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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and my Heart
Radio podcast. Hello, my Little Peanuts, it's me your host,
Lance Bass. This is Frosted Tips with Me Lance with
my husband, Oh me, Michael. Yeah, I thought you're gonna
introduce me, but we're sharing the mic right now because
we have a full studio today. We got two guys
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with us, all right, So today's gonna be really fun
because I purposely did not want to study for this
interview because I want to see. I want to learn
as we go with these guys. Bold moves. It is
very bold. I know some you know, sometimes we like
to challenge ourselves, all right, So please welcome to the show.
James Maslow, Logan Henderson, Uh, Big Time Rush, which is
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killing it right now, decided to be here. It's great
Now mentioned guys in one studio and hey, well three,
I don't want to hear it, all right, but I've
I've gotten to know you guys individually, of course, but
I've never really been able to talk about the group
and this this show is all about the boy band
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fandom out there and what kind of started it all
for all of us. Yeah. Um, so let's start at
the beginning. Big Time Rush Nickelodeon show. We all know
I'm wearing I wrapped our shirt just for you guys.
I appreciate that, huh. But I was telling right before
we went live that the real rivalry is Disney versus Nickelodeon,
not Backstreet didn't sync. We were Disney band. Y'are a
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Nickelodeon band? Was it actually Disney though, Yeah, that's where
it started. Well, oh yeah, because Mickey Mouse Clubs, you
were technically a Disney band. Well when they started, you know,
Disney associate, we were Disney back. I'm just trying to him.
I know, if it wasn't for the Disney special and
we used to be Nickelodeon, Sony Columbia back. Yeah, now
we're not exactly. So we all evolved. I will say though.
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One of my first shows I ever filmed was a
Disney show. Yeah, and it was called Life Bites. Okay.
I never got picked up, And in fact, the creator
of the show had me audition for Big Time Rush
and he came to me and he was like, I,
why don't you know I saw your show? And I
was like, oh great, he goes. I hated that show,
but he goes, you were the only funny one and
so I wanted you to come an audition for it.
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So it turned out that he actually saw me from
a Disney show originally, and then I somehow went to
the dark side and join Nickelodeon. That's it's kind of
like a JC story. He was auditioning for Newsies the
movie and then ended up doing Mickey Mouse Club because
of the news He's audition. Wow. H So you never
knowed kids, all stepping stones. Never give up out there.
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You never know where you're going to get discovered. The
door leads to another. Yeah, we just also had Trevor
Panic on the show from Otown and that happened the
same way too. Yeah, the auditioned for making the band. Yeah,
didn't get called to come actually, because he sent in
a tape. His friend and him did a duo thing.
His friend got called in, but him not. But he
went to the audition anyway and stood in line and
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they picked him out of the line. I said, no,
you're auditioning, and he made the band personally right there. Tenacity.
Oh yeah, okay, So how did the group because some
people don't know that the group was made for the
TV show or were you a group and then got
the TV show. It was both I'll let you. I'll
let you kind of go through the whole process because
you sure, yeah, it was there from the beginning. You
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were Logan and I are actually the first one in
the first round of auditioning. It was a two year process,
believe it or not, where Sony Columbia and Nickelodeon came
together and said, hey, we want to create a band
that's a real band, but they can also be a
real scripted television show. Allah the Monkeys. I think it
was a good example. Hey, hey, and so we were seventeen.
I was seventeen we first started auditioning. It's two thousand
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and seven, and we went through this whole entire process.
I mean they flew in, they saw thousands of kids
and picked I think forty of us. Flew everybody to
LA and we literally would have acting coaches, singing coaches,
dance coaches. We learned choreography and songs. Well, speaking of
making the band, it was very much like the film
and filmed the entire thing. I mean people were getting cut,
kids were crying. It was like at the beginning of
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it was pretty gnarly because they didn't know exactly what
they were trying to create. They were just like, all right,
let's see they were pretty much and they did a
good job of that. But no, it was It was
a lot of fun. The craziest part though, is that
we actually ended up with a group before at the
end of the first round, in the first screen test,
and little did we know there was going to be
three more screen tests over the next two years. So,
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I mean, obviously it worked out in the end, but
we even ended up filming a pilot episode with another
character that was in place of Kindle because we didn't
have him at the time. So the guy's name was Kurt,
really talented Broadway star, but it just didn't quite fit
the group and kind of what we needed on the
recording side of things, and we ended up having another
screen test again, like multimillion Dollar pilot. Kindle jumped in
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and then everything just kind of solidified and felt right, wow, yeah,
I mean everyone's kind of going through that too. I
feel like with every group they had a member that
jumped out or just didn't really fit. So how did
y'all know that Kendall was like the right guy? It was, well,
it was stuff, well I had I met him actually
about a month prior, and we were at a house
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party and he was playing some music and I came
in and started singing, and so we jam for a
little bit. I got to kind of, you know, get
to know him. But it was one of those parts.
You know, we had been drinking, so it's more of
just kind of a hangout, not a you know, a
formal introduction. But whenever I saw him, I at the
screen test, I came right up to him. I was like,
what's up, man, Like, good to see you again, And
you know, we just had such great chemistry. Everything just
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kind of we were already joking within the first screen
test and messing around with each other like we had
been old friends. And I think one of those things,
it's just you know, when the stars all aligned, it
just everything felt right. Yeah, you know how it goes.
You know, when you got a group of group of guys,
group of people, you really the most important thing is like, yeah,
can you do the job, of course, but past that
level of good enough to do the job, who do
you want to spend the next many years of your
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life when which is really important, very important? So I
mean we're all still friends today, Yeah, and people don't
realize that. You know, it's like you have to have
that chemistry as a band. You can be the best
singer in the world, but if you're an asshole, the
band's not gonna last that long. Totally. Yeah, absolutely, And
and that's what we were so lucky too. When we
got together. We we put ourselves together, so there was
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this kind of friendship already, and then we lived in
a house together for a year before we even got
a record deal, so you knew by the time experience
it was. I loved it because look, I was sixteen
years old. It is based like camp, that's the time
to do it, because as you get old, you're like, okay,
I need my space. Yeah, oh no, I was totally
fine sleeping on a couch for months and yeah, and
living off hash Browns. That's that's that was my harsh
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brands are still delicious. I mean, well, in between that time,
we were all kind of amos couch surfing two and
whenever I first moved out to la because I didn't
have anything. Yeah, and so until we actually started picking
up the show, that's whenever things just started to rock
and roll. But then you know, you know, their chemistry
is there and you're gonna be together for a long time. Yeah.
Um all right, so uh big time Rushing premiere two
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thousand and nine. What do you what was that time like?
Because two thousand and nine, I would say the whole
boy band stuff started like falling off right and then
having a TV show. It was a great angle, I think,
to bring back a boy band. Absolutely, did y'all know
that it was going to be a success at that
time or did you have concerns that, like, wow, music
is really changing right now? Well after two years, we
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sure hoped. Yeah. I had friends also in other boy
bands trying to make it, and I kind of saw
those dissolved, and so it was kind of nerve racking
starting this project, especially I never really saw myself being
a boy band in the first place. But I think
I had a moment with kindall as we walked out
after Paramount after shooting our first week episode and thinking,
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I think this could be something special, And it really
was more of the camaraderie. So even if it didn't
gain major success, I thought the relationship that we all
had there was something, There was some magic there, and
I think I felt it then. I don't know when
you felt it well. I think part of the reason
it was successful is we weren't trying to emulate anybody
that had come before. We looked at all the previous
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boy bands and respected them, but we weren't you know,
we weren't trying to be the best dancers. We're trying
to We're trying to be our version of it. And
in many ways in the TV show very much alluded
toward towards this. In the episodes, it was like the
anti boy band boy band, where it's like, we're not
a boy band, We're just four best friends. And that's
carried us through today. We're now we totally use the
word boy band. We're proud of it, and that's rad.
But it still stems from, you know, four dudes, you
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just want to make music together and entertained together. And
everyone's very interested in what is a boy band because
the term boy band has evolved. At what point doesn't
be called a man band right exactly? Question. We were
discussing this or a way here, and I think I've
figured out how you can be considered a boy band.
It's I think it's the fandom. I think if you're
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a group of male presenting you know, uh, singers, you
don't have to dance, you don't have to play instruments.
Whatever it is. If you are a band made of
presenting men but had your fan base, you had tweens
and teens like yelling at you and screaming for you
right and throwing their brawls at you. I think that's
what makes a boy band, is the fandom. Yeah. Absolutely,
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that's a huge part of it. I guess. Also something
to say is that, I mean I feel like we
haven't really grew up our age like we did. We know,
we kind of have this like complex we are so
we are mature and so I feel like it, you know,
and the way we had that Boys charm Yeah yeah,
so yeah, But I think the fans of what I
don't know, because like Boys, the Man that Forever was
probably like, we're not a boy band, But now they
they embrace it, you know, because they started out and
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they had the teens that were just going crazy for them. Yeah.
Even Beatles, you know, I mean absolutely, but Rolling Stone,
I don't think they had the teens, or maybe they did.
I wasn't alive. Then do you think they were teens
throwing stuff? Yeah? Of course. Yeah, yeah, I feel like
that was one of a rock band, So what's a
differentiating factor, That's what I'm saying. But like I don't
think Rolling Stone had like the majority of their audience
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wasn't tweens and teens. I think boy band are also
more pop, like the music's pop or a boy Okay,
I think that's kind of I think that's fair. Okay, yeah,
popular music or popular music if it's wrong. And the
Beatles was very poppy, but their fandom again screaming, but
that was at the time. I don't know. But yeah,
like five Sauce, you know, they wouldn't consider the sales
a band boy band, I don't think, but like they
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have the same fans. It's interesting, yeah, uh huh, because
you don't really have you don't, especially now you don't
have You don't have many like bands of like young
guys that look the part like they would be in
a boy band. You know what I mean. You don't
really have that many bands that are settings rock bands
because they were a band, but they bomb music. I
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don't know. It pisses people off. Logan you are from Texas? Yes, Um,
do you get back? Did your family still live back? There. Yeah,
my immediate family, we've we've moved around, but I have
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lots of family in Texas, so I see them a
couple of times a year and it's always pretty Did
you always knew you wanted to be an entertainer growing
up in Texas? I always did. Yeah. I had found
some a good place to study film at a young age,
and I always loved theater, and um, you know, I
wasn't always first pick for sports. I always loved playing sports,
but you know, I was just so much more captivated
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by music and entertainment, and so I always really loved it.
And not until I got a little older was I like,
I think I could do this for real? For real? Yeah,
do you remember your first player musical you did as
a kid? I think I think Annie was the first one. Yeah,
did you play Annie? I did not, although honestly I
could go back. I could probably play a killer anything
pretty high. It's got a beautiful since. I probably could.
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I was always jealous of the high voices because I'm
just I have this low voice. I couldn't get high.
But I feel like it's every side feels the other way.
It's like it's pretty dope. You have an awesome bass.
It's like I could never carry a note from more
than like four bars. Even for me, whenever I'm singing lower,
I try to go in first thing in the studio
without warming up because I'm like, there, that's good. And
then once I started, if you're a little high. Yeah,
that was the best thing about being the bass singer.
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I as everyone's recording, like I'd always go to last
and put like three different bass parts on everything, which
you could never hear after the production was done. No
betterness at all. Right, it was great because I would
just kind of lay on the couch in the studio
and listen to all the guys seeing and I would
just take naps, and then right as I would kind
of wake up, my bass voice was perfect. Yeah. Well
look it's such a nice radio voice too. Yes, yes,
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you really got it. It's such an important part of
a song though, which is like a lot of people
don't always get to hear that. I mean, it's really
what balances the entire I mean, it was my life.
I loved being a bass singer. Uh why did they
change your last name on the show, because it's Logan
Mitchell on the show, right, we it's actually all of
our first names are the same and all of our
last names are different. For years was Diamond. We wanted
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to have some degree of separation, but it did help.
You know, you think about leaving the show and then
going out on the street and somebody going like, hey, Cameron,
and you're like name because there was so much of
life reflecting art and vice versa. It was a weird decision.
I've never been you know, having this conversation. It was like,
should we not have her names at all? We have
our real names? And we kind of found it that
was a good middle ground. That it follows you because
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being you know, a young star and has this young
fan base, they really they feel like they know you, right.
I mean you're their friend, you're their family, especially when
you're on TV. You're in their homes every day. And
we just saw that. We went to a us UCLA
basketball game last week and um, oh my god, Jilil
White was there and you know, he will always be
Erkele right right for our generation and now even this
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young generation. And this kid probably was eight years old.
I went up to him and he was like, hey, wait,
you are you erkle it is? He's like, yeah, man,
So he goes, did I do that? Like starts repeating
all his lives and I'm thinking that must get so
old when it's not even your name. You're just like
this other character. And same thing with Carlton. Yeah, yeah,
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you know, like can you do the Carlton dance? It's
like it's not But you know what I appreciate, whether
actor or singer, when they embrace it. Yeah, when they
go yeah, but at some point you got a snap,
you know, it's like right, it's like, yeah, we've had
a moment. You can be the nicest person in the
world and yes, give it to the but you might
have a bad day and then the next time someone says, hey, Urkele,
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you just go off, shut up kid, exactly. Well. I
think what we've done is we've we've stayed on tours,
so the fans have gotten to really know us for
who we are, and so something like the character I
was playing it is very opposite of who I am
in real life, and so they start to catch on,
and I think with social media, they start going, oh, okay,
this is this is the person. The only people that
really love they call out the characters are newer fans
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like The show was picked up by Netflix a couple
of years ago. So we do have this whole new
generation of younger fans. And when they ask for you know, hey,
James Diamond, can you do the face? You got to?
He's only got to. You know, when an older fan
does it, I'm kind of like, grow up, stop asking
me stupid questions. But when a younger fan of my
band bad Ass, you go totally just did it for
all of you pay attention at home exactly, but you do.
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I mean having the younger generation love it, I mean
that's kind of the key. That's what keeps you young,
great and alive. Uh. And that's such That's why having
these different platforms like YouTube, you know, this young generation
really kind of latches on and they almost get to
experience what their parents got to experience, but at different times. Yeah,
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and so wild. Also, it's a blessing, super humbling. James.
You're from New York City, right, Originally I moved to
San Diego I was pretty young, so much more to
West Coast boy. I love San Diego. What a great town,
thrilling up there. I grew up in Looya, and you know,
I just I have vivid memories of like leaving school,
going surfing, you know, as a kid, and it's been
like men on board the Sooks And I only say
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that because they've traveled the world enough times now to
know that it is one of the most beautiful cities
in the freaking world. And I had no anyone else
talking about because I had no perspective. And all I
want now is a beach house back in Loya. Oh yeah,
so who does you always You always want what you
don't have, and then you realize, oh, well what I
had is pretty good for sure. For sure. Um did
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Dance on the Stars eighteenth season. Uh, the few of
us that have done this show, there is this kind
of family. Yeah, because we're the only ones that know
what we went through. And then I got a lot
of work that I mean, it was after doing that show,
I felt like I could do anything. It was the
one of the best experiences ever. But man, it was
hell brutal. Oh yeah, hell. I explained it as the
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most amount of fun and every want to have Again. Yeah,
I'm glad I did it. I mean, learned so much
in a short period of time, But holy shit, is
it stressful when you're learning a dance at your body's
never moved that way before, and you have like four
days to perfect it, and each time the cameras rolling
and it's like it's it's a very strange thing. And
then you know, by week I don't know, eight or ten,
you're learning two dances. You're like, it's it's I props
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to dancers and props all the dancers on that. That's
show one of the most stressful parts, even whenever we're
getting ready for tour. So I can't imagine the train
movement that like suits our bodies, imagine doing ball room
stuff you've never done totally. Oh, it's it's crazy. Yeah,
But the same thing with me. I was never a
dancer when I joined in Sync, but I learned how
to dance, and getting ready for the tour was always
I was the most anxious because yeah, I would eventually
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learn it, but it took me time, like I needed
to really digest it, and everyone else is so quickly.
I know, and you know, so yeah on tour great,
but just leading up to him tearing up, like my
hair out of my head. Well, even on tour, you know,
it's like the first five to ten shows, I'm just
like I wish I had a little more rehearsal, you know.
And then it's like, and of course we filmed our
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MSG concert series on show six, and I'm like, if
it was show ten would have been that. It was Weirdly,
every single tour we did every run through never could
There was never run through that went perfectly never, which
is actually a good thing. Yeah. Well, but every first
show of every tour was perfect. That's why. But if
you get it right, if you get it too right
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in rehearsal, your first show is gonna suck. I don't
I don't believe in many, um not conspiracy's what do
you call this, superstitions? Sessions? I don't believe in tons
of superstitions, but that's one that I'm pretty fervent on.
It's like, if you're if you're run throughs go too well,
something's gonna something happening show, So I kind of love
knock you down. Yeah right. And then the other show
you did, my other favorite show, Big Brother. Yeah, that's
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the most entertaining to watch. I mean, I could never
do the show because I could never have a camera
only twenty four seven because same I talked too much
and I'm going to say something stupid and get canceled.
So I but I'm surprised you did so well. Yeah,
I held my tongue pretty well. Were you afraid of
that going in? Being like, Okay, I could easily get
canceled right now, you know, not so much going in
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because I've got a pretty good awareness of like, Okay,
this is a job. There are cameras rolling, like. I
don't tend to forget where I am, um, you know,
especially if I'm not drinking, which I didn't really drink,
but it can be quite inappropriate that I can. They
don't provide you much alcohol in the house now, right
because I used to back in the day. Yeah, I think,
like you know, some of the European versions of it,
it's like, yeah, it's gotten drunk. Can they watch that
whole thing? It's a little bit more family friendly out here,
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I think. So. I mean, I feel like Brandy Glanville
did find alcohol that wasn't even in the house, and
she's just a talent of hers really good at being
drunk all the time. Because you either hater, there's no
middle ground. I certainly wouldn't say I love her. Yeah. Well, yeah, y'all,
y'all had a little here's the thing. They made it
seem like there's some big tiff there, but I just
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simply couldn't be bothered by her. She was never quick
enough to make it fun and it was just she
was there trying to get a ruse. I'm just oh,
this is this is cute, but I'm not really going
to do this because there's cameras rolling and this is
it tumpster fire. Yeah, we did. We did a show together,
um called My Kitchen Rules. It was a cooking thing
for Fox and I did it with my mom and
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she did it with her oh widow, Leanne Rhymes's ex husband. Okay,
trying to like I mean totally um, but we got
along very well just because she loved my mom, Like
they just had this bond and because of that, like
she she was just really good to me. She never
liked wanted to like get something out of me. She's
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always good with you. Yeah, because of my mom. Yeah,
he props props to MoMA. I know, because it's like
my mom just becomes the motherly you know, the effect
on everyone Logan's mom. I will say though, the best
part about doing Big Brother, and I mean this sincerely
was not having my phone or computer. Oh yes, and
it seems scary at first, and for a couple of
days it was like, what's happening? And I was like,
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you know what, I can't. I have no control over
what's going on, and I'm going to embrace the crap
out of this right now. It was so nice, no emails,
no texts for a whole dread. It just kind of
goes away. We did that at our wedding and we
were like, you know what, no cell phones. I want
everyone present. Everyone still talks about how that was the
best wedding because you didn't have to you didn't worry
about it and taking a picture. Oh I gotta text this. Absolutely,
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it was just you were there, You're in the moment,
get super drunk, and there's no proof of it exactly.
We didn't even drink at our wedding. How sad is that?
That's kind of impressive. Actually it is, because you know,
you want to remember everything, and well I wanted to
read that. You just didn't have too many We didn't
have any of the food, and we didn't have one drink.
We had one glass champagne for a picture, and we
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cut the cake but didn't even have the cake. No,
the wedding wasn't really for you. Yeah, everyone remember and
we're going on ten years and like, well should we
just redo it and absolutely like a real part. Yeah, fun,
we'll come. We're inviting ourselves and we'll be there. Total
wedding crashers, got done. Wait already have you married? Not us?
Long term relationships ye, Kendall just got engaged recently, okay,
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and Carlos has been married for they're coming up soon.
Yeah those next episode. Yeah, well we're gonna we're gonna
separate you guys because we want people to really wait
in between. Yeah, I was like a two part was
like a two parts. Yeah, the two parts is gonna
come like two months later. Amazing. So you are going
back on tour this summer, right, we are for they
can't get enough tour. When does that start? We starts
in June okay, yeah, so we actually go to South
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America in about a week. We finish finish up our
Forever tour, which was just incredible. We had more fun,
I can speak for all of us. We truly had
more fun this last summer than any tour we'd ever
done before. I honestly feel like this next tour is
going to be even better. I think, well, we didn't
know what to expect. You know, we took a huge hiatus.
We came back independently as like, hey, let's just get
back together with ourselves and see if people still care.
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And we were so blessed and so surprised. Some reason
people up. But you know now that we have that, Okay,
we beat our expectations last time. Now we're going into
this summer's tour. They can't get up to going. How
do we How do we do this tenfold? I mean
really step it up from production to songs sadly with
it too, So I think that helps. Yeah, yeah, how
did it? Because you weren't hiatus for eight or ten
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years at a year between. Who was the first to say,
you know what, let's do something again. There's little talks
all around. It was just finding the right timing, I think, yeah,
I mean who had said something Kendall wanted to. I
wanted to get back together a handful of times. It
was just different timing. And then I kept on saying no, yeah,
I was the hold, but I was busy. I was
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busy doing my own project. So I wanted to make
sure that I got rid it, I got done with that.
None of us wanted to do it right at the top.
I mean, I certainly wanted to go off and do
my own thing. It really was a timing thing. Yeah,
we needed a break. We did it for so many
you know, we didn't have a day off for you know,
practically and then probably literally for years at a time, right,
And it was correct, but we certainly needed a break,
and that's given us such an amazing perspective and appreciation
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this time around, having more fun. Now, we appreciate every moment. Now,
we'll never better equipped to handle relationship and balance the
work life as well. So it's sweet. It's true you
have to have a break to realize one what you
have and what's working and what's not working, uh, and
really put everything into perspective. And same thing happened with us.
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You know, we went on our hiatus, which we're still
on and you know, and looking back, I'm like, god, yeah,
now I can see where we should have done this,
and we should have fought back on the label to
make us have a week break every once in a while. Yeah,
because that just makes you a better artist in the end,
because when you did have a day off. I wasn't
thinking about writing or anything to do with the group.
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I was sleeping. Yea nothing, nothing, or I actually see
my parents again, you know that I haven't seen in
a couple of months. But yeah, I think we were
were very worked hard. And I'm sure coming under a
big umbrella of like a Nickelodeon, I'm sure they worked
all because I know how Disney and Nickelodeon does with
their actors. I think we know what's going on. Yeah,
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but it did. It also set us up, though, to
be the hardest workers in the room. Yeah. You know,
at the beginning, we didn't really know what we were
getting into, and we said yes to absolutely everything. But
we grew to have these incredible work ethics. Where you're
filming a single camera show that starts at six am
on Monday, goes twelve hours. Every subsequent day is longer
and longer and longer. You shoot through your Faturday, which
is a Friday going into Saturday, get a police escort
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to the airport to go and fly and play a show,
do press, play another show, flight back. It sounds insane,
but it prepped us for as we're doing it now.
It's a no brainer. When you love what you do,
it's it's not work. So that's how we see it. Yeah,
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so after you started the hiatus, what did you want?
Did you want to stay in music and do solo
stuff or did you want to just escape that and
do more just television. For me, I feel more into it.
I wanted to kind of explore even more so. Music
was was, you know, such a big passion. But I
had been learning up to that point, and now I
was like, you know, I want to see what I
can do on my own. So that was that was
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a really special time for me to kind of do
that and get back into acting and and uh kind
of just like learn again. What was that process like? So,
you know, you leave a group a success was a
big time rush to go, let's take a little I
want to do something solo. Do you use the same
crew that used a bit big time rush or did
you build your own world of people to work with?
(25:36):
I built my own. I thought it was really important
to kind of get away from the entire project, especially
because I wanted to do different kind of music, you know,
I wanted to explore and so um, yeah, I sought
out some different people, done tons of different sessions to
kind of figure out, oh what do I like and
what what do I groove with which Now we're actually
using a lot of the people that I used for
some of my solo work, so and they've been a
(25:57):
huge help to the band, and we couldn't be happier
to kind of all use what we've taken from these
last few years on our own and bringing them to
the bands. We have something to offer, and it's only
they the band grow even more exponentially. What about you, James,
I did do some of my own music and explore that,
but I really went head first in acting, you know,
and I've done a bunch of movies and some series.
I just had a movie come out last week, Stars
(26:19):
Fell Again, the rom com. There's a sequel, And I'm
grateful because to me to this day, I love having
my own personal outlet outside of the band, and I
love making my own music, and I DJ and do
some other more dance music and stuff on my own,
but acting and continuing to build that vertical and have
my own space outside of this as part of what
gives me that full fulfillment. So I can come back
to BTR and well, don't you think that's what makes
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the band better, that we all have our own things
going on, and you'll come back and everybody's grown not
only as like artists, but as vocalist confidence wise, as people.
That's really yeah, And it's made this process just a
lot smoother, right, Yeah, I agree. I mean with our group,
we all had just individual things going on on the side,
and I think that just made our brain turn off
(27:00):
a little bit so that we just didn't burn out
as much. You know, Chris was really heavy on starting
like a clothing line, and you know, I was heavy
on producing television and film, and it just made me
really be able to escape, Yeah, just for like a
little bit, you know. And and I think I would
have burned out a lot quicker if I didn't have
something like that to fall back on. Right. The other
(27:21):
stuff kind of keeps you grounded as well. Yeah, which,
speaking of keeping ground where's Dave Brown? Brown? How do
you know Dave Brown? That's our old tour manager. He
was back off. Well, well, we're still in our hiatus.
You can have him until we're off of our hiatus
and then get tickets to your show. Day was the
best on the road. I mean, he was kind of
(27:41):
just the I don't know, the calm one, the one
that actually, you know, could talk everyone down off the ledge,
which was one day. You know, I'm sure he has
always like a frantic but like he was always the
common sense, well in a in a weird way his
like I guess it keeps us grounded. Like he is
kind of so grumpy that nobody can be as grumpy
(28:03):
as it is. And that's what he's a straight shooter, yes,
and that's how it always brings us sandwiches. We're gonna
leave now, thank you, And it's been fun. I love it.
So this is why I like having like a couple
of people, because you can just riff off each other
and tell these stories that none of us know too long.
(28:27):
Um do you did you all get along the whole
entire time or did you rub each other the wrong
way every once in a while, because I don't know, sir,
ybody who says that it's a liar very true. Yeah,
it's listen, it's tough. I mean it's still tough. There
are we are four different personalities, and we all have
different ideas about how certain things should go. But I
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think we try to keep respect and love at the forefront,
at the heart of this band, and I think that
always is what we fall back on and always kind
of gives us through the tough times. How did can
get enough come around? How Joe end up choosing that
one song? And Dall Kendall wrote that song in the studio,
you know it went through. That was a labor of love.
(29:10):
It took a long time to get that song right.
And I think we had shown you and Carlos versions
of it and go oh, I like it, but I
think this can be worked on, and I think we
went back into the sooon and worked on until everybody goes, yeah,
you know what this fits right? Messaging wise, the message
of the song, that was a huge part from me
about like, hey, we're going back out again. We just
did this huge summer tour in the US and now
we're about to do another one, which you know, normally
(29:30):
to take a year off and give some space. We
had so many fans it wanted to come that couldn't come.
The tickets sold out too quickly, so we know we
couldn't get enough of touring. The fans seem like they
can't get enough of us come back out there. So
just the conceptual idea of it seemed to make a
lot of sense. So it's tied in really well, and
it's a great first song, like as as an umbrella
over the rest of the music that we have that
(29:51):
kind of touches on stuff that we grew up listening to,
some of our favorite genres and that kind of stuff. So,
M yeah, I just seemed like the right choice. And
there he is, Dave, get over here. I have to
hear your voice on this show. I know he is
quite the voice too. Uh, Dave, you know our tour
manager for how many years? I don't even know. I
was just saying that you were kind of the only
(30:11):
voice of reason on the road. I think. Still, yeah,
you are you? I told I told him to us out.
You really do. So what's the biggest difference between in
Sync and Big Time Rush on the road? Nothing? Nothing?
Just wow, we're that cool? Yeah? Okay, wow? What about
a big Time Rush in sync tour? Together? Absolutely? I'm
(30:32):
with it. Did we get this on camera? Great audio?
Everybody say, I I but which which band is your favorite? Though?
All of them paying the salary right now? Okay? Three eleven? Wow,
zero zero. I love it because you know, when we
(30:53):
were on the road. Uh. I think it was a
lot easier because there was no social media, and you know,
we were it's having a good time and we could
get away with murder, I think. But now on the
road you can't really get away with a lot of
things that we did back in the day. We still try.
It doesn't mean we don't try. Yeah, yeah, I think
social media is h it's too crazy now you can't
(31:13):
do anything. Yeah. Well, Dave, it's so good to see you. Yeah,
it's so good to see No, we need to have
you on. Is just a guest to give us, like
the real stories that we've heard. I mean the stories
that I don't even know, like these guys on tour,
you know that kept it from us, right, But now
that we're mature enough to understand, I'd like to know,
like the real shit that went down. Yeah, David, what
(31:35):
was it like touring with Elvis exactly? I'd like to
get some tips from you guys, because this is called
frosted tips for the relationships everyone, especially on tour, you
have to deal with long distance relationships. How do you
make it happen? I feel like we can both answer
(31:55):
that one pretty well. My girlfriend is English and Swedish,
and so it makes it very very tough, you know.
We I think it's important to build a good foundation
in the very beginning of knowing somebody, and trust is
really big for me, not even just with you know,
that type of relationship with family, with friends, that's always
something that's been really really big for me. So I think,
you know, trust is one of those things and you
(32:16):
do have to you have to work at it. You
have to kind of go the extra mile to make
sure the other one feels special. And it's hard whenever
it's like, what have you been doing? The time zone
has become crazy, it's like you really kind of have
to fill them in on your life, and even if
it's a small little text or a quick call, it
makes all the difference. Well, and we all make an
effort to fly them out to see us on the road.
If we're gonna be gone for months at a time,
(32:38):
you know, I Caitlin and I my girlfriend, I really
try not to go more than two weeks. We're about
to go to South America. I've been on the road
already for a few weeks, so this is one of
those few times it's actually going like three weeks and
a day and then another three weeks. And that's a
little a little long if we can help it. But
she understands, and I understand. You know, she's building her
business at home and I'm out here working doing our job.
And when she's gone, I took you in. That's true.
(33:00):
Make you have each other. It's very sweet. You read
me bedtime story, some lullabies perhaps exactly. Oh, it's so nice.
All right, Before I let you go, we have some
fan questions for you guys. Would you guys ever do
a big time rush cruise? It's like the big thing
now we've actually talked about it. I think it'd be
pretty fun. I think our fans don't know how cool
cruising is. Like, it's so fun. So and we can
(33:21):
get them involved. Absolutely. I've only been on a couple,
but I've had a blasts. Well, you just don't have
to do anything. It's so nice. Everything is there for you.
There's always some type of entertainment going on. Yeah, I mean,
give me a buffet all day long. I am good
to get absolutely a buffet and a spot. It's all
I need. It's all on a boat. I'm at that
all right. So here we have some questions that you
were asked in twenty ten, twenty twelve, and we have
(33:44):
your actual audios at the time giving the answer. Oh,
I'm going to ask you the question and then we're
gonna play the audio. Okay, So see what you said.
What is your biggest pet peeve? It's from twenty ten.
I feel like I would have said something like socks
and sandals and like birkenstocks, and yeah, I like that.
I do it all the time, so you probably you
(34:07):
know when I can hear people chew and I know
it's it's a thing that is lances. It's called mesoponia. Okay,
well I've got that. It's work sounds like sounds, I know,
and it's just certain people like I feel like I
can hear my mom choose so loud something I'm like, Mom.
The worst is people eating soup. Yes, glares from lands
just every day. I have to have noise around me
(34:29):
at all times because little things like that just eat
me up. Totally attention to a different person. Yeah, I
like from they're texting at dinner texting at the time.
That also is something I don't like it, right, all right,
what did they say? Let's listeneve I think is waiting
on people when people are late. You know, I'm always
like on time a little bit early, so I mean
I little to it in this town, so don't be late. Yeah,
(34:51):
I also must a create that. Yeah, I appreciate that
you've gotten better. I'm gonna way better. I mean, I'm there,
I'm telling you you've gotten better. Thank you. Okay, logans
is yours. The biggest peeve is when people say, when
multiple people say the same thing to you over and over,
just not do that on the market. Then somebody else
comes up here, by the way, I need to stop
(35:11):
doing that. Totally don't you agree? I agree, inturgree, I agree,
I totally agree. I agree. Speaking of Dave, let's go boys,
that's funny though. Yeah, when people repeat that's also all right.
We got one more. What is your ideal summer date?
A summer date you and me probably both have a
(35:34):
similar Remember, I'm gonna go with picnic on the beach,
you know, some food, maybe some surfing, some frolicking perhaps,
you know, I love the beach. Um, what's that one
place that's closer like Neptunes, like go and get some
good food, like right by the beach and I like exploring, yeah, Malibu,
like just exploring, Like I don't mind just driving with
(35:54):
all the windows down and have the music going and
airs in the car and you just kind of like
don't have anywhere to be. That's nice. Okay, let's see
see my days ago in the summer time. I would
love to charter a private jet, all right, take my
dating to somewhere across the world and go snowboarding where
they have snow. Okay, yeah, yeah, thank you first first
(36:17):
right there, there you go. I'm just so proud of
myself right now, I love myself that much more like
you were still nic snowboarding where they where they have snow.
I hope there's no no, that's a summer. It's a summer.
You thought that might be embarrassing. It turns out it
wasn't at all. Very proud of you. That is embarrassed
for you. That is a good summer date with Yeah,
(36:39):
and then you have like an unlimited amount of money
to spend. Yeah, that would be my date too. Private
ship working out for you? Where's that? We've flown them
a few times, when you know, Viacom paid for another
part meet somewhere we love a free private jet that's
kind of private jet exactly other people's not. We have
to hear. Look what did I what do I say about?
(37:03):
Malbo has some really cool spots that I know about
that I'm kind of secretive, except we're not really Hey,
look at that on point. Some thing's never change. Oh,
some things do not change. And we're glad because we're
so glad to see you guys. Back onto our the
summer starting in June. How can everyone follow you guys
and make sure they know where you're going to be
(37:24):
well at Big Time Rush and then personally we got
at James Maslow at Logan Anderson fantastic. Just want wanted
you to say it. You know where to find us
at big Official dot com if you want to get
tickets and all the information, or Live nation dot com.
There's still websites. There are websites. You can purchase everything
a mobile too. Yes, when you get tickets, come see us.
We can't wait to see you. And we've had such
(37:45):
a great time as a pleasure. Thank you. It's a
great si much travel. We're gonna have your other two
members on here in the next few weeks. Is there
anything you would like to say about them. Well, you know, look,
the interview may not be as good, you know, or
as fun yeah, or as good looking are handsome you
know know, but you know, have fun, have a good time.
They'll do their best. They're gonna they're gonna show up.
Okay that much. You know. We love them and also
we love a good two part, so go we have
(38:07):
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(38:28):
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