Fall out boy's music has been there to inspire me and make my day better since I discovered their existance 5 years ago. I love music more than anything.
So, I feel the time has come to say something about the "break" my favorite band is taking.
I haven't really said anything until now for two reasons.
1) I didn't know the whole story(I still don't), and I didn't want to sound ignorant.
2) I wasn't sure exactly what I was feeling. I didn't want this to be just an endless rant with no meaning behind it.

Now that I've got some direction, it's time to speak.

About 3 years ago, I moved here to Oregon, and I had no friends which made my summer aboslutely uneventful. I had just ended my freshman year in high school, so I didn't exactly have a job or a car. Random escapades were kinda out of the question. So, my sister and I would spend our time doing what we love most, playing music. When that started to annoy our family(seeing as our bedroom walls weren't exactly soundproof), We would surf the web. We discovered friends or enemies and started reading the blogs of bands that we looked up to. Then we watched a few tour videos from the honda civic tour. We were amazed that the people that we looked up to so much seemed really down to earth and funny. We also went to falloutboyrock.com and watched a few videos from the archive. The videos seemed to be from when they were just starting out, or around that time. There was this specific video that kinda changed the way I saw things. It was pete and patrick sitting there and, well frankly they were being dorks. :) I remember a discussion about lady skin and pete was giving this one guy hell cause he kept mispronouncng words.

They were real people.

Up until that moment, I didn't really have faith in myself. I didn't really think I could make it as a singer because I wasn't "cool" enough. I loved singing so much, but I didn't think others would really want to hear me sing. There was no way I could create something as inspiring as they created because I was just me.
After watching that, I suddenly had this unbreakable faith in myself. If these down to earth guys could make it in the music industry, I knew I could. Maybe the industry wasn't this "shark tank" that I would never survive in. It was no longer this impossible task.

Maybe this sounds stupid, but I really feel that that video is a big reason of why I am where I am today. I'm recording in a real recording studio. I have a band. We have a couple of gigs coming up soon. That video inspired me to chase my dreams wholeheartedly.

And I can't recall when their music hasn't been there to make me happy.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is

Fall Out Boy has been a really big part of my life. They will always be a part of my life, even if they are over.
They have left an indelible mark.

Thnks fr th mmrs.