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a simple thank you..

to start this off… i’m going to be blunt and honest. i have no idea what is going on. i haven’t talked to any of the guys specifically on the matter. so for those of you who are reading this blog in hopes of an answer, or in hopes of getting more information..i am sorry to say that i am going to disappoint you.

i’m writing this blog to say that i support them no matter what. i realize people are going to tweet me and post “you are a brown noser” or “stop kissing so much ass”…but to be honest..i don’t care. (no pun intended) fall out boy is one of the few bands who have a had a significant impact on my life and as an artist. here is a picture of me and pete from five or so years ago. my brace face and all. the first time i ever crowd surfed was to “tell mick…” and i swear to god pete pointed at me as a floated across the crowd pointing back at him, screaming the words that he poured his heart, soul, and un-trimmed chest into writing. first time i got kicked out of a concert? fall out boy. i was singing along to “saturday” and accidentally punched a security guard in the jaw while throwing my fist up to a break in the bridge. fall out boy were a group of guys..just like us. some considered them underdogs..yet they took the world by storm. patrick has taught me that singers in this genre don’t just have to play three power chords and hit simple cheap notes when they sing. we can be soulful.. we can actually sing with a little bit of emotion. patrick has taught me so much about being myself as a singer, artist, and as a person..and that as long as i am honest with myself..people will follow.

i was just like a lot of you guys. i’d ditch school, camp out at the venue the morning of the shows, and stand outside in the cold waiting for the guys to come outside so i could nervously shake their hand and tell them that their music had changed my life. i knew that they probably got it three hundred times a day..but i didn’t mind. they always made me feel like it meant something to them. and to this day…i believe it did.

i have fall out boy to thank for almost everything i have. pete listening to me sing at a gym class heroes video shoot senior week during my finals. he was dressed up as elvis, but still found time to give a nerdy little vegas kids with braces a shot at playing a song or two on guitar. they invited me to come out on tour with them for a few days…where me and patrick ended up forming our song “bounce” and talking about hell boy comics. pete has also taught me not to take naked photos of myself…haha just kidding ;) i can still remember waking up at pete’s house to hemmingway attacking my face as if it was normandy, and pete laughing like an 8 year old as he filmed it on his old school video camera.

i apologize for getting so nostalgic on you…but i want you to know that i am right there with you guys. it has hit me hard like i’m sure it has all of you. here is what you have to think about though…

fall out boy will never be completely over.

i have enough memories to last me three lifetimes. they’ve put enough wind in my sails to push me around the world a dozen or so times. they won’t be forgotten. how many bands that you listen to were started because of fall out boy? or at least we’re inspired by their songs and sounds. fall out boy wasn’t just a band. it was a movement. it was the light between the clouds that showed that us kids can become something great. it was the fact the we can all change the world in our own ways. even if we all feel like underdogs sometimes. how can we be mad or upset with them when they have given us so much? i have heard some of patrick’s new stuff…and it is absolutely amazing. pete seems to be getting into something everyday that’s groundbreaking, new, and exciting. none of our boys are going anywhere. we need to be proud of them. i’m going to support them like they supported me. when i was lonely in my bedroom..i could put on my fall out boy cd and escape for a few minutes. have you guys seen how big little bronx is getting? isn’t he a beautiful little boy? how amazing is that for pete? they’re growing up just like we are…and they deserve a round of applause. a standing ovation. who knows what they’ll do in the future..but we all know what they have done in the past. no one can take fall out boy away from us…

not even them personally.

-alexander deleon

a class act.

this is all i’ve ever wanted to say, and for all of you to understand.

More than five years ago, I found this little band whom I had never heard of before.

Apparently others had though, they liked them enough to make them a web-based fan club.

The first song I heard wasn’t one of their ‘hits’ and it wasn’t one that everyone knew. When I heard it I asked, ‘what band is this?’ and I searched and searched to find this song and whomever sung it.

when i found it i didn’t instantly become a fan, i had to listen to the other songs, learn a little bit more about this band whom i soon found out that was based in chicago.  Chicago?  That wasn’t too far away from Ohio, i thought to myself.

then as i learned more and more, and heard their songs i could finally say that i was a fan, that this band was growing on me more and more and it was so hard to stop wanting to learn more and get to know the band members.

i was fifteen, i hadn’t ever really ‘loved’ a band before, but i could honestly say that i love this one.  maybe it was the singers adorablely shy personality or the bassists strange way of making fans. or it could have been the red haired drummer whom no one really new much about, or you know it might have even been the jewish guitarist that without a lisp he wouldn’t be as amazing as he is.

i wasn’t depressed, i wasn’t troubled, and i never really had any problems during my teen years besides feeling uncomfortable with the way i looked.  But I wasn’t following a crowd, i wasn’t saying ‘oh i like this band because everyone else does!’ i genuinely loved this band because when i listened to their music it made me feel better.  I didn’t have to worry about what people thought about me, i could just comfortably listen to the bands music through my headphones while everyone else did their own thing.

As I got older, i understood things more and i realized that when you love something you have to stick up for it like its your best friend.

This band, i’ve met the guys in it twice, both times they were nothing but funny and sweet.  People would always tell me how they’re ‘assholes’, and yeah they’re guys, they’re going to have their asshole moments.  But really, do these people actually know anything about the band?  Probably not, i never knew a lot when i was young, but as the years past i picked up things, realized that these guys were doing what they loved, for people who loved them back.

isn’t that what a bands about?

not once have i ever felt like they didn’t love ME for being a fan of them and their music.  not once have i ever felt like i needed to hate them because of something they did. no matter what i looked at it through their eyes and realized that they had every right to do what they wanted.

you might know this band, with the sarcastic asshole bassist, and the slightly off note vote of the lead singer whom has amazed me more then anyone else in this band.  Or the curly haired baby of the group who plays the guitar, or the drummer whom i always thought looked a little bit like jesus would have looked like.

when someone says that this band is terrible, that they only did it for the ‘fame’ and are a bunch of stuck up musicians who directed their music to teens so that they would make millions, and that they only made catchy songs because they knew it would make them a fortune.  i say you’re wrong.

i always felt like they made music for me, for me to listen to, to love and to share with other people.  And its people that don’t respect the fact that this band has meant a lot to people over the years that they’ve been together.  To outright disregard MY feelings and how this band meant to me is beyond anything i’d ever do to anyone else. It’s not about opinions but how you come across, being rude gets you no where, and don’t think for a second i wouldn’t stand up for this band.

when i found out that this band was probably going to ‘break up’ i didn’t cry, i didn’t freak out or go into a depression, i honestly asked myself ‘what’s next’.  this band gave me memories, i still follow each member in hopes of catching something that will make me laugh or go ‘oh yeah i remember that!’ because i was apart of it.  Being apart of something is what i loved the most.  of course all their fans weren’t how i wanted them to be, but there were a few people who got it like i did.  I don’t expect you to understand, but i expect you to respect it.

the future just holds hope for what is to come, whether it be more music, or nothing at all, i’ll be okay with that.  because unlike some of you i can proudly say i’m a fan.  and fuck you to all of you who want to degrade me because of it.

i love you, patrick, andy, peter and joe.

you never disappointed me.

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so fucking tired of it.

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