We’ve posted a new article in the PopPolitics magazine: “Fall Out Boy’s Biggest Faggot Fan” by Sam J. Miller, who has previously written about the political and economic subtext of haunted house films.

In his latest piece, Miller writes:

Fall Out Boy just wants to be your boy. Everybody’s boy. While most of the band’s career has focused on infiltrating the bedrooms of every young woman in the world, their new album, “Infinity on High,” makes a bid for broadening their boyfriend base into an entirely new realm: the gay market.

Bassist/songwriter/propaganda mastermind Pete Wentz gives interviews to The Advocate, makes out with boys, and picks fights with homophobic moms at concerts. There’s an overall absence of personal pronouns on the new record — a big shift from their bloody-brilliant last album, “From Under the Cork Tree” — and I’m sure that this savvy business boy left things intentionally gender-neutral so that gay guys can come on board.

But as Miller’s discusses, it’s a calculated, commercial come-on. “Who are these boys,” he asks, “and what do they want from us?”

Read the full article here.