While he’d heard of Garageband, a piece of free software shipped with all Mac computers, he’d thought it was more toy than tool - and no one else was giving it much attention then, in the early 2000s. Madly clicking around on his laptop in search of a new route, Stump happened to open one of its pre-loaded programs. I thought: I’m not going to be able to do this.” When you’re composing, time is everything, because you’re thinking the second guitar has to do this and the background vocals are going to do this and you just want to get it all out as quickly as possible. “When you’re being creative, you just want to get your idea out. “I just lost it, screaming in the back of a bus,” Stump tells Rolling Stone, a decade and a half later.

Stump can still precisely recall the panic in the moment he finally finished the rough sketch of a song only to see the whole apparatus glitch and crash on his computer. On a lurching tour bus rigged with a wobbly Jenga tower of recording equipment, the singer and Fall Out Boy frontman had been trying to lay down demos for the band’s second album - it’d been hours, fiddling with rubber cords and finicky software - and nothing was working well together.

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