Who I Am

I am Anna. There is not much to say about me. I am 17 and live in the USA.
I lovelovelove web design and music, which led me to create such a site. The end.

How I Got Into Fall Out Boy

This is kind of a long story but a lot of people ask me so I thought I would write it up for anyone who was interested.I tried to shorten it as much as possible. You can skip the bracketed part if you don’t care what led up to Fall Out Boy.

[For awhile during my early childhood I wasn’t really that in to music. Since I was young the only thing I was really exposed to was more poppy music, the stuff you find all over the media. That stuff didn’t really set with me. I would listen to it for fun, but I never got the feeling of how powerful and helpful music could be with that genre. So I kind of ignored the music industry. When I was in 2nd grade I lost my grandmother and it left me a complete mess. I also had a lot of friend complications. I didn’t know what to do to make myself happy. This went on for awhile until around 8th grade. After I graduated I got ready for a move. This was really hard for me since I would be leaving one of the only friends I had. I was over at her house one day and she was watching the Good Charlotte dvd. I was destined to hate that band for the rest of my life. No way in hell would I ever like a band that those stuck up girls at school liked. My friend made me watch the DVD anyway. I tried everything to ignore it but I ended up watching it anyway. I pointed out that I liked something one of the member’s of the band was wearing. Then I looked down at what I was wearing. I didn’t like what I was wearing at all. After watching this DVD and listening to their music for a little while, I became hooked. I realized I didn’t like who I was changing into due to peer pressure and whatnot, even though I always tried to be different I could see part of myself slipping away. Good Charlotte somehow made me realize that. So what does this have to do with Fall Out Boy? I am getting there. Because of Good Charlotte I discovered a new genre of music that was really powerful. Now I know some of you HATE them and some of consider them pop, but I don’t care. Even though they are partly poppy they have a rock edge and had a lot of rock influences. Good Charlotte helped me, opened me up to something wonderful, and that is that. ]

Now on to the Fall Out Boy part.

After this new discovery of how music could help me I was stuck on Good Charlotte for awhile because of how much they helped me. I didn’t really look into other bands. During this time someone IMed me saying a song was stuck in their head and it was annoying her. I asked her what song and she gave me a link to a purevolume.com site of a little band named Fall Out Boy. I believe it was one of their demos that was stuck in her head. I kind of listened to it half interested and was like “Yea, that would be annoying to have stuck in your head.” I then went back to what I was doing. A few months later I started to look into more bands and types of music. I used to listen to this online radio that has now been shut down. A song came on that I really really liked so I looked to see who it was by. Long and behold it was Fall Out Boy, the band I remembered my friend and showed me before. Now that I was a bit more open minded I decided to give them a second chance and I fell in love with them. I went out to the record store and bought Take This To Your Grave, and later on Evening Out With Your Girlfriend and My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue once I found them. Every time my family got in the car to go anywhere I popped one of their CDs. At this point I was blind to how much Fall Out Boy was helping me and how much I was actually listening to them. My mom noticed though and said to me once, “So, is this another band that I will have to take you to a billion concerts of like Good Charlotte?” I kind of looked at her weird and was like, “Um, no.” Yea, I was an idiot. Cause now here I am with the experience of more Fall Out Boy shows than I can count on my fingers. They mean the world to me. Without them and Good Charlotte I would be a mess. I don’t even want to think about what my life would be like without them. Nothing else has that power.

So there you have it. My rather long and complicated story of how I got into Fall Out Boy. I was going to put what year I started listening to them and what were the first songs, but I realized it didn’t matter. People brag about being older fans all the time and make newer fans feel like shit. I didn’t want to do that. It doesn’t matter if you were there from the beginning, it matters that you are a fan to the end.

Thoughts On New Fans

People ask me this a lot so I thought I would include this too.

I love new fans. Fakes I don’t welcome. Fakes drive me insane. By fakes I mean people who only like a band because they are popular or because they find someone in the band hot. The main reason I hate TRL and MTV is because because they draw all these fake fans to the fanbase of bands. I am however extremely happy for Fall Out Boy’s success because they deserve it more than anyone. I encourage everyone to vote for them for everything, no matter if it is some teenie magazine award or a true music award. I have learned just to deal with all the fakes, even though I don’t like them there isn’t much I can do about it. There will always be fakers. I want Fall Out Boy to have success. You can’t have your cake and eat it too still holds true.

My Other Sites

I run/co-run a bunch of sites and if you are interested here they are:
Fueled By Forums
Personal Site
A7x Online