Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump says that Tom Burton's 1989 Batman film is "almost exclusively" the reason why he embarked upon a life in music.
Speaking to NME about the influence of film composer Danny Elfman on the song I Am My Own Muse on his band's recently-released So Much (For) Stardust album, Stump says, "He’s been an influence forever. I’m a musician almost exclusively because of 1989’s Batman, because it’s Danny Elfman and Prince I watched that movie a billion times, and I soaked up that score. That was a huge, huge influence on me, and I feel like everything branches off from that. Now it’s more overt in that it’s orchestra, but it’s always been there."
Asked by NME what the band wanted to achieve with their new record, bassist Pete Wentz says, "We wanted to make an album that felt like it made it worthwhile to go and tour it. A ‘whatever’ album from Fall Out Boy 20 years in is probably not worth making."
Stump adds, "There’s also a real tangibility to it. In the middle of the pandemic all of a sudden everything was a Zoom meeting, or you had NFTs and all this other stuff, and there was this moment where nothing existed. We wanted to make a record that was very tangible, that was very live in terms of instruments."
