#fob dylan

if you check out their reel it’s a lot of REALLY cool shit, like they’ve done a lot of ads and mvs for other bands and they do this cut-out style of animation over puppetry and stuff. the entire fob dylan video, almost everything you see was done by just these two guys??

which is not only really fucking cool but also imagine that you are Literally Just Two People living in brooklyn and then one of the biggest pop bands in the world rolls up like “sup do you want to animate our music video” like what the FUCK

"nobody would love you..": i love you so much, more than anyone could, but ig that's only half true because your mother loves you just as much

every inch of it is yearning. its words are yearning and the instrumentation is all so wistful, caught up like threads of nostalgia. it fills me with such a warmth but it also puts me near tears very very easily

it feels...golden to me?? im not sure how to explain it. i get the internal visual of like driving through fields with the window rolled down and the sun in your hair. sky thrown up in baby blue in the background. like that kind of.

it rips me up a little bit because the words are so.......they are so pete. and like yes obviously they would be but that thing pete does where he likens abstract emotions to pop cultural icons because that’s the quickest and sometimes only way he can think of to articulate them, it’s that poured into words and poured into song and it is such a strange comparison that stands apart from your standard fare. ‘i want you to love me like the world loves bob dylan.’

the forward motion of the guitar is my everything rn, the way its the songs backbone and the connective tissue stringing it all together. bouncing between acoustic backing in the verses to swelling into that burst of thick, crunchy, electric chords......it does things to me man. 

if im not mistaken (and i could be because i dont have the multitracks here so im going by ear) in the chorus andy sounds like hes syncing up his hi-hat with a tambourine. its a small thing, but thats a metal/hardcore thing. even in a song as pop as this, its so cool that you can still tell where these guys come from

patricks low and mid range is criminally underutilized and im glad that it gets to shine more here. yes he can belt high notes like a motherfucker but theres such a fullness and richness and depth to his mid-low range that i just adore, especially with all the harmonies here

that last beat before the final chorus, the way the volume drops for a second and then it swells back in full force. that is poetry

All those people in those old photographs I've seen are dead* a.k.a. Pete Wentz and his heroes, #1

As anyone who knows me even a little bit might have guessed by now, I am kind of obsessed with Pete Wentz lol. But, like, especially obsessed with the famous people who I think he considered his role models while he was becoming famous himself. It’s always so interesting to me to see what kind of inspiration he’s surrounded himself with, Kerouac and Dylan probably being the most obvious – might do a longer post someday – then there’s Andy Warhol, etc. Anyway! Tonight’s topic – Johnny Cash. 

(Johnny Cash is super famous, of course, one of those figures in popular culture that everyone kind of knows by default – but there were two things that I’m guessing put him on the map for young Pete: his cover of Nine Inch Nail’s Hurt, which came out in 2003 shortly before his death, and the 2005 biopic/romantic drama Walk the Line, where Cash is played by Joaquin Phoenix and his future wife, June Carter, by Reese Witherspoon.)

Johnny Cash had a pill problem, he once tried to kill himself, and he always dressed in black. (He also had a mutual admiration club thing going with Bob Dylan – they recorded each other’s songs and were big fans of each other’s work). We have the lyrics from Bob Dylan (the song), of course: 

Would you bury me next to Johnny Cash? I'm obsessed Do you love me like that? Yeah

The person who is actually buried next to him is in fact his wife June, who was a very famous musician in her own right – they met in 1956 (while they were both married to other people), performed and toured together for years, finally got married in 1968, and stayed that way until her death in May of 2003 (he died that September). One of his biggest hits, Ring of Fire, was written by June about falling in love with him (while he was still married). 

In the top pic (x), which was presumably taken in Pete’s house, he has a framed picture of Johnny and June on the wall behind him (I can’t place the other picture, if anyone can, please let me know!).

Okay, guess I have indulged my fixation enough for one night. xo