If you attended the after party and want to relive Taylor’s playlist, or you didn’t attend and want to see what you missed out on – we have you covered! Here is Taylor’s after party playlist from MOE 2015. (And yes, Another One Bites The Dust was played 3 times. We were in the middle of tornado sirens, after all!)
Lyrics: Dance Like You Don’t Care
I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson
You’re in my top ten
I like the way you bend
You’re cooler than ice
You don’t have to pretend
You can make the space jam
Shake the walls around
Somebody gonna trip we better get it locked down
I’ll be your swing man
‘Cause I like the way you stand
Just looking at the room like you don’t give a damn
My heart starts racing
Feel a rise in perspiration
Gonna send and urgent message to the nation
If you wanna dance like you don’t care
Or jump I the air like a wild man
Or just shake it off going solo
This is your chance
Let me see you dance like you don’t care
Dance like you don’t care
I hear the downtown funk
With the bass in the trunk
There are no fees for admission
We don’t have to get drunk
Don’t need the high life
We’ve got keys to the night
Standing shoulder to shoulder
Our hands waving high
Singing ooh ooh ooh
Oooh ooh ooh ooh
Everybody knows the words
Oooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
And the Koolaid is so good you have to taste it
If you wanna dance like you don’t care
Or jump I the air like a wild man
Or just shake it off going solo
This is your chance
Let me see you dance like you don’t care
Dance like you don’t care
Oooh ooh ooh
Oooh ooh ooh ooh
Everybody knows the words
ooh ooh ooh
Oooh ooh ooh ooh
And the Party is so good that you can’t escape it
A shake and shimmy
Don’t have to cost a penny
So change your plans and join an economy of living
Have it sautéed
Grilled or fileted
We’re cooking up a backbeat
So pick up a plate
To move is our mission
Gonna start a new tradition
We’ve got love to spare that can heal your condition
Don’t need a dance floor
Just turn it to 11
Come on everybody let me see you steppin’
If you wanna dance like you don’t care
Or jump I the air like a wild man
Or just shake it off going solo
This is your chance
Let me see you dance like you don’t care
Dance like you don’t care
Dance like you don’t care
Lyrics: Don’t Hide Your Tears
I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson
Watching you
Watch the birds
Wishing that
You could go there too
Let me be
Your escape
Every day I’ll run away with you
I’ll go where you want
But don’t hid your tears from me
Say what you want
But don’t hide your tears from me
Don’t waste away
In summer dreams
Of better days
So far out of view
Let me heal
Your tragedy
Turn your troubled heartbeat
Red from blue
I’ll go where you want
But don’t hide your tears from me
Say what you want
But don’t hide your tears from me
Your secrets are safe with me
So go where you want
But don’t hide your tears from me
Say what you want
But don’t hide your tears from me
Lyrics: Grace Unknown
I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson
Just before the sunrise
You can see the moonlight
Mingling the night and day
Some things you can’t recover
Until you discover
Where the blue and gold turns grey
Longing for something you just can’t touch
Every day grows a little longer
Every heart feels a hunger
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace Unknown
Scattered like ashes
Living on a turning stone
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace Unknown
Connected by a chalk line
Dying on the grapevine
Breathing in the smoking gun
Picking up the pieces
Trying to conceive of
The losses from the wars we won
Though the world grows quiet your thoughts won’t rest
And you can’t escape the night
You don’t see an end in sight
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace Unknown
Scattered like ashes
Living on a turning stone
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace
Any time the silence starts to feel like home
I can hear my heartbeat
Looking for a place
trying to find space
Scattered like ashes
Searching for Grace
Looking for a place
Trying to find space
Scattered like ashes
Living on a turning stone
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace Unknown
Scattered like ashes
Living on a turning stone
Looking for a place
Searching for Grace Unknown
Lyrics: Give Me Your Best Shot
I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson
You’re hanging by a thread
Looking like a fight
You think you’ve got me pegged
If you’re feeling tough then
Ask me if I’m bluffing
Check, now what’s your move
Does it come down to the knight
I think you have assumed
You can fake it ’til you make it
That’s your reputation
Give me your best shot
Show me what you can do
With everything I’ve got
There won’t be a round two
It should come as no surprise
That you couldn’t take me
Even with your best shot
You’re walking on the edge
Sharper than a knife
I know ever step
Who you think you’re fooling
You’re not fit for dueling
Your face is turning red
But my knuckle is turning white
Better hold on to your threat
In this game of all or nothing
You know that I’m all in
Give me your best shot
Show me what you can do
With everything I’ve got
There won’t be a round two
The fear is in your eyes
The fire is in mine
It should come as no surprise
That you couldn’t take me
Even with your best shot
That you couldn’t best me
Even with your best shot
Give me your best shot
Show me what you can do
But even your best shot
Won’t get you to round two
Give me your best shot
Lyrics: What Are We Fighting For
I. Hanson / T. Hanson / Z. Hanson
What are we fighting
What are we fighting for
We didn’t start it
But all of us watched it burn
We dreamt a dream
Then lost our way
In the dark of night
At the break of day
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
Why are we fighting
What are we fighting for
With nobody watching
No wonder we got of course
Send out a signal
Tell them we’re drowning
Spinning out of control
We made a plan
But we lost our way
In the dark of night
At the break of day
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
Trying to sail by the stars
Searching for a telltale sign
Guess we got burned by the fire
But will we ever know why why
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
How did we go wrong
Where do we belong
Why are we fighting
Why don’t we stop this war
Would You Rather Wednesday
Razorback Britt’s Hanson Day Recap
Be sure to head over to Britt’s blog, Razorback Britt, to read her recap of Hanson Day #1. Her Day 2 and 3 recaps should be coming later in the week so be sure to check back!
If you attended Hanson Day and would like us to post or link your recap, photos or videos, tweet it to us @hansonstage or email it to blog@hansonstage.com
Tuesday Trivia
Hanson refers to Underneath as “the album that survived”
Of the 3 Hansons, who do they say is the strictest father?
Hanson fans from around the world bond in Tulsa for Hanson Day
Isaac (left), Taylor and Zac Hanson will host The Hop Jam beer and music festival on Sunday. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World
People from all corners of the world converge on Tulsa each year for one reason: Hanson.
The band’s annual Hanson Day weekend has turned into a sort of Hanson-Con, drawing fans of the band from everywhere to hear from the band and get a personal experience.
Hanson may be the initiation for the gathering, yet the experience for fans is much richer.
“Aside from Hanson, it’s the city,” said Tara Stringer, who is attending her fourth Hanson Day weekend and came to Tulsa from Ontario, Canada.
“And it’s our friends. It’s like a big extended family,” added Jennifer Parks, at her second Hanson Day weekend from Chase City, Virginia.
Each year is like a big reunion for Hanson fans. They talk throughout the year but see one another only once a year for a weekend in May.
It started several years ago just by fans getting together to appreciate their favorite band. Members of Hanson saw what was going on and wanted to give back a little more. Then that turned into a lot more.
“There’s a lot behind the whole idea of doing it, which we talked a little about, just the whole ethos of creating an experience,” Taylor Hanson said. “We made a call about five years ago to really start thinking of the weekend of … as this comic-con.”
Events include meet-and-greets, a concert, a dissection of the band’s second album “This Time Around” for its 15th anniversary and a gallery showing of art created by Hanson.
The fans love the experience, too. Free to members of the Hanson fan club, the events show exactly why the band’s fan base is so intensely drawn to the band.
“That’s what’s unique about Hanson: They give back to the fans,” said Brandon James, who made the trip to Tulsa from San Bernardino County, California. “They create the personal connection, so you feel part of it, part of the process.”
And for the band, it’s a time to both reflect on their own past through some of these panels and discussions and experiment with new sounds that will keep the band pushing forward.
The band’s last public release was “Anthem” in 2013, though they release an EP of a handful of songs each Hanson Day. This year’s EP does take the band in a somewhat different direction, a newer sound that sticks to its core but leaves a little room to experiment.
“The EP originally started out as something like B-sides. Over the years it’s become something where we take a week or two and write and record and give it a name, give it a look and a feel and a creative vision,” Zac Hanson said. “It will be the everything bagel this year.”
Hanson Day events continue to grow, as well. Last year, it took a big leap forward with the addition of The Hop Jam beer and music festival, which is actually open to everyone, not just Hanson fan club members.
Hanson fans also get a chance to explore Tulsa, to see a city as it changes and grows each year.
“We’re excited to go to Cain’s, and it’s such a historical area,” said Toni Spaulding, from Chicago. She also said she and her group of friends planned to go to Legends bar and country dance club on Thursday, a big night especially with the Kenny Chesney concert down the street at the BOK Center.
With the Hanson fan community banding together each year, and continuing to grow with an expanding weekend of activities and more people, it affirms why they come to Tulsa each May.
“I loved last year, seeing how many people here support them,” Stringer said.