Patrick Stump doesn't rule out a Fall Out Boy reunion

Patrick Stump has responded to claims that there won't be a Fall Out Boy reunion.

The 27-year-old frontman was allegedly quoted last week by US magazine Alternative Press saying that he doesn't "want to try and call back material [he] wrote when [he] was 17" when he's in his 40s.

"That quote is way taken out of context," he wrote in a blog post. "As is the implication that I 'Don't want to do Fall Out Boy when I'm 40', (which is literally not a quote of mine). All I meant by any of it is that I don't want to wait until I'm 40 to do another Fall Out Boy record, and if it takes that long, then I won't do one.

"I am confident that we'll have a record out sooner than later," he added, "but there are currently no plans. No 'two years,' no 'six years,' no parameters. It might happen later than any of that, it might happen sooner. It is literally, as it's always been, an indefinite hiatus. We never did breakup, we're still friends, and we still would like to make music together.

"That said, I'd like to formally put this issue to rest. I think I've talked about it enough in the past two years and if anything it's silly talking about hypotheticals in detail. Who knows? I promise I will let everybody know as soon as there are concrete plans or if anything changes, but from here on until Fall Out Boy does have actual news, I'm going to just not talk about it."

Stump's debut solo album, Soul Punk, will be released later this year.

Tags: Fall Out Boy, Patrick Stump

Posted by Dan at 10:51AM | May 23, 2011

Come on, leave Patrick alone already and let him release his own music. Im all for a FOB reunion but i wanna hear his solo album first!!

Posted by kenny | May 23, 2011 11:49 AM | Reply to this

jeeez i feel so ridiculously sorry for patrick. the constant questioning about fob from annoying fans must be driving him insane. don't you know what a hiatus is? they have expressed countless times that this is merely a break from fob. the only ambiguity is that there is no set timeframe, so no one knows how long the comeback will be.

i want there to be another fall out boy record as much as the next fan, but i'm almost concerned that the more fans piss him off with constant nagging, the more he will be put off the idea. he is trying to make a name for himself as an artist in his own right, and all this melodrama is distracting away from that.

guys if you want fob to come off their hiatus, go and buy soul punk and support patrick for the next 2 years so that he feels he has fulfilled (at least part of) his own creative endeavors... (same applied to damned things/black cards)... that's when he and the other guys will realise that they are excited about the band again, and that's when fob will make the comeback.

Posted by hm | May 23, 2011 11:58 AM | Reply to this

If I could like a comment on here, it would be the one above :)

Posted by Eyes | May 23, 2011 12:55 PM | Reply to this

I lovee you patrick and I understand why you would say that but seriously... I think your music is more important than FOB right now and you should just stick to it until, like you said... something happens.

Posted by Someonee | May 24, 2011 2:49 AM | Reply to this

i dont think they will until early next year, after the damned this tour is over in november

Posted by Jake | June 14, 2011 2:38 AM | Reply to this

I really miss FOB, I do, but I feel that the boys and Patrick will sort things out when they're all ready, I mean, as long as they're happy and doing what they like to do, then I'm happy. Well, yeah I miss Fall Out Boy, but just think about them for a moment. Although Patrick said he's not too sure when FOB are coming back, or if they are, I have a feeling it will be soon, for all we know they could be making an album right now, but keeping it a secret, hey, imagine logging onto Twitter one day and seeing a Tweet posted by Pete saying "New Fall Out Boy album out next week!" That'll be the day. Heh.

Posted by THENWHOWASPHONE | November 24, 2011 8:28 AM | Reply to this