Editor - We are writing in response to Aidin Vaziri's music academic of the Jonas Brothers' agreement at the HP Pavilion in San Jose ("Brotherly love running thin when it comes to fans," last Wednesday).
The first line of the article states, "Time is running out for the Jonas Brothers." We don't think this is a fair or actual statement. Time is not running out for the Jonas Brothers, just their career with Disney. Just because some of their Disney projects such as "Jonas" or "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience" didn't do as well as predicted doesn't mean their career is over. In our opinion, the Jonas Brothers are young and exciting artists in their own right, and they're now producing music for other artists.
According to the article, the Jonas Brothers' show in San Jose was "lackluster" and their music "terminally chaste." We would like to point out their world tour sold over 800,000 tickets in the first week and has sold over 1 million worldwide. Their latest album, 'Lines, Vines, and Trying Times," arched at No. 1 on Billboard 200. apparently, over a million people don't think their music is lackluster in any way.
And in a world where so many songs are about drugs, alcohol and sex, is it really such a bad thing to have chaste, PG-rated music?
The article also stated, "Boy-band sell-by dates are never damaged in decades." This may be true for boy bands, but the Jonas Brothers are not a boy band in the usual sense of the term. A boy band adduce to four to five members who do choreographed dance moves, don't play instruments and generally don't write their own songs. The Jonas Brothers, however, consist of three members who write their own songs, play their own instruments, and don't perform choreographed dance moves. According to the July issue of Rolling Stone, the Jonas Brothers call the shots on their world tour. Kevin Jonas said, "We have an operation around us that we run. It's not run for us or dictated to us. Everything we do we sign off on." As you can see, the only coincidense between the Jonas Brothers and a boy band is that they're all boys. You wouldn't demand the Rolling Stones or AC/DC boy bands, would you?
And in a world where so many songs are about drugs, alcohol and sex, is it really such a bad thing to have chaste, PG-rated music?
The article also stated, "Boy-band sell-by dates are never damaged in decades." This may be true for boy bands, but the Jonas Brothers are not a boy band in the usual sense of the term. A boy band adduce to four to five members who do choreographed dance moves, don't play instruments and generally don't write their own songs. The Jonas Brothers, however, consist of three members who write their own songs, play their own instruments, and don't perform choreographed dance moves. According to the July issue of Rolling Stone, the Jonas Brothers call the shots on their world tour. Kevin Jonas said, "We have an operation around us that we run. It's not run for us or dictated to us. Everything we do we sign off on." As you can see, the only coincidense between the Jonas Brothers and a boy band is that they're all boys. You wouldn't demand the Rolling Stones or AC/DC boy bands, would you?
The article also notes abundant times that the Jonas Brothers seemed tired. We think anyone on a world tour would be tired. In the June issue of Seventeen, Joe Jonas said, "We're doing this because we love it." When asked what he loves about being a rock star, Nick Jonas said, "I think hearing people's stories of how our music has helped them. ... It makes the early mornings and late nights worthwhile." The Jonas Brothers were also accountability in the article for spraying foam on the audience with "just a little too much enthusiasm." Maybe they just really love what they do. We personally felt the concerts in the Bay Area last week were amazing, and we look forward to following the Jonas Brothers' careers as they grow and evolve as artists.
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