- The Munsters‘ theme song inspired one of Fall Out Boy’s most famous hits.
- The hit did something that Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump said was “taboo in rock music.”
- Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz felt the track sounded like another famous song.
Some 1960s TV shows had an effect on music. One of Fall Out Boy’s songs is based on a band’s song. A member of Fall Out Boy said the song is related to the movie.
Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump talked about his band’s album during an interview with MTV News. The idea of sampling was the focus of the record. It’s taboo in rock music. It is an artform. You can do a lot with it. Hip-hop influences those things very much. Two hip-hop acts inspired their use of samples.
Pete Wentz talked about the origin of the song “Uma Thurman” in a 2015 interview. He said that they played the track to people. The process was treated like a DJ and producer would create a song.
The sample of the theme song was compared to a song by Dick Dale. We had the tracks done, and we were playing them to people, and they kept saying “Oh, Pulp Fiction” or “Oh, Dick Dale”
The sample of the theme sounded similar. Because of that, we were like, why don’t we write something like that? She appeared in two films by the same director.
It was a hit in the US. The song stayed on the chart for 27 weeks. It was on the chart longer than most of the others.
The album American Beauty/American Psycho featured the song “Uma Thurman” The album went to the top of the charts for a single week. For 95 weeks, it was on the chart. Fall Out Boy’s most successful album is American Beauty/ American Psycho.
The hit movie, “Uma Thurman”, brought The Munsters back to life.