American Beauty/American Psycho

The song title covers a lot of pop culture. Both a 1970 Grateful Dead album and an Oscar-winning Kevin Spacey movie have utilized the title of American Beauty, whilst American Psycho is the name of a darkly comic novel about a Wall Street serial killer, which was turned into a film. "Both (American Beauty and American Psycho) depict this obsession with an idea of perfection and imply we might be bad underneath," guitarist Joe Trohman told Billboard magazine. "I also like the repetition of the word 'American,'" vocalist Patrick Stump added. "What does it mean to be American? I think a lot about how awesome it is here, and how horrible it is, too."

Fall Out Boy hooked up with French musician and producer DJ SebastiAn for this track. "We thought about where this all began but razing it and starting again," the band said of the song's creation. "So we reached out to a kindred spirit in SebastiAn- from the past he mined some of the future. the mission is the heart pure and simple as it can be distilled but never fragmented or disguised. through these experiments, that were sometimes lost in translation, we persevered - 'they tried to bury us but they didn't realize we were seeds.'"

This samples Motley Crüe's song "Too Fast for Love," which was the title track of their 1981 debut album.