Video depicts frontman Patrick Stump alone at sea, picking FOB memorabilia out of the water.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias
By his own admission, Pete Wentz is to blame for starting the rumors that Fall Out Boy were about to call it quits.
After all, it was his response to a harmless question submitted by a fan via Twitter — "Can we expect a new FOB CD next year?" — that lead to all the chatter in the first place. Wentz answered that he wasn't sure, and that the band's Folie à Deux album "may be the swan song," which (understandably) got the rumor mill buzzing.
And while Wentz would later tell MTV News that Fall Out Boy weren't calling it quits, he did admit that the band have "no future album plans" at the moment, and they are all looking forward to taking a break after what has been a very hectic — and very successful — four-year run.
All was well and good, until FOB announced they were shooting a video for the Folie track "What a Catch, Donnie," a somber tune that features members of the band's extended Decaydance family — Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, to name just a few — singing memorable lines from past Fall Out Boy hits.
Combine that vocal nostalgia with the rather wistful concept of the "Catch" video — FOB frontman Patrick Stump is alone at sea, piloting a craft into the sunset, stopping occasionally to fish bits of band memorabilia (those Fall Out Boy dolls from 2006, the striped jacket he wore in their 2005 "Dance Dance" video) out of the ocean — and you can't help but get the feeling that this might actually be their swan song.
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