Pete Wentz Done With Fall Out Boy

February 2nd, 2010

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Late Monday night, Pete Wentz dropped bombs about his future in Fall Out Boy during a conversation with fans over Twitter. Although the band’s official message has been that they are on a break, it looks like there is a falling out in Fall Out Boy.

Wentz wrote, “Don’t you get it? A hiatus is forever until you get lonely or old. I don’t plan on either. I can’t imagine playing in FOB again. Something would have to change in my head or my heart … not my wallet.”

He then said that Fall Out Boy may go on without him but he isn’t certain about the band’s future.

“Attack me,” he tweeted. “I am one of you, only with a Kevlar [vest] and an alligator shell. Blame it all on me, ’cause I can take it. If you only knew how I felt.”

He followed the same message in two blog posts later that night, saying that his decision isn’t due to personal relationships but because the band grew apart.

“Every day for the past seven years of my life I woke up with a purpose,” he wrote. “I felt driven. My eyelids forced awake. This was all that kept me going. When I lost that, I lost part of me. … That’s not to say count me out. I’m gonna jump back in. I just know that I have to be patient and wait for the right idea. I can’t just jump the gun and do whatever. Letting go of this giant part of my life has been hard, but I am convinced I will find something new that sparks me in a similar way. This is not a vacation. But I want to be back on tour, having my son watch me from the side of stage, and that will happen … when I find the right magnet.”
He signed off with the Latin phrase, “Acta est fibula,” translated loosely into “The play is over.”

Last week, Fall Out Boy’s lead singer Patrick Stump announced that he is working on another project. Drummer Andy Hurley wrote on his Twitter account, “Nothing is official. I have no idea what’s going to happen. That’s the most direct answer I can give.”

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