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First Posted: 12/8/2014 Fall Out Boy was wrapping up its tour with Paramore when to the surprise of its fans, the band decided to release a new single. Supporters of the Chicago-based rock group have grown accustomed to expect the unexpected, but bassist Pete Wentz explains the objective of dropping the new song was not to simply shock people.
&#8220;I think more than anything, when it was written and recorded there felt some urgency (to release it),&#8221; Wentz said on &#8220;Ralphie Tonight.&#8221; &#8220;It forced us to move along in the process.&#8221;
That process ended up including more than just a new song. Fall Out Boy will release &#8220;American Beauty/American Psycho&#8221; on January 20. &#8220;Centuries&#8221; serves as the first single. In one sense, the track is exactly what people have come to expect from the quartet: a lead singer showing off his impressive range, a large-sounding chorus and catchy one-liners. But then there&#8217;s the unexpected: a sample of Suzanne Vega&#8217;s 1981 hit &#8220;Tom&#8217;s Diner&#8221; woven through the song. That came through a collaboration with producer Jonathan &#8220;J.R.&#8221; Rotem.
&#8220;(J.R.) was like, &#8216;I got this idea for a track, but I don&#8217;t know that it makes sense for a rock band,&#8217;&#8221; recalled Wentz. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;Dude, those are the ideas I want to hear. I don&#8217;t down-the-middle ideas. They never work for Fall Out Boy.&#8217;&#8221;
Within the same day, front man Patrick Stump and Wentz wrote the song and took it to guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley before &#8220;making it a Fall Out Boy thing.&#8221;
Rotem is no stranger to radio hits or samples. The producer is behind the launch of a number of careers and big singles &#8211; from Jason Derulo&#8217;s &#8220;Whatcha Say&#8221; to Sean Kingston&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful Girls&#8221; to Iyaz&#8217;s &#8220;Replay.&#8221; In all of those, Rotem&#8217;s signature &#8220;J-J-J-J-R&#8221; can be heard at some point in the song. It&#8217;s not in &#8220;Centuries&#8221; and Wentz said that it never came up in talks about the song.
&#8220;There was never that moment,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;I think he knows that Fall Out Boy is a thing; our band and brand and culture are our thing. We&#8217;ve never been the type to like, co-brand.&#8221;
However, if Wentz were to pick his own audio signature, he would take a cue from a fellow Windy City native.
&#8220;The one that I love the most is the era of Kanye, I think it was on &#8216;Watch The Throne,&#8217; when he did &#8216;The Urkel,&#8217; like, &#8216;Hah!&#8217; Wentz said, even imitating the sound. &#8220;Something like that. Something that&#8217;s like, vaguely annoying.&#8221;
American Beauty/American Psycho is the band&#8217;s sixth studio album. The title track was released online Monday.

Fall Out Boy releases new single