Fall Out Boy (as far as i am aware) is aware of the red/blue pattern and went on record to say that this album didnt FEEL red OR blue. it felt PURPLE to them, which makes sense because they went out of their normal style for this album, which made it a hot topic of debate as to weather it was good or not. I have not listened to the radio since this came out so I. Think??? Church would be the most popular one off of this album! FOB8: So Much (For) Stardust

Their newest song (Love From The Other Side) came out today and they announced their new album's release date. Just from this cover (which idk if its the permanent album cover or not, this is just all my speculation off of this image) this, like MANIA, is ALSO not a red or blue album. However, the albums tend to have. Moods? Tones? I'm not sure, but they have a vibe color to them, in my opinion, which is why I said this song felt Blue to me. A lot of people are comparing it to Folie, which makes sense musically-wise. They went back to their roots for it and it sounds very Folie-era. However to me the tone feels. Blue. I don't know how to properly put it into words without peer review and like. a whole dissertation on the tonality and themes and whatnot of FOB music.

But if you only know their most popular songs and want a gauge of what era is what and why people refer to albums as red or blue, this is why! They accidentally/on purpose did a pattern for their album covers for a very long time! also yes, currently the count is 4 blue (TTTYG, IOH, BND, ABAP) and 3 red (FUTCT, FAD, SRAR) but after mania, they did release volume 2 of believers never die which was red! so they have 4 blue albums and 4 red albums!

#fall out boy #fob #feel free to correct me!!! #i can be totally wrong on some things! #im just writing what i know #and have heard #thank you vees i love this band i love talking about them :3