"I took my daughters to your concert in Charlotte, NC last night and was very dissappointed in the show. The ticket said "ALL AGES". F & L and your band was very foul mouthed and anti-morals. Who do you think finances the sale of CDs and Tickets, Hello - Parents... Charlotte is not the demoralized city that liberal San Fransico and other cities across the North and West are. I am going to contact the local and national news media, and the arenas that you are touring in the future and do my best to be a thorn in your side. I had looked forward to this concert with my girls for months. I didnt spend over $200.00 for tickets, gas, food, and unforturnately shirts that I purchased for them before the concerts, for you to give your own personal political testimony, cursing anyone who disagreed. This was a concert, not some liberal homosexual rally. I predict that you have lost a lot of financial support in the last 24 hours. I am not the only parent with morals that had children at this concert. That what is so upsetting - your band's biggest audience is CHILDREN 10 and up. Your responsibility was to sing your songs. The music wasnt that bad, but when you opened your mouth to talk, you blew it. Here's to your band being just another "Spice Girls" looking back and remembering the good times and 15 minutes of fame, because you underated who pays your bills. By the way, my children will not be a part of your sick idea of family."

That was a letter written by a concerned mother to the record label of the Fall-Out Boy. If you're curious as what the band's response is, check out the May third entry of their online journal.

What exactly did they do to provoke this response? Uhmm... nothing really. Well granted with the bad words, the Fall-Out Boy was totally at fault, but a liberal homosexual rally? anti-moral? So here is what the band's frontman, Pete Wentz said right after they performed in Charlotte, North Carolina:

"The only thing I said in Charlotte was, 'You can leave this show and say, "I think this guy is an arrogant jerk," or think "This band is better than this one," because these are your opinions. The only thing we consider unacceptable is for you to engage in sexist, racist or homophobic behaviour. If you do, we don't want you as a fan. Return our merch and leave.'"

Well, I don't think the FOB lost their financial backing within 24 hours after Mother Bigot sent her letter. If anything, the foursome's career couldn't be hotter than they are at the moment with two million copies of their latest album sold and another couple millions of the second single from the album. As for comparing them with the Spice Girls, I don't think it's an insult when you're a mainstream pop musician. Let's talk numbers: 55 million records sold, biggest-selling debut single ever, and highest entry on the Billboard chart by a British band, beating the previous record held by the Beatles.

By now you might think that I'm a Fall-Out Boy fan. I'm not though, I only like their last single, "Dance, dance," and even then I still think their live performance is horrible (Exhibit A: MTV 2005 VMA). But I still think it's a pretty interesting story. What's more interesting is that I got this off the BBC instead of an American news outlet.