This came after Fall Out Boy (his main band)s hiatus in late 2009.
His album is a complete solo effort as he is doing everything: performing, composing all music, penning all lyrics, playing over ten instruments and producing, with the albums recording is funded by his own Fall Out Boy earnings.
Its musical direction is generally popRB orientated and has been described by Stump as soul punk and smart pop, drawing influence from a wide scope of artists including Prince, Michael Jackson and David Bowie.
According to Stump, the song changed the entire course of Soul Punk.
Wood grips for ruger lcrxI had written a while draft of the album and then at the 11th hour came up with This City, I really loved the song but felt like, conceptually, it didnt fit on the album.
I had to go back and make an album for that song because I loved it so much.
So one of the holdups on the album was re-writing the record around it.
With Soul Punk originally due in February 2011, Stump delayed it to October 18 and rebuilt the album with the song, releasing Truant Wave EP in the meanwhile for its delay in February 2011.
I had this feeling that the album was disjointed, and right before I was mastering, I played This City for my manager I really liked it, but I was unsure about it, although I thought it was what I wanted to say and he was like, Put it on, its great Then I thought, Well, if Im going to put that on the record, then I really need to go back to the drawing board.
Basically I took This City, Everybody Wants Somebody, Allie, and a song called Dance Miserable, and rebuilt the album around those four songs.
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Prior to that he Tweeted about the video in the making Twitter and a behind-the-scenes clip was reported by MTV on their website.
The video features Stump dancing and performing the song in a room with flashing lights, projections and heavy use of special effects, alternating with brief grayscale flashes of a city.
Despite not being available at first, Lupe Fiasco appears for one scene by himself.
Stump and Koller made the video simplistic to let the music do the talking rather than the video.
The songs called This City, and it describes a lot of these images in a city, and I feel like those images are already there; it would be kind of redundant to take a camera into a city; its almost like the colors and the lights and the images that are going to be around this are going to be representing the life in a city.
One thing that Ken and I were talking about is that a city is so complicated, so.