Bad Ideas

The mediocre but meteorically successful band Fall Out Boy — for whom Pete Wentz plays bass and flat-irons his bangs — has covered and subsequently tainted the Michael Jackson-Quincy Jones classic “Beat It.” If you’re a true MJ fan, it’s a disaster. And not only is the music awful, FOB’s video pales in comparison to the dazzling productions Jackson used to create. Click through to be disappointed.
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the singer of this band sounds like squirrels fighting.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
wow, that’s really, really bad. how did they get donald faison and tony hale to guest star? wow. maybe it’s a tribute to the oppressed emos in Latin America?
Did Ashlee Simpson choreograph this video?
I’m still trying to figure out this music video. It’s like a puzzle. I can’t quite figure out why Tony Hale is in it teaching a karate class based on MJ’s moves. Is Donald Faison still dating Cacee Cobb?
They should have done weird al’s beat it version instead.
EAT IT damn it. Not beat it…oh whatever
I disagree. The video’s punk, and the yodels at the end don’t work, either. But it’s a high energy song, matched to a fast paced group- and it works.
Someone needs to kill Pete in the face before he takes over the world. I would like to thank my vagina for this comment.
….okay let me process all that has been seen….
i’ll try to remain as optimistic as i can about it….it’s not….completely horrible….but it’s not great.
who the heck is the director of this video??
The video is horrible. I don’t ever need to see it again. But any song that has John Mayer attached to it in some form makes me want to drop my drawls.
I’m I a horrible person if I actually kind of like it?
Awful, and I liked black Scrubs, too.
I’d rather watch Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie suck fase.
it’s not that the musicianship is terrible (it’s not great, but a rock version of this song isn’t out of the question), but that they clearly don’t get the point of the song. it is an ANTI-GANG anthem full of satire and vitriol and somehow in their hands it has become a whiny, loud, a-melodic version of saturday night’s all right for fighting - but with even more glitter and eye makeup than elton had.
ps kelly, if you think this video’s punk, then you’ve clearly never seen one. it’s emo in all its shimmery, pathetic, affectless glory
I think mediocre is pushing it a bit.
“asstastic,” I’m going with that.
I love it
I dont even care
disgusting…
disturbing…
but undeniably entertaining
you all are fools!
They killed it, and you know it.
This is NOWHERE near emo, NOR punk.
Your site sucks.
EAT SHIT!
Wow, eat it, you sound like a true grown-up, let me guess… you just turned 16 and discovered that “emo” and “punk” are bad words? uh, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were actually 26.
Get over yourself, you sound as stupid as the next fall out boy fan.
eat it: If you need a way to work out all those pent up emotions, I hear cutting’s all the rage…
Fuck you all fall out boy is the fucking greatist
! MJ is a child rapist so all you MJ fans get FUCKED