Hands down, Patrick Stump has one of the greatest voices this world has ever had the pleasure to experience. On a similar vein, Pete Wentz has one of the most lyrically gifted and clever minds out there (regardless of what some may say - we support you, Mr. Wentz). Or so we think.
If you've ever listened to FOB, you have doubtlessly been struck by the dilemma of figuring out what the mess Mr. Stump is actually singing about. It's not that he doesn't enunciate or that there's too much going on to understand him, it's just that there's occasionally the Ryan Ross problem of eighteen syllable words jammed together in the space meant for four or the fact that his voice just naturally does Great and Wonderful Things that we aren't meant to understand. Even upon looking up some of the lyrics, when trying to match them up to the sounds we can't recreate they don't seem to quite fit.
This brings us to the "Pete-Patrick Lyrical Theory of Relativity": We know that Mr. Wentz writes a great deal, if not all, of the lyrics we've come to appreciate so much, but are they really what his adorable counterpart are singing? We say, No! This is what really happens - the band goes into the studio, Pete with notebook filled with pieces of lyrics in hand. Patrick then sings the parts that were already created and then when the musical holes come up, he just makes noise. Lots of beautiful noise. Pete then listens and translates what these sounds could possible be. So really, Pete only has to write a little bit, his job is more just to interpret what Patrick's singing.
It's brilliant, team, I don't know why everyone hasn't thought of this. More theories to come later, have no fear. As a side note, I have a pretty ok picture of Pete Wentz that I'll probably post as soon as I stick my name on it somewhere. :)
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