Fall Out Boy Delay Album Till December 16th
'Folie A Deux' is held back to avoid election day.
Fall Out Boy have pushed back the release of their new album by just over a month and it will now drop on December 16th.
The original intention of releasing on November 4th, American election day, has become less appealing to the band. Read all about it below!
"Being from Chicago, we know "next years our year" all too well. 6 months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute. This is the most important election of our time and, as much as the record is a social commentary and the term "folie a deux" is relevant to the candidates, we felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick.
While we have all individually expressed our positions on the candidates that we support we feel that many of the interviews and press for the record have skewed us into a partisan band. While it may be obvious where we stand. We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down peoples throats. We only hope people look at the bigger picture and investigate the issues further on their own.
We're sure many people will be left wondering what's going on, it is our intent to get our record out this year and as soon as possible- as we made sure to have it done in time for its original release. It is now in the hands of our label to give us a new release date.
When is the record coming out? Currently were not sure. We will be working hard to put pressure on our label to get it out before the end of the year but it is now in other people's hands."
Shortly after the band's blog there was updated, Pete Wentz wrote in his own with a confirmed date for December...
"Folie à Deux will be released on December 16. While that late in the year may be a surprise to some, we felt that it was important to get our record out this year for our fans. Though this is not the date we had originally planned, nor the optimal date according to some demographic marketing analysis, we put our eight feet down [and] told our label it must come out this year. We're already bummed enough that Chinese Democracy is gonna beat us to release."
So there you have it! December 16th is the date for your diary...
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