It's about not just going out and making people expect the least. Now that we have five to pull from, there's a sense that there's kind of an arc. It's something you can't do if you're only two albums in. They're going to hear our whole body of work. Of course, they're not just going to hear our whole album. But the bulk of the concert is the one album that the fans voted for in that city. You're still going to have a mix of songs from across our career at the opening and closing of the shows. That's one of the things that I think is good about the tour. But they're voting on albums we made, so at least we know that everything they're going to vote on is recorded and written and put out as a record. Well it's definitely risky! It's risky as far as our ability to rehearse well. You guys seem like you're confident that concertgoers will make good choices. To further make the music become a personalized experience, you're allowing fans to choose the set list on this tour. It makes you want to drive it makes you want to cry it makes you want to go do something. People connect when they hear your song and it makes you feel a certain way. That's got to be the model for me because music is about a feeling. In a lot of ways, that's all we try to do: make music that we're passionate about and use tools that allow us to come closer. But people like Bruce Springsteen, an icon, who is somebody I respect but maybe I'm not the biggest fan of ever, he's an example of someone with whom, even long before there was technology, people felt kinship because he would play a three-hour show, go on and on, and tell stories about real life. I was thinking of music that I love as we were planning for this tour, and there are artists that I'm a bigger fan of than others. We haven't been as high tech or as fast at Facebook or Twitter, but over time we've always tried to make what we do be a part of, in a way, something that's not just, "Oh, I like that song." Ultimately it's about building a connection. Taylor Hanson: Our position on that kind of stuff is to always come back to the music. Tell me about your longstanding relationship with your friends. You allow them to get a somewhat personal experience while you're on tour or working on new material, and you utilize social media better than a lot of other bands. “I want you for always, I hear your name in every word I say.Up On The Sun: You guys have always shared a very special interaction with your fans. One the best love songs the band has ever written. I love the lyrics, the way Taylor sings the song, Isaac’s part in the bridge and the overall huge sound of the song. I’ve seen a lot of the other fans making their own lists to share, so I thought I would do the same – it is much tougher than you’d imagine because it’s really incredibly hard to rank certain songs above each other. Some of their best work is on the fan club member CDs or tracks that “don’t exist” as Zac put it when I asked him once to play an obscure non-album track. I took the survey but it really wasn’t complete because they only listed tracks on their studio albums. I don’t know when the new album will come out (hopefully this year), so it may get revised again.īack in 2016, Hanson asked fan club members to select their Top 25 favorite songs in honor of the 20th anniversary (and their 25th anniversary as a band together). Updated (2021)! It’s been five years since I compiled this list and some of the links were broken, a few new songs have come out and I decided to re-work it a little bit.
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