10 Most Underrated Fall Out Boy Songs
1. Sunshine Riptide
The only song with a credited feature on 2018's M A N I A, Sunshine Riptide feels like a song steeped in hip-hop influence.
An era of Fall Out Boy that isolates the pre-hiatus fringe-flickers, M A N I A is a project that relentlessly replaces any shred of punk influence of previous works with all-out pop, and while many write it off as a failure, others embraced the change.
Tunes like The Mighty Fall (ft. Big Sean) and the aforementioned Tiffany Blews (with a subtle, yet significant Lil Wayne inclusion) have indicated that the band are willing to experiment with rap music, and an anthemic, synthy, sunlight-bathed song like Sunshine Riptide was the perfect opportunity to forge something new.
Passed over as a single from its respective album (an album in which no single reached the billboard top 100) in favour of the underwhelming The Last Of The Real Ones and the janky Champion, Sunshine Riptide is a season-specfic song that's at home in the summertime. Unfortunately for it, the album released in January, when most of us are in the thick of our annual Christmas hangover.
It's a shame, as Sunshine Riptide deserves to be a summer staple for anyone who values Fall Out Boy's work.