Hey guys!
We were at the Jonas Brother's official book release party on Monday in L.A!
Only on Popstaronline.com, we're giving you the entire interview with the JoBros - read it close! They talk about the book, their 3D movie, Taylor Swift, Twilight and MORE!
Enjoy!
Popstar!: Can you tell us about the book and what fans can expect in it?
Nick: It’s kind of like our own personal little scrapbook of this last year and a half and how amazing it’s been. The photographer Rob Hoffman has become a close friend of ours now and he kind of started taking pictures at kind of a pinnacle point for us at the Texas State Fair, hence the moment where I think we all kind of said “Wow, this could be something great.” He stuck on for about a year and a half and it’s been amazing ever since then.
Reporter: Any unexpected fans on tour or anything?
Kevin: I think every moment is an amazing story. It’s an amazing memory for us to look back on. We’ve received so many fan books in the past year – couple years – scrapbooks of their journey to the shows and all these pictures. We thought it was definitely time to give back our book to them and it was really exciting.
Joe: It’s really cool to look back at these pictures. You forget and go “Oh my gosh that was only a year ago!” We just walked down the -
Kevin: We looked at the pictures of the rehearsals from the AMAs from last year and we were at the AMAs just last night so it was really cool to look at these memories and kind of go “Oh!” It puts a smile on your face.
Reporter: Any favorites?
Joe: For me, I have a Polaroid camera that I bring with me everywhere on tour and for the past 3 or 4 years I’ve been taking pictures of everything from our fans, to being on stage, to our small little club shows and so it’s really cool to be able to have this piece in the book with just my Polaroid’s. And I kind of wrote notes on every single Polaroid with individual things explaining what it is. I have thousands of Polaroid’s at my house just from over the years, but this is just a little piece of it. Maybe one day we’ll make another book of just my Polaroid’s.
Reporter: What do you think fans will be most surprised about?
Joe: I think it’s cool because for us when we were on the European tour with Avril Lavigne we were on the cell phone calling back telling stories about every picture we approved for the book.
Nick: Well, there was a time difference while we were on tour so we’d get off stage around 11 every night and -
Joe: And talk to our mom.
Nick: Yeah, and talk on the phone for two and a half to three hours and then go to bed and then wake up and do some more. She probably had up to 24 hours total of just us talking about things in the book. I think fans will be really surprised that it’s really us telling all these things. It’s not just some writer writing from articles that they’ve read. It’s really us saying every individual story from the Texas State Fair to even just what it’s like having breakfast everyday.
Reporter: Any significance in choosing the title?
Kevin: I think the title BURNING UP is just kind of where we’re at in the moment when we decided it was the single, it was the tour, a lot of pictures from the tour. Really more I think than anything, it just felt right and we don’t want you to burn the book, but you know. [Joe and Nick laugh] We’re hoping it –
Nick: See, that never came to my mind!
Kevin: Yeah, I know that just popped in now – that’s a new one!
Joe: Burning up?
Kevin: Yeah, but really we’re just really proud of it and I think for Rob especially, this is a big moment and we’re just really happy and proud of him for working so hard with us and it’s not posing. So it’s not us hanging out in front of a backdrop, it’s our real life. It’s us backstage playing guitar. That might be a picture, but it signifies – we can look at it and we can go – we looked at a picture in the book today and Nick goes “this is the first time we played LOVEBUG for my dad.” It was in a bathroom of a venue so it was like “Wow, that’s that memory.” He took a picture of it and we’ll always have that so I think that’s why it means so much to us.
Popstar!: What was it like winning an AMA award last night?
Nick: Awh! It was so amazing!
Kevin: We did not know we were going to win. And we were like “YES!”
Joe: We were all sitting there kind of like – the last time at the MTV Video Music Awards we didn’t win and so it was kind of disappointing, but you don’t know what to expect when you go into those things.
Nick: The cool thing was that Ashley Tisdale was the one who presented us with the award. So when she walked out she kind of gave us this look like “You got this” so we were kind of encouraged, but we didn’t know.
Joe: All of our reactions were different. Nick was like “YES!”
Kevin: I stood up immediately and started clapping! [Laughs] I don’t know!
Joe: I was just like “Uh!” I couldn’t believe it – it was just a breath of fresh air.
Kevin: And we had to go up and still perform so like if you don’t win it’s like “Oh well, that was fun!”
Reporter: Taylor Swift did great, were you excited for her?
Nick: Very excited.
Kevin: She performed really well – it was great! And then we were even more – we were super happy about our free concert after the show at the House of Blues. We played a free concert last night and we were just totally pumped about doing that for our fans and we just played. A bunch of our friends came – Jordin came, Jesse McCartney came, Dan Aykroyd played a song with us, Demi – it was awesome!
Nick: We played for about two and a half hours.
Kevin: It was totally stripped down, acoustic.
Joe: Yeah, the longest we’ve ever played.
Kevin: We played mostly covers. It was really, really cool.
Popstar!: What covers did you play?
Nick: A lot of John Mayer.
Joe: A lot of John Mayer. We did “Daughters” by John Mayer, we did -
Nick: “Gravity”
Joe: “Gravity” – we did some Tom Petty, Bob Marley, “Superstition”
Nick: With Jordin!
Kevin: That was awesome! Go to YouTube for a video of that – that was awesome!
Nick: A lot of the songs we played we had never played before in our lives so we were just calling up friends and being like “Hey, it’s a night of music, a lot of fun. We’ve never played this before, but let’s give it a try.” It worked out nicely!
Reporter: What do you guys hope to accomplish in the next year?
Nick: Also, we’re working with some new artists this year – HONOR SOCIETY are dear friends of ours. We’re co-producing and co-writing on their record, just signed them to kind of our label and we’ve got new artists and we’ll continue to write for our record next year and then like Joe said – working on a TV show for Disney and then a 3D movie in February.
Reporter: With the holidays coming do you have any traditions?
Kevin: The Christmas tree is going to be a big one for us, that’s really exciting, but right now we’re getting ready for Thanksgiving.
Nick: We’re going to be home this year for Christmas.
Kevin: Yeah!
Nick: We’re going to be in Texas – first time in like two years.
Reporter: Have you seen TWILIGHT?
Joe: No, we want to go and see what it’s all about!
Nick: Congrats to the cast!
Kevin: Yeah, congrats on the #1 movie - $70 mil! We have a movie coming out in February and we’re crossing our fingers for it! Hopefully you like the book.
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TTYL!
Dory