I love Fall Out Boy. For me, they’re in the vein of earlier pop-punk bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182 – where the music is pure energy and you don’t worry too much about the lyrical content.

Having said that, I won’t go any further until I mention the txt-inspired title – thnks fr th mmrs, or Thanks For The Memories if you were born before 1992. I’m not sure how I feel about the name, but it’ll sure as hell confuse Fall Out Boy’s over-40 fans!

On one hand, thnks fr th mmrs is standard Fall Out Boy fare, playing to an already successful formula, and other commentators have said that it lacks the oomph of This Ain’t A Scene.

For my money, it’s a passable piece of pop-punk, and as one of those links says, it’s radio friendly to a fault. Definitely not as memorable as This Ain’t A Scene, but a safe single to release. It won’t gain them many new fans, but it’s not likely to lose any either. I’m looking forward to this coming on the car radio on the way home from work…

Anyway, time to laugh at the funny monkeys….