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Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Song MeaningsLyrics:I am an arms dealer Fitting you with weapons in the form of words And don't really care, which side wins As long as the room keeps singing... (See the rest of these lyrics) Submitted by: pic3232 Added: 2006-12-20 12:56:25 Rating:   I believe this song is in response to all the people who said that Fall Out Boy sold out with their last album.
Submitted by: anonymous I think it's about record companies who take advantage of bands to make money.
Submitted by: timb89 its pretty easy this one, I reckon they are saying that their genre watever they classify themselves as has sold out,or they want this to themselves and are sick of people copying them. "Bandwagon's full Please, catch another", pretty simply the "scene" is full, go home.
Submitted by: anonymous i think the last one is right. Its an "arms race" because you have to fight to stay in it.
Submitted by: anonymous I think it's about how everyone in the scene is accusing each other of being posers and fakes for stupid reasons like happening to sell a lot of records. They try and push you out and it's like a constant battle with everyone trying their hardest to be "true" to the scene which causes a lot of friction because the whole point of being in a scene is people sharing things in common, not desperately trying to stand out and fit in at the same time.
Submitted by: anonymous it has even been -by FOB that it is response to the emo scene
Submitted by: anonymous What is an arms dealer? REALLY? And what is this bandwagon they speak of? A bandwagon can never be full....silly FOB
Submitted by: anonymous It's a subliminal message to Panic at the Disco. FOB is mad at Panic and are trying to kick them out of the "scene", and the only reason hot topic will not be stocking FOB's new album is because Brendon is having a "secret affair" with the CEO of Hot Topic.
Submitted by: oldschooljedi314 This song is about, obviously, the Scene. Most particularly the emo/pop-punk scene. Fall Out Boy was and is a fan band. Fall Out Boy fans are incredibly committed, if they got started when TTTYG came out. They talked up Fall Out Boy, gave it to their friends. Now they are calling them sellouts because of their own actions, selling them to everybody they know. So the line "I am an arms dealer, filling you with weapons in the form of words" makes more sense. But this scene does what it can to make a band popular and then hates them when they do.
Submitted by: anonymous I think most of them are right, id just like to add that they make fun of a7x, when pete's on the cascet, with the guitar, go on youtube and type in seize the day music video and you'll see wat I mean
Submitted by: DeliBeli As much as I love FOB, it's not a subliminal message to Panic! Cuz FOB wouldnt exist if it weren't for Panic!
Submitted by: psPatrick2707 like most FOB songs I couldn't figure this one out until I saw the whole Panic! fiasco everyone was talking about and I listened to it again and realized it all fits.
Submitted by: anonymous (You need to watch the video to understand some of this song, but this is about the video so watch it!) This song is about a lot of things, both a response from fans and the look on the scence of music. First we see the band finishing one of thier songs and they stop and walk through the crowd. The "fans" are all made of cardboard. This is their statment on how all their fans said they sold out with their last album, the fans were in fact fake. Then they move to a magazine cover which says that they are breaking into the hip-hop genre. This is a message that is displaying how hard it is for bands to be classified and how they are forced into other genres when there are too many other bands like them, hence the line about the bandwagon being full. Then they are in the recording studio and the people around them are making fun of them, this is about the ridicule from other bands and producers. When the badn goes into full on crazy mode and start dancing, they end up breaking something which I think says how the band is too wild for the genre. There you see a member of the band ready for his photshoot. Another publicity act made by many artists. The photographer has plenty of good cameras there, but instead he chooses a phone. As he asks the person to pose differently, he finally has him take down his pants which the person is hesitant about, but does it anyway. First off, the photographer picking the phone is representing how fans would rather see crappy pictures taken of embarrising things that a person might do than real pictures that the artists try to sell. The whole pants thing is another publicty stunt. When the girls find the picture online they look at it and seem disgusted. All of the partying scenes are again just about things that people will do to get noticed (stuff a sock down thier pants, get pets, etc.). When one of the band memebers gets flipped out the window, you'll notice the flash of a camera which is a statement on how obsessed the press is with getting the latest story. Then we flash to a funeral were we see a band member preaching about how hard everyone tries to make themselves seen (the boy bands always sing about not being loved). We also see some people who resemble the following bands and celebrities: Panic at the Disco, Britney Spears (or another girl similar to her), a person from thier music video Sugar we're going down, the MTV astrounaut, and a rapper. They are all dancing and trying to make themselves clear to the crowd. Finally the person pops out of the coffin and it flashes the the band that looks to be early in their carreer. One asks "dreams again" and that signifies that the the life bands lead can be nightmares, and the video ends with the band prefoming in a small auditorium.
Submitted by: paniqluv DeliBeli, you have it mixed up, Panic! wouldn't exist without Fall Out Boy, not what you said. See: Pete signed them because Ryan sent him demos via Purevolume
Submitted by: anonymous interesting..but the camera photo shoot refers to when pictures of petes penis surfaced on the internet last year.
Submitted by: St.J "Submitted by: anonymous
Submitted by: anonymous This song is about a really competitive music industry. The arms dealer basically represents the person who writes the music and the lyrics and they just throw all the different bands out there with there "weapons" (word/lies/rumors etc) and who ever wins (record sales) wins and as long as the keep pumping out music, the record labels don't care. Everyone in the song is basically self destructive but no one cares as long as they keep singing and keeping the audience happy. "Bandwagon's full please catch another" is really significant because it basically is saying that no one really thinks for themselves anymore they just form in groups and become exclusive. It's basically just reassuring all the losers who weren't fit enough to survive (social scene, rock scene, whatever scene its up for your interpretation) that whatever you were fighting for, no one really achieved it and it just became a race to defend yourself, not really a race to meet your goal.
Submitted by: anonymous yea and there's also Seth Green(another movie star) in the funeral scene. "dreams again?" refers to the bad dreams that Pete Wentz had as a kid. He still thinks about them and wrote a book about them.
Submitted by: anonymous I just watched the music video and I think that they are just all pissed off because they think that everyone is just so obsessed with them being supposedly a "sell out band" or whatever. I think people these days and kids these days just go around thinking that if your punk you can't listen to rap or if you listen to rap you can't listen to rock. I mean everyone just puts up these invisible borders between everyone else and its just all pointless.
Submitted by: anonymous The arms dealer reffers to the commercial songwriters, who write songs (weapons) for bands. They don't care which band wins, as long as the crowd sings one of their songs. This basically means labels don't care about bands and their success, as long as one of their bands is scoring hits. It's a statement against commercialization of music.
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