2018Released
3:43

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The lead single from M A N I A takes Fall Out Boy in an unexpected direction as the pop punkers unveil a different pop/industrial/EDM sound, complete with a heavy dubstep breakdown on the chorus. "We weren't planning on really writing new music at the time," bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz told NME of the track's origins. "It felt like we should do this thing together and tried to make a body of work around it. It's weird because once we said 'this is a song that feels like maybe it's not a direct-to-radio-song, but it feels like it could be culturally important' it freed us. Then it was like 'let's just make this song the best version of itself it could be'." "There was a more extreme version of the song," Wentz continued. "We were like 'is that hard – is that easy?' For the last chorus it's pretty extreme, and there was a version that was pretty much all of that, and we needed to reign it in. Honestly, because we were like 'Wow, this is so chaotic'. It sounded like a 1990's modem. It didn't even sound like music. So we reigned it in from there."

Wentz's lyrics pay homage to a young Britney Spears by quoting her classic 2000 hit "Oops... I Did It Again": Oops I, did it again, I forgot what I was losing my mind about Oh, I only wrote this down to make you press rewind And send a message that I was young and a menace. "There's a lyric in the song, 'trying to send the world a message, I was young and a menace,' that reminded me of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago," Wentz explained. "I didn't look like anyone there or feel like anyone – I felt like an outsider in my own town. It wasn't until I discovered punk rock and that community that I realized I did fit in somewhere in this word – with the other people who didn't fit in."

Wentz noted the track is emblematic of true M A N I A. "It's hard to rationalize rage – it's hard to quantify anxiety," he said. "This song does neither, it embraces the wave."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Young And Menace.
BKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
108BPM

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Released By

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Island Records
© 2017 Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
℗ 2017 Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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