The Jonas Brothers

0:05Hey guys, what's up? We are the Jonas Brothers and you are watching an MSN exclusive. So how are we doing guys? I'm pretty good. Yeah, back in like a home away from home. Should I movie you here? Two years ago. Two movies here. Two movies here and we've done a tour start here. Yeah. Been a part of charity runs here. So this is kind of like a second home to us. Or third home.

0:51Where did you shoot the movies? Was it here in Toronto? Or was it like kind of, did you go to the, have you seen Ontario properly? Yeah, it's good. And also, uh, in Halliburton, Canada, which we loved. We have rehearsals here though. It'll delta-pond, trombone. That's our getaway. You know, if anything like, if everything like goes, arrives bad everywhere. That's our... The world ends, we're coming to Canada. We're going to Halliburton. Thank you. We appreciate it. I'm going to know, uh, speaking of things ending, I've seen you destroy tablets before, so I'm going to leave my surface here. Yes, keep it clear. Yeah. You don't want to see them rasp. I forgot about that. Yeah, I watched it last night. It was funny. I like that. It was actually... It was actually a big job. Yeah. He really believed it too. But for a certain point, he looked at you like, ha, then he got really concerned. Yeah, really concerned. We should have said, good morning America punked. For people who don't know what we're talking about. You don't know. Yeah. So first time, what can you tell me? I know we can't see it until tomorrow, technically.

1:39Right. But I know it's Vegas. I know it's big, and it's fun. Well, Nick was hosting Miss USA pageant. And, um... That was funny, by the way. That's what she said. Um, Nick was hosting me all day. Yeah. Nick was hosting Miss USA at the time. We called all our friends from the East Coast, West Coast, and said, why don't you guys get to Vegas tomorrow? And we're going to shoot an improv to music video. So we got a team together, we got GoPros, and we filmed the majority of it ourselves, really. Just like hand-held stuff. And it turned out way better than we expected. Because it's a little bit nerve-wracking when you have the mixture of Vegas, alcohol. Something's going to go south, right? So it actually turned out great. We were really pleased with it. And it's just kind of a party video. If you were to go to Vegas, what it would feel like for the first time doing everything

2:27from gambling, losing, winning, to guys with some of our buddies being turned down by girls, whatever it may be, we wanted to kind of put it all in there. And it turned out really organic and fun because it was real. It wasn't like a bunch of models that we hired to be our friends and we're cool. So we're really pleased with it. Because that's how it's always been. You've always hired models for us to be your friends. Majority videos today is it's like you watch it and you're like, that doesn't really seem like they even know that person. They're like, you know, trying to be like, hey, we're best friends. I'm known as as I was six. I'm just, yeah. That's why. So I've heard parts of the record. I haven't heard the whole thing. I've heard about six songs. I thought maybe we can go through them. And start with pom poms because everyone's heard pom poms. But is it true there's a French version? We're in Canada. You're pretty, pretty correct. We cut a bunch of different versions of the pearls singing.

3:15When they say, if you want to see them, put them up on the bottom. We did those in like 15 different languages I think. The French one sounds the best though. It really does. We appreciate the Canada. I'm a sucker for French in general. But it does. The Korean sounds pretty cool too. The Korean sounds. It sounds very k-pop. Did you know the words? Can you understand them? We understand them just because the translation is fairly close to the original lyrics in English. But you know, they had to take some liberties to make it fit or whatever else. Some languages are like, what are pom poms? So we had to adjust to a rut. Pomponnes is one of them. Pomponnes. That sounds funny. Well, let me, we got like in Australia, pom poms got the words actually got asterisk because I guess that's...

4:00Pompon is slang for... Yeah. Something dirty. I don't know. Let's you figure it out. It was like, oh okay, so that's happening now. Was the horns from a production point? Were the horns influenced by the lyrical content of the song? Or did you have the beat going and then said, okay, this needs to be like a cheerleader kind of thing? Yeah, you know what was interesting about this record is that as we were making it, I'd say on the production side, I had a song that was kind of the precursor to whatever we did next. And as we built out the record, the songs like First Time For Us, came in the earlier side of making the record and that was, we're all sitting around listening to Fleetwood Mac everywhere thinking, how can we do a version of this song? You have the same feeling, but that feels current, has some Calvin Harris style influences

4:49and kind of match the two up. So that's where that came from. Pomponnes, one of our friends from Norway actually showed us this artist, Bernhoff, had this song come on a talk that we all loved and it was just a really positive, exciting, funky song that we said, and this kind of song is what we're missing for the record. And so I went in and started building a track out in a similar vibe, kind of a similar feeling. And the marching band element sort of just came about. And then as we started throwing our lyric ideas, the Pompomnes concept felt right and we wrote with it and kind of came out with something we were really proud of and had a lot of fun making. The world. You, in an interview recently I was watching, started talking about it being about U.S. manufacturing,

5:36leaving overseas. So I listened to the song like ten times yesterday. Trying to figure it out. I do not hear that at all. You know what's really hilarious is that we got two songs about the world. We got two songs about the world. One, the world, didn't make the record in this world. And so these guys were even like screwing with me afterwards. You could see me and Nick look at each other like, you know that one didn't make the record. I was like, oh, okay. Really easily confused. The other song that he was talking about is really cool. It's so awesome. It was just so funny that after the interview we go, we're like, someone's going to figure that out. I'm back out. Yeah, you are. It was so funny. The world is actually my favorite song.

6:21Cool piano. Who's playing the piano on it? I was. Yeah, Nick produced it. And then live Joe plays it, which is really cool and it's really fun. The live version that we're playing actually on these shows has been incredible because it's really a good moment. It's really a good feel-bit song. The song is like a picnic. That's how I view it. Yeah. And Sandbox isn't a picnic. No. No. Even though I'm trying to correlate it to a bit. It's a different kind of picnic. A picnic in the dark rather than park. Exactly. I think I'm a dark record in the park. You said on the radio too, I think in that same interview, maybe you were lying too. I don't know or confused. Some lyrics on this record might offend people. I think they might. I think they already have. Have you seen back-ups? I was supposed to be my question.

7:06Have you seen back-ups? Yeah. I mean, I think there's maybe you can't satisfy everybody. There's maybe a few people in the audience that are like, their heads are turning when we might say certain things live. We've yet to play Sandbox live and I think that'll be the one that a fenned surprise shock. I think that's the three words we hope to achieve. I mean, I don't think we're trying to offend anyone, but I think that there's something about every artist that you just have to put your guard down and say, you know what? I'm going to go in on this and if somebody gets offended, so be it. I know that at least that was being truthful to myself and the music I was making. Being truthful about wedding bells, Nick, you told the crowd, it makes you feel uncomfortable. I guess that would have been a fall. Now that you've lived with the song a little more, still feeling comfortable?

7:51Or has it grown on you and now it's just another song? Yeah, no. The way I view each song is the goal is to try to capture a moment in time and your feelings in a moment. And it may not always carry over into months or years later, but you can at least capture that moment and feel that way again for a split second that you perform it live. Songs like wedding bells are similar to, I feel like, I just got to see Fleetwood Mac Play in another Fleetwood Mac thing. No, it's alright. You want one of the best fans ever? Yeah, unbelievable. Some play at John's Beach just before we started our tour. And you go to that show and you watch them play and it's just unbelievable to see them relive some of the hurt and the pain in their lives that they were living as kind of this really crazy.

8:44Triangle, you know, and you can see it all unfold. And, you know, they look back and they're now with smiles on their face and it's fun. And I hope that in time we can do the same thing with some of the songs on this record that maybe still are sort of tough to just lay out there. But it's getting easier and I think at over time we'll get easier. Talking of Fleetwood Mac just because you've got some younger fans as you may or may not know. Let's give some Fleetwood Mac recommendations. One tune each. Everywhere is like a good starting place obviously for everyone. If people have heard it and it's a great song, Dreams 2, same kind of vibe. But for me as long as you follow, one of my favorites, Beautiful Melody, Great Guitar Line, just a great groove overall.

9:31Fleetwood just laying in the pocket. I think that was something else we talked about early on and you know, even setting up the shows we've been playing. I said earlier it's about a tone as well. It's not just punch them in the face for the next like 12 songs in a row and high energy high energy. We go to live the live show. We do three songs and then we go into a song called The Found. And it's a different feel and it's a different vibe but it's not our typical way of doing things. And I think it sets the tone for all the new songs we're playing and for the first time people are hearing it. And I think it does the same on the album as well. How are people reacting? I mean hearing these songs, I'm sure the crowd sing along to 95% of them. And then the next show they're singing, I have about 80% of the words. So like YouTube, whatever they've found. I look forward to those moments because it's the first time it's quiet and I don't mean where we don't enjoy it when people are crazy.

10:21But it's nice to watch them just listening to the words we're saying and try to understand some of the lyrics that we're talking about. And sometimes for us you get kind of a weird emotion of, but to tell them the story that I've kept a secret in the last three, four, eight years that I never spoke about. And it's nice to kind of anticipate those moments in the show. Have them actually listening. Yeah. Waiting for, yeah. I got to let you go soon. So we do something called five questions, five quick questions. One word answers. Everyone can answer. Road or studio? Road for me personally. Producer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, especially if he's an equal boost that's right here. He has a studio on the road. Does that count? Like a little pro tool.

11:07So it's both. Rig with an O2 or something? Yeah. Okay. Landon or McCartney? Ooh. Cardon, McCartney. Is that because you played him, Dred, my car? Yeah. I would say McCartney. He's just the best ever. I'm not going to argue with you. When you hear a song that usually hits you first, lyrics, melody or rhythm? I'd say from me and Paul E. Was it melody? Yeah. Rhythm. If someone's never heard the Jonas Brothers before, what song did they start with? They start with... Oh man. First time. First time would be a good place to start. I'll go with that. First time. Is it the new... Yeah. Okay. Joe?

11:52I would say maybe found. Found also. Yeah. No. I think it's what a lot of people are... I don't want to be... It sounds kind of stubborn saying this, but I think it's similar to what people are listening to right now with the Frank Oceans and kind of the melodic changes and vibes. Sort of like a throwback to like... The new school. Alternative pop, R&B thing. I think you're trying to sit in that bracket and I think people that listen to artists like that I think would enjoy it. And the second song you listen to is called What do I Mean to You? Okay. You have a heart attack. We just keep you free. It's all right. We love this album. Yeah. So it seems as you should. I should. In one word, Jonas Brothers.

12:41I'm reinvented. Well that's good and appropriate. I'll go with that. Good work. He's a fan. I would say probably family is always something that kind of connects us. That's the sweet answer. And time family now. Thanks guys. Thank you. Of course we'll.