Published: June 22, 2026
By Movieguide® Staff
Patrick Stump, GRAMMY®-nominated lead singer of multiplatinum rock band Fall Out Boy, has become one of the most in-demand composers in kids’ entertainment.
“As a lifelong Marvel fan, this is a dream come true for me, and I can’t wait for kids and families, including my own kids, to see the show,” Stump said of his work writing, performing and producing all the music for MARVEL’S SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS.
The Disney Junior animated series — the first full-length Marvel series built for preschoolers — follows Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy as Team Spidey, and Movieguide® has followed it across four seasons as it gears up for a fifth.
Stump didn’t just agree to the project — he wrote the theme song before he even got to the meeting. Reading the initial brief on his phone that morning, still in his pajamas, the melody arrived fast; he hummed guitar parts into his voice notes at stoplights on the drive to the studio. By the time he sat down for what was supposed to be a simple introduction, he already had a finished demo — and it ended up as nearly exactly what aired.
“There’s a certain frenetic energy to Spidey — and the webs swinging — that I just wanted to put into it,” Stump told Billboard. To score the full series, he also learned trombone, French horn and trumpet, assigning each superhero a distinct musical identity. His admitted favorite: Black Panther, scored using a talking drum.
SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS Season 5 premieres July 13. Rocket, Groot, Mr. Fantastic and Silk join Team Spidey for a new “Rescue-Webs” story arc, while a new villain — Symbie, a symbiote from space — causes trouble for the whole crew.
Related: A New Set of Superheroes Join SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS for Season 5
That ongoing project is just one piece of what has quietly become a second career for Stump. In 2024, he wrote the theme and scored every episode of Netflix’s HOT WHEELS LET’S RACE, the animated family series based on Mattel’s iconic toy line.
“The word I’m always using to describe my music for this series is ‘pulse,’” Stump said. “There’s a tempo and a rhythm that permeates the series as soon as the tires hit that iconic orange track.” His stated creative goal for HOT WHEELS LET’S RACE: “What would it sound like if I could combine Mötley Crüe with the Daft Punk Tron score?”
“Patrick is a one-of-a-kind musical talent, and generous collaborator,” said Rob David, Vice President of Content Creative at Mattel Television Studios and Executive Producer of HOT WHEELS LET’S RACE. “We are so lucky to have him as part of the Let’s Race family.”
Stump has also scored MERRY LITTLE BATMAN, and credits Disney’s Academy Award®-winning BIG HERO 6 as the project that lit the whole thing up. Fall Out Boy co-wrote and performed “Immortals” for that 2014 movie, an experience Stump described to Collider as “life-changing” — the moment he understood composing for screen was something he wanted to do every single day.
“I was an 8-year-old boy with ADHD,” Stump explained. “So trying to speak to that kid to maintain their attention musically is something that I understand pretty well.” His comic book collection is, by his own account, massive — and he’s still living in a lot of those stories.
There’s something fitting about a guy who built his name on anthems for the anxious and the outcast finding his second calling in content made for children just starting to figure out the world. Stump isn’t chasing credibility with these projects — he’s genuinely one of those kids, just older now and with a recording studio.
His next goal: the score for a full Marvel movie. “I’ve been shouting about it forever,” Stump told Collider. “They know.”
Read Next: HOT WHEELS LET’S RACE: Episodes 2.1 to 2.3
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