“Pants” in British English refers to underwear.
What chant did Zac hope would come from the R&R EP?
Stat Page Issues Fixed
While working on some new stat pages for the site (which will hopefully be posted in the next week or so) we discovered some discrepancies between the saved “Songs heard live” list and the one populated after you log in. They have been updated to have the same information on both. (The saved username page was counting encores as songs as well as not accurately accounting for songs in medleys due to a glitch)
Haven’t tried out the database yet? Be sure to head here http://hansonstage.com/stats/shows.php, sign up for an account, enter which Hanson shows you have been to and find out the stats for what songs you have heard live and how many times.
HNET Newsletter Apr 1, 2016
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Tuesday Trivia
Zac’s birthday festivities in 2014 were called “Zactoberfest”
“Digital Pants” comes from the British English term “pants” which means what?
Enter the Opening Band Contest for a chance to play at The Hop Jam
Taylor, Zac and Isaac Hanson will host the third annual The Hop Jam festival in May in the Brady Arts District. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World
More than 20 bands have already entered the Opening Band Contest for a chance to play at the Hop Jam Beer and Music Festival in May.
The festival is hosted by Tulsa’s own Hanson brothers. It is their third year to have the event in the Brady District.
The 2016 Hop Jam will be bigger than ever, with more music and more beer than previous years.
Headlining the 2016 Hop Jam will be indie-folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The lineup will also feature The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., alt-rock band X Ambassadors and Tulsa singer-songwriter John Moreland.
Like the previous two years, Hanson and the Tulsa World are hosting an Opening Band Contest, soliciting submissions from Oklahoma bands that want to open the Hop Jam festival.
The event is set for May 22 and admission is once again free. Tickets can be purchased for beer sales, and VIP packages will be available. It will include brewers from 20 states and more than 10 countries, including most if not all of the brewers in Oklahoma.
The Guthrie Green will be incorporated into this year’s festival, creating an all-ages family area with kids activities throughout the downtown park.
Of the submissions to the Opening Band Contest, five will be chosen as finalists by Hanson. Voting by the public will commence, and the winning band will open the show on the main stage of the festival. The other four bands will play on the Guthrie Green stage.
Submissions may be made at tulsaworld.com/hopjam. Submissions will close at 11:59 p.m. April 18. Once the finalists are chosen, voting will begin April 25 and close May 6.
Fans will get a preview of the festival with the five bands in the running playing Fassler Hall for the Hop Jam Pub Crawl, set for May 2. More details on the Pub Crawl will be announced.
Hanson: 20 years after “MMMBop” – The Zac, Taylor & Isaac make today
Translated using Google Translate
“MMMBop” was THE catchy nineties and the big break of three brothers from Oklahoma. Today the “Hanson” have grown up – the seen and heard!
Nearly 20 years have passed since that the demo version of the song “MMMBop” has come out. And then, our three “Hanson” -Brüder missed therefore the ultimate catchy and had for months become indispensable in the charts. On the occasion of the great “MMMBop” -Jubiläums said the band that exists today with the “Vulture” magazine on the mega-hit of the nineties – also about the fact that the chorus was always sung incorrectly by most …
“MMMBop” – no one could sing the chorus!
“People can not really sing the chorus. In most cases, they stress it wrong,” said Isaac Hanson (35), the oldest of the bunch, in an interview. with the right emphasis – – Nevertheless, the brothers have a good “MMMBop” cover will be happy mad.
“MMMBop” was the biggest chart success of three Hanson brothers.
But what they have driven really by their great success with the album “Middle of Nowhere” in 1997? Anyway, everything else than to relax! The “Hanson” -Brüder have produced by their debut six more albums, the last in 2013. Today they sound experimental and adult. And these are the guys from Tulsa, Oklahoma also become!
Zac, Taylor & Isaac – fathers instead teen idols
Zac Hanson (30) – the band chick – is now married for almost ten years and has three children. Taylor Hanson (33) married his dream girl in 2002. The couple has no fewer than five children. Even Isaac is about ten years under the hood and also a father of three. Still, the three brothers making music together – but before a smaller audience. But big stadium tours were given the completed private life of the three probably difficult to implement …
How do the brothers have changed in the last 20 years, you can see in our gallery.
Hanson: Where Are They Now
Hanson, a band with brothers Taylor, Isaac, and Zac, who were the crush of many teenage girls in the 90s and the guilty pleasure of many teenage boys, grew up to become craft beer connoisseurs, according to Ktul. The three Hanson brothers are teaming up with a brewery named Dead Armadillo to create something special.
Mason Beecroft, of the Dead Armadillo, brewery spoke on how working with them went.
“This is our first collaboration to work with them and it’s been a real joy.”
What the Ale: Hanson Brothers Beer Co., Dead Armadillo collaborate on beer https://t.co/5IFaP0hClw pic.twitter.com/HbzMl0pR2X
— Tulsa World (@tulsaworld) March 9, 2016
The craft beer community is a very close one and the Hanson brother wanted to be a part of it. Taylor Hanson spoke on brewing as a community and building a bond.
“We’re going to be brewing our draft beer here in Tulsa right at the IDL with these guys, we thought to christen the relationship that we should make one together.”
The spirit of community is what the Hanson brothers want out of this, not getting other people drunk. Taylor Hanson spoke on what this means for him.
“It’s not about people going and getting drunk it’s about making things, it’s about building things, it’s about creating something that’s your own.”
The craft beer venture of the Hanson brothers opened up the door to an annual music festival hosted by them. According to Tulsa World, Hanson won’t be headlining their very own festival because the brothers will be joining the audience. Zac Hanson spoke on why they won’t be doing their own show.
“It’s like this: It’s not an annual Hanson show. It’s an annual Hanson party. That means we want to take the stage a lot, but we want to be able to mix it up and add variety. You don’t want people to take it for granted. New beer, new bands, bigger footprint.”
HANSON announces 3rd annual Hop Jam Beer and Music fest https://t.co/N467ffz5G1 pic.twitter.com/HdBzq9tqF8
— Vents Magazine (@ventsmagazine) March 14, 2016
The event is set to happen on May 22 in the Brady Arts District, and the greatest news of it all is that admission will be free. The selection of beer choices will be very vast. Needless to say, everybody that goes will be satisfied. Taylor Hanson spoke on how many breweries were participating, noting that in the first year of their festival, they had 15 breweries participating, but in 2016, they’ll have at least 60 breweries on display.
The festival will also provide local upcoming bands the chance to perform on the day itself. Submissions made to the Opening Band Contest will be personally picked by the Hanson brothers and the winner gets to perform as the opening act on the main stage of the festival. Taylor Hanson spoke on the bands performing at the festival, noting that changeover will be frequent so that festival goers will have the opportunity to watch several shows throughout the day.
What @hansonmusic had to say about the 20th birthday of #MMMBop: https://t.co/j9TOYX80Xk pic.twitter.com/dMVX5htfNd
— Vulture (@vulture) March 23, 2016
He also spoke on what the festival really wants to do, claiming that they’re not interested in building “Hanson” or any other particular music group, but instead they’re concentrating on creating a quality one-day music festival event involving a “tight group of really engaging performers.” For the Hanson brothers, their philosophy when planning their music and beer festival is that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
Hanson just might not need to build itself up anymore given that they defined the 90s for a lot of kids. According to Vulture, Hanson’s hit, “MMMBop,” is celebrating its 20th birthday. Well, the demo of it, at least. The demo was originally recorded during 1996, but the version fans know today was released a year after.
Taylor Hanson spoke about the “MMMBop” demo, saying that they hadn’t intended their release to be a demo. It was intended to be the next proper release for their local fan base, but then they were signed later that year. After being turned down by “every record label there is multiple times,” the Hanson brothers had made their peace with creating albums just for their local fans, but in the end it was that final local release that was turned into a demo and eventually got them signed to a recording label.
Little did Taylor and the rest of the Hansons know that this was the beginning of something truly amazing and life-changing for the three of them.
Here it is again, the song that turned Hanson into international superstars: “MMMBop.” Enjoy!
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2936381/hanson-where-are-they-now/#BQou5k0blwX5Jskg.99
HNET Newsletter Mar 25, 2016
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Hanson Says Everyone’s Been Singing ‘MMMBop’ Wrong: Find Out Why!
Just can’t get it right! It’s been 20 years since Hanson’s Zac, Taylor and Isaac Hanson released their 1996 megahit “MMMBop.” While their infectious, iconic track has been covered by an innumerable amount of musicians, the brothers revealed in a new interview with Vulture that everyone’s been singing it wrong.
“You know why? People can’t sing the chorus right,” Isaac, 35, explained of the covers he’s heard. “Most of the time they syncopate it wrong.”
While every act — including One Direction, Phish and The Vamps — that’s taken a stab at recreating the ‘90s magic that once was have failed in the eyes of the former teen heartthrobs, Hanson is waiting for the day when a singer is able to do “MMMBop” justice.
“Someone needs to either make it totally their own in a genuinely unique way, or it needs to be a band that has a sensibility for old R&B,” said Taylor, 33. “Fitz and the Tantrums could maybe do it.”
Added Isaac: “If Bruno Mars were interested, he’d probably find a way to kill it.”
During their chat with Vulture, the men of Hanson made a shocking revelation about the feel-good tune fans used to love blaring from their boom boxes: The song has a much darker meaning than its bouncy melody might suggest. In case you forgot the lyrics, let Us refresh your memory with a few lines:
“You have so many relationships in this life/ only one or two will last/ you go through all the pain and strife/ then you turn your back and they’re gone so fast”
“So hold on the ones who really care/ in the end they’ll be the only ones there/ and when you get old and start losing your hair/ can you tell me who will still care?”
“I think a lot of people did not [realize the song’s underlying tone]. And that makes sense,” Taylor noted of the hidden message behind “MMMBop.” “But hopefully over time, the staying power of that song is about the fact that it’s more than it looks like at first glance. That hook is what gets you in, but what’s below that is what keeps you there.”
Hanson to the world: You’ve been singing ‘MMMBop’ wrong all this time
First, get ready to feel old: The first demo version of “MMMBop” is 20 years old this year. Next, get ready to be disappointed: You’ve probably been singing it wrong all these years.
“People can’t sing the chorus right,” Isaac Hanson told New York magazine’s Vulture column during an interview that also included his brothers Taylor and Zac. “Most of the time they syncopate it wrong.”
Here’s how to chorus should go:
TODAYNow, for those Hanson buffs who’re thinking “Hey, wasn’t that a hit in 1997?” don’t worry — you’re right. But the original version of the tune, recorded before the band was signed, is a much slower and more introspective take on the song. It got jazzed up once producers got their hands on it. Here’s the original:
MORE: Flashback! Watch Hanson make TODAY debut in 1997
Here’s another tidbit that came out during the interview: The lyrics to the song have a darker tinge than you might expect from a tune whose title includes the word “bop.”
HansonVEVO/YouTube, David Becker
Hanson then, and today.
“It does tap into a theme we’ve continued to have, which is to interweave relatively serious thoughts — the verses, you know, ‘You have so many relationships in this life / Only one or two will last / You go through so much pain and strife / You turn your back and they’re gone so fast.’ It’s not exactly sunshine and rainbows,” said Taylor.
“We used to always tease that we write happy sad songs,” said Isaac.
“Hopefully over time, the staying power of that song is about the fact that it’s more than it looks like at first glance,” said Taylor. “That hook is what gets you in, but what’s below that is what keeps you there.”
MORE: Zac Hanson gets spit on by man who tried to get on tour bus
So back to that updated cover version the brothers referred to: Who should tackle it?
Isaac has a great idea: “If Bruno Mars were interested, he’d probably find a way to kill it.”
We can only imagine!