Taylor Highlights
- Taylor talking about how he likes Eminem's new song.
- Taylor and Isaac having competitions to see who rambles more.
- And who can cut each other off the most =P
- Taylor about to cry when talking about Bridges of Stone.
- Taylor reading fans email.
- Taylor talking about how they were mugged in NY.
- Taylor saying "ya know" inbetween words =/ =)
Interviewer: I've been instructed to tell you guys that you have total control of the radio station. You can do whatever you wanna do.
Isaac: Oh coool.
Interviewer: Any songs you guys want? I mean it's definitely all good.
Isaac: Umm...
Zac: ALL HANSON ALL THE TIME!
Taylor: <laughs> Don't do that.
Interviewer: <laughing>
<commercial>
Interviewer: <gives a long intro> Everybody give it up for... HANSON! YEAAH!
Isaac: I have to say that was a pretty over the top intro...
Taylor: Yeah, sounds like that...
Interviewer: I try! I trrry!
Taylor: Why don't you do the love line? You really sound like you should be doing that.... <gets cut off>
Isaac: No no, he's way more then the love line. He's like...
Taylor: I know but he can do both! He's like uh really intimate and then he's all up in the thing...
Interviewer: What do you mean? Like a love doctor kinda thing?
Taylor: Well you got a little bit of that going on, ya know you're getting down.
Interviewer: Thank you, thank you. I LOVE YOU MAN!
Taylor: And little bit of that... ya know, it's like both sides.
Isaac: You're kinda wacked out.
Interviewer: Miami, I am officially embarrassed now.
Taylor: <laughs> Welcome to the sarcastic world of Hanson.
Interviewer: Welcome back to Miami!
Isaac: Thanks for inviting us back...
<advertises Y-100.com, then they talk about when the new album comes out>
Interviewer: We get tons of e-mails. Everyone wants to know what kind of music you're into. Give us some good examples of the styles of music you're into and if you wanna dogg on anybody you can because Eminem proved that theory.
Taylor: Well, uh actually, I was listening to that... <gets cut off>
Isaac: That's crazy man..
Taylor: I actually, I was listening to the radio as we were actually coming to the station and ya know, I was actually cracking up. I thought that was pretty hilarious. It's just the fact that he was going off on everybody, that's really funny.
|Interviewer: Yeah and a lot of people are taking it seriously...
Taylor: Well, it's just totally, you shouldn't take it too seriously. It's pretty hilarious.
Interviewer: What if by some chance he would have dogged Hanson? What would you have thought then?
Taylor: Well, we probably would have laughed at it and then probably would have taken it too seriously, so I guess you're right.
Interviewer: And then you guys coulda came up with you're own song.
Taylor: Well yeah, <laughing> I guess that's how it goes but I thought it was pretty...
Isaac: <cuts Taylor off> Quite cool. Actually a song that I'm really digging right now that just came out, actually in the UK I know it was released. Eagle Eye Cherry, the guy who did Save Tonight. His new single that's "Are you still having fun?"
Taylor: Verticle Horizon is one I think is awesome.
Interviewer: Verticle Horizon! Play it! Verticle Horizon! Anything you guys want! This is gonna be like Hanson radio for the next few hours!
<Hanson introduces This Time Around>
Interviewer: Why couldn't I sing backup for Hanson?!
Isaac: Dude, you didn't call us. You didn't call us...
Taylor: You shoulda called...
Zac: We were sittin' there going "Why isn't he calling us?!"
Isaac: Yeah we were actually a little pissed off that you didn't call us.. You didn't love us man.
Interviewer: Ya know what? I'm still diggin "Weird". "Weird" is still my all time favorite Hanson song...<advertises "If Only">
Fan: Hi I'm Nessie from Miami beach Florida and I really wanna thank you guys for coming down here. I want to know what you guys think about people having copies of the CD before it came out?
Isaac: What do we think about people having copies of the new CD before it came out? <repeating her question to himself>
Zac: Well, I think it's great as long as you buy the actual record.
Taylor: It's a weird thing because there's the MP3's and all that stuff on the Internet and we actually have on our website clips of songs for people to hear samples of it and it's hard to say because on one hand it's like ohh it's kinda scary because people are able to get it but records are selling more then ever. There's amount of people buying albums is growing. So it's hard to say whether it's taking away or adding to it. It's hard to control. It's kinda a scary thing.
Isaac: I mean, I think, as long as people are liking the music and they wanna come to the shows and things like that then that's obviously an overall good thing. And I kind of agree with Zac, as long as everyone buys the real record then I guess it's okay. <laughs>
Taylor: You just don't want that to be a negative thing. Because I guess in a few ways it's positive. People get to hear the music.
Interviewer: <lets Taylor read e-mails from fans to answer fans questions>
Taylor: <reading e-mail> Well, uh let's see this is one right here. It's from Lisa3114 at AOL, 14 years old. It says "Hey guys." It says she's been a fan for three years ... she went to three of our concerts. Cool. Including the Wing ding. So uh she was just wondering umm if we have any bands opening for us when we go on tour. And she says goodluck and uh that she's gonna love the album. So uh that's very cool. -- We are gonna be touring. We don't have the dates laid out yet but we're about to put them up on our website. We're gonna be playing all over the US.
Interviewer: Miami! Miami!
Taylor: <laughs> We're definitely gonna be doing a lot of shows. And I think the band that's gonna be playing for us is an unsigned band called Larryland.
Isaac: Yeah because actually, last time we had some friends open for us from Tulsa. They're called Admiral Twin. They're getting ready to have a record coming out real soon. This band is also unsigned so it's really cool to get the opportunity to check these guys out because they're a really great band. Larryland check it out.
Interviewer: Lets get one more email in...
Taylor: Well this is actually perfect if you wanted to introduce a new song. It says "What's the next single? Where are you planning to have the next single in the US?" And uh this is from Amy. And uh "Is it the international single 'If Only'?" And I think the plan is that "If Only." Well I don't know if you guys know this, but internationally the first single is different then in the US. It's a song called "If Only" and that's gonna be the second single here. And that's the answer for ya!
<Hanson introduces "If Only">
Interviewer: I'm hanging out with Hanson...
Isaac: He's WILLLD and CRAAAZY!
Taylor: Wild thing...
Interviewer: The wild and crazy ones. Where are you guys off to next?
Isaac: We're off to Brazil.. We're going down to Da Paulo.
Taylor: All over the place!
Interviewer: The wind blowing in your hair... on the beach. <deep voice>
Taylor: You're doing that love line thing again! You can't get away from it!
Interviewer: Do you guys really get mugged when you go overseas, like compared to here in the United States?
Taylor: Well, that depends on if you're in a bad neighborhood or not. Actually, we got mugged in New York one time.
Interviewer: What'd they take?
Zac: We're not sure if we're getting mugged or they like us. They're speaking a different language. They're like "vulaaaavulla"
Interviewer: How was it in Japan?
Isaac: There were a ton of people at the airport...
Taylor: We got out and we were like "Okay great." We've flown fourteen hours... and we're like "Uhhh yeah hello."
Isaac: Was it fourteen hours?
Taylor: Well, it's like twelve hours. But you're there and it's the morning and your brains all screwed up... ya know, what time it is. And all of a sudden you walk out and there's all these screaming people and you're like "Run for your life."
Isaac: Yeah and you're running down the corridor and everybody's chasing you.
Interviewer: And all they're screaming is Hanson right?
Zac: You look next to you and the fans looking at you and there's a big cement pole in front of her and she goes "Uh.. OHH!" And you're like "OH GOD!"
Taylor: It's actually really cool to go to all these countries. I mean, in Japan there's not a lot of English speaking people. I mean, in different countries you'll find people speak English pretty well but in Japan particular, they don't try to speak it that much. So they'll uh write you a letter in English and it'll be very broken but it'll still be cool to see them trying to really write something in English but it'll be very...
Isaac: It's not like I could write in Japanese...
Taylor: The thing is though, because the translation doesn't really totally make sense you're like "Wow, if they only knew what they wrote to me." It's scary.
Isaac: But it's cool because we have a lot of fans in Japan and Europe and stuff like that and it's just amazing to get the opportunity to be there and that they enjoy your music and all of that kinda stuff. It's very very cool.
Interviewer: Do you guys do Sushi?
Zac: A little bit.
Taylor: A little bit, yeah.
Isaac: Just a little bit, not much.... I had this thing with mah food being cooked!
Taylor: Yeah but ya know, there's the cooked sushi... I just don't like eating sushi.. I try to stay away from it.
Interviewer: Here we go with the next question!
Fan: Hi my name is Catherine from Florida and I've been here since twelve o clock and I'd wait all day to see Hanson and my question is how do you like not having a personal life at all?
Isaac: <laughs> Well I'd have to say thank god, I do have a personal life.
Taylor: Well uh I, people say what's the best and worst thing about being Hanson and being famous. It is sorta going places and always being recognized ... or the other, which is the best thing because we've got great fans.
Isaac: Yeah exactly.
Taylor: Yeah the thing is we still have a personal life. We're still as normal as it gets ... but you just kinda hafta you know, you go places and people are like "Oh you're Hanson..."
Zac: It just becomes a smaller personal life...
Taylor: It's just a smaller part of who we are, that's all. Ya know, it's still there. It's not gone.
Interviewer: After this huge huge success of your first album how was it when you finally went on break and had some time to yourselves? What did you do?
Isaac: Well actually we took a couple....
Taylor: Well the things is we kinda didn't really stop. We toured in 1998, and then we took a little break. Ya know we just spent some time at home. We relaxed, went to see our friends.
Zac: We took New Years off and then started to just...
Taylor: Work on the new record.
Zac: We've kinda been outta the uh limelight or whatever you wanna call it but um, we've still been working most of the time.
Taylor: We've just been focusing on.. like 99' was kinda like the album process. Writing songs, meeting people...and just focusing on making a great record, focusing on making an album we feel really good about.
Interviewer: I wanna know what kinda car you've got.
Isaac: WE WILL NOT TELL!!!
Taylor: WE WILL NOT!!!
Interviewer: I wanna know!
Isaac: Okay.. pinto with blade. That's all I have to say.
Interviewer: He drives a pointed pinto.
Taylor: No.
Interviewer: It's got 250 horses. It is so hot that your feet are on fire! Isaac, when are you getting your own place?!
Isaac: I have no need to move out right now. I have a personal thing with doing my own laundry. Okay? I don't like doing it.
Interviewer: Nobody does your laundry?
Taylor: Actually he just piles his laundry in the corner. See, that's an issue we have actually. We want him to move out.
Isaac: And my mom goes "Whoa whoa whoa you're supposed to give me the laundry! That's what I'm sayin!"
Interviewer: So fame doesn't change mom or dad?
Isaac: No they're like "clean your laundry." No actually, they're more like "GET YOUR BOOTY IN THERE AND DO YOUR LAUNDRY!!!"
Taylor: How about burning your laundry? For all of our sake.
Zac: We just stopped wearing the same clothes. We just like buy seventeen copies of the same shirt. And just like burn it everytime we take it off.
Taylor: Actually, it's much better that way.
<Interviewer talks about his brothers then plays Verticle Horizon>
Interviewer: Verticle Horizon... Everything. Hanson will answer anything you want to know? Shoe size ... boxers briefs... I don't care.
Taylor: You can look up a facts file on the Internet right now!
Zac: The question I haven't heard yet is "Do you pluck your eyebrows?" That's the only question I haven't heard from somebody.
Taylor: There's a reason for that... There's a reason why that hasn't happened.
Interviewer: The only eyebrow talk I ever heard about was when the Backstreet Boys went on air and people used to call Kevin Richardson uni-brow all the time..
Taylor: Well there's definitely a lot of artists with uni-brows. I think it just gets overlooked. People go "Well I'm not gonna go that low." Well Zac has gone that low! Zac is lower then low.
Interviewer: I grow my eyebrows! There's nothing wrong with that!
Taylor: Yeah but that's your personal hygiene...
Isaac: This conversation is going nowhere...
Taylor: We went all the way from laundry to eyebrow plucking.. okay,
Interviewer: These are the small personal things that people really wanna know about.
Taylor: That's true.
Isaac: Well I don't care whether somebody plucks their eyebrows or not. Well of course there's my girlfriend and she's got a really big hairy mono-brow and that's not good.
Zac: Her nickname is flip flops!
Isaac: But that's a whole other issue and that's a personal problem of mine!
Taylor: More like hers Ike.
Isaac: Well it's kinda both because why am I going out with her when she's got a mono brow? It's like whoa..
Taylor: He definitely got personal on that...
Interviewer: Alright that's cool.. nononono that's cool, that's cool! He got the girlfriend so what about you? <to Taylor>
Taylor: Well actually, you see, he doesn't have a girlfriend because of the mono-brow issue...
Isaac: So what are you saying, that all the cute girls don't have mono-brows?
Taylor: <gets defensive> No no no, I'm just sayin' you were sayin' he had a girlfriend but he was actually talking about what he didn't like about her.
Isaac: Figuratively, figuratively speaking.
Taylor: To answer the question, no none of us have steady girlfriends but that's an overall answer to the question.
Interviewer: I'm gonna keep it real okay?
Taylor: We're keeping it real.
Interviewer: Here comes question #3.
Fan: Hey my name's Krissy from Caporal Florida. I'm wondering if there's a song on the album that means the most to you and why?
Isaac: Ooo we've been asked this question a lot.
Taylor: Thank you. We got a good question. We've gotten away from the hygiene.
Isaac: Thank goodness. We have our fans to thank for that. Thank you very much!
Taylor: The thing is, I think every song means something different to you. I mean, it's not like you have any favorite songs. I think there's one I actually feel pretty attached to. The last song that we did on the record is a song called "A Song To Sing." and we just played it with an acoustic guitar and vocals and things like that and kinda did it LIVE and I think it sorta completed the album. Like once we got that we felt like the album was there. I think we had something that really.. meant something.
Isaac: I think it goes back to the real essence of the band. The real reason why we're doing it is just the music and I think that song really describes what it is. It's just like the song, the vocals, and that's really what it's about for us and I think that's kinda a good...
Taylor: Representation!
Isaac: That's why we like that song ... and also, I will say, I have to say this song too because we love this song but it's not on the record. So we're going to get everybody like "Oh where can we get it? Where can we get it?" ....
Taylor: <cuts Ike off> It's a song called Bridges Of Stone.
Isaac: A song called Bridges Of Stone which was written about some friends going through a divorce and that um was one of the few songs that was written about a personal experience that we had. Of course we didn't go through the divorce but we wrote a song about it.
Taylor: It was, it was actually about ya know, it was autobiographical in some ways. I guess you could say ... actually about somebody truly real ... so that was actually... <sounds like he's gonna break out into tears>
Zac: <makes fun of Taylor and pretends to cry> Gosh! Now we're getting all teary eyed! <someone in the background going gogogogogo>
Taylor: Zac's blowing his nose now...
Interviewer: He's got me stuttering!
Taylor: Zac excuse me.. that's just oh god oh god...
Interviewer: Do you think your mom would ever take the stage and like jam with you guys?
Taylor: Ahh... wow...
Zac: <screaming negative remarks in the background>
Isaac: No offense to mom and dad...
Interviewer: Not in a million years? What are the odds? C'MON!
Isaac: We love our parents dearly. And they have always been incredibly supportive and they have always been our biggest fans...
Taylor: And our parents are very musical ... our mom is definitely a great singer. But I don't think that's a the kinda thing that would happen. It just doesn't fit ... like one in a million.
Interviewer: Beautiful beautiful...
Interviewer: Look I heard the practice session (of If Only) and I'm telling you right now, it sounds mighty good!
Taylor: Mighty good?
Interviewer: Mighty good.
Zac: Gettin' funky. It BE mighty good!
Interviewer: It be mighty good?
Taylor: Zac wants to get down now...
Interviewer: He wants to get down like a clown...
Taylor: Well I could correct it as definitely English.
Zac: A clown does not get down man!
Interviewer: Hey I know some pretty funky clowns, hey c'mon now! Alright, now before you do your acoustic set I have one more question.
Fan: Hi my name is Jessica and I'm from Plantation Florida. First of all I wanna thank you guys so much because my grandma passed away two weeks ago. It was the hardest time of my life and your music helped me get through it. So I wanna thank you so much for that and I was just wondering how you wrote the song "Dying To Be Alive." and what it means, because it's a really beautiful song.
Isaac: Oo well.
Taylor: <mellow voice> Oo well uh, first of all, I'm glad it, uh, the music could do something for you. I think that's the whole point if it can help people. Um... <sorta comes back to Earth> The song Dying To Be Alive, that's the one on the new record. I think it wasn't actually a song about, um, about experiences as much as about people's feelings. A lot of the songs we write come from a thought or feeling or something you're thinking about. But a lot of times you just sorta create these storylines and it's just a song kinda about...about...taking advantage of everyday and not taking it for granted.
Isaac: It's about living life with a purpose, with a meaning, and going forward and sort of making something out of your life and not letting a day go by without, you know, making something of it. That's really the point of that song.
Taylor: You're getting so deep again man...
Isaac: Actually, it's not all that distinguished to MMMBop, in it's meaning. Despite MMMBop's light, very light upbeat chorus, the sentimate of the song is very similar to Dying To Be Alive.
Taylor: Die to be alive.
Isaac: There ya go.
Interviewer: How do your sessions go when you have to generate music?
Zac: It goes like this! <makes funny noises>
Taylor: You know what, someone brought these power bars into the room... BAD IDEA... Zac needs no more power!
Isaac: We can thank our promotion corridor for that.
Zac: Thank you for the power bars!
Taylor: We'll send you a...
Interviewer: You're gonna send him a what?!
Taylor: Naw, nevermind.
Zac: A nice present!
Interviewer: Alright, what are we singing acoustically here?!
Taylor: Well this is actually the one you debuted earlier. This is uh, gonna be the second single coming up.
Isaac: This is gonna be another y-100 debut.
Interviewer: Is there anything I can do?! Anything like <makes weird noises>
Taylor: You can do that just don't do it during the song. Do it when we go off the air.
Interviewer: In other words you don't want me to be a part of this?!
Taylor: We love you so much! Just don't do it!
Zac: You're a very important part of the song. You just come in after we leave.
Taylor: It's like the delayed encore!
Zac: It's the best part of the song!
Interviewer: Then can I borrow a million dollars?!
Taylor: Well, <laughing> There's a difference between "I wanna sing in the song." and "I wanna borrow a million dollars!" We're not even that nice! That's serious stuff!
Interviewer: <mutters> My rents due on Monday.
Isaac: And how could you have a million dollars worth of rent?!
Interviewer: It's back rent!
Isaac: Yeah, oookay.
Zac: How long have you been back renting?!
Interviewer: Well it all started ... wait nah I don't wanna get into that!
Taylor: Are we gonna play the song or are... <trying to talk over everyone>
Interviewer: <introduces Hanson, acoustically playing If Only>
<Hanson sings If Only accoustically>
Interviewer: I like that!
Zac: You can do your part!
Interviewer: <makes his weird noises, promotes the new album. Hanson and him all thank each other, and exchange I love you's> |
