- Hi, we're Nat and Alex Wolff.
- And we are going to tell you five things
that we think you don't know about us.
But--
- About to get crazy.
- I'm going to tell you five things about Nat
and Nat is going to tell you five things also about Nat.
We're not going to talk about me today.
- This is a long promo.
- When Nat was a child, he very badly injured his hand
on a fence and split his hand open
and it was one of the most frightening things of all time.
- Basically I was in a park running,
we were playing tag or something.
And it was one of those moments when you start to get hurt
and then everything goes in slow motion
and my hand just went through the fence.
And it wasn't really the going through
that gave me the scar, it was when I took it out.
It went, (wooshing), like that
and then blood was spurting everywhere.
When Alex was a little baby he wouldn't stop crying.
We were taking a big family photo
and I said, "Hey mom, can I hold Alex for a second?"
And she said, "Yeah sure."
And so I grabbed him and I kind of disappeared behind a tree
for a couple seconds and then brought him back
and Alex was crying even harder
and then they said, "What happened, what did you do?"
And I said, "I bit his toe."
I thought that that would help sort of quiet him down
for the picture but obviously it just made him cry louder.
Honestly, this is more of an apology.
I'm sorry man.
- Don't forgive you.
But thanks for apologizing.
I do appreciate the apology, I just don't forgive you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- The song "Rosalina" that was in our show
'The Naked Brothers Band,' Nat originally wrote
as "Firefighters" before we were ever going to do the show
after 9-11 and really the lyrics were mostly about that.
But then we did the show and we kind of formulated
the lyrics around "Rosalina" and the plot
of the movie and all that.
But originally that song was called "Firefighters."
- Growing up, Alex was a big, big
'Drake & Josh' fan and of Drake and Josh,
Alex was definitely an even bigger fan of Drake.
The peak of his Drake Bell obsession.
- I was talking about him actually.
- Drake Bell walks up towards us and starts to buy a pretzel
with his girlfriend and Alex goes apoplectic.
I mean he fully goes white,
his hands start shaking, he's sweating.
And we go to meet him, and we all kind of
just take a back seat so Alex can have
his moment with Drake Bell.
And Alex says nothing.
I mean he says nothing.
- Catatonic.
- He stays completely silent like he hated him.
And Drake couldn't have been nicer to him or sweeter
but Alex sort of just gave him a death stare.
I think I remember at the MTV Movie Awards
you got a chance to tell him
what a huge fan of his you were and stuff.
But somehow at the time I think you gave him the impression
that you were, I mean I think he was scared
for his life as I remember it.
- Nat one time put on two different shoes.
Not just two different shoes
but two different types of shoe.
He put on a boot and he put on a sneaker
and didn't realize it.
And he apparently walked a couple blocks
with these different types of shoes on his feet.
- I actually ran into somebody on the street
and I was talking to them and then they said--
- That's worse.
- "Are you wearing two different shoes?"
And I said, "What?"
And then I looked down and I said,
"Yeah," as if I had planned it.
We were once on a vacation in Africa
and Alex got this crazy flu
that started to mess with his head.
And we were going to all these different islands
and we showed up on this one island
where there was just baboons everywhere.
In a feat of sickness and being out of it,
he decided to grab a ukulele from the room
and go to his balcony and sing to the baboons
as loud as he could just the name of a girl
he had a crush on from eighth grade.
Just going, "Leola Leola Leola!"
- Wow, you're using the real name, huh?
- That's the definition of blowing up my spot.
On my song "Note" there's almost no synthesizers on it.
It's almost all little messages, little vocal samples
and little messages that Nat or our engineer
who was working on the music or me were singing
into this keyboard and playing and using them as--
- We put one, four, three.
- One, four, three.
We did a lot of stuff.
Like, "hey man," we would be talking and then we'd put it in
and we'd pitch it up like, "Hey man, hey man, hey."
And you can hear it in the background.
There's a "Don't you forget me" at the end of the song,
there's all these different things.
So we challenge you to find
whatever hidden messages there are in there.
- On the AJR song "Sober Up" featuring Rivers Cuomo,
I don't think many people know this
but Alex actually played a lot of the guitars on it.
- All the guitars on it.
- A lot of the guitars on it.
- I think all the guitars on it.
There was one electric, acoustic, and uh-
- Somebody else played the Flying V.
- There's no Flying V in "Sober Up."
- I think there's a Flying V on "Sober Up."
- Nat one time wrote a song called "War is Not the Answer."
And it was an entire song
and he was really excited about it.
It was only until he played it for the family
that we realized it was the exact same chords
and melody of "Here, There and Everywhere."
Which is a great song to copy if you're going to.
"Here there and everywhere--"
"War is not the answer."
I think you tried to change it a little bit
and you're like, no I just,
everything about this is the exact same.
- I was nine, so give me a (beep) break.
On our new singles "Cool Kids" and "Note,"
a lot of people have been asking us what the cover art is.
Alex and I went through a lot of different photos
trying to find something that represented
where we were when we wrote the music
and recorded the music.
And then we saw this painting that our mom's friend Brooke
made of our grandma who had just passed away.
She passed away right around the time we were writing
and recording the music and so we thought it was
a perfect way to celebrate the music and to honor her.
- And it's just a really pretty picture.
- So that's something that not many people know.