- Hey, guys! We teamed up with Adaptive Studios
to make a really weird mockumentary
about six musicians trying to make it big.
It's called Downbeat.
Here's an episode. We hope you like it.
- [Jared] When I linked up with these guys,
it was like (exploding sound).
Like this instant, lifelong connection.
They're like the family that I never had.
(soft rock music)
♪ Mama Bear, you know what's on my mind. ♪
♪ I been coming around these woods for a long, long time. ♪
- [Interviewer] Does Jared know this band
is just your side project?
- [Trevor] I mean I feel like it's implied.
I don't think I have to formally tell him.
You're not gonna tell him are you?
- Trevor and I are probably like the
closest of anybody in the band,
like we're probably the tightest of-
People say that we even look alike.
- [Interviewer] People say that about you two?
- Like we have the same bone structure, jaw.
- [Interviewer] You have similar chins.
- Yeah, they're a little similar.
It's like I could probably go home with his girlfriend
and she wouldn't even know,
or just ... I'm joking ... yeah.
Replacing a string?
- [Trevor] Yeah.
- [Jared] At show time, I turn into this
more confident, front man, bandleader guy.
I think it's part of the show,
and I think it's what people are coming to see,
so, I wanna deliver on that. But,
it's a defense mechanism, I think, primarily.
(Band starting up)
- [Jared] Take 'em to the top, Trish.
My man Trevor on the strings.
♪ You're a bear, and I'm a man, baby. ♪
♪ And you got paws, but that don't bother me. ♪
♪ Cause I gotta get in the cave, baby. ♪
- I was in a touring band for three years.
Then our singer quit to go to nursing school.
Asshole.
But it's cool, cause now I'm involved in three
really exciting groups that I'm even more passionate about.
- [Interviewer] What are the two others?
- Oh, three besides this.
- We responded to an ad that said free rehearsal space,
but we didn't know it meant with him and his music.
Kinda weird, but he's a nice enough guy,
and it's fun to jam.
- And, he pays us.
- Right, $100 to jam, $200 for in public.
- [Interviewer] Wow.
- Yeah.
- I think his mom invented Splenda or something.
Or wait, no, maybe it was Activia.
- Do we know how old he is?
- Our bass player, Trish
And our drum player, Margo.
(girls singing)
Hey, we don't have any songs on the drum machine.
That's good.
(girls singing)
That's tight.
(Jared humming along)
And then maybe I just take one, just me.
These are gonna be my ruby slippers, ya know?
Except they're not gonna take me home,
they're gonna take me (rocket sound)
to the stratosphere.
- [Interviewer] Are you gonna wear them
for the show tonight?
- Um ...
No.
I find that sometimes,
I get a little overly confident.
(background music)
And, I don't know, it could be argued that
that gets in the way.
- [Interviewer] Who argues that it gets in the way?
- The band.
♪ Mama Bear, you ain't so terrifying. ♪
Trish and Margo are like sisters
and I did not ever get along with my siblings,
so to have them, you know, believe in me
and like the music, it's just like,
it just means a lot.
- Trish and I are in a band together.
- Yeah, it's sort of like a shoe gaze,
dream pop sound, but a little bit of doom metal
mixed in. Wait, no no no, doom metal is the-
- Yeah that's our other band with Trevor.
[Margo] Super exciting.
♪ Trying to make you see that I'm the one ♪
♪ That you should let shimmy up your tree. ♪
♪ Mama Bear, let me in your honey jar. ♪
- [Jared] Check it out!
All made possible by Ian here, the uh,
and he doesn't even know this yet,
the official Jared Lowe and the Lowtops
merch coordinator!
- [Ian] What's up?
- [Jared] What's up? Congrats, man!
- [Ian] I'm basically like the go to merch guy
for like all the bands in our scene.
I still have access to my college print lab, so
business is good.
- [Jared] We needed you, and you needed us,
obviously, and we just found each other like this.
It's just ... feels like fate, ya know?
- [Ian] Yeah, I guess so.
- Have we sold any?
- What's up?
- Have we sold anything?
- No.
- Okay.
I've been working on a new song.
You wanna hear it?
- [Interviewer] Yeah!
- ♪ When you wake up in the morning, ♪
♪ do you see my face? ♪
♪ I've been sitting here watching you dream all night. ♪
We've recorded three albums.
We've sold copies of two of those albums.
We're looking forward though. I think that the new album
is really where we're gonna start seeing some revenue,
and you know those others are stepping stones.
And every band has those, you know?
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- We actually have another band all together.
Same kind of sound, but Ian on vocals.
- [Ian] What's up?
- [Interviewer] But wait, do you think that Jared
would be upset if he knew that you all had other
projects that he isn't a part of?
- I mean that's just music.
I mean we're all semiprofessionals here,
I don't think Jared would cry if he knew
he wasn't our main thing.
- [Trevor] I could see him crying.
- [Margo] He cried today.
- [Trish] Like a baby.
- Look, we can't assume anything.
We don't know what his life is like.
Does anyone know how old he is?
Seriously, god, I mean he could be 23 or 43,
it's driving me crazy.
- [Interviewer] I know how old he is.
- [Margo] How old is he?
- [Trish] What?
- You knew this whole time,
and you're just watching me suffer?
- [Interviewer] I don't think he wants people to know.
- [Margo] Please.
- [Ian] Why would you bring it up?
- [Trish] Over under.
- [Trevor] Can we guess?
- [Interviewer] Yeah, sure.
- [Trevor] Seventeen.
(pop rock music)
♪ Mama Bear, let me in your honey jar. ♪
♪ She's doing it. ♪
♪ ♪ Mama Bear, let me in your honey jar. ♪
♪ (Applause) ♪
- [Jared] Thanks a lot. I'm Jared Lowe.
And these are the Lowtops.
(applause)
Give it up to my fam, my best friends.
Look, I know this isn't their main thing.
I pick up on little things like that.
But ...
I'm planning something, that I think
will get everyone really jazzed about the band.
Beep, beep!
Pack your bags!
Your face...
- [Ian] The tour.
- [Jared] Dude!
- [Ian] Talking about the tour?
- [Jared] Yeah, I'm ...
Yes, but it was a surprise.
I wanted to tell them.
- [Ian] Oh my god, I'm so sorry, seriously.
♪ Mama Bear, let me in your honey jar ♪
(instrumental music)
(crashing sound)