Fall Out Boy have begun prepearing the release of their breakthrough "From Under the Cork Tree" album's follow-up, naming as a desired producer quite unexpected person.
"The guy we really want and we're trying to lock it down with is very bizarre for Fall Out Boy," bassist Pete Wentz said. "It's Babyface. He said he wants to do it, but nothing's confirmed yet. I swear to God, he's going to do at least six songs with us."
The band has already written most of the album, so the producer wouldn't have to do a lot of pre-production work on the album.
Wentz said he and the rest of the band wanted to work with Babyface quite some time ago already, but met him to talk about this only recently. The producer, who have done records with almost every R&B star in the '90s, tempted FOB with one of his lesser-known projects.
"He did the soundtrack to [the 2001 film version of] 'Josie and the Pussycats,' and it's amazing. So we're going to have him do it, and have someone who's really into heavy music engineer it," Wentz laughed. "We haven't confirmed him but we're looking to tap him for the job and we will be demoing a couple of songs with him for sure."
While they await word from Babyface, Fall Out Boy will keep busy with a variety of projects: Wentz is behind the upcoming "bizarro-Friendster" site FriendsOrEnemies.com, and frontman Patrick Stump will be producing the new album from Chicago's the Hush Sound.
Thanks for the info to MTV.com.