Dear Future Self (Hands Up)

"Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy featuring Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean. It was released on September 10, 2019, on DCD2 and Island Records as a single from their compilation album, Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two.

Background

In October 2009, Fall Out Boy announced their first greatest hits album, Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits. The compilation album was released on November 17, 2009. Nearly ten years after the release of the album, the band announced Believers Never Die Volume Two – Greatest Hits, with a scheduled release date of November 15, 2019. The announcement coincided with the Hella Mega Tour announcement, a concert tour that took place from July 2021 to July 2022 with American rock bands Green Day and Weezer, in Europe and the United States.

Composition

"Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" was written by Fall Out Boy, Wyclef Jean, Jens Siverstedt, Jonas Wallin, and Noonie Bao. The chorus samples "Hands Up" by Inna. The track has a runtime of 2 minutes and 51 seconds. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's radio station Beats 1, Pete Wentz spoke about the composition of the song:

I think we've always been big fans of Fugees and Wyclef. He's got an incredible sense of melody that's kind of out there. It's like you can tell it's a mix from all over kind of the globe, which is cool, and super inspired by seeing my kids and that they just listen to song, to song, to song, to song and it's going from Queen to Lil Uzi to you know...

Aaron Grech of MXDWN described the song as blending "elements of Fall Out Boy's pop punk style, mixed in with eclectic dance hall inspired rhythms", while overall labeling "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" as a "summer pop song".

Credits and personnel

Fall Out Boy

Patrick Stump – lead vocals, lead guitar, programming, production, composing
Pete Wentz – bass guitar, composing
Joe Trohman – lead guitar, composing, vocals
Andy Hurley – drums, percussion, composing, vocals

Additional personnel

Wyclef Jean – featured artist, composing, production, vocals
Suzy Shinn – co-producer, recording engineer, backing vocals
Jens Siverstedt – production, composing
Wesley Seidman – recording engineer
Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing engineer
Michael Freeman – assistant engineer
Noonie Bao – additional vocals, composing
Randy Merrill – mastering engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)	13

Year-end charts

Chart (2019)	Position
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)	100

References

"Fall Out Boy". Fall Out Boy.
"Green Day, Weezer, Fall Out Boy Announce 2020 'Hella Mega' Stadium Tour". Rolling Stone. September 10, 2019.
"Fall Out Boy Release New Single, Dear Future Self (Hands Up), Featuring Wyclef Jean". Kerrang!. 10 September 2019.
Grech, Aaron (10 September 2019). "Fall Out Boy and Wyclef Jean Close Out the Summer with Experimental Ice Cream Themed Video for "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)"". MXDWN. Retrieved February 5, 2023. The track blends elements of Fall Out Boys pop punk style, mixed in with eclectic dance hall inspired rhythms, that make this sound like a summer pop song.
"Fall Out Boy Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
"Hot Rock Songs – Year-End 2019". Billboard. Retrieved December 12, 2019.

v t e Fall Out Boy
Patrick Stump Pete Wentz Joe Trohman Andy Hurley
Studio albums	Take This to Your Grave From Under the Cork Tree Infinity on High Folie à Deux Save Rock and Roll American Beauty/American Psycho Mania So Much (for) Stardust
Extended plays	Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue Leaked in London America's Suitehearts: Remixed, Retouched, Rehabbed and Retoxed PAX AM Days Llamania Lake Effect Kid
Live albums	Live in Phoenix
Compilation albums	Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two
Remix albums	Make America Psycho Again
Demo albums	Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend
Singles	"Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" "Saturday" "Sugar, We're Goin Down" "Dance, Dance" "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"" "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" "Thnks fr th Mmrs" ""The Take Over, the Breaks Over"" "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)" "Beat It" "I Don't Care" "America's Suitehearts" "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" "What a Catch, Donnie" "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" "The Phoenix" "Alone Together" "Young Volcanoes" "Centuries" "Immortals" "American Beauty/American Psycho" "The Kids Aren't Alright" "Uma Thurman" "Irresistible" "Ghostbusters (I'm Not Afraid)" "Young and Menace" "Champion" "The Last of the Real Ones" "Hold Me Tight or Don't" "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)" "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" "Love from the Other Side" "Heartbreak Feels So Good" "Hold Me Like a Grudge" "We Didn't Start the Fire" "So Much (for) Stardust"
Other songs	"Thriller"
Featured songs	"I've Been Waiting" "Hand Crushed by a Mallet (remix)" "Electric Touch"
Concert tours	Honda Civic Tour 2007 Young Wild Things Tour Monumentour American Beauty/American Psycho Tour Wintour is Coming Mania Tour Hella Mega Tour So Much For (Tour) Dust
Related articles	Discography List of songs Arma Angelus Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares Racetraitor The Damned Things Black Cards Welcome to the New Administration Fall Out Toy Works The Young Blood Chronicles Soul Punk
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Discography
Studio albums	The Carnival The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book Masquerade The Preacher's Son Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101 Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant From the Hut, To the Projects, To the Mansion Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee
Compilations	Greatest Hits
EPs	If I Were President: My Haitian Experience J'ouvert
Singles	"We Trying to Stay Alive" "Guantanamera" "Gone till November" "Cheated (To All the Girls)" "Gunpowder" "Another One Bites the Dust" "New Day" "It Doesn't Matter" "911" "Perfect Gentleman" "Wish You Were Here" "Two Wrongs" "Pussycat" "Party to Damascus" "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" "Dar um Jeito (We Will Find a Way)" "Divine Sorrow"
Featured singles	"No, No, No" "In the Zone" "Maria Maria" "Loving You (Ole Ole Ole)" "One Nite Stand" "Shape of You (Reshaped)" "Learn Chinese" "Hips Don't Lie" "Nuestro Himno" "Dangerous" "You Know What It Is" "Five-O" "Dimelo" "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)"
Tours	The Carnival Tour
See also	Barikad Crew Jimmy O The Fugees

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