Dance, Dance Lyrics

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“Dance, Dance” details a teenager’s obsession with a particular girl and his desperation to do anything to sleep with her. It follows his obsession from his awkward initial attraction to a chance meeting with her at a school dance wherein he presumably gets to dance with her.

Following their massive breakout single “Sugar, We’re Going Down”, it was probable that “Dance, Dance” would become a massive hit, especially with its superiority to the first single. (Just ask Patrick Stump!)

https://twitter.com/patrickstump/status/391328695824027648

Of course, it was a massive success, hitting nine on the Hot 100 and becoming Fall Out Boy’s second top ten.

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What did Fall Out Boy say about "Dance, Dance"?
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In an interview with Buzzfeed, Patrick Stump stated:

For me, I think there’s a real significance to “Dance, Dance” because it was the first song where we really stretched out of the thing. The first record, Take This to Your Grave, was really fun and really awesome, and I’m really proud of it. But that was us, like, we were still learning how to be a band, and we weren’t really ambitious about it. I think all of us were like, yeah, this will be a really awesome thing to do while we’re on a semester off from school. And then “Dance, Dance” was the first song to me where we kind of were our own band, we weren’t really trying to be anybody else. You know, every record, every song we put out, people are always like, “What’s with the new sound?” You know, and that’s been for like 12 years of follow-up records, and I think the start of that is “Dance, Dance.” I remember being on tour with Punchline and we played a “Dance, Dance” demo for Punchline and they were like, “Wow.”

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