sugar we’re going down is like. yes it’s overplayed yes everyone has heard it a million times and then some. but it really truly never gets old. not ever. i could never get sick of it. sometimes it comes on and i’m like “ehh i don’t know if i feel like it” but i let it play and i’m reminded just how deserving this song was of being THE song that skyrocketed fob to mainstream success. it really is That fucking good. purely iconic 2000s emo excellence. literally flawless song, 1000/10, no notes, i AM more than you bargained for and always will be, i love you forever fall out boy
in like 2010 or something we had an apartment neighbor who would do things like bang on our door in the middle of the night accusing us of making noise (“music and explosions”?) when we were in bed trying to sleep. And then call the maintenance office in the middle of the night screaming complaints until she used up all their voicemail. and harassed everyone in the complex, sometimes straight up leaning out her window to yell insults at them across the whole yard. sometimes in bizarrely racist ways, like telling the ethiopian neighbors to go back to mexico. i have no idea what her deal was. but on christmas day one year we could hear Sugar We’re Goin Down playing on repeat nonstop in her apartment for literally the whole 24 hours, to the point we seriously thought she had died in there listening to it. anyway I don’t think this says anything about the song, except maybe that no matter who you are or what incomprehensible problems you’ve got or how utterly fucked up your life is, it’s one that you can find something to resonate with. <3