-Jonas brothers are back.
Oh, my gosh, how exciting.
[ Cheering ]
"Happiness Begins."
I want to say it was almost 10 years ago to the day
that you guys -- -Really?
-We planned it all. -On our show, yeah.
-Specifically to come back here 10 years later.
-Yeah. That's what it was all about?
The whole thing? -No break-up.
-I mean, this is -- [ Laughter ]
A lot has happened since then. I mean, yeah.
I mean, you did -- you broke up.
You had solo careers.
Kevin, you had two kids. -I know. It's insane.
-I mean, a lot. -The best thing ever.
-They are. They change you.
It's the greatest thing. I mean, do they --
I mean, do they know who dad is? [ Laughter ]
Do they know who these guys are? [ Cheers and applause ]
-They definitely don't know who that guy is.
-Do you guys know who these guys are?
-No. [ Laughter ]
-I mean... -A real bad dream right now.
-Oh, gosh. -Anime characters, I think.
[ Laughter ]
-What would you say to yourself, Nick,
if you had to talk to yourself back then?
What would you say to yourself?
-I would tell myself to find some scissors and cut that hair.
[ Laughter ]
-I think it's a good look, man.
-Also, to, like, go in the sun.
We're extremely pale. [ Laughter ]
-You look very -- yeah. -That was during
the "Twilight" phase, so we're trying to fit in.
-Is it "Twilight"? [ Laughter ]
-Joe, can we even discuss this?
-I could put somebody's eye out with that hair right there.
-Yeah. What was that inspired by?
-Flat irons, mostly. [ Laughter ]
Actually, there's a band, Tokyo Hotel, from Germany,
that I love, and we met them recently again,
but I kind of just thought the lead singer just had it all.
And his hair was so straight and spiky.
And I was trying to emulate that.
I'm not sure why, but...
[ Laughs ] You did it.
You emulated it. You absolutely nailed it.
-Thank you. -I'm so happy.
I love the new album. -Thank you.
-Congrats on the great reviews. -Thank you, thank you.
-And all the singles have been fantastic so far.
"Happiness Begins."
Very kind of personal album, as well.
I mean, some of the songs on here,
you wrote, Kevin, "Come Back."
-Yeah, well, we wrote it together.
But that song, specifically, I think, meant a lot for --
in many different ways. You know, I think from the --
to the fans but as well from traveling for the first time
in a long time away from my family and the girls.
Like, that was a big deal, obviously.
And so -- -How old are your girls now?
-They're 5 and 2.
-So they don't know you as a Jonas Brother?
-They do now. [ Light laughter ]
But it was, you know, touch and go there for a minute.
They didn't really know who that was and all that stuff.
But they got to come to their first show the other day,
which was amazing. -Oh, really?
[ Cheers and applause ]
I have a very cute clip of your daughter.
You talking to your daughter about you being --
Anyway, here's Kevin's 5-year-old daughter
being very excited about her dad as a Jonas Brother.
Take a look at this.
-I'm Alena, and this is my dad.
Should I say it? -Mm-hmm.
Yeah, you can say it. -[ Laughs ]
-This is one of the Jonas Brothers.
-What? Who let him in this house?
[ Laughter ]
-"Who let him in this house?!" [ Cheers and applause ]
So cute. -They're so proud.
It's so awesome. And she did tell
her entire school that, you know, the Jonas Brothers
were coming back before the Jonas Brothers were.
-No! -Oh, yeah.
-She spoiled everything?
-We were trying to keep it a secret for basically a year.
We're making this documentary, making the album.
And we were like, "We got this is on lock.
No one's gonna tell." Kevin comes home and says,
"Guys, Alena told her whole class."
[ Laughter ]
-She told the whole school, and it's out.
-Luckily, those 5-year-olds, tight-lipped.
-Yeah, they kept the secret for us.
-You gave me a little inside scoop, and I was like,
"All right, I'm just gonna cross my fingers."
-Oh, I did, yeah, yeah. -Appreciate that.
-It couldn't have been better. -What did you tell him?
-I told him that we were coming back.
-He told us the four of us were gonna release an album together.
-Wow! -I never got the phone call.
-"You told me a little scoop."
"I told him that the band's getting back together."
-Just a little scoop. It's a big scoop.
Yeah, he trusted me. -I forgot about that.
-But since then, you got married.
-Yes. -Is there pressure writing songs
about your wives? -No, it's the best.
I mean, we -- I think we looked a long time
for the kind of inspiration that we have,
whether it's kids or wives and fans.
Also, this journey we went on together
over the course a year and a half, two years,
making the film, coming back together.
It's all in there, but it's the best thing in the world
to be able to write a love letter to your wife
in the musical form. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yeah. It's incredible. -Yeah.
And, I mean, Sophie, we love her, as well.
But, yeah, you just -- [ Cheers and applause ]
You said to me that you got married to her
just so you could find "Game of Thrones" spoilers.
-Exactly. -That's good for you.
-Good move. -That's such a good move.
-Just trying to figure out if I could write a song
for the next season, and she'll tell me -- Oh.
-Oh. Oops. Spoiler alert right there, guys.
[ Laughter ]
-Wait. -Wait, wait. What?
-He's joke. -Yeah, he's just joking.
-My heart stopped. -Everyone in the room was like,
"Wait a second."
-Everyone's loving the new record,
but this is pretty funny.
There's one person out there that is not a fan of this.
-Who?
-Someone's getting apparently text messages?
-Oh! -Oh, yeah.
-So, explain what's happening right now.
This is your fault?
-I guess. -It's all your fault.
-So, basically, I changed my number.
-Yeah. -Maybe seven, eight months ago.
Some people got my number.
They were calling me all the time.
So, finally, I just changed it.
But I forgot to text a few people.
So when the album came out,
my brothers and I were all in a group text together,
but it was the old number.
So a few people that I had forgotten
to text the new number to.
So, this person somewhere in the world
is getting text messages congratulating them
on a new album. -From probably a lot of numbers.
-A lot of people. And the last one that we saw
in one of these group texts was really hostile.
So you should probably show it.
-The last one here says, "Congrats, dude.
The album is sick. Excited to watch you go."
This person says, "Stop texting this number!
You have the wrong number!
If you continue to text this number,
I am going to give it to the police!"
[ Laughter and applause ]
-So I just -- I love the idea that
there's someone in the country so mad that lots of people
are trolling them that they have a new album out.
-Yeah. -I would love to see
how that conversation would go with the police.
"People out here congratulating me!"
[ Laughter ]
-"Can you believe what's happening in this world?"
Congrats on that documentary, by the way, as well.
-Thank you. -I did not know about that,
and it is fantastic. [ Cheers and applause ]
I loved it. And I just didn't really know
as much of the history as I thought about you guys.
Was that why you wanted to make one?
-Yeah. That was one of the reasons.
I think, you know, the whole idea
initially was just a documentary.
And then, from there, it kind of evolved to
wanting to do this again.
And it's all there in the doc. But it also shows, you know,
our childhood, our upbringing,
you know, both in church and then into
performing together and all that.
And it's a pretty in-depth look and, you know, has been
just phenomenal to see people writing and messaging us
about connecting family again.
That was the intention, really, more than anything
was just to try to create something that hopefully,
you know, brother or sister calls their family and says,
"Listen, you know, it's been a while,
but I love you, and we can get through this."
You know, it was kind of our story.
-Yeah. But it's --
But you also see how much you lived together.
And, I mean, you're doing all these malls
out in New Jersey and all this stuff,
and you go, "Oh, the Jonas Brothers
didn't just come out and just do arenas."
-We'd be at a mall at like 7:00 a.m.,
and there's this thing called mall walkers that --
[ Laughter ] Oh, yeah.
-Go to the mall, and you do laps around the mall.
And it's like -- I guess mostly when it's,
like, snowing outside and it's pretty difficult
to go for your morning walk.
And we're performing at 7:00 a.m. in a mall
where these people are covering their ears or booing.
It's like... That's how we got started.
-At one point -- At one point,
you weren't gonna be named Jonas Brothers.
-No, there were some other names.
-Yeah, we had a few.
-Actually, Jonas Brothers came up,
'cause in our first show ever,
Joe just got up on stage and said,
"We're the Jonas Brothers."
But before that, it was Sons of Jonas...
-J3. -...J3, which was never right.
-Run, Jonas, Run. -Jonas Jonas Jonas.
-Oh! Jonas Jonas Jonas is not bad.
-I like that. -I like that one.
-Jimmy Jonas. -No, that wasn't...
-Oh, man! I got so excited.
Oh, my gosh. [ Laughter ]
-That didn't make the cut.
-There's one scene in the documentary.
It's you guys playing a drinking game.
-Yes. -And, basically,
through that drinking game, you kind of --
It's almost like therapy. -Almost.
-Our version. -It kind of is.
-Tequila-infused therapy. -You were kind of
asking each other, like, "Why did the band break up?"
-Oh, this is the heaviest clip in the whole doc.
-Yeah. Isn't that weird that --
-The one that you chose to show? -Yeah, exactly.
-Well, I loved it, 'cause I think it is really personal,
and you go, "Wow. That was fascinating."
The whole thing is fascinating.
If you weren't a fan of the Jonas Brothers before,
watch this documentary, and you'll be like, "Wow."
Really, hats off to you guys.
I want to show everyone a clip from the documentary.
Here's Nick, Joe, Kevin in "Chasing Happiness."
Take a look at this.
-This game I played a few days ago.
It's fun, 'cause it's questions
we either have to answer ourselves
or it might be directed towards everybody else.
-The more we drink, the more the questions
are gonna be answered. So, ready?
-One, two, three.
-Boom. It's on Nick.
Bowl it.
-Biggest regret in regards to the Brothers.
Season two of "Jonas." [ Laughter ]
It's a big regret.
We shouldn't have done that.
It really stunted our growth, you know?
I feel like it was... just a bad move.
-Yeah. -Like, it just was not the time.
And, literally, we couldn't evolve because of it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And it's real. Very real.
It gets more intense from there, that particular scene.
But that was a real moment for all of us.
We sat and watched an early cut, and it was a choice
to make with the director and the producers of the movie
to say, "Do we want to tell the fluff story of our life
and journey and what brought us back
or get into the heavy stuff and lay it out?"
And, you know, specifically, with that clip,
Disney was a great chapter in our lives,
but at a certain point, did make things hard to grow, you know?
And when you're shaving your face twice a day
'cause they say you can't have a five o'clock shadow...
-"You're 10 years old." -Yeah, exactly.
-Forever. -It gets tough.
But I'm glad we made this movie,
and hopefully it brings people together.
-It's great. The Jonas Brothers, everybody.
"Happiness Begins" is out now, the new album.
And the documentary, "Chasing Happiness,"
is on Amazon Prime video.