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In the transition from emo bandleader to solo pop artist, Patrick Stump grows up.
By Christopher R. Weingarten
"I have a mortgage. I'm an adult now--I never wanted to pretend to be a teenager," says Patrick Stump, lead singer and guitarist of forever-young multiplatinum pop-punk juggernauts Fall Out Boy. "I looked down and everything I was wearing was loud. I wasn't going out there as Patrick anymore. I was 'Patrick' in quotation marks."
There's no mistaking this dapper, gregarious 26-year-old for the cherubic emo-punk "Patrick" who monopolized MTV for the latter half of the aughts. As he gets his hair tousled for a photo shoot in the NYLON studio, he cuts a striking figure: His fluffy chin-length sideburns have been replaced by clean-shaven cheeks; his omnipresent newsboy cap is missing, revealing a bounding tuft of dirty-blond hair; and his once doughy frame is now svelte in a slim-cut suit. But nothing speaks more loudly about Stump's inner, grown-up Patrickness than his debut solo album, Soul Punk--a slinky mix of the comtemporary R&B that moves him and the bombastic guitar rock he was raised on. Recorded after his band went on indefinite hiatus in late 2009, Stump played all the instruments himself, beating up his furniture with drumsticks until he discovered the perfect "thud."
Why did you decide to do a solo record?
The reasons to do a solo record are: You're full of yourself, you hate the other guys, or you have something you can't express [otherwise]. This record falls exclusively in the latter category. It was a ****ing weird year. It's like my twenties hit me-my actual life started happening. People have kids, people die, people have money problems, people have diseases.
But this album sounds like it's full of love songs.
But that's how a lot of great love songs are written--out of tragedy. I was just reading today about Handel's Messiah; that was written about the apocalypse. That's ****ing crazy. That's such a joyous song to be so tremendously negative... I want to experiment with catharsis because I never really did that. "Spotlight" is a really hokey song on one level. But I was on the phone with my dad, leaving a funeral, and he said, "Go write something. You'll get something good out of it." And that was that song.
From the age of 17, your schedule was: record an album, tour, repeat. What was it like when Fall Out Boy went on hiatus?
The first couple weeks were like, "I can do anything! I can literally do anything I want." It was kind of horrifying. It was like Shawshank Redemption, letting the ex-con out into the real world. You're a totally different person 10 years later.
Well, you certainly look different.
Yeah, but it was gradual. And at the same time, there's all these people telling me, "Don't change the sideburns. Don't take off the hat. Wear your glasses." It was daunting to deal with the expectations of maintaining everything. The image became a pressure. It wasn't some big statement. It must have been like when Harry Potter was over and Emma Watson was like "**** it, I'm going to cut my hair."
Did it ever feel like you were playing a character?
By the end of it, yeah. I didn't want to let people down and not be the person they paid to see. It felt weird to dress down to go out on stage. I had to put on jeans and a T-shirt to be more relatable. I was playing to what I was expected they wanted out of me.
Was there a moment when you remember going, "Who is this guy?"
There was a funeral that I went to. I remember walking by a mirror and feeling almost disrespectful being there in full regalia. This is life right now and you don't have to be "Patrick from Fall Out Boy," you can just be Patrick.
If you wanted to get really personal, you could put the "H" back at the end of your name, which you dropped in the early days of Fall Out Boy.
The only reason I won't do it is because stumpf in German is an insult. I land in Berlin and this guy flips open my passport and goes, "Stumpf!" I'm doing an interview a couple hours later and the interviewer says, "You know this word?" And I say, "Yeah, it means dull nail or blade, right?" And he goes, "No, more like slow or idiot." Yeah, I don't need the "H" there.
That's rough.
And it's stupid, too, because it started when I left it off the cover of Take This to Your Grave [2003]. We were a high school band and I didn't expect it to be the rest of my life. Maybe if I'd known, I would have come up with a cool name. Something awesome, like Patrick Excellent.
2011年02月26日 09点02分
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By Christopher R. Weingarten
"I have a mortgage. I'm an adult now--I never wanted to pretend to be a teenager," says Patrick Stump, lead singer and guitarist of forever-young multiplatinum pop-punk juggernauts Fall Out Boy. "I looked down and everything I was wearing was loud. I wasn't going out there as Patrick anymore. I was 'Patrick' in quotation marks."
There's no mistaking this dapper, gregarious 26-year-old for the cherubic emo-punk "Patrick" who monopolized MTV for the latter half of the aughts. As he gets his hair tousled for a photo shoot in the NYLON studio, he cuts a striking figure: His fluffy chin-length sideburns have been replaced by clean-shaven cheeks; his omnipresent newsboy cap is missing, revealing a bounding tuft of dirty-blond hair; and his once doughy frame is now svelte in a slim-cut suit. But nothing speaks more loudly about Stump's inner, grown-up Patrickness than his debut solo album, Soul Punk--a slinky mix of the comtemporary R&B that moves him and the bombastic guitar rock he was raised on. Recorded after his band went on indefinite hiatus in late 2009, Stump played all the instruments himself, beating up his furniture with drumsticks until he discovered the perfect "thud."
Why did you decide to do a solo record?
The reasons to do a solo record are: You're full of yourself, you hate the other guys, or you have something you can't express [otherwise]. This record falls exclusively in the latter category. It was a ****ing weird year. It's like my twenties hit me-my actual life started happening. People have kids, people die, people have money problems, people have diseases.
But this album sounds like it's full of love songs.
But that's how a lot of great love songs are written--out of tragedy. I was just reading today about Handel's Messiah; that was written about the apocalypse. That's ****ing crazy. That's such a joyous song to be so tremendously negative... I want to experiment with catharsis because I never really did that. "Spotlight" is a really hokey song on one level. But I was on the phone with my dad, leaving a funeral, and he said, "Go write something. You'll get something good out of it." And that was that song.
From the age of 17, your schedule was: record an album, tour, repeat. What was it like when Fall Out Boy went on hiatus?
The first couple weeks were like, "I can do anything! I can literally do anything I want." It was kind of horrifying. It was like Shawshank Redemption, letting the ex-con out into the real world. You're a totally different person 10 years later.
Well, you certainly look different.
Yeah, but it was gradual. And at the same time, there's all these people telling me, "Don't change the sideburns. Don't take off the hat. Wear your glasses." It was daunting to deal with the expectations of maintaining everything. The image became a pressure. It wasn't some big statement. It must have been like when Harry Potter was over and Emma Watson was like "**** it, I'm going to cut my hair."
Did it ever feel like you were playing a character?
By the end of it, yeah. I didn't want to let people down and not be the person they paid to see. It felt weird to dress down to go out on stage. I had to put on jeans and a T-shirt to be more relatable. I was playing to what I was expected they wanted out of me.
Was there a moment when you remember going, "Who is this guy?"
There was a funeral that I went to. I remember walking by a mirror and feeling almost disrespectful being there in full regalia. This is life right now and you don't have to be "Patrick from Fall Out Boy," you can just be Patrick.
If you wanted to get really personal, you could put the "H" back at the end of your name, which you dropped in the early days of Fall Out Boy.
The only reason I won't do it is because stumpf in German is an insult. I land in Berlin and this guy flips open my passport and goes, "Stumpf!" I'm doing an interview a couple hours later and the interviewer says, "You know this word?" And I say, "Yeah, it means dull nail or blade, right?" And he goes, "No, more like slow or idiot." Yeah, I don't need the "H" there.
That's rough.
And it's stupid, too, because it started when I left it off the cover of Take This to Your Grave [2003]. We were a high school band and I didn't expect it to be the rest of my life. Maybe if I'd known, I would have come up with a cool name. Something awesome, like Patrick Excellent.
