Dmitri Shostakovich

The Phoenix (Fall Out Boy song)

"The Phoenix" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy for their fifth studio album Save Rock and Roll (2013). The song was written by the band in collaboration with Butch Walker, who handled

Composition#

The song was inspired by Soviet Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and drum loops, both of which Stump was interested in at one point in the recording process. While listening to the fourth movement (Allegro non troppo) of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, Stump became entranced by a certain string moment and proceeded to build an entirely new song influenced by it. The same orchestral snippet was employed as a sample by German hip-hop artist Peter Fox in his 2008 single Alles neu. The tempo of the song is 138 BPM, and it is written in the key of E minor.

Music video#

“The Phoenix” is the second of eleven videos in The Young Blood Chronicles series. This video follows that of “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” and precedes “Young Volcanoes.”

Video synopsis#

The music video depicts macabre action scenes of kidnapping, torture, and severing of a hand.

In popular culture#

This song is used in the gameplay trailer of the wrestling video game WWE 2K14. In 2023, it is used in South Korea’s Terra commercial.

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich