Fall Out Boy On Hiatus

11/16/09 5:51pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley says the band have gone on hiatus. Or, um, are taking a break. Wait, "hiatus" means "break," doesn't it? Argh... use whatever language you want.

Hurley announced via Twitter on Sunday (Nov. 15) that he was recording new material. That probably prompted tons of FOB fans to shout "OMG!" and spam message him in ALLCAPS because Hurley later wrote that he meant he was recording with Burning Empires, his side project, not Fall Out Boy.

"FOB is on hiatus. For real," he wrote in a tweet that's since been deleted.

Oh, Andy Hurley. We're chuckling because the Fall Out Boy fans must have taken that the wrong way. More spam messages which probably read "OMG WHAT. You're BREAKING UP?!" probably resulted, which prompted Hurley to say the following:

"everyone, when i said fob was on hiatus, i didn't mean hiatus. i meant break. which is what i understood hiatus to mean."

Please allow us to try and clear up this confusion. Fall Out Boy fans: "hiatus" is not a synonym for "break up." It is "break up" without the "up." It doesn't mean permanently ending anything. You know how they sometimes say "we'll be right back" on TV before a commercial comes on? It's like that.