What's up? It's Why Don't We!
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Ba!
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Leedle-leedle-lee!
Ba!
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- Wow. - That was kind of good.
Squidward.
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I have the biggest nose on the planet.
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Here's five things you don't know about us.
I can flip my phone really well.
Like this.
- Hello? - I don't know.
I can bend my thumb weird.
Oh, yeah same.
Can you guys zoom in on that? Is that possible?
Can we, uh... Oh my.
I've never burped in my life.
Zack has never burped in his life.
Um...
Uh, I can remember Wi-Fi passwords, and phone numbers and addresses
- really easily for some reason. - Yeah.
They just like, once they go in--
What's your password for your Instagram account?
So, ZYX--
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Basically before we were born,
we were chilling in our mom's stomachs and
we had phones so we just started texting each other, and we were like "Yo".
- We should all start singing. - Yeah.
Um, and that's when we actually formed a band.
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So, we actually all knew each other before this band,
which is actually kind of crazy.
I toured with Corbyn and Jack.
We did a little tour together and I met them along the way.
And we all just decided to fly out to LA.
Just hang out, and things just kind of got crazy from there.
- Now we're a band. - Now we're a band.
We honestly, literally we were like, "Yo, why don't we do it?"
- Why don't we make a band? - And like... poo!
And it was like bo-bo-bo-bobosh!
- Now we're Why Don't We. - Now we are Why Don't We.
And now we're a band.
It's crazy, 'cause we like, put ourselves together, you know? It's kind of cool.
Some of the musical influences
for this album 8 Letters.
We definitely took some influence from some urban artists,
like, you know, Chance The Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Drake.
And you'll hear that in some of the records, but then
also just influences from other pop artists like,
even like Maroon 5, there's definitely some sort of Maroon 5 vibe in there.
And just a lot of inspiration from what goes on in our lives,
and what we've experienced as people and as teenage boys and...
that good it goes.
- Hey, Dan. - Sup, dude?
If we could describe our album with three words that all start with 'W',
what would--
What would way be?
Wonderful.
- Why don't we. - Why won't we.
Winning, winning, winning.
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- Willy, willy... - Wow!
- Wow! - Willy, willy wow.
Worst.
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- No! I'm kidding. - Not the worst.
We could. I could cut out.
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No, keep that in. That's great. It's content.
So one special thing that makes this album stand out
I think is just the flow of the album song to song.
It really kind of takes you on a journey throughout the whole album, and...
Every song means a ton to us.
There wasn't one that, you know, we weren't feeling at all.
It was all great.
Great stuff, so we hope you like it.
- Absolutely. - Like he said.
Right.
Three artists, dead or alive, that we want to get in the studio with.
- Paul McCartney. - Yeah.
- Michael Jackson. - Michael Jackson, yes.
- John Lennon. - Yeah.
Nicki Minaj.
Yeah.
I would actually say the yodel boy, also.
- Yeah. - He'd be pretty cool.
I love you, little Hank.
I think-- I think we've said like, five or six now.
For us, starting off as a band wasn't the easiest thing,
and if you're an artist, you probably know what it's like.
It's not easy and a lot of people um, you know, label us
as a boy band obviously, even though we're a man band.
But, um...
I mean, we would get a lot of hate. And we just kind of
stuck with each other and kept making music
'cause that's what we love to do, so...
I would say just stay creative.
And keep going.
- Yeah. - There you go.
Don't listen to what they're saying. Honestly, like, just be yourself.
Don't care.
- Do your thing. - You do you.
You do you.
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I wish I was told to take my vitamin C early on.
Yeah, same.
- Yeah. - And vitamin D.
I was in very much, um... lack.
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- Of sunlight. - Oh, yeah.
I lack sunlight.
- Oh, drink a lot of water. - Drink a lot of water.
- Hydrate. - Stay hydrated.
It's good for you.
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