Dance, Dance

In typical Fall Out Boy fashion, the singer has some conflicted feelings for the girl in this song. Here's an interpretation: He's had some very emotional experiences with this girl, but on this particular night, he wants to detach from his feelings and just have a good time with her, as he thinks it "Can't get much worse." He dances with her (could be literal or figurative), and his plan seems to be working, although he is still filled with anger as he tells her, "why don't you show me a little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress." Sounds like she has another boyfriend, and he's not happy about it.

Katrina Bowden, who is best known as Cerie in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, appeared in the song's music video. The actress also made an appearance on Law & Order: SVU and her involvement in the drama led to Patrick Stump spending a couple of days on the show's parent series. He portrayed a kidnapping suspect in the season 18 Law & Order episode "Darkness." The singer explained to AbsolutePunk how the opportunity happened: "Well, basically I met this girl on the set of the 'Dance, Dance' video, she was my love interest in the 'Dance, Dance' video, she's on 30 Rocknow, but at the time she was just the girl in the video. So I saw her on Law & Order and I jokingly said to Bob [McLynn, manager], 'Hey, if she can be on Law and Order maybe I can get on Law & Order as well,' and it ended up happening. I was a total fan, so I kept it going, I was like, 'Let's do this, I wanna do this.' They flew me out and I got to be an actor for two days, so that was cool."

This was released as the second single from Fall Out Boy's second studio album. It was also their second Top 10 hit on the Hot 100, following "Sugar We're Going Down."