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Article: CD REVIEW: Fall Out Boy: They're here, they're kitschy, get used to it
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- February 6, 2007
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Amit Chaturvedi
University Wire
02-06-2007
(Tufts Daily) (U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. -- After Chicago-based Fall Out Boy's apparent overnight success with their 2005 hit "Sugar We're Going Down," the band has ruled over what's left of the pop-punk genre with an iron fist. Beyond record sales and popularity, the band has developed, somewhat ironically, a huge cult following that idolizes bassist Pete Wentz as the immaculately conceived prophet of "the scene."
What is "the scene," you ask? Roughly defined, it is everything that has to do with the newest, trendiest music, fashion and lifestyles. Fall Out Boy's newest release "Infinity on High" proclaims in its first single "This Ain't a Scene, ...