Many people who were going to Warped Tour in the ’90s and 2000s are parents now, so maybe the influx of children’s TV theme music from pop-punk and emo icons makes sense. Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump has been imprinting his voice on my son’s heart and mind for years as the composer behind the music for Disney Junior’s Spidey And His Amazing Friends, essentially a Muppet Babies version of Spider-Man. There are multiple EPs worth of Stump songs devoted to the wide world of Spidey. (A question I’ve spent valuable time wondering about: Did Stump get this gig through contacts forged when “Centuries” soundtracked ABC’s coverage of the College Football Playoff?) Last year, Stump did the theme song for Netflix’s Hot Wheels show too. Fall Out Boy are sneakily setting themselves up to be relevant for the rest of their lives.
