- We named the album 'The Good Times and the Bad Ones'
because it kinda summarizes,
first of all, just life in general.
I feel like life is just a bunch of good times,
and hopefully less bad ones.
And it summarizes the music.
I mean, the music is all about our previous experiences
with love, and with touring, and anxiety.
And so, you know, it talks about all those good times,
and touches on some of the bad times in there, as well.
- I would say the new album, for us,
is definitely a new era for us
because we wrote and produced the whole thing ourselves,
and that's just a huge step.
- I think our fans inspired us, a lot, to write and produce
this new album because we hadn't in the past,
and they knew that we were writing and producing
our own music on our own.
And so, eventually, they started kinda suggesting
during meet and greets and stuff.
They were like,
"Why don't you just come out
with the music you guys are making?"
And you know, it's a bit of a -
honestly, a confidence issue.
It's tough to, you know,
really just give your full self out to the world like that.
But, you know, we took a chance with this album,
and I think it's honestly gonna pay off.
- What's up, guys? It's Why Don't We.
- What's up?
- And this is the top five good times and bad times
from the sets of our music videos.
- Let's go.
- [Jonah] I guess one of the bad times from the set of our video
for "Trust Fund Baby" was when Jack flew out the car.
Daniel was whipping - - Oh yeah.
- Oh my God. - I forgot.
- There was this blue car in the video
and we were at the skate park.
It was super early in the morning,
and Daniel was whipping it,
and we didn't realize that the car was kinda falling apart.
So the passenger's seat door was, like,
I don't know.
- It didn't close shut. - It didn't close, yeah.
- It didn't close all the way.
And so, Jack had to, like, hold it, like, closed as he was -
- [Zach] Yeah.
- And he kept turning around really fast,
and Jack flew out the side of it.
- Yeah, he was literally drifting the car
and Jack flew out. [Laughs]
We were all watching the door, and we were all -
- I honestly thought you got seriously injured.
- We were all like, "No."
- We were looking at the door, and Jack's, like,
hanging outside the car onto the door. [Laughs]
And Daniel stops the car, and we get out,
and we're like, "Jack, are you alive? Are you good?"
[Laughs]
- Your back was pretty -
Like, 'cause he ran -
He, like, ran off the car, and he's like, "Ow, ow, ow."
[Laughs]
- I remember, he was like, "Ahhh."
- I can't believe that happened, bro.
That whole moment was, like, slow motion.
Man, not to make it somber or anything,
but another bad time from,
I'm gonna throw it back to the "8 Letters" video.
We shot this video very shortly
after I got out of the hospital from, like,
an emergency tracheotomy that I had to have.
Super life-threatening. - Oh yeah.
- Crazy time for all of us, for me and the guys.
But, in the video, it's actually funny.
I'm wearing, like, this turtleneck or whatever
to cover up the bandage and the wound that was
still open on my throat at the time.
And then, I actually have, underneath my white jacket,
I had this netted sleeve on that was covering up
an IV insert that I had at the time,
because I had a doctor that was coming - - That's crazy.
- To my house after every day.
- Oh my god.
- And giving me my vitals and whatnot.
I did a pretty good job of covering it up
'cause I was like, "I don't want people to be worried.
I don't want people to be -
I just want the video to be great,
and people to have a great time watching it."
- I have a good time.
It was during our "Slow Down" music video.
Basically, we got to ride in, ride around in -
What was it? A 1974?
- '71?
- '71. - I think 280 -
- Rolls Royce.
- Like, 3.5 SE or something like that. - Mercedes.
- Yeah, a Mercedes. - Yeah, it was just -
- It's a very valuable car.
Our manager let us use it for the day, shout out Randy.
But basically, me and Jonah got to drive it around all day,
which was super fun. - So cool.
- And we had, like, police escorts
just blocking off traffic for us on Sunset Boulevard.
- [Daniel] Yeah, it was cool.
- [Jack] And we got to stand up in the back
with no seat belts on, running through red lights.
[Laughs]
You know, you're just breaking tons of laws, like, legally.
- Yeah. [Laughs]
- But the cops are telling us to do it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- We were legally breaking laws.
- Yeah.
- Back on the "Hooked" music video shoot,
I remember having to get all strapped up,
hanging off of, like, a building basically.
It was so sick. It was, like, a green screen,
but it was, I was still really high up in the air.
My mom was there, too.
That was, like, the only video shoot she's ever been at.
- Was she freaking out at all?
- Yeah, she was freaking out.
But, it was cool to actually have my mom there, too,
and see the whole process.
And to, yeah,
to just be up there, it hurt so bad.
You kinda did something similar in "Fallin'."
- Yeah. Yup. - But it was,
it hurt, but it was, like, fun at the same time.
It was cool 'cause I was like,
"Oh my god. I feel like I'm in a movie or something."
- Finally, the last good time I would say
we had in a music video was
shooting the "Fallin'" music video
'cause we finally got back to work after -
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Nine months of not being able to do jack poop.
It was nice to finally do something.
It was different, you know?
There was, like, COVID cops running around the place
with masks, and everyone was six feet apart,
and, you know, it was different.
But, we were so happy to be doing something again.
- [Zach] Yeah, it was fun.
Coming back together was amazing.
- Yeah.
- I mean, we, we were all waiting for it, you know?
We were just waiting for when our management was, like,
"OK, we can do it. We can do it now," you know?
'Cause the world was crazy at the time.
So, we knew what we wanted the "Fallin'" video to look like,
and I think we achieved it.
- [Corbyn] Mhm.
- [Zach] And it's cool
'cause we just went out there rocking our guitars and -
- [Corbyn] Yeah, it was the first time
we've really done that.
- Rocking our instruments. Piano, yeah.
It was awesome. It was great.
- We were just big jammin'.