"We Are Young" , remember that? Yeah, you all fell in love with fun. Oh how we gathered around a speaker to shout "carry you home tonight', but that was quite awhile ago. Hats up, fun? To busy on that same 'Wild Nights" rerun? It is time for new material and I suggest you hop to it. We as society forget pretty fast and next thing you know you're picture isn't on teenaged girls walls anymore and your back on the small stage circuit.
See you have proven yourself you have a captive and loving audience.. Lets not disappoint them.
Nate Reuss spoke to Noise11 about his one hit wonder potential and what's said is somewhat disappointing. No fighting spirit here, rather the guarded complacency of a flash and poof pop band.
Ruess said that 'We Are Young' was a surprising number one: 'It changes tempo, that lyrics aren't exactly 'Hey, I just met you, this is crazy',' and he admits 'we were all shocked about it [going to number one]. We were really surprised.'
'I was signed to a major label when I was 18 and dropped,' he reveals. 'Somewhere along the way in my last band we started getting a really great cult following and that came from being ourselves and moving to the beat of our own drum and playing a whole bunch of live shows.'
'The concept of having a hit song went out the window then, because it seems very fickle and very fleeting,' Ruess says. 'To be able to have done this for twelve years now, and never really feel like I've had a moment when it has started to go down.'
But he's bracing for it. 'Oh, of course,' he says. But now, with their second Australian, New Zealand and Israeli number one hit in the title track to their album Some Nights, he can laugh and say 'Okay, cool, I'm done.'
'I'm even cool with the one hit wonder thing.'
'I'm so confident in what we do as artists, not as chart-toppers but as artists,' he declares. 'People just need to come to the show, because it's a whole different experience. You're going to get something else. And live with the album. You're going to get so much more gratification out of that. I don't care if we lose millions of people along the way. As long as we can hold on to some people, we're doing something right.'
'I want this band to be as big as possible, so if this is what it's going to be then hopefully we can stay here as long as possible.'
So how do you do that? With new material and lots of touring. But maybe that was the best they had. Maybe, there is nothing left in the fun bag of tricks? I doubt that, they have the pop magic but I wonder if they have the drive to sustain?
I'm thinking obscure VH1 special in five years