Alternative rock band Fall Out Boy released a new single, entitled “Centuries,” through iTunes and a launch video on the band’s Vevo account on Youtube Tuesday. This is the first single off of the band’s untitled sixth album, which is being produced by Island/DCD2 Records, according to Alternative Press.
The song starts off with a hook from the song “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega, which evolves into the background music with guitars and drums. The song’s meaning is an anthem of making a stake in history, with lyrics like in the chorus “Some legends untold/ Some turn to dust or to gold/ But you will remember me, remember me for centuries,” as well as in second verse with “Cause I am the opposite of amnesia/ And you're a cherry blossom/ You're about to bloom/ You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon.”
The track is on sale on iTunes in North America, and will be available for purchase worldwide at midnight local time, according to Alternative Press.
As of Tuesday, the new single is no. 2 on iTunes, according to Fall Out Boy’s facebook page.
Fall Out Boy is a formation of the band’s vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band formed in 2001 and became famous for its single “Sugar, We're Goin Down” from its second studio album From Under the Cork Tree, which went double platinum.
In an interview with Rock Sound, Wentz said the creation of “Centuries” began as all of the songs they wrote do by the band writing “a bunch of stuff,” and when the songs begin to form, they bring them “down to a simmer.”
“With ‘Centuries’, we were on the Monumentour with [alternative band] Paramore,” Wentz said. “Patrick [Stump] came forward with the song, and it just seemed very timely. It felt like the time to really get things going, and we’ve had the pedal to the metal as far as writing goes.”
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