“Young And Menace” is the lead single from Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio record, Mania. According to bassist Pete Wentz, it is one of the weirdest songs the band has ever made. He says it is about feeling like an outsider in his own community, and finding people like himself through punk-rock music. The lyrics also seem to reference Fall Out Boy’s history as a unit.

A music video was released to accompany the song. One article described it as a ‘trippy, nightmarish look at domestic violence’ that depicts a small child being chased by llama-like monsters, and eventually getting lost in a place where no one can understand their language. At the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was, in fact, a dream, and the ‘monsters’ are the child’s abusive parents. The video carries the same theme of being an outsider that the song does.

The video’s description features a message from Pete himself; a short paragraph that he also posted on the Fall Out Boy Twitter.

The gentle pull of a tide that rolls over and over again and by the sheer nature of its essence it becomes an indestructible will- ripping out sand- eroding what was before it- without a care… a transformational monster-becoming the madness and frenzy of a truly bulletproof wave. I’m not just here for your love, I’m here for all of the love. An overdose of dopamine- we are living inside of MANIA right now. the never sleeping, never blinking- caught forever in the sunshine riptide. -pw