I had high hopes for the latest song to leak from the Jonas Brothers’ forthcoming album, “Tonight,” when it opened with what sounded like a ’90s-ska-inspired guitar line, complete with cascading synthesizers providing a melodic counterpoint. After that, it veers off into slightly more straightforward pop-rock territory, but it’s got one of those bridges–you know the type: the melody drops out, the vocals and lyrics become a bit more sincerely tortured, and the final seconds are designed for maximum fist-raising/unironic use in an upcoming episode of SportsCenter–that made me applaud the sheer brazenness the brothers, who are the only credited writers on the song, put into their songcraft. [YouTube]
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I don’t know why I know this or care, but “Tonight” is available as a digital single on iTunes, so it’s not a leak, per se.
I had high hopes for the latest song to leak from the Jonas Brothers’ forthcoming album, “Tonight,”
You know, I am totally not trying to be a dick, but this sentence points out that Mr. “There’s not many comments here because no wants to read this” might have had a point.
This song got a crazy response live.
Joe Jonas did in fact, spend 80% of the song center stage in bouncing fist-pump mode, and I loved every last second of it.
So. There’s that.
Their bass player, Greg Garbowski, is also supposed to be credited on this song.
@Tebowner 4 Ever!: I agree. Who are the Jonas Brothers, anyways, and why should I care?
@Tebowner 4 Ever!: Dude. I like pop music. I know that you don’t. But it’s a big enough tent here that, you know, you can pass over stuff you don’t want to read. (And not to be picky, but that’s half a sentence. :P)
@puhctek: Point taken about some sort of identification being necessary. I guess when you write about them daily, you sort of forget that. (To answer your question, they’re a band that’s much more lisenteable than Sublime.)
I know it’s been a long, hot, shitty summer, but man. The crowd is tougher than ever lately. Blah.
@Tebowner 4 Ever!: To each his/her own. Not every song has to be an ode to The Big Issues. There’s something to be said for the pure joy of a big, cheesy, seemingly effortless pop song (ABBA, anyone?).
@NeverEnough: Don’t go besmirching ABBA with this Jonas Bros. nonsense!
@Big Gray.: You wanna fight, big boy? Huh? HUH?! *furiously takes off earrings, ready for a throwdown*
Puberty has done nothing good for one of the Jonas Brothers’ voices (I still can’t tell if it’s Nick or Joe singing)- whichever one sounds strained and dying needs to accept AutoTune as his rightful lord and savior, and then Joe needs to call me.
Pop Music is the shit. Plain and simple. Makes up a fair amount of my music collection. Now with that out of the way, let me just say that I am trying, TRYING to understand and get the allure behind these Jonas Bros.
[Yeah that's right. Not everybody is crazy dismissive and snotty when it comes to music. I try to remain open minded. Though a lot of artists these days make it SO DAMN HARD!]
My quest to see what the fuss is all about with these bros even lead me to sit through an entire episode of Hannah Montana recently in which they guest starred. Real talk. Still like “meh.”
@Maura Johnston: Oh, haha, not that again. I meant, though, that I hear so much about this band from almost every internet newsource/blog/music site and yet I’ve heard at most two of their songs. Are they on radio? MTV? Anything besides Disney? I don’t know. I understand that they’re some kind of marketing machine congruent to Hannah Montana, but their contribution to music as a whole, I somehow fail to see.
I’m no huge fan of Sublime, but I do prefer their musicianship to tween-pop.
@puhctek: Hahaha, I’m just being funny.
Anyway… the JBs have a new album coming out next month. They’ve been on MTV (they were the first announced artist playing at the VMAs, played FNMTV a few weeks back) and are on the cover of Rolling Stone — one of their singles, “S.O.S.,” got some airplay on the top-40 station in NYC in late ‘07/early ‘08. Last week they had two songs in the digital-tracks top 10, which tracks sales. (Airplay has been somewhat slow to catch up.)
And for a band that’s all Disney, the first time I heard about was when their video got played on Nickelodeon spinoff channel The N! (It was after a Daria rerun.) They put out an album on Columbia Records, it bombed, and they got dropped; they then got picked up by Disney. Here’s a piece I wrote about them when they were just gleams in Disney’s eye:
[idolator.com]
And here’s everything we’ve written about them:
[idolator.com]
@ObtuseIntolerant: Yeah, Maura. We’re cool and we’re ahead of the curve on music. That’s why we only want to hear about bands that are part of narrow genres we already like.
@janine: Did you really mean that @me? :(
And if you all REALLY want to know:
@Tauwan: For them, a big part of “it” is charisma…they have been incredible to their fans from when they were doing shows at Six Flags for 5 people. And they sealed the lucrative spot in the hearts of many a nerdgirl by doing songs like this, back in the day (olden times of 2006):
(which they performed it acoustically rearranged on their post-Hannah early spring ‘08 tour)
Thusly, they have fans who are so hardcore they follow them everywhere screaming at the top of their lungs and who, for them, figure out how Billboard and such function and therefore will buy multiple copies of their records to help their status, lobby magazines and TV shows to get them in, and methodically request them on every radio station across the country, which they don’t even listen to.
This is Jonas activist fangirl command central, and they have successfully flashmob crashed MTV several times: [www.JonasBrothersFan.com]
@puhctek: Television and radio is meaningless to kids (and adults like me) today. It all happened on the internet. This is where it has been building since last April: [www.youtube.com]
The Jonas Brothers seem aware and relatively comfortable with their status of being the nerds of the music industry, for NOW. After all, it is working out pretty well for them.
@ObtuseIntolerant: Nope. Meant for Tebowner 4 Ever! That’s weird.