Why is Pete Wentz so popular?

Vic Winters · #1 02-26-2007, 08:26 PM

His playing is nothing spectacular or memorable, but he's been all over the last 3 issues of Rolling Stone. I don't get it. Someone please explain.

Sanitarium · #2 02-26-2007, 08:30 PM

Because he's essentially the frontman for Fall Out Boy. Their lead singer doesn't want the attention, and he does. That, and all the teenage girls love him.

jonasp · #3 02-26-2007, 08:30 PM

My guess to why he's popular is because he writes all the lyrics for Fallout Boy. And he has a clothing company. And he's handsome?

bassbully43 · #4 02-26-2007, 08:32 PM

Another stupid no talent kid band..think back street boys with guitars...is that dude even playing or plugged in? ...he just poses and jumps around alot.Of course all this IMO.

Sneckumhaw · #5 02-26-2007, 08:36 PM

I think some teenage girls relate to his "dear diary" lyrics. Nobody seems to like him as a bassist.

MikeBass · #6 02-26-2007, 08:37 PM

Who???

Piedro · #7 02-26-2007, 08:44 PM

i think this is a great band for their style... they rock.. and they know how to make a song wihtout beeing too "already-made"

and he's on the cover of rollingstone cause he is a rockstar...

and this is gonna be a endless debate...

jazznrick · #8 02-26-2007, 08:48 PM

I used to be on the Fall Out Boy is a bad band and too many teenage girls like them so they must be bad wagon as many of you are, but they are very good at what they do, fusing "emo/hardcore" into pop

jerry · #9 02-26-2007, 09:22 PM

Pete Doherty is in almost every issue of RS too, and he makes Fall Out Boy look like the Beatles....in my out-of-touch-old-guy opinion of course.

scuba steve · #10 02-26-2007, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by jazznrick

I used to be on the Fall Out Boy is a bad band and too many teenage girls like them so they must be bad wagon as many of you are, but they are very good at what they do, fusing "emo/hardcore" into pop

fallout boy is not emo/hardcore. they are poppy-rock. their first cd might have had some emo elements but not since then...

Zappstorius · #11 02-26-2007, 09:55 PM

From what I understand he IS the songwriter for Fall Out Boy. Personally, I don't like them as a band much, but apparently a lot of people do.

He's on the cover of Rolling Stone in the same way that Roger Waters was for Pink Floyd. Roger played very simple lines, but he was the songwriter of that band.

Before you rip me apart, I'm not comparing Pink Floyd to Fall Out Boy (I'm actually a fan of Floyd), just saying it isn't always the best players that get a lot of attention. Usually the guys in the most popular do.

DocBop · #12 02-26-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeBass

Who???

+1 who???

MikeBass · #13 02-27-2007, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by DocBop

+1 who???

ehhh....next year at this time he'll be on VH-1 "where are they now"!!

anechoic · #14 02-27-2007, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by scuba steve

fallout boy is not emo/hardcore. they are poppy-rock. their first cd might have had some emo elements but not since then...

No kidding. I liked emo a lot better when people still argued over whether Rites of Spring or Sunny Day Real Estate was the first emo band.

Anyone who'd consider Fallout Boy "hardcore" really ought to go back and listen to Black Flag's Damaged album, or some Minor Threat.

infect · #15 02-27-2007, 08:08 AM

It might have to do w/ the leaked 'wang shots' from his cell phone that surfaced last year..

I freakin hate that band.

4-string Steve · #16 02-27-2007, 08:11 AM

It's the wang, there's pretty much nothing else you can say about that.

But seriously because he is the one that gets all the spotlight in FOB, and teenage girls find him attractive, so therefore he is very popular, even though I dislike him and the band.

anechoic · #17 02-27-2007, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Zappstorius

From what I understand he IS the songwriter for Fall Out Boy. Personally, I don't like them as a band much, but apparently a lot of people do.

He's on the cover of Rolling Stone in the same way that Roger Waters was for Pink Floyd. Roger played very simple lines, but he was the songwriter of that band.

Before you rip me apart, I'm not comparing Pink Floyd to Fall Out Boy (I'm actually a fan of Floyd), just saying it isn't always the best players that get a lot of attention. Usually the guys in the most popular do.

That's a good point. By the time they did The Wall, Waters pretty much was the frontman. I wonder if he might have been perceived differently if Floyd had broken up after, say, Dark Side or Wish You Were Here, when Gilmour was still doing a good part of the vocals (even if they were Roger's lyrics).

Then there's a band like The Police, where Sting actually is a pretty good bassist, but I doubt 90% of the listening public notices. To most people, he's the singer first and foremost.

I can't say I've ever noticed anything terribly interesting about Wentz's bass parts. Maybe it's because their songs are usually horribly overproduced and compressed to hell, and I typically hear them on the radio at them gym. Mostly I just want to punch Pete Wentz in the face every time I see him in Rolling Stone. Although I'm not crazy about some of the Chili Peppers new stuff (Blood Sugar Sex Magic was a classic, the singles I've heard from Stadium Arcadium are kinda meh), at least Flea comes up with interesting lines.

steverosati · #18 02-27-2007, 08:16 AM

There are rock stars and musicians, they are not alway the same thing Pete Wentz is a perfect example of this.

Scottgun · #19 02-27-2007, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by DocBop

+1 who???

+2 Who??

nad · #20 02-27-2007, 08:27 AM

What is Fall Out Boy?

Oh, wasn't that Radioactiveman's sidekick? Awesome.