Gray “Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat — love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery” (1). Gray by Pete Wentz narrates the life of young Pete throughout the early years of Fall Out Boy, in which he was the bassist and songwriter. He struggled with drug abuse; more specifically with the anxiety and depression prescription drug Ativan, after he and his girlfriend broke up (more than once), which lead to two separate overdose attempts. Reading this story made me realize that so much more goes on behind the curtains of a musician’s life that they don’t share; we really need to appreciate the people who write and perform the songs we listen to every day, in sad times and happy, and the ones we hold so dear in our heart. We
