Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Fall Out Boy is a band from Chicago that formed in 2001. Their first album, Take This To Your Grave, was a hit, especially in the punk rock world. When they put out their second album, though, in 2005, that was on a whole other scale. That album is called From Under the Cork Tree, and it went double platinum, and they were nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. For this episode, I talked to the band’s singer, Patrick Stump, about how they made their breakout hit from that album, the song “Sugar, We’re Goin Down.”

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.7	I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.
0:10.6	On September 5th, I'm going to be doing a special live Song Exploder event in Los Angeles with Boni Vair.
0:16.9	Justin Vernon and producer Jimmy Stack are going to be joining me on stage to tell the story behind one of the songs from the new Bonie Verre album, Sable Fable. So if you've ever wondered what a full, unedited Song Exploder conversation is like, this is your chance to be in the room. This is going to be a live event only. It's not going to be live streamed or repeated on any other night. So I hope you can make it. It's going to be
0:37.6	at the beautiful Palace Theater in downtown L.A. You can get tickets to this special Song Exploder
0:43.4	Live event with Bonnie Vair at SongExploder.net slash live. Again, it's on Friday, September 5th in
0:50.9	downtown L.A. And you can get tickets at songexploder.net slash live.
0:57.1	Fallout Boy is a band from Chicago that formed in 2001.
1:01.0	The first album, Take This to Your Grave, was a hit, especially in the punk rock world.
1:05.9	When they put out their second album, though, in 2005, that was on a whole other scale.
1:10.8	That album is called From Under the Cork Tree, and it went double platinum, and they were
1:14.6	nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist.
1:17.3	For this episode, I talked to the band's singer Patrick Stump about how they made their breakout
1:21.9	hit from that album, the song Sugar Were Going Down.
1:24.8	We're Going Down. could you just say your name and your name and play a guitar and play a lot of the music
1:45.9	a lot of guy called back struck it and pulling could you just say your name and your role in the band
1:54.4	i'm patrick stump and i sing and play guitar and a lot of other instruments and write a lot of the
1:59.9	music for fallout boy and who else lot of the music for Fall Out Boy.
2:01.6	And who else is in the band?
2:03.3	Pete Wentz, who plays bass, and he writes a lot of the lyrics.
2:06.4	Joe Troman, who plays guitar, and Andy Hurley, who plays drums.
2:10.5	How did you guys get started?
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