Fall Out Boy has dropped a surprise new single called “Young and Menace,” off their just announced new album titled M A N I A. This will be the bands seventh album, M A N I A will be the followup to 2015’s American Beauty/American Psycho. The album is due to drop on September 15th (expect many surprises before then though). They have also announce the M A N I A Tour which begins in the U.S. on October 20th of this year. $1 from every ticket sold will go towards the Fall Out Boy Fund, Which FOB created as a way to give back to charities in our hometown of Chicago. Pre-order the new album through FOB’s webstore by Sunday night to get a pre-sale code to purchase tickets/VIP packages before anyone else can on Monday at 10am local time. It it said that UK tour dates are expected to be announced shortly. Check out the new single with music video below.
“There’s a lyric in the song, ‘trying to send the world a message, I was young and a menace,’ that reminded me of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago,” said bassist Pete Wentz. “I didn’t look like anyone there or feel like anyone – I felt like an outsider in my own town. It wasn’t until I discovered punk rock and that community that I realized I did fit in somewhere in this word, with the other people who didn’t fit in. It’s hard to rationalize rage. It’s hard to quantify anxiety… this song does neither. It embraces the wave of those emotions.” Wentz added about the music video: “The concept is the idea of a movie like Elf, where he realizes maybe he isn’t an elf after all, but ours has less comedic elements and more real world implication. She realizes that maybe she is human after all, but maybe the line between us and monsters is blurrier than we think…”
The band has also released a handwritten note to fans:
Welcome to M A N I A – a Fall Out Boy LP pic.twitter.com/IGrNESldQv
— Fall Out Boy (@falloutboy) April 27, 2017
Tour Dates
October 20th – Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
October 21st – Saint Louis, MO @ Scottrade Center
October 22nd – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
October 24th – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
October 25th – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
October 27th – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
October 28th – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
October 29th – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
November 2nd – Fairfax, VA @ EagleBank Arena
November 3rd – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
November 4th – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
November 5th – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
November 7th – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
November 8th – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
November 10th – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
November 12th – Seattle, WA @ KeyArena
November 14th – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
November 15th – San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
November 17th – Inglewood, CA @ The Forum
November 18th – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena
