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"The Blender article is pure bullsh--," FOB drummer Andy
Hurley wrote on his Twitter account late Tuesday. "It's sensationalist
bullsh-- made up to sell a story. It's [full of] out-of-context
quotes."
So what seems to be the problem? In addition to the
"out-of-context" quotes, the band — or, more specifically, Hurley and
frontman Patrick Stump — seems to have two main issues with the Blender
story, which hits newsstands on January 13. The first is the tone of
the piece, which paints bassist Pete Wentz as a paranoid, pill-popping
narcissist. The second is the fact that writer Josh Eells included
several scenes that, according to Hurley and Stump, never happened.
Take, for example, Eells' first meeting with Hurley, which
takes place in a dressing room on the set of the "America's
Suitehearts" video. Eells writes that Hurley is watching a Green Bay
Packers game and "feeling suicidal" because his beloved team is losing.
According to the article, when kicker Mason Crosby misses a
game-winning field goal, Hurley "slams his iPhone onto the table, gets
up and, without a word, starts punching the metal door frame, and
doesn't stop for 45 seconds."
Of course, Hurley maintains that never happened.
"I never hit a door for 45 seconds. I may have been yelling,
like all my friends and I do, but if I did anything that crazy, it was
as a joke," Hurley wrote. "That is total bullsh--. I would never slam
my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time. Yeah,
I'm totally going to kill myself over a football game."
Stump, for his part, seems less angered by the Blender
piece as he is bemused by it, particularly a section in which Eells
quotes the FOB frontman as saying that he decided to quit the band
after a fight with Wentz in Australia.
"Did I quit the band? Did I say what appeared in the article?
Of course. But followed immediately by it was something to the tune of
this: I quit, until I started writing my solo songs and I realized how
much I need him. My songs sucked without Pete and they were less fun to
write," Stump wrote MTV News in an e-mail. "I love the guy, he's my
best friend, and I realized that for all the decisions I'd ever gotten
mad at him about, I likely would've done exactly the same in his
position. I quit the band (as we all have, by the way, that's part of
being in bands) and when I returned I resolved to keep doing this as
long as all four of us were having fun."
Stump also said that while his quotes were taken out of context
(or, as he put it, "spliced"), the thing that bugged him the most about
the piece was the writer's portrayal of Wentz.
"As for the article, as I had hinted at before, I found it an
objectively well-written (if plotless) thing ... It's an entertaining
article that manages to take its hero from the heights of superstardom
to the depths of narcissism," he wrote. "But it never redeems him and
it does so at the cost of fact. [Plus], at the end of both my and
[guitarist] Joe [Trohman]'s quotes you can almost hear the context
fading in the distance ... If only we had had that media training! We
would know how better to fabricate pull quotes!"
Wentz and Trohman did not respond to requests for comment on the article.
When reached for a comment on the band's accusations, a spokesperson for Blender
told MTV News, "We stand by our reporting. Anyone who reads the entire
article will see that it is not only fair but essentially positive."
This is the second time in less than a year that a Blender
cover star has taken issue with the magazine's reporting. In a May 2008
feature on Alicia Keys, the singer was quoted as saying that gangsta
rap was a ploy created by the government "to convince black people to
kill each other" and that "Tupac and Biggie were essentially
assassinated."
Keys issued a statement
saying that her comments were "misrepresented" and that the magazine
portrayed her in a manner that was "too radical and too dramatic a
departure from whom I have continually demonstrated myself to be."

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