04-04-2025
Ready to Feel Old? Fall Out Boy's 'Sugar, We're Goin Down' Turns 20 Today
Is this more than you bargained for yet?
Fall Out Boy fans are celebrating a special anniversary: "Sugar We're Goin' Down," the single that put the suburban Chicago band on the map, was released 20 years ago, on April 4, 2005.
The song wouldn't hit the Billboard Hot 100 until that summer, when it became part of a pop-punk revival that took over the mid-2000s music scene. It peaked at No. 8 early that fall. The group then performed the song on the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2005.
Fall Out Boy's infectious breakout hit was the lead single from their second album, From Under the Cork Tree. The zany, sometimes nonsensical lyrics, written by Pete Wentz, were paired with an equally quirky music video, telling the story of a guy with antlers crushing on a girl whose dad hates him for it.
The successful sophomore effort came two years after the band — which consists of singer and lead guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andrew Hurley — released their debut album, Take This to Your Grave, in May 2003.
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The reception to their sophomore project gave Fall Out Boy their first peak at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and earned them a Grammy nomination for best new artist.
In the years since, the band has consistently released fan-favorite, critically acclaimed albums including Infinity on High in 2007 and Folie à Deux in 2008. After a three-year hiatus, the band returned in 2013 with Save Rock and Roll, followed by American Beauty/American Psycho in 2015, Mania in 2018 and most recently So Much (for) Stardust in 2023.
Speaking with PEOPLE about his work on the Disney+ and Disney Jr. series Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends last June, Stump discussed how he feels "so ridiculously lucky" that Fall Out Boy "has lasted this long."
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"People still come to see us and I'm doing this show. It's one of those things," he said, noting how "any one of" Fall Out Boy's accomplishments individually "would be a big deal," and the totality of their success "should be a big deal" in terms of any single band's achievements.
"I try not to think about it too much as an achievement and more of just like a gift. You know what I mean? I'm so grateful to get to do this," the singer said. "If I could have told myself when I was 12 that any of these things were going to happen, there's no way I could fathom that."
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