The Carpal Tunnel of Love
"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Single by Fall Out Boy | ||||
from the album Infinity on High | ||||
Released | December 12, 2006 (US)[1] | |||
Recorded | 2006 | |||
Genre |
| |||
Length | 3:23 | |||
Label | Island | |||
Songwriter(s) |
| |||
Producer(s) | Neal Avron | |||
Fall Out Boy singles chronology | ||||
|
"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy from their 2007 album Infinity on High, released as the album’s lead single on December 12, 2006. It is the tenth track on the album.
Background
In mid-November 2006, "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" was the first taste of Infinity on High when the band made it available online via AbsolutePunk, before a pre-album release to iTunes on December 12, 2006 as a digital single.[2] In addition, a web-exclusive video was released, but later saw televised airplay on Music Choice On-Demand. The song debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number No. 81[3] on the strength of digital downloads and minor airplay, also coming in at No. 67 on the defunct-Pop 100.
The song was featured in the Sony video game MLB 07: The Show.
Composition
"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" has been referred to as "a prime slab of what the boys have become famous for: highly caffeinated pop-punk mixed with a little white-boy soul and some hard-core yelping."[2] The song features Stump singing in a falsetto in the chorus over Trohman's "crunchy" guitars, as well as a breakdown in which Wentz employs unclean vocals,[2] similar to how he used to in his former band, Arma Angelus.[4] It is one of two Fall Out Boy singles to feature Pete Wentz's screams; the other is "Saturday".
Lyrical content
Elements of Wentz's lyrics were alleged to have been stolen from the works of Give Up the Ghost/Some Girls singer and lyricist Wesley Eisold, who sued the band for copyright infringement after the song was released. Eisold was credited as an "inspirador" in the album liner notes in all versions of the albums. Fall Out Boy settled out of court.[5] The song title is a pun referring to masturbation, combining carpal tunnel syndrome and the tunnel of love amusement ride.
Music video
On February 2, 2007,[6] the music video was made available on Fall Out Boy's website and was directed by Happy Tree Friends creator Kenn Navarro. The video features Happy Tree Friends characters and cartoon versions of the band in a plot where Cuddles and Giggles have fallen in love, and Cuddles' attempts to express his love to Giggles. All of the characters, including the Fall Out Boy members, get killed in graphic and ultraviolent ways in this video.
Charts
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
---|---|
US Billboard Hot 100[7] | 81 |
US Pop 100 (Billboard) | 67 |
References
- ^ The Carpal Tunnel of Love - Single iTunes. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ^ a b c Montgomery, James (November 13, 2006). "Fall Out Boy Leak New Track". MTV News. Viacom. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
- ^ "Hot 100 Week of December 30, 2006 by Biggest Jump". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ^ Rise Against Wish Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco Would Educate Crowds MTV News. Viacom. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
- ^ Fall Out Boy borrows lyrics from American Nightmare
- ^ "Happy Tree Friends - The Carpal Tunnel of Love (ekd)". web.archive.org. 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Fall Out Boy Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
External links
- "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" on Fall Out Boy's website
- v
- t
- e
- Ben Rose
- John Flamandan
- Mike Pareskuwicz
- T.J. Kunasch
- Brandon Hamm
- Take This to Your Grave
- From Under the Cork Tree
- Infinity on High
- Folie à Deux
- Save Rock and Roll
- American Beauty/American Psycho
- Mania
- So Much (for) Stardust
- Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy
- My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue
- Leaked in London
- America's Suitehearts: Remixed, Retouched, Rehabbed and Retoxed
- PAX AM Days
- Llamania
- Lake Effect Kid
- Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two
- "Dead on Arrival"
- "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy"
- "Saturday"
- "Sugar, We're Goin Down"
- "Dance, Dance"
- "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me""
- "The Carpal Tunnel of Love"
- "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
- "Thnks fr th Mmrs"
- ""The Take Over, the Breaks Over""
- "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)"
- "Beat It"
- "I Don't Care"
- "America's Suitehearts"
- "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet"
- "What a Catch, Donnie"
- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)"
- "The Phoenix"
- "Alone Together"
- "Young Volcanoes"
- "Centuries"
- "Immortals"
- "American Beauty/American Psycho"
- "The Kids Aren't Alright"
- "Uma Thurman"
- "Irresistible"
- "Ghostbusters (I'm Not Afraid)"
- "Young and Menace"
- "Champion"
- "The Last of the Real Ones"
- "Hold Me Tight or Don't"
- "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)"
- "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)"
- "Love from the Other Side"
- "Heartbreak Feels So Good"
- "Hold Me Like a Grudge"
- "We Didn't Start the Fire"
- "So Much (for) Stardust"
- "I've Been Waiting"
- "Hand Crushed by a Mallet (remix)"
- "Electric Touch"
- Category