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For all the Fall Out Boy fans out there, the boys’ video, What a Catch, Donnie, is looking like it could be their swan song.

What is a swan song, you ask? Well, it is the last song before a group breaks up. Think Spice Girls and their swan song, Viva Forever (I still get sad when I think about that song).

Anyways, though Pete has already blasted rumors of FOB doing a fall out, some media and press people can’t seem to get it out of their heads that Catch is the band’s swan song video. Why? Simply because the song and its video have all the elements of being the swan song. Let’s take a look, shall we?

1. First, the song brings together famous members of the band’s extended Decaydance family – Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, to name just a few — singing memorable lines from past Fall Out Boy hit songs. The song itself, is nostalgic and melancholic at turns, quite unlike the wild and pop-sounding tunes the band is famous for. Not swan song-y enough?

2. The video shows singer, Patrick Stump alone at the sea, steering a craft into the sunset while fishing out band memorabilia out of the sea, like those FOB dolls in 2006 and the striped jacket he wore in their Dance, Dance video.

So, of course, when MTV News visited the band on the set of the music video, they had to ask Pete if FOB really were saying goodbye.

“I think this video gives us the chance for this record to come full circle, and this song represents that as well,” he said. “It’s got a reprise in it, and it contains lyrics to a bunch of other songs that were important to Fall Out Boy. So I think this video is a project of passion rather than, ‘Oh, we’ve got to get this thing out for this’ timing or something.”

“We just always wanted to make a video for [the song]. I think Patrick, specifically, really wanted to make a video for this one,” Pete continued. “People might have expectations for what the video is going to be, but I hope it will be self-explanatory. It’s metaphorical.”