Are Fall Out Boy sellouts?

Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy perform onstage during KISS 108's Jingle Ball 2017 presented by Capital One at TD Garden on December .... There will always be a faction of Fall Out Boy fans who cry “sellout” and long for the crystalline pop-punk of their debut album, Take This to Your Grave. read more

To “sell out”, you have to start off playing something that is not mainstream or highly marketable. Fall Out Boy never qualified for selling out in the first place. read more

It’s easy to go with the former statement, given their gritty, underground punk sound has been swapped for a more easy-going pop-rock style. read more

Selling out doesn't have a negative meaning, it's just a lot of the rabid fans on here that will defend Fall Out Boy blindly have given the term a negative connotation because of their knee jerk reactions to anything that could even be mildly conceived as an insult. read more