In April 2005, the author recalls their first encounter with Fall Out Boy's 'Sugar, We're Goin Down' and its memorable music video featuring a boy with antlers. Two decades later, reflecting on the same video reveals deeper thematic meanings related to social awkwardness, desire, and mental health. The song's lyrics tap into feelings of adolescence and confusion which resonated with the author during their youth and still carry weight today as they reconsider the band's impact and emotional depth.
By the time I got my first glimpse of singer Patrick Stump's baby-faced, sideburn-adorned visage, the song had already changed my life.
The tryst between antler boy and his Juliet ends in the tragic, car-related death of her disapproving father.
Themes of social awkwardness, jealousy, unrequited desire, anxiety, and depression are fully on the band's sleeve.
Now, 20 years after its debut in May 2005, I'm thinking that From Under the Cork Tree is somehow still getting better.
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