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==Overview==
==Overview==
This song was written in 2009, after Pete Wentz found out his gay lover Adam Lambert had kissed another dude at the AMAs. He angrily asked Lambert how the guy tasted and, after contemplating it for 69 seconds, he replied, "Well, Pete...he tasted like you, only sweeter." This inspired Wentz to write a song about the kiss and its resulting controversy. He then enlisted George W. Bush's help in building a Delorean in his underground laboratory to travel to 2007 to release the song. After releasing the song and coming back to the future, Wentz broke up with Lambert, tweeting "I can't see myself being Adam's whore again" and that for him to do so, "something would have to change in my head or my heart - not my wallet."
In an interview with ''[[Kerrang!]]'', bassist [[Pete Wentz]] explained that the song refers to a romantic relationship in which the initial sentiments have perished, but both lovers continue to "sleep with each other" to appease their physical and mental desires. The title, "Thnks fr th Mmrs" is the words "thanks for the memories" after having been [[Disemvowel|disemvowelled]], the reason for the song title's removal of vowels comes as joking nod at Fall Out Boy's record company, who have asked them to shorten their often verbose song titles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/falloutboythnks.htm|title=Top40 "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" Review}}</ref> The line that appears near the end of each chorus, "He tastes like you, only sweeter," is a line from the movie ''[[Closer (film)|Closer]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/falloutboythnks.htm|title=Top40 "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" Review}}</ref>

The song is featured in the video game ''[[Band Hero]]''.

After the band played the song at the 2009 Youth Inauguration Ball for [[Barack Obama]], Pete Wentz jokingly dedicated it to outgoing President [[George W. Bush]]. <ref><http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1603131/20090121/west_kanye.jhtml></ref>


==Music video==
==Music video==

Revision as of 14:09, 23 February 2010

"Thanks for the memories" redirects here. For other uses, see Thanks for the Memory (disambiguation)
"Thnks fr th Mmrs"
Song

"Thnks fr th Mmrs" (pronounced "thanks for the memories") is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy. The song was released as the third single from their fourth album Infinity on High.

Overview

This song was written in 2009, after Pete Wentz found out his gay lover Adam Lambert had kissed another dude at the AMAs. He angrily asked Lambert how the guy tasted and, after contemplating it for 69 seconds, he replied, "Well, Pete...he tasted like you, only sweeter." This inspired Wentz to write a song about the kiss and its resulting controversy. He then enlisted George W. Bush's help in building a Delorean in his underground laboratory to travel to 2007 to release the song. After releasing the song and coming back to the future, Wentz broke up with Lambert, tweeting "I can't see myself being Adam's whore again" and that for him to do so, "something would have to change in my head or my heart - not my wallet."

Music video

The music video starts out with Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz talking before filming the video, with Patrick asking Pete asking if he was sure about something and Pete replies, "Patrick, the guy's a fucking visionary." The song then starts up, and then all of a sudden, a monkey yells "Cut!" and calls the band a "joke", complaining that he should have hired Panic! at the Disco, and then texts somebody on his phone, complaining that the band is "wack". Later, Andy Hurley is replaced by another monkey, and when he tries to retrieve his drumsticks, he is thrown out of the studio. In one scen, Pete is shown receiving a phone call from William Beckett of fellow-Decaydance band The Academy Is....Other scenes show the band playing the song on a brightly lit stage with the letters "FOB" in the background, and the band's different communications with the monkeys. Pete then sits on a bed and attempts to kiss Kim Kardashian, only to have the monkey stop him and show him the correct way to kiss her, which might be a reference to a similar scene in the film Mulholland Drive. Unhappy with the monkey's demands, Pete tries to leave, but then he and Kim kiss and Pete decides to stay. In the final scene, Pete breaks the choreography. As the monkey angrily complains about his behavior, he smashes his bass guitar into the "B" from the "FOB" lights on the back wall, then leaves the stage.

The "FOB" lights on the back wall of the video can be seen floating on the water in the music video for Fall Out Boy's "What a Catch, Donnie".

Charts and Certifications

The song peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, nine places lower than previous single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race".

In the UK, it peaked at #12, making it another top 20 hit for the band there. In New Zealand, the song hit #11. In Australia, it reached a peak of #3, after initially peaking at #4, and in Ireland it charted at #17.

The song also hit the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U.S., where it charted at #19.

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 3
Canadian Hot 100 12
German Singles Chart[2] 67
Czech IFPI Chart[3] 67
Irish Singles Chart[2] 17
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[2] 11
Sweden Singles Chart[2] 53
UK Singles Chart[2] 12
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 11
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 14
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 19
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 9

Annual Charts

Country Position
Australia[4] 16
U.S. 37

Certifications

Country Certification Sales
U.S.[5] Gold 500,000
Australia[6] Platinum 70,000

Parody

In 2009, a parody of the song titled "N Thnks 2 th Jmmys" ("No Thanks to the Jimmys" disemvoweled like the original), satirically written from the point of a Craig Ferguson fangirl, appeared on music humour website Am I Right. It is written about late night being "fine, no thanks to the Jimmys" (the "Jimmys" it refers to are fellow late-night hosts Kimmel and Fallon) and is often taken as a satire of celebrity idolization among teenagers.[7] On the Glasgow stop of the 2009 Believers Never Die World Tour, the band referred to the parody, playing the intro of the song while Patrick sang "It's about 12:30 A.M..." (the first line of the parody, referring to the time Craig Ferguson's talk show airs in the U.S.) but Pete Wentz, in on the joke, stopped them and said, "We'd do that song, but it's not ours. It's a parody of ours, about one of yours." [8] The joke was largely not understood by the crowd, however, as Ferguson's audience is primarily American. (This was notably similar to the way the band introduces "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" in concert; that song, however, is usually introduced with Stump singing the chorus of Panic at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" and Wentz interrupting him, saying "This ain't that song, this ain't that band, and this ain't a scene - it's a goddamned arms race!")

References

  1. ^ CD liner notes: Now 25, EMI 2007
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs global chart positions and trajectories". aCharts.us. Retrieved June 30, 2007.
  3. ^ Čns Ifpi
  4. ^ Australian Recording Industry Association (2007). "ARIA Annual Chart". Retrieved January 4, 2010.
  5. ^ out boy&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ <http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/falloutboy77.shtml>
  8. ^ "Thnks fr th Mmrs Live in Glasgow".
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