![]() It was really about following the lead of Peep and his collaborators, his mom and his camp. Wentz: We also worked with Peep’s camp on it. Andrew Donoho, the director, really brought it to life for us. We brought Fall Out Boy and their creative director in and made a group effort to put the video together. Makonnen: With Peep’s who worked on all his previous stuff, we gathered our notes of what Peep told us during different times and then we kind of constructed all that together. We were trying to create a moving, surrealist painting. And so, how do we - embrace that? How do we embrace what’s missing, what would’ve been and what was? We thought about it, the most interesting way to do it is to do it in a surrealist way ‘cause it feels dreamlike. Wentz: The idea was, we’re creating this thing but there’s like a giant hole where, maybe, the heart of this thing is. Makonnen: Me and Peep first had the idea about doing it in a hot air balloon and transporting to a different type of world, almost like an Alice in Wonderland-type of thing. I want to talk about the video, which is so surreal and magical. On paper, this is a crazy idea, but to make it work, you have to kind of blend - it’s pretty disparate sounding-wise. ![]() ![]() It’s three really different ways of singing, and trying to blend it and make it feel like it’s not like this hodgepodge and make it feel like it’s more like a stew or something like that with different ingredients, was the heavy lifting to me. ![]() Wentz: The most heavy lifting to me is the blending of all three vocals. Makonnen: Fall Out Boy wanted to do it somewhere where they were comfortable, so I just let them do it at their leisure - at their home or studio or something like that. I don’t think that Fall Out Boy has ever had - and I don’t mean, I’m going to say successful and I don’t mean successful in radio terms - but I don’t think we’ve ever had a successful ballad where we finished and we were like, “Wow, that really worked.” But this could be, “Maybe we could do an acoustic version and it’d be the one.” Wentz: Oh, wow, yeah, that would be sick. That’s interesting that you mentioned that you sped up the BPM, Pete, because I was actually thinking about how great this would sound as a slow-downed acoustic ballad. Makonnen: We just really wanted to try to perfect it as much as we can. It doesn’t need to follow necessarily a traditional song structure. For a while, it just felt like there were three choruses and then we were like, “Why should it not just be three catchy parts?” They don’t all have to be choruses, they can just feel like these are like a part into the next part into the next part. We changed the BPM - the speed of the song - we sped it up. “I’ve Been Waiting” took about six months to finish, right? should be ready before the year ends, too. I wish we could’ve done it while he was still here, but we honored him by fulfilling a wish. Makonnen: It was, I think, a dream come true. It felt like, “Let’s get this song right, and if we don’t get this to a place we think is right for what Peep’s legacy is, then maybe we just don’t put it out or we don’t put Fall Out Boy on it.” This one felt important to get it right more than like, “We gotta do this and it’s gotta be marketed like this,” or whatever. We just wanted to honor that, and honor the idea of Peep and what his legacy is. I don’t mean it in the musical way, but just in some of the things he was going through that he’d spoken out about. I don’t know how to explain this, but I saw some of myself 20 years ago in Peep. And you were kind of able to fulfill that. Right, Peep said in interviews that Fall Out Boy and Makonnen were some of his favorite artists. This feels like there’s a purpose that this person has spoken about.” That was the humbling part, and the part that really drove us to do it. It felt like, “Aw, man, maybe we should give this a shot. I knew “Tuesday,” but I didn’t know him personally, so it was flattering - but it wasn’t until my friend sent me an article where Peep basically was like, “If you had to ask me what my music was, it would be half Makonnen, half Fall Out Boy.” And that was pretty moving. I told them about the record to see if they could take a look they wanted to be a part of it. Makonnen: Fall Out Boy had reached out to me after his passing. How did Fall Out Boy become a part of the song? Below, Makonnen and Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz (in separate interviews, edited together) tell Billboard about honoring Peep’s legacy, and what it’s been like to witness the genre-blurring song’s rise.
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