Patrick Stump Comments on Fall Out Boy Blender Article, Blender Comments Back
The article mentions that Stump quit Fall Out Boy after Wentz made a business decision Stump disagreed with, which led to Stump working on material for a solo album. And Stump says that much at least is true. In an e-mail to MTV.com he clarified “Did I quit the band? Did I say what appeared in the article? Of course. But followed immediately by it was something to the tune of this: I quit, until I started writing my solo songs and I realized how much I need him. My songs sucked without Pete and they were less fun to write.”
“I love the guy, he’s my best friend, and I realized that for all the decisions I’d ever gotten mad at him about, I likely would’ve done exactly the same in his position. I quit the band (as we all have, by the way, that’s part of being in bands) and when I returned I resolved to keep doing this as long as all four of us were having fun.”
Stump, like drummer Andy Hurley, seems to feel that Wentz took the brunt of the bad press from the article. In a post to Twitter late last night, Hurley said “ it is misrepresenting us GROSSLY. but, mainly just pete. and that infuriates me.” Stump’s take on the situation is, “It’s an entertaining article that manages to take its hero from the heights of superstardom to the depths of narcissism. But it never redeems him and it does so at the cost of fact.” He compares Pete’s treatment to the treatment that he and guitarist Joe Trohman (whoalso had quotes taken massively out of context, according to Hurley) recieved, saying “at the end of both my and Joe’s quotes you can almost hear the context fading in the distance.”
A spokesperson from Blender has stated “We stand by our reporting. Anyone who reads the entire article will see that it is not only fair but essentially positive.”
