![]() Joe, who dated love-inspired lyricist Taylor Swift in 2008, took a dig at those who dish about their relationships. He thinks celebrity breakup songs are a cop-out. I’m glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, ‘That girl was batshit crazy. “I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. ![]() “We decided to take the rings off a few years ago,” he revealed. It felt like we couldn’t be creative, so we stopped listening to them and just started handing shit in.”ħ. It could be the most innocent reference, like ‘I’m alone in a room with you,’ and it would have to go. “If a lyric was slightly sexual, someone at the record company would tell us we had to change it. PHOTOS: The Beatles to The Wanted: The Evolution of Boy BandsĪdd the rings to the facts that they were young boys on the Disney Channel, and the trio had to settle for a sugarcoated career. “He kept pushing the subject, and when we insisted that we didn’t want to talk about it, he told us, ‘I can write whatever I want,’ which terrified us.” “I remember this interview with this guy whose entire agenda was to focus on the rings,” he recalled. Though the siblings became known for joining the True Love Waits pact at a young age (Joe did at 10 or 11 years old), Joe claims the media paid two much attention to their brothers’ promise rings. The promise rings thing was blown out of proportion. I don’t even remember what the movie was about. ![]() “I remember I invited a fan to a movie, and we just made out the entire time. Still, he admits to having occasionally dated fans. Jonas Brothers fans sometimes acted like a “zombie apocalypse.” Joe used the phrase to describe an overwhelming meet-and-greet in Spain, and then listed various experiences with out-of-control fans: a girl showing up in his hotel room, a guy blasting the band in the tabloids for not taking a photo with him while out to dinner with friends. You did this to yourselves.” And what happens when they eventually deviate, as Vanessa Hudgens did with her nude-photo scandal in 2007? “We heard that she had to be in the Disney offices for a whole day because they were trying to figure out how to keep her on lockdown.”ĥ. “Being a part of the Disney thing for so long will make you not want to be this perfect little puppet forever…Come on, guys. Joe observed that the network pulls “spunky” stars into the spotlight, and then pushes them off the edge. He thinks Disney Channel ruins their child stars. “They’d teach you how to change the subject, whenever you were asked an uncomfortable question, by saying something like, ‘Oh, that reminds me of my dog! I have a great story about my dog!’ Playing dumb is the best way of getting out of anything.” They also strategically divided interviews by subject (Nick took serious questions, Kevin took lighthearted ones, Nick and Joe answered anything related to songwriting).Ĥ. Joe says they were constantly pressured to keep their image Disney Channel clean. ![]() The company required cringe-worthy media training. I had to shave every day because they wanted me to pretend like I was 16 when I was 20 (when the show was done, I cut my hair off and grew as much of a beard as I could).”ģ. They took out the kissing scene that Nick had. Of their Jonas sitcom in 2009, in which the Jonas Brothers acted as members of an already-famous band, Joe said, “It just ended up being some weird slapstick humor that only a 10-year-old would laugh at. While the company quickly launched the trio’s career, Joe notes that the Disney Channel steps to stardom the band went through weren’t necessarily pleasant. Disney’s star-making formula wasn’t always appealing. “I mean, I believe in God, and that’s a personal relationship that I have, but I’m not religious in any way.”Ģ. “After that the concept of church really upset me for a long time,” he said. Joe and his family left a church called Assembly of God when he was 14, after a scandal involving stolen money divided the congregation.
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