A few weeks ago Fall Out Boy announced that they were pushing the release date of their new album “MANIA” back to 2018. They issued a statement saying that they didn’t want to rush the recording of the album and force the songs, and now it looks like they’ve taken a different direction altogether.
Pete Wentz recently joined the Rock Sound Podcast, and he revealed that most of songs that were set for the album have been scrapped.
“It’s a work in progress, but we’re much further along with it. Not necessarily that we weren’t far along before – the songs just weren’t the right songs. We totally altered the course, which I think was important. I’d say we’re 60 or 70 per cent done with the record now. I think we got ourselves into a strange situation where we put out ‘Young And Menace’ and then we were like, ‘What’s the rest of the body of work?’. I think we just kinda let each other do our own thing and, rather than serving the art, we ended up serving each other and the songs just weren’t compelling.”
Wentz also noted that “The Last Of The Real Ones” is a song that came together recently.
“‘The Last Of The Real Ones’ came in much more recently. I don’t think that people will hear anything else from the original ‘M A N I A’ sessions, maybe you’ll get a melody or a couple lyrics or something, but for the most part it’s all scrapped.”
