Fall Out Boy debuted their video for "I Don't Care" today, complete with cameos by Mark Hoppus, Spencer Pratt and Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta. Except Pete Wentz, on his blog, said that it's not the exact version of the video they made:
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Patrick Stump bypasses the whole "hook guy on hip-hop songs" route and straight-up covers Kanye West's "Love Lockdown." [vladthebakerrip.com / icecreamhdaches]
The greatest animated GIF of the day? OK, maybe the morning. [CFOBmania]
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The one about the Hold Steady playing a couple of shows in Europe as a support act for Counting Crows, or the one about the new Cure single featuring remixes by 30 Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, AFI's Jade E. Puget, and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump? I think it's a toss-up, although I have heard that there are a lot of Counting Crows fans lurking in the shadows out there... [AHN / NME]
Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he gives the year's rock charts a midway-mark overview.
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According to MTV, T.I. and Fall Out Boy have recorded a track together for T.I.'s upcoming album. MTV describes the song as "somber and emotional, loaded with dramatic, crashing guitars, soaring strings and the King of the South's deeply personal lyrics, which detail the trials and tribulations he's endured over the past year." And Pete Wentz is throwing around The Nightmare Before Christmas as a reference point for the song. Let's hope this foray into hip-hop fares better than the last. [MTV]
No matter how cool you are, or how many hoodies you own, parenthood is a pretty big deal. Sometimes it overcomes people in such a way that they feel compelled to make absurd analogies, such as "parenthood is like making a record," a tidy nugget of wisdom for you to sew onto your next throw pillow courtesy of soon-to-be dad Pete Wentz. "You're going to mix it for 18 years," he adds, further digging his own grave.
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Those participating in the Los Angeles arm of the Nike+ Human Race this August will be rewarded for their charitable efforts and physical endurance with a performance by none other than Kanye West, who I assume will not leave runners waiting for several hours while his spaceship is being assembled. Nike is hoping to get over a million people in 25 cities to participate in the run, which will raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the World Wildlife Foundation, ninemillion.org, and, of corurse, Nike. As Kanye obviously can't hit every city in one day (...or can he?), other musical acts will serenade the winded, defecating, and sweaty at finish lines around the world.
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Earlier this week, I apparently upset Pete Wentz a little bit when I posted about his new MTV show, which upset his posse (my favorite comment: "ps. dan gibson = a bitch, perez hilton = amazing, pete wentz = my hero"). I certainly hope that he and I can get past this difficult stage in our relationship, so I'm going to assume his original "MTV doesn't play videos, man" post was sincere, and that, as he mentioned in his blog, he really does want our help picking a "classic" video. So let's give him all the help, hugs, and love that Idolator is known for.
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According to some of our commenters, showing music videos on television is a dead scene. However, one man is willing to stand up against the forces of commerce and targeted market research and make the contention that music videos should make a triumphant return to the screen. That man is Pete Wentz.
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"You can't download the concert ticket," Panic At The Disco drummer Spencer Smith told MTV News when he was talking about why the band's live experience was how the band really gauged itself. In the era of torrenting and Sendspacing, people who are still hoping to make some sort of profit from music are looking at things that you can't download as a way to bring back the "real" aspects of the artform—but in their quest for tangible objects, and not virtual experiences, they're kind of overusing the whole "you can't download" construction After the jump, a list of items that have fallen victim to this cliche, and probably will continue to until the Internet's backbone gets fat enough to fit things like 12-inch slabs of vinyl or life-size replicas of 3 Doors Down through it or the entire industry collapses, whichever comes first.
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Seventeen (which the idea of my infant daughter reading someday fills my heart with dread already) is rolling out widgets that are complete with animated somethings and interactive whatsits, which play tracks selected by today's biggest pop stars with sizable teen audiences. Apparently, if you are in fact a teenage girl, you could express your fandom for your favorite artist by embedding this sort of thing on your Facebook page. Instead, let's just take a look at the artists' choices, and validiate our existing feelings about their artistic output!
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Pete Wentz is being sued for a beatdown he helped security give a heckler that we reported last June. One wonders what could make such a pleasant, sensitive man like Wentz open a can of whup-ass on someone, and the answer appears to be mocking Ashlee Simpson. If you want proof of how googly-eyed Wentz is for his future wife/babymama, you need look no further than the interview People's Most Beautiful Couple of '08 gave the mag about their "Rock'n'Romance." Warning: The following quotes are not for easily queased.
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Why do "top-notch rappers" always work with "cheesy rock'n'rollers?" Loving popular rap while hating popular rock must be difficult for those who want to keep it real while keeping it eclectic. That rappers don't seem to show the same disdain for mainstream pap like Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Gwen Stefani that their white hipster fanbase does must stick in the craw of folks who know that the Flaming Lips are so much better than what's on the radio. Is it that Timbaland just hasn't heard the Flaming Lips? Does he need a critic's guiding hand? Or are they just being commercially cagey? And if the final product is good, is it ok to like it? Does that mean you like harlots like Nelly Furtado now? Thank to that accursed Roots feat Patrick Stump devil of a song, Slate's Ben Mathis-Lilley must wrestle with the pop guilt/bullshit that any self-righteous indie snob who puts Kanye West in his top ten list must eventually face.
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