“There's the idea that nothing matters-and that was a weird message for me. These thoughts reminded Wentz of a speech Ethan Hawke gives in the 1994 slacker comedy Reality Bites, which is sampled at the record's midpoint, “The Pink Seashell.” “His dad gave him a pink seashell and went, ‘There, this has all the answers in the universe.’ And he goes, ‘I guess there are no answers,’” says Wentz. “And this, I guess, is how the world goes on.” “I'm my dad's age when I thought he had it all figured out, and my parents are starting to look like my grandparents, and my kids are the age that I was,” Wentz says. At times, though, they have a tenderness to them that belies the nearly two decades he's spent in the spotlight, as well as his elder-statesman status. Bassist and songwriter Pete Wentz's lyrics are drolly on point, with quotable one-liners like “Every lover's got a little dagger in their hand” (on “Love From the Other Side”) and “One day every candle's gotta run out of wax/One day no one will remember me when they look back” (on “Flu Game”) scattered throughout. So Much (For) Stardust, appropriately, captures Fall Out Boy going for broke, whether on the speedy opener “Love From the Other Side” (of the apocalypse) or the meditation “Heaven, Iowa,” which has a blow-off-the-roof chorus that gives its verses added emotional weight. “I don't want it to sound anything like that record, but I wanted to get back to this feeling that we had when we were making it, which was ‘I don't know how much longer this'll last.’” “There was a feeling that I kind of wanted to get,” Patrick Stump tells Apple Music.
So Much (For) Stardust was conceived in the spirit of 2008's Folie à Deux, one of the most ornate and possibly divisive entries in the band's catalog. If the combination of extravagant music and world-weary lyrics on Fall Out Boy’s eighth album sounds appropriate to the current queasy moment, there's a good reason for that.
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