So I was in the kitchen the other day, slicing up something (probably zucchini. Sometimes I think the only vegetable I eat is zucchini. 90% of my Pinterest recipes are for zucchini.) and wishing there was something on TV other than 3 and a Half Men when I started playing music on my computer and accidentally listened to Fallout Boy for the first time in years.
Needless to say, dinner prep quickly turned into a solo mosh pit. The cool part of me (haha wait no such thing) wants to write that I was really embarrassed at how many of the lyrics I still remember... but lezbehonest: I was (am) pretty impressed with myself for knowing the words to a dozen-ish songs I hadn't listened to since I was 15.
What I'm actually embarrassed about is how long it took me to realize that "number one with a bullet" and "loose lips sink ships" were actually American idioms and not just angsty lyrics, so that made for a couple of weird moments where I'd look at the person speaking and almost say, "I didn't take you for a Fallout Boy fan!"
Most of the songs I remember weren't catchy enough to have made it onto top 40, (#hipzturd), but there was that one Fallout Boy song that everybody knew and nobody could really understand. Every single time I hear it, I remember this one time in seminary that Haley and I drew a bunch of scenes from the Sugar We're Going Down music video, the one with the deer-people.
When I think about it, Fallout Boy played a pretty big role throughout all of high school. I mean, they accounted for a solid half of all my AIM away messages. I'm not really sure why it played out that way, but I have this distinct memory of sitting in a rental car for 8 hours while my parents drove us from Vallarta to Salamanca on Christmas Eve freshman or sophomore year and listening to Fallout Boy the entire time because I'd forgotten to sync the rest of my music onto my iPod. Like so many other things in my life, it would be years before I realized just how much of what I was singing was a sex reference, so I just kept belting out the words to "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More 'Touch Me'" with my parents next to me like there was no tomorrow.
Anyway, what's done is done, and Fallout Boy's two earliest albums are running through my veins. Be impressed or be disgusted, it's your call.
