Pop-punk icons Fall Out Boy are facing some legal troubles, being hit with a lawsuit over the llama puppets used in their recent music videos and subsequent tour.
If you’ve been following Fall Out Boy over the last couple of years, you would have undoubtedly come across their fascination with a bunch of life-sized llama puppets.
These llama puppets quickly became the star of their ‘Young And Menace’ video, popping up in the majority of the other music videos that their 2018 album, Mania, spawned.
However, while these furry co-stars are undoubtedly becoming closely associated with the band, it seems that their creators aren’t too happy with the band’s repeated use of them.
As Reuters reports, a lawsuit was filed in a New York City court on Friday, with the stuffed animal company that created the llamas accusing the band of illegally exploiting them.
According to Furry Puppet Studio Inc, these life-sized, wearable creations were only licensed to be used in their ‘Young And Menace’ video, and nowhere else.
Check out Fall Out Boy’s ‘Young And Menace’:
However, since this video was released, the band have continued to use the puppets, showing up in numerous other videos, on tour, and even on their pseudonymous Llamania EP.
As a result, lawyers for Furry Puppet Studio Inc have claimed that Fall Out Boy could owe the company damages totalling in the millions of dollars.
Speaking of the creation of the ‘Young And Menace’ film clip, bassist Pete Wentz explained that its content focuses on the idea of growing up and finding your place in the world.
“The concept of the video is realizing that your place in the world is maybe not just what you thought it was growing up,” he explained. “I grew up as a weird kid in a place where I felt like I didn’t fit it. It wasn’t until punk/rock and stuff where I felt like I found other people [who] similarly didn’t fit in.”
While Fall Out Boy are yet to respond to this lawsuit, we wouldn’t be surprise if history repeats itself and the band end up releasing a song called ‘Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Content Of Our Music Videos So We Wouldn’t Get Sued’.
Check out Fall Out Boy’s ‘Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued’:
