Patrick: “When I read the lyrics, there was something about when I got to that phrase ‘what a time to be alive.’ There’s such a sarcasm in it. I really wanted to write the kind of song that the DJ puts on at the wedding, but the wedding is happening in the middle of the apocalypse.”

Pete: “It’s like a New Year’s song for the worst year that has ever happened.”

Patrick: “I think some of my favorite pop music has been when people are singing along without catching what they’re singing, that “Born In The U.S.A.”-kind of thing.”

Pete: “It’s always funny when you have the realization that, ‘He’s saying the exact opposite of what I thought he was saying.’”

—via Variety

Patrick Stump:

It encapsulated to me everything that we were experiencing at the time, And the crazy thing is we wrote it before the pandemic! There’s a couple of lines at the end that were added after the fact, but the rest of it is us sitting there in 2018 going, ‘God, can the world get any worse?‘ …It’s a kind of anger that you don’t get when you’re 16, because when you’re 16 you go into your room and you kick the wall and you throw your books across the room or whatever. But now you’re angry, and there’s nothing but responsibility in every direction, so you have to just internalize it and bury it somewhere, you know?

—via Kerrang!