"What a Catch, Donnie" is

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's second digital download single and third radio single from their fourth studio album ''

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'' (2008). It was first released as part of the buildup to the new album on

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on October 14, 2008, and charted on the US and Canadian singles charts. The track features numerous musicians performing cameo appearances in the song, singing lines from past Fall Out Boy songs. It is to date the band's longest song.

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and lyricist

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has said that he wrote the song to remind himself of vocalist and guitarist

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played the song live on ''

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''.

Music video

The music video was dedicated to

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rapper Dolla who was shot and killed a few months before the song's release. The band shot the video for the song on July 1, 2009, with Alan Ferguson. On June 30, bassist

posted on his

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that the band had 'wrapped up' a video for "What a Catch, Donnie". On July 2, guitarist

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stated via Twitter that they had finished shooting the video, editing will take place in the next couple days, and the video was released on MTV on August 6, 2009. The video includes Spencer Smith and

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from

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. The two also appeared in the official music video for Fall Out Boy's "

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" as some of the dandies, and were featured in the video for "

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". Pete Wentz said in a press statement: - "It is my time to say that we haven't done a video like this before, a video dedicated to someone's death, the death of our best friend and rapper, Dolla (Roderick Anthony Burton II). We hope to shoot the video for 'What a Catch, Donnie' in the same place he was shot and also bring our friends round for the climax." The official music video was released August 7, 2009,Fall Out Boy Media
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alone at sea trying to find his way home. Throughout most of the video he is fishing, reading in his cabin, playing the piano and suffering from loneliness. Eventually, he finds a seagull trapped in ropes on his ship. He frees and befriends the bird and so the two set sail together and Patrick is no longer lonely. At 0:37 a carousel horse can be seen on deck (from "

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"). Towards the end of the video, Patrick starts to fish again but finds strange objects such as deer antlers (from Antler Boy in "

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"), a black and green striped jacket (the jacket Patrick wore in " Dance, Dance"), and a bass drum (one of

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's drums). Finally, he comes across a sign featuring the letters F, O, and B (the sign from "

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"). He then looks up and spots a white casket (from "

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") as well as a sinking ship. He immediately turns the boat around to rescue the survivors on the lifeboats (who include

, Spencer Smith,

, and everyone else (except Pete Wentz) who has worked with Fall Out Boy over the past few years). After all of the survivors are on the boat celebrating because they were rescued, Patrick looks out at the sinking ship. In the top right corner, a man assumed to be the captain in a white uniform is seen saluting. This man is supposedly Pete Wentz, and he had a close up in the original video but was edited out. Once all of the survivors are on the boat, and getting closer to shore, Patrick sets free his Seagull friend and watches him fly off with his family into the coast. At the end of the song it also depicts some of their greatest hits. In the background they sing chorus lines from their songs "

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", "

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", " Sugar We're Goin Down", " Dance, Dance", "

", "

", and " Growing Up". The version of this video was that released on iTunes is missing the portion where Pete Wentz says "Thank you" to Patrick Stump. On the commentary of the ''

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'' bonus DVD, the band states that this part was left out because of the poor CGI special effects. It is one of few ballads by Fall Out Boy. As said in an interview, Pete Wentz said that the song was written in thoughts of his friendship with the lead singer Patrick Stump. He wanted to show his fondness towards "one of his best friends in the business". Although the band were on hiatus (which stretched between 2009 and 2013), Wentz and Stump still supported each other's new music releases. This was the last music video that Fall Out Boy recorded before going on hiatus.

Cameo appearances

"What a Catch, Donnie" features a long line-up of guest artists. Towards the end of the song from 3:45–4:29, lead singers from other

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bands can be heard singing lyrics from other Fall Out Boy singles, behind the main vocals. The songs and artists are as follow: * 3:45 "

" featuring

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(of

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and Midtown). * 3:52 "

" (while "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" fades) featuring

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(of

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). * 4:00 " Dance, Dance" (while "Sugar, We're Goin Down" fades) featuring

(of

). * 4:08 "

" (while "Dance, Dance" fades) featuring Doug Neumann, the general management for Crush Management, which claims

as part of its roster. * 4:15 "

" featuring

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(of

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). * 4:22 " Growing Up" (while "Thnks fr th Mmrs" fades) featuring William Beckett (of The Academy Is...). At 3:00

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...

sings the overture "I will never end up like him, behind my back I already am..." of Fall Out Boy's song "

". On the band's ''

'' album, Fall Out Boy vocalist

sings the line on the song as the legal agreements were not made in time. The title of the song is a reference to

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. His writing partner,

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, is mentioned several times throughout the song.

Chart performance

References

External links

Fall Out Boy official website
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