FallOutBoy Young blood chronicles part 4: Alone Together.

This video really started to pull things together for me but at the same time created even more unanswered questions, the video contains mild violence so be warned.

 the video starts in what looks like an old hospital and a woman is walking around with the suitcase with the handcuff still attached (possibly to show that it is the same suitcase that was cuffed to Patrick's wrist and removed in the pheonix video.)

The woman hands the case over to a woman in a car with the number plate "RATATAT" people on youtube speculate that it could be Courtney love because Ratatat  is the single off the album and it features Courtney, it would make sense if it were Courtney but we don't really know the contents of the case so we don't really know what these people want from FallOutBoy so it could be anyone in that car to be honest, but I'm thinking it will be Courtney.


I saw an interesting thing on twitter where someone said they thought the Young Volcanoes video was about the dark side of celebrity lifestyle and Patrick Stump replied that was a good representation of what they meant, after seeing Alone Together I thought some more about what they talking about.

If young volcanoes was about the horrible side of the celebrity lifestyle what about the other 3 videos, the first video (in the timeline) The Phoenix had Patrick with the case cuffed to his wrist which subsequently was taken away by some women and a creepy boy who capture the rest of the band 1 by 1.

I didn't under stand what the creepy boy's purpose was but I think I understand now, I think the children in the videos are fans or thought to be fans, the band often relate to their fans as kids in interviews
(probably because their fans are often younger than them)which would explain why patrick smiled at the boy because he thought he was a fan, this could represent what happened when they released the previous album where the fans booed the band when they played new songs, I also think that the other artists featured in the video and the women are like their peers.

Any way I think the Phoenix video is about them being liked and wanted but to the point where it is disabling, (like how fans stalk their favorite bands and when the fan girls throw abuse at their celebrity crushes girlfriends just like they do with harry styles.)

Young volcanoes is the part where things get even worse, falling victim to drugs, alcoholism while it effects your work and personal lives, I think its one of those things you don't realize is bad until you come out the other end, I think that's what that video means, it's like the start of FalloutBoys downfall.

The events from "My songs know what you did in the dark" looks like it it takes place after "alone together" (unless they fit another video in between the van leaving with the band in the back and 2chainz setting it alight in the forest) and I think that video is like the break up/hiatus what ever it was, so "alone together" is just before that, it is the actual break up.

When we finally see the band members they are all tied up in separate rooms, Patrick is in the hospital's chapel tied to an electric chair, Joe was tied up on a small stage, Andy appears to be in a living room with a tv showing live footage of himself and Pete seems to be in a red carpet set up.

All the rooms can be seen as representations of the things that ruined them, however I think Patrick's room represents the effects of all the other rooms on the band than it is a room that represents  something that broke them down, does that make sense?
Patrick is like the heart or mind of the band, while everyone else is being mentally tortured Patrick is being physically hurt and grows detached and crazy eyed by the end of the video.

In Joe's room where 3 little girls throw fruit at him and mock him represents the band being mocked by fans , like I said before , children seem to symbolize the fans, the band members often refer to fans as kids, besides children as usually thought to be unaware of the consequences to their actions so maybe they are saying that maybe the fans didn't know what their criticism was doing to them.

I'm not sure what Andys room represents but because it looks like a living room I guess it represents home life, his face on the tv could show how their privacy was invaded.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the women in Andys room, If it was meant to signify a relationship break down because surely the woman would be angry, she seems to be behaving slightly sexually but I doubt it is meant to be temptation because Andy doesn't seem interested at all.
She could be a stalker of some sort, she seems to enjoy his presence and the way she behaves with the tv screen could suggest she is watching him and that could relate to the whole invaded privacy thing, but I'm not too sure what she's meant to be.

Pete'r room seems to be temptation, I didn't really get it at first but after watching the video I noticed the woman (who untied and kissed Pete) had a hook for a hand and presumed that it must mean she is a hooker, It makes sense she pretty much walks up to him and snogs him, I know that Pete divorced Ashlee Simpson but the reasons aren't made clear (which is fair enough really, If it were me, I wouldn't want everyone knowing about something like that.) any way this sort of thing happens to celebrities, men and women throw them selves at celebrities and because they are celebrities people can make money by exposing it which is shown through the red carpet and the mannequins with cameras so I guess Petes room is about temptation and having your dirty laundry aired for all to see.

I promise now I'll get back to the actual story now.

after the hooker untied Pete he hits her takes her hook and stabs her killing her and he tries to escape he first finds a room with flammable liquids, band equipment and memorabilia (prepared for the events of "My songs know what you did in the dark") and then an alarm is sounded.

It is at this point where Pete is being chased through hospital corridors by women the conditions of the other 3 rooms gets worse and Patrick is no longer reacting to being tortured, I has got to the point where he no longer cares about what is happening, the bands temporary split was a result of them no longer enjoying being in a band which maybe Patrick being unresponsive is meant to be when they decided they were better off apart and there was nothing left to fight for.

Pete finds Big Sean also tied up in a room, he features on the "The mighty Fall" track on the album, Pete frees him using the hook hand as a blade to cut the straight jacket and they go their separate ways, Pete finds Patrick alone in his room (Patrick's eyes are glowing which is pretty creepy) and tried to free him too but Patrick fights him off, the women comes back and dart Pete knocking him out.

At the end of the video FallOutBoy are bundled into the back of a van and it drives away ( ready for "My songs know what you did  in the dark" ) and Big Sean is seen hiding behind a tree looking on in horror as the van disappears.


The fact that Big Sean was also being held makes me wonder why he was there and what the women wanted from him , I know he features in a song so he would obviously feature in a video but how does he fit in with the story, does he know something about the suitcase? or does he have something else that they want?

And if it really is Courtney in the car what makes her possessedly the bad guy and what does she want from FallOutBoy, Big Sean and anyone else who later turns up and if it isn't Courtney who is that woman in the car and what does she want, I have more questions after watching the video than I did before.

I'm looking forward to the next video and seeing how other artist who feature on the album will be represented like Foxes, Elton John, Courtney Love and Big Sean.


(If you are still confused see what I thought of the first 3 videos here: http://shmelley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fall-out-boy-young-blood-chronicles.html)