"The Phoenix" is a song by American

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for their fifth studio album ''

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'' (2013). The song was written by the band in collaboration with

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, who handled production. After being released to digital outlets on March 24, 2013, in advance of the album's release, "The Phoenix" impacted radio on July 16, 2013 as an official single. The song charted for 1 week then fell off. An accompanying music video was also released as part of the ongoing series ''

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'', serving as a prequel to the video of the album's lead single "

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". "The Phoenix" contains elements of Russian composer

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's Symphony No. 7 in

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. Prior to its official release as a single, the song debuted at number 80 on the United States ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on the strength of digital sales and also charted in several other countries, including Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. It won the

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in 2013. This song is used in the gameplay trailer of the wrestling video game

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Composition

The song was inspired by

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Russian composer

and

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, both of which Stump was interested in at one point in the recording process. While listening to the fourth

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(''

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'') of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, Stump became entranced by a certain string moment and proceeded to build an entirely new song influenced by it. The same orchestral snippet was employed as a

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by German hip-hop artist Peter Fox in his 2008 single '' Alles neu''. The tempo of the song is 138 BPM, and it is written in the key of E minor.

Music video

"The Phoenix" is the second of eleven videos in

series. This video follows that of "

" and precedes "

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Video synopsis

A steel brief case with glowing contents is delivered to Fall Out Boy. Trohman handcuffs Stump's hands to the case and he heads out. As he walks down the street looking for predators, a boy on a bicycle approaches him. As he is staring at the bicycle boy a hooded woman sneaks up behind him, then tases and kidnaps him. They bring him to a dark room with vixens. The vixens torture him in various ways then chop off his hand and have the boy deliver it to Wentz while at his girlfriend's house. Finding the chopped hand in the bag, Wentz frees a falcon on a rooftop. Nearby band member Hurley sees it right before getting kidnapped by vixens in a parking lot via truck, and Trohman gets kidnapped in a gas station. Wentz gets kidnapped on the rooftop. Meanwhile, the vixens continue to torture Stump by laying him on a flatbed while sticking probes into his body and removing some of his organs. Stump is then strapped to a chair following the next video, "Young Volcanoes." The screen blanks out after Stump snaps.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Phoenix, The 2013 singles Fall Out Boy songs 2013 songs Songs written by Pete Wentz Songs written by Patrick Stump Songs written by Joe Trohman Songs written by Andy Hurley Island Records singles Song recordings produced by Butch Walker