The Carpal Tunnel of Love

"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy from their 2007 album Infinity on High, released as the album’s lead single on December 12, 2006. It is the tenth track on the album.

"The Carpal Tunnel of Love"
Single by Fall Out Boy
from the album Infinity on High
Released	December 12, 2006 (US)[1]
Recorded	2006
Genre	Pop-punk post-hardcore emo
Length	3:23
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Pete Wentz Patrick Stump Joe Trohman Andy Hurley
Producer(s)	Neal Avron
Fall Out Boy singles chronology
"A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"" (2006) "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" (2006) "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" (2007)

Background

In mid-November 2006, "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" was the first taste of Infinity on High when the band made it available online via AbsolutePunk, before a pre-album release to iTunes on December 12, 2006 as a digital single.^[2] In addition, a web-exclusive video was released, but later saw televised airplay on Music Choice On-Demand. The song debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number No. 81^[3] on the strength of digital downloads and minor airplay, also coming in at No. 67 on the defunct-Pop 100.

The song was featured in the Sony video game MLB 07: The Show.

Composition

"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" has been referred to as "a prime slab of what the boys have become famous for: highly caffeinated pop-punk mixed with a little white-boy soul and some hard-core yelping."^[2] The song features Stump singing in a falsetto in the chorus over Trohman's "crunchy" guitars, as well as a breakdown in which Wentz employs unclean vocals,^[2] similar to how he used to in his former band, Arma Angelus.^[4] It is one of two Fall Out Boy singles to feature Pete Wentz's screams; the other is "Saturday".

Lyrical content

Elements of Wentz's lyrics were alleged to have been stolen from the works of Give Up the Ghost/Some Girls singer and lyricist Wesley Eisold, who sued the band for copyright infringement after the song was released. Eisold was credited as an "inspirador" in the album liner notes in all versions of the albums. Fall Out Boy settled out of court.^[5] The song title is a pun referring to masturbation, combining carpal tunnel syndrome and the tunnel of love amusement ride.

Music video

On February 2, 2007,^[6] the music video was made available on Fall Out Boy's website and was directed by Happy Tree Friends creator Kenn Navarro. The video features Happy Tree Friends characters and cartoon versions of the band in a plot where Cuddles and Giggles have fallen in love, and Cuddles' attempts to express his love to Giggles. All of the characters, including the Fall Out Boy members, get killed in graphic and ultraviolent ways in this video.

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100[7]	81
US Pop 100 (Billboard)	67

References

1. The Carpal Tunnel of Love - Single iTunes. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
2. Montgomery, James (November 13, 2006). "Fall Out Boy Leak New Track". MTV News. Viacom. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
3. "Hot 100 Week of December 30, 2006 by Biggest Jump". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
4. Rise Against Wish Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco Would Educate Crowds MTV News. Viacom. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
5. Fall Out Boy borrows lyrics from American Nightmare
6. "Happy Tree Friends - The Carpal Tunnel of Love (ekd)". 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
7. "Fall Out Boy Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved September 8, 2021.

External links

• "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" on Fall Out Boy's website