With albums, one song can really change an entire album. So we were really
struggling to find that one song to properly contextualize the whole album
and there was something about when we finally got to "Church" was like awesome.
It was a very stressful thing and we didn't know it was gonna be that song
until it was done.
Every so often Pete sends me like a homework assignment like, "hey I want a
song like this." It's always a movie reference or something you know write it
me a song like that feeling that that you know 'Ferris Bueller' has when
you know something something something. You're like cool so it would kind of
started from something like that. Pete's lyrics and his taste really
define Fall Out Boy because I'm always making stuff up Joe is always making
stuff up we're always writing something but it's when Pete goes ah I like that.
So first I'll play you in my original demo the verse was just wrong
Yeah, so very rambling doesn't really know what it's doing and I knew that
when I did it I was like I don't know if this works.
I sent Butch all this stuff. All of my session here all these stems and one
of the first things he does is he sends everybody home he says I'm gonna I'm
gonna sit here with headphones and work on this for a while. He'll sit there and
go through everything and go like now delete delete delete don't need this
don't need this I'm gonna move this here you know he really he really puts it all
together that way. He had taken what we did in the demo and went that's good I
want a more fun bassline and I want the drums to do this. So the bass line was
Really high up on the bass right and right away which goes into
this really fun.
Yeah I feel like Butch's feel so much more fun when I was just
throwing it together I threw up a drum loop a famous drum loop and I cut it up
I cut it up significantly in the original loop you hear a "uhh" right
it's somewhere in there so I did a "uhh."
I had this kind of swing the whole time
and and Butch wanted to do straight against swing so the drums are so
so this those tom's straighten it out and I don't know I'm wrong sometimes.
You can see I had a different groove which is kind of cool but there's
something inherently not Fall Out Boy about it. My wife said something that
I'll never forget I played her a demo and she goes hey her
way saying she didn't like it was "can you imagine Andy Hurley playing
that. That really stuck with me because you know we the four of us can play a
lot it can play a lot of different styles of music but there's something to
be said for for playing it and like having a good time playing it and I can
see Andy doing it and he would nail it but I can just see him like you know
doing it and not really loving it whereas what he ended up playing.
That kind of stuff. He always does these that kind of those those big you know John
Bonham kind of to kind of stuff and you know versus, I can't see him loving that
where I can see him just you know loving doing that so. It's kind of there's
little funny things like in in in the second verse
I don't know what he says there I don't know I think that's Butch saying
something we're gonna bring a down to the bottom of this find out what is
being said there. Background vocals, let's here's hoping it's this.
Oh it's me, hey.
and that's definitely butch saying it, Mr. Stump.
We're a very funny band because I'm very analytical about it whereas Pete every
word means something to feel something right I'm not the guy that an
emotionally attaches to words which i think is so ironic being in Fall Out Boy like I
know that's pretty 90% of what people like about us how is how emotionally
attached to the lyrics they can get.
You play around a lot with
production and different sounds and things like that but at the end of the
day there is a component of it that is just four idiots in a room playing loud music.