Fall Out Boy: This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Meaning
Song Released: 2007
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Lyrics
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words
And don't really care, which side wins
As long as the room keeps singing
That's just the business I'm in.
This ain't a scene, it’s a god damn arms race
This ain't a scene,...
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The song is a commentary on the "scene" that all the kids are killing.
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This song is all about the music scene and how it's more like an arms race i.e: eventually it will all blow up in our faces unless we quit competing now because its less about the music and more about one scene being better than another and people jumping on bandwagons when they don't even know what the scene is about.
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Has anyone here seen the music video??
It's about the emo/punk scene and how they don't want to be put in that scene and also some of their fans are calling them sell outs and emos. It also makes fun of Pete's "incident" well most people would know what I'm talking about.. And one girl said that their wouldn't be fall out boy if there wasn't P!ATD and WTF is that all about P!ATD wouldn't be here if there wasn't FOB, because they signed them the Petes record label, Decaydance! And Brendon Urie well P!ATD are NOT fighting with Fall Out Boy.
Some rumors are JUST TOO crazy.. -
I Read it was about Pete Wentz' frustration with the growing emo scene.
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"As much as I love FOB, it's not a subliminal message to Panic! Cuz FOB wouldnt exist if it weren't for Panic!"
Uh, actually, it's the other way around. Panic! at the Disco wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Fall Out Boy. Pete Wentz signed Panic! to the Fueled by Ramen record label, not the other way around. Fall Out Boy's been making music way before P@td. You are right, in a sense, because I don't think Fall Out Boy would send subliminal messages to Panic! when Fall Out Boy signed them in the first place. -
I Believe this song is about... People making fun of who Fall Out Boy is.. and that they are not making a scene... Their in an arms race. ( Like a battle of fame and poularity.) So they are expressing true feelings of their real selves.
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This ain't a scene, it’s a god damn arms race
-an arms race is who can get the bigger weapons faster and make them best. In this song they mean rumors. who can make up the most absurd rumors and who can spread them fastest
But the real bombshells have already sunk
-i think this means that the real true facts are already out and everything else is false -
To me it sounds like they are talking about the violence in rap music. This seems very off from the other sumbmissions, but that's the first thing I thought of when I heard the song. Who knows!?
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I think this song is basically what other people might think everything that happened to F.O.Bis but it's not exactly th truth it's talking about it's not that, it's this hence "this ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race" it's pretty much screaming this is what people thought was going on about this but that's not the truth.
Hope I'm not though stupid. -
I don't know if I already submitted this or not because I can't find it, so I'm just going to write it again.
This song is one of the rarer fall out boy songs that actually fits so well with the video. Together they say that fame has become nothing more than a war of words and lies to keep yourself up on top. (Arms race-seeing who has the better weapons/i am an arms dealer, fitting you with weapons in the form of... WORDS. I'm the leading man, and the LIES I weave...) -
So people think that there is no meaning to this song whats so ever. It's just a song that they thought it would be a big hit. Most people don't really realize that its really about the Alternative music getting along with the R&B hip hop and rap music. also its a second part of "Dance, Dance".
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I think that fall out boy wrote this song because they are sick of people taking their "thunder" as some people might call it.you know know what I mean? Well if you don't, let me explain this to you. As they say in the song..."BANDWAGON'S FULL PLEASE CATCH ANOTHER"....they are telling you to not take the "style" that they have made.
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To the person who said
As much as I love FOB, it's not a subliminal message to Panic! Cuz FOB wouldnt exist if it weren't for Panic!
umm.. It's the other way around
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Most of you are pretty right. In response to this one... an arms dealer supplies people with weapons. (Ever hear the amendment to bare arms...guns!)
This song ties in pretty well with the video (which I find kind of rare with Fall Out Boy). They are saying that fame has become nothing more than a war of words and lies. -
Many people will probably get pissed at me for saying this, but since when have I ever cared? This song reminds me of when Green Day came out with Time Of Your Life/Good Riddance. That was their way of saying good-bye to all of the punk fans that felt Green Day had sold out. The whole video for This Ain't a Scene shows Fall Out Boy "selling out". I just think it's their way of saying, 'you can say we sold out but we don't care, this is who we are so deal with it.'
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