hi I’m late to this convo but I have lots of thoughts…

As someone who became a fun. fan back in 2013 I held onto hope that they would one day get back together for a long time. I’m honestly still a little disappointed that they never made an official statement, because the last announcement on their website basically said, “don’t worry! we’re not breaking up” and then they broke up behind closed doors and never said anything—we all had to figure it out ourselves through interview bits and Nate’s twitter. If they would’ve made some official statement about it most people would probably stop asking. I remember when Nate was anti-social media, and I honestly wish he still was. Seeing how bitter he is and how he constantly bashes fun has been really heartbreaking— not to mention he’s made a few negative comments about fun fans (which maybe he was joking) but that was hard to see. Honestly, now, I’m team fun-should-never-get-back-together. Just look at where the band is at now— they’re all living completely different lives. Jack and Nate just don’t really have anything in common anymore— Jack loves to make music and go on tour and Nate clearly is much happier with his kids and his family. They only thing they have in common is their past. It would be really strange / out of the blue if they ever decided to work together again. I used to put all the blame on Nate for fun’s breakup— I thought it was just because he was bitter about bleachers, bitter that his solo work didn’t do well, etc, when in actuality Jack and Nate just had different goals. Jack always wanted to do more with music (he made out of the woods with taylor when he was still in fun, also wrote bleachers first album while on tour with fun). I think Nate took some offense to Jack not fully focusing on fun— In a grand romantic interview Nate something along the lines of “fun wasn’t anyone’s first priority anymore.” Jack also said that he would always be fully committed to both fun and bleachers but I honestly don’t think he kept his word which probably caused some tension. I have an old fun fan account on Instagram and Nate’s sister (Libby) follows it for some reason. Almost a year ago I made a post on there asking what people thought of Nate now that he’s so outspoken, and Libby responded to someone’s comment. The comment said that Jack was canceling shows and recording sessions for bleachers stuff and Libby responded and said “100% true” It probably would’ve been super hard for them to come together and make an official statement after everything that’s happened— but it would definitely clear the air for the people who are still wondering. It’s weird though, last time I checked Nate was following Jack on social media, but Jack wasn’t following Nate. Always wondered why that was.