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What A Catch, Donnie - Fall Out Boy

i’m gonna go ahead and just focus on how beautiful this vocal performance is.

i wish he knew some of us are just here for the sound of his voice. if he stops singing, that’s a hell of a flame being extinguished. if the haters silence that voice, holy lord ….how?

So I wasn’t going to say anything about Patrick’s blog at first.  But the more I thought about it, well… yeah.  

See… I’m one of those people who doesn’t like Soul Punk. It’s not my cup of tea.  I absolutely *love* Patrick’s voice, I think it is one of the best voices of a generation, but Soul Punk just left me cold.  BUT, and this is the rub, I do not hate Patrick, nor do I wish that he would disappear off the face of the earth.  And I would never, ever, treat him the way so called fans have.  

I don’t understand how people can be so hateful to another human being.  I don’t understand the need to try and tear someone down because they have not stayed in the cozy little mold you built for them.  Hate mongering is never a valid reaction to anything.  

I hope Patrick does come back to music, I hope he takes all the heartbreak and anger and channels it into something amazing.  I want to hear him singing and breaking my heart with his music.  Soul Punk didn’t do it for me, but maybe his next album will.

And if there is never another FOB album, or if I never quite “get” Patrick’s solo music, I will always and forever respect him as a person and I will never forget the beauty of his voice.  For me that means something like this… What a Catch, Donnie has always been one of the songs that knocks me on my ass when I listen to the vocals.  And nothing and no one can ever take that away from him, or me.  

Firstly, I have never seen this, and my earballs are SO GLAD I have now.  God his voice is stunning.  Secondly, just yes to your commentary.  Soul Punk took a long time to grow on me.  It’s just not a style that I usually like.  But I kept at it because it was Patrick and goddammit I knew there was genius in there if I could train my ears to hear it.  And I did, and now I adore it.  But I certainly don’t blame anyone who listened to it and just didn’t enjoy it.  And I don’t think Patrick does either, really.  I just can’t imagine what goes through someone’s head to think “I don’t like this new music, I must say hateful, awful things to the person who made it even though I call myself their fan.”  

I don’t understand how people just down bow down to his voice. I was really hesitant to listen to his solo music, just because it’s so radically different from FOB, but I made myself listen to it, and now I’m obsessed. Everything about Patrick is made of awesome and win. Do I wish that FOB would make another album? For sure. Will I support Patrick otherwise? Definitely. In my opinion, “Fall Out Boy or Die” doesn’t just apply to when they were a band. I’m starting to get into Pete’s band and I need to listen to Joe and Andy’s stuff.