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maskitheclownSo, I know I posted about this interview once before but whatever, I keep reading these bits over and over again and I love them so much. And not even in the "penises touching!" way. Just bff-y. Makes me all flaily and bawwwy and all these other fannish expressions of "too much all at once."
AP.net: What's one thing you think people most misunderstand or misinterpret about you and/or the band?
Patrick: I think they really don't understand Pete. I've heard a lot of really awful, negative things said about Pete, and it's like, “Dude, you don't even have a clue how honest and real that guy is” for the amount of crap that people talk about him. Pete said it, and it's true, they make you into a wrestling character. And it's also like reality TV editing. It's really easy to cut somebody in rolling their eyes when that might not have even happened next to the thing that it's being shown next to. Honestly, I don't know, that's one thing that bothers me a lot.
And then I'll hear things from people where it's like, "Oh your band's great but I hate your bass player" and I'm like, then you just said you hate our band cause I don't fucking care. He's my best friend. Obviously he's still in the band for a reason, it's not like I'm waiting for someone to go "Oh yeah, you know, Pete sucks" and I'll go like "Yes! Thank you, now he's totally fired!" No, he's my best friend and he's absolutely important. He's invaluable. I wouldn't be here without him. I'll hear things like, "Your voice is great but Pete's really lame" and it's like, well, Pete's the only guy who got me to sing. I wasn't a singer until Pete saw it in me. So I don't particularly see value in me being a singer but he does and he's always my cheerleader, trying to keep me going. So I am the musician I am pretty much because of Pete. And I'm not even saying I'm that great a musician. I'm saying if there's anyone that thinks I am, all the thanks goes to Pete. So that's one thing that bothers me a lot and I don't think people really understand fully.
And I also think, of course, it's really easy to hate on someone when they're in a tabloid all the time, but then at the same time, you have no idea how easy it is to get in a tabloid. Like, I found myself in them every so often—I never leave the house! I'm a total hermit. And not to mention a picture of me is probably about 20 cents, but it's happened, and it blows my mind. You really don't have to work that hard, you just have to go to certain places at certain times and after you do that once you're tainted forever and they'll always take pictures of you.
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AP.net: Do you or any of the other members ever feel a sense of jealousy towards Pete?
Patrick: No, we're pretty defensive when it comes to the way he's been portrayed. Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him. But, I hate the way that the Pete Wentz that actually exists never gets covered, it never gets spoken of. There's so many accusations that are so ridiculous about the guy that are taken as the gospel—people just assume that he posted pictures of his penis on the internet. That is the stupidest fucking thing thing I've ever heard. Why on earth would you ever do that? His parents were gonna see that, come on. Have some common sense. He is actually a human being. Would you want your penis all over the internet? Probably not. He probably doesn't either.
This is another little interesting factoid about Pete: he quit the band. I had to talk him back into the band after those pictures got out. It nearly broke the band up he was so devastated. He had to claw his way back up from massive depression to even make fun of it.
Anyway, no, we are not jealous of him. If anything, I would want people to know the real Pete Wentz. I get the impression that people don't really want to know him, because he's not the bad guy on the reality show. He's the most loyal guy I know, to a fault actually. He's one of those guys who will never stand against his friends. Here’s an analogy. If he’s gonna make some money off shoveling coal, he's gonna bring his friend on with him, and his friend is gonna shovel coal. If the friend's not good at shoveling coal, Pete will shovel more coal to make sure that guy gets his share, even if the guy is doing terrible work. The guy could sit down, relax, and open up a book, and Pete's still gonna be shoveling coal for that guy. He is the most loyal guy I know. He reminds me a lot of the portrayal of Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys just in the way that in Jersey Boys, and I don't know if this is the true story, one of the other singers in the Four Seasons racks up this huge gambling debt and Frankie Valli is like, "We'll pay for it, we will never ask for it back, we'll just pay for it, he's just gotta not do it again," and that's the kind of guy Pete is. I will never be jealous of him.
AP.net: What's one thing you think people most misunderstand or misinterpret about you and/or the band?
Patrick: I think they really don't understand Pete. I've heard a lot of really awful, negative things said about Pete, and it's like, “Dude, you don't even have a clue how honest and real that guy is” for the amount of crap that people talk about him. Pete said it, and it's true, they make you into a wrestling character. And it's also like reality TV editing. It's really easy to cut somebody in rolling their eyes when that might not have even happened next to the thing that it's being shown next to. Honestly, I don't know, that's one thing that bothers me a lot.
And then I'll hear things from people where it's like, "Oh your band's great but I hate your bass player" and I'm like, then you just said you hate our band cause I don't fucking care. He's my best friend. Obviously he's still in the band for a reason, it's not like I'm waiting for someone to go "Oh yeah, you know, Pete sucks" and I'll go like "Yes! Thank you, now he's totally fired!" No, he's my best friend and he's absolutely important. He's invaluable. I wouldn't be here without him. I'll hear things like, "Your voice is great but Pete's really lame" and it's like, well, Pete's the only guy who got me to sing. I wasn't a singer until Pete saw it in me. So I don't particularly see value in me being a singer but he does and he's always my cheerleader, trying to keep me going. So I am the musician I am pretty much because of Pete. And I'm not even saying I'm that great a musician. I'm saying if there's anyone that thinks I am, all the thanks goes to Pete. So that's one thing that bothers me a lot and I don't think people really understand fully.
And I also think, of course, it's really easy to hate on someone when they're in a tabloid all the time, but then at the same time, you have no idea how easy it is to get in a tabloid. Like, I found myself in them every so often—I never leave the house! I'm a total hermit. And not to mention a picture of me is probably about 20 cents, but it's happened, and it blows my mind. You really don't have to work that hard, you just have to go to certain places at certain times and after you do that once you're tainted forever and they'll always take pictures of you.
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AP.net: Do you or any of the other members ever feel a sense of jealousy towards Pete?
Patrick: No, we're pretty defensive when it comes to the way he's been portrayed. Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him. But, I hate the way that the Pete Wentz that actually exists never gets covered, it never gets spoken of. There's so many accusations that are so ridiculous about the guy that are taken as the gospel—people just assume that he posted pictures of his penis on the internet. That is the stupidest fucking thing thing I've ever heard. Why on earth would you ever do that? His parents were gonna see that, come on. Have some common sense. He is actually a human being. Would you want your penis all over the internet? Probably not. He probably doesn't either.
This is another little interesting factoid about Pete: he quit the band. I had to talk him back into the band after those pictures got out. It nearly broke the band up he was so devastated. He had to claw his way back up from massive depression to even make fun of it.
Anyway, no, we are not jealous of him. If anything, I would want people to know the real Pete Wentz. I get the impression that people don't really want to know him, because he's not the bad guy on the reality show. He's the most loyal guy I know, to a fault actually. He's one of those guys who will never stand against his friends. Here’s an analogy. If he’s gonna make some money off shoveling coal, he's gonna bring his friend on with him, and his friend is gonna shovel coal. If the friend's not good at shoveling coal, Pete will shovel more coal to make sure that guy gets his share, even if the guy is doing terrible work. The guy could sit down, relax, and open up a book, and Pete's still gonna be shoveling coal for that guy. He is the most loyal guy I know. He reminds me a lot of the portrayal of Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys just in the way that in Jersey Boys, and I don't know if this is the true story, one of the other singers in the Four Seasons racks up this huge gambling debt and Frankie Valli is like, "We'll pay for it, we will never ask for it back, we'll just pay for it, he's just gotta not do it again," and that's the kind of guy Pete is. I will never be jealous of him.
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Date: 2009-11-02 05:53 am (UTC)Yeah, I know what you mean, for different reasons I rarely find patrick/pete I really like, but in bandom mostly the canon still fascinates me more than fanon. It's like... the best story ever written :)