Folie à Deux (album)

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Folie à Deux is the fifth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. The album, which is the follow-up to their 2007 album Infinity on High, was first released on December 13, 2008. This was the last album Fall Out Boy recorded before hiatus in 2009. The album is certified platinum in Australia, gold in the United States and silver in the UK. The lead single is "I Don't Care" and is the album's best known track .

Background

On August 25, 2008, Decaydance Records released a mixtape titled Welcome to the New Administration on Pete Wentz's viral campaign, Citizens For Our Betterment. The mixtape contained several snippets of what seemed like new Fall Out Boy tracks. However none of the titles were confirmed for Folie à Deux. The mixtape included tracks such as "ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac," "Lake Effect Kid," "Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emaciation" which featured Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes. It also featured a song titled "America's Sweethearts", which was eventually confirmed for the album but with an alternate spelling, "America's Suitehearts."

Pete Wentz was also quoted on his blog stating that "all songs that aren't snippets, most likely won't be on the next album including 'Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emaciation'," which eventually found its way onto the Gym Class Heroes' The Quilt. Wentz stated that Fall Out Boy fell in love with the track, so they remixed it, and re-wrote the chorus.

On September 13, 2008, on the band's website, the album cover artwork was revealed, with Luke Chueh credited as the designer claiming the band was great to work with and gave him full creative control.

Release

Though the album was originally set for a November 4, 2008 release, Fall Out Boy later announced on October 13, 2008, that the early November was in doubt, citing concerns over the planned election day tie-in, stating:

Six months ago we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute. We felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick. It is now in the hands of our label to give us a new release date. It is our intent to get our record out this year and as soon as possible -- as we made sure to have it done in time for its original release.

The band's initial statement was later corrected, stating that the album's new U.S. release date was scheduled for December 16, 2008.

On the Friends or Enemies website, Fall Out Boy posted a list of the songs which would appear on the album. The "Friends or Enemies" post conflicts earlier reports by MTV News which included songs tentatively titled "Never Believe" (Most likely from "(Coffee's for Closers)") and "Does Your Husband Know?" (Most likely from "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet") .

In its debut week, the album sold over 150,000 copies to place at number 8 on the Billboard 200. The album went gold on January 27, 2009.

The Limited Digipak Edition, was later released. It features six bonus tracks: remixes of "I Don't Care" and "America's Suitehearts", "Pavlove" (Bonus Track), acoustic versions of "America's Suitehearts" and "What A Catch, Donnie". The final bonus song is "Beat It", a previous Michael Jackson cover from their live album, "Live in Phoenix".

"Folie à deux" is a French term which translates to “a madness shared by two” or "insanity of two", referring to the psychotic disorder.

Reception

The critical reception to the album has been generally positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 73, based on 21 reviews. NME said "the band have responded with their most stylistically hatstand-but-indisputably-best songs yet" and compared it to genre watermarks like Green Day's American Idiot and My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. Several critics also pointed out that Fall Out Boy sound more sophisticated, relaxed and comfortable than before, while they have managed to keep their winning tongue-in-cheek attitude.

Composition

Guests

Collaborators include Lil Wayne, Pharrell, Panic at the Disco, The Academy Is..., Debbie Harry from Blondie, and Elvis Costello, who the band stated also recorded with acts from Decaydance.

Singles

As part of a new marketing ploy, Fall Out Boy released several singles on iTunes, which, when purchased, would go towards purchasing the entire album. The first single, "I Don't Care" was first released on September 3, 2008 to "FriendsOrEnemies.com". The single was followed a month later by "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" on October 7, 2008. The second digital single, "What a Catch, Donnie", was released a short time later on October 15, 2008, followed by the second radio single, "America's Suitehearts", which was released on December 22, 2008. "America's Suitehearts", was then released as the second single on January 12, 2009. On June 30, Pete Wentz posted on his Twitter that the band have 'wrapped up' a video for 'What A Catch'.

Track listing

All songs written by Fall Out Boy.

0. "Lullabye"¹ (pregap hidden track) – 2:18
1. "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes" – 4:17
2. "I Don't Care" – 3:34
3. "She's My Winona" – 3:51
4. "America's Suitehearts" – 3:34
5. "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" – 3:54
6. "The (Shipped) Gold Standard" – 3:19
7. "(Coffee's for Closers)" – 4:35
8. "What a Catch, Donnie" – 4:51
9. "27" – 3:12
10. "Tiffany Blews" – 3:44
11. "w.a.m.s." – 4:38
12. "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" – 4:17
13. "West Coast Smoker" – 2:46

¹Not available on digital versions of the album. Also not available on Irish version

iTunes deluxe version

14. "I Don't Care" (Cobra Starship Suave Suarez Remix) – 3:11
15. "I Don't Care" (music video) – 4:27
16. Digital Booklet

Limited edition

14. "I Don't Care" (Machine Shop Remix) – 3:03
15. "America's Suitehearts" (South Rakkas Remix) – 3:40
16. "Pavlove" – 3:34
17. "America's Suitehearts" (Acoustic) – 3:40
18. "What a Catch, Donnie" (Acoustic) – 4:01
19. "Beat It (Michael Jackson cover) - 3:48

Bonus tracks in limited edition

All songs written by Fall Out Boy except where noted.

19. "I Don't Care" (Acoustic) (Japan bonus track) – 3:44
20. "Beat It" (UK and Latin America bonus track) (Michael Jackson) – 3:53

• "America's Suitehearts" (Suave Suarez Remix) [Downloadable bonus track] – 3:04

Japanese bonus DVD

1. "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued" (Live from Summer Sonic)
2. "Thnks fr th Mmrs" (Live from Summer Sonic)
3. "Saturday" (Live from Summer Sonic)
4. "Infinity on High International EPK"

Release history

Country	Date
Japan	December 10, 2008
Australia	December 13, 2008
United Kingdom	December 14, 2008
United States	December 16, 2008

Meaning

Folie à deux (/fɒˈliː ə ˈduː/, from the French for "a madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as dependency psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name. The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry.

Personnel

Band members

• Patrick Stump – lead vocals, guitar
• Joe Trohman – guitar, backing vocals
• Pete Wentz – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Andy Hurley – drums

Production

• Neal Avron - Producer
• The Neptunes - Producer

Guest artists

• Elvis Costello - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie
• Lil Wayne - Guest vocals on Tiffany Blews
• Brendon Urie - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie; Piano and Vocals on 20 Dollar Nose Bleed.
• Gabe Saporta - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie
• Travis McCoy - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie
• Doug Neumann - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie
• Alex DeLeon - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie and Tiffany Blews
• Pharrell Williams - synthesizer on w.a.m.s.
• William Beckett - Guest vocals on What a Catch, Donnie
• Debbie Harry - Guest vocals on West Coast Smoker