"Sugar, We're Goin Down" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released to US radio on April 4, 2005, as the lead single from their second album, From Under the Cork Tree.

With music composed by vocalist Patrick Stump and lyrics penned by bassist Pete Wentz, the single reached No.

8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Fall Out Boy's first top-10 hit and exploding the band into the mainstream, exposing them to a new audience.

[6] On July 22, 2013, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for 200,000 sales.

Hayley Williams joined Fall Out Boy onstage in 2014 to perform the song as part of a Super Bowl Blitz show.

[11] The band themselves used a sample of the song in "What a Catch, Donnie"[12] and referenced it in "Save Rock and Roll", from the album of the same title.

At this point, the song did not have much airplay but had relied on the strength of digital downloads alone, and it experienced a sales surge following the band's performance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

During this time, though, mainstream radio support came in, and while downloads were falling, airplay was able to help stabilize the song.

With the same digital download stats, but with an airplay panel to its advantage, the song reached a peak position of No.

When the girl's father sees they are still together, he tries to shoot the boy with a bow and arrow, but fails as a car rams into him.

The music video also frequently cuts to scenes of the band members performing the song.

[22] Music critics have retrospectively considered "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" as a seminal, genre-shaping song within pop punk and emo.

[23] In 2020, Alternative Press called "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" one of the most influential pop punk songs of all time, stating that the song "shaped the genre", was "a lyrically abstract masterpiece that gave subsequent bands an excuse to write creatively" and that it was "a game-changer".

[25] Also in 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "Sugar, We're Goin Down" at 443 on their amended list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", noting that the song "signaled a sea change – emo, which had roots in confessional hardcore punk, had grown into a new and often highly theatrical kind of arena rock".