From FAST HUGS — Pete Wentz, AKA, Boy-Genius reveals his secrets behind the Fall Out Boy smash, Thnks Fr Th Mmrs. Find the vowels and the story, after the jump!
Somehow, Fall Out Boy’s bassist and King [and Angel] of all douches Pete Wentz showed up on NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss…gender roles? And stuff?
In describing the inspiration behind "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" (wait a second…where did all the vowels go?! WHERE DID ALL THE VOWELS GO?!), Wentz lets us in on the story behind the lyrics of its chorus:
"’Thanks for the memories / He tastes like you / Only sweeter.’ And everyone’s like, ‘Well why doesn’t he taste like you, only sweeter?’ It’s because it’s a quote from the movie Closer.
Naturally, Wentz calls Closer one of his favorite movies, a
piece of work so powerful that he had to walk out the first time he saw
it after it proved to be an eerie "vision of [his] life."
Closer, as far as I’m concerned, is one of those hoity-toity plays adapted for the screen that just reeks of rich, WASPy, self-obsessed melodrama that truly "breaks down" relationships amid Architectural Digest-ready two-bedrooms. More over, it’s completely appropriate material for A-holes who adopt its dialogue as LiveJournal gospel in an attempt to up their intellectual Q score (this also applies to Garden State, Catcher In The Rye, and Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes).
In recalling the scene in which the line, destined for poetic legacy in Fall Out Boy’s tour de force, is uttered, Wentz mistakenly refers to Julia Roberts’s scene partner, the dashing English actor Clive Owen, as Clive Davis.
That’s Clive Davis, the seventy five-year old record mogul behind Arista and Jive Records.
Maybe next time you adopt cinematic dialogue for your music, do us all a favor and make it something simple.
Incidentally, have you ever seen Cool Runnings? Doug E. Doug is totes a name you won’t soon forget.
All Things Considered: Pete Wentz [Download]
