Fall Out Boy Have The Ticket

noah | August 25, 2008 1:00 am

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ARTIST: Fall Out Boy et al. TITLE: Welcome To The New Administration WEB DEBUT: Aug. 25, 2008

ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: After much speculation over what their Citizens For Our Betterment viral project might mean–including a pseudonymous e-mail to this writer that said, and I quote, “new FOB record next week or not at all”–Fall Out Boy have let the world know what they were actually leading up to: A Clinton Sparks-hosted mix tape that serves as a precursor to their forthcoming album Folie A Deux, which is set for a Stateside release on Election Day. Welcome To The New Administration has snippets of demos from the new album peppered between tracks by The Academy Is…, The Cab, Panic At The Disco, and other acts in the Decaydance stable.

There are five new FOB tracks mixed in, all of which are labeled “demo”: “ALPHAdog And OMEGAman” is a stridently dancey track that finds Patrick Stump trying on his falsetto; “Lake Effect Kid” is crunchy a la “The Take Over, The Break’s Over,” and it’s twisted around a delicious guitar lick that sounds kinda power-metally; “I Don’t Care,” which was previewed on FNMTV‘s final episode Friday night, is masked by a Seth Green spoken interlude (!?) but sounds somewhat military-marchish; “Catch Me If You Can/Proclamation Of Emancipation” brings in Travis from the Gym Class Heroes, who raps about being sober over a track that subtly mines the band’s Michael Jackson influences; and “America’s Sweethearts” makes me think that it’s going to be the “epic first single that’ll make girls swoon,” especially since Pete Wentz cuts it off at the 37-second mark and tells the audience that he definitely wants to hold that particular track back.

Aside from the Fall Out Boy tracks, the standout song has to be “I Kissed A Boy,” which is Cobra Starship’s raunchy take on–yes, really–“I Kissed A Girl” by the band’s Warped Tourmate Katy Perry. Not only is Gabe Saporta’s sleazed-out growl a much, much better fit for the song than Perry’s bark, the whole lyrical thrust of the song is a bit more transgressive and less male-gazy. Plus, as Kate pointed out, this track will make the Internet freak the fuck out. Hooray for that!

WHERE TO FIND IT: Fall Out Boy’s Friends Or Enemies profile, although you have to part with some geographic and virtual location information to get it. (Disclaimer: Friends Or Enemies is a division of Buzznet, Idolator’s parent company. But you all probably know that I was going to write about this no matter what Web site birthed it.)

[HT: CFOBMania]