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Fall Out Boy are only four albums into their career, but they exist in a climate so temperamental they already feel weary and primed for self-parody. In the video for their new single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", the band use characters from all their past videos, plus a few rock clichés (trashing hotel rooms, visiting the Playboy mansion, recording with a hip-hop producer) for a satire that's unusually self-aware for an emo band-- even one as good-humored and self-effacing as this.

But how’s the single? As self-referential as the video, but without the sense of humor. Incorporating an ill-advised drum machine for its Rob Thomas/Santana-meets-Timberlake verses and pre-chorus, the lyrics reach for more than they can grasp: "I am an arms dealer/ Fitting you with weapons in the form of words" explains the song title, not the metaphor. The stomp of the pre-chorus, and the full-bore, blown-out pop/punk chorus both go a long way towards redeeming that, but there's a telling line at the end of the second chorus-- "Bandwagon's full. Please, catch another"-- implying Fall Out Boy may have become their own guilty pleasure

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Looks like Fall Out Boy have been texting once too often - and their second single from the Infinity On High album has lost all its vowels as a result.

It's also lost their killer instinct for a chorus - that is, when you compare it to previous anthemic effort This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - for the darker, brooding verse leads through to a hook of less obvious melodic inspiration.

In fact you could go as far as suggesting that this is a second single by numbers, which would be chugging along in second gear were it not for Patrick Stump's commendable holler. It probably won't win too many recruits for the new album - but then all the fans will have bought it already, judging by its considerable success!