October 9, 2023 • 49 mins
"There ain't no party like an S Club Party," and we're getting down with the talk of the town . . . the ladies of S Club are in the house!
S Club (previously S Club 7) topped the U.K. charts in the late 90s and early 2000s with hits like "Bring It All Back" and "Don't Stop Movin" before calling it quits in 2003, but now they're back and bigger than ever!
Jo, Rachel, and Tina join Lance to talk about their 25th anniversary reunion tour, performing in the U.S. for the first time, and how they are honoring their late bandmate and friend, Paul Cattermole.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello,
my little Peanuts, it's me your host, Lance Bass. This
is Frosted Tips with Me Lance Bass and my co
host Michael Turchin. Well, hello there, Turkey churching the most.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right, gobble gobble.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Gobble, It's almost Friday thirteenth, baby, And you know what
that means.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yes, it's our baby's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's our birthday of our babies. We might have had
them worn a couple of days only for this exact
scenario Friday thirteenth. And I'm here's a problem though, Like
I'm excited. Their thirteenth birthday is going to be on
Friday thirteenth, right, So, and they're gonna be old enough
to have spooky, scary Halloween Friday thirteenth, which is my jam. Which,
(00:49):
by the way, we're already surrounding them by really scary stuff,
so it just sensitizes them.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
True, So what's bothering you about this?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
They're just because they're two and they're not going to
really under stand the significance of Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, you're just gonna have to wait another year or two.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, it won't be Friday thirteenth. We gotta we gotta
wait another what seven years or so? I don't know when.
When is it every said.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
When they turn thirteen. I know it's gonna be I know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But there's gonna be one in between that, right, I mean,
then there's a leapier thing going on. I don't believe
here there's gonna be a leapier Doesn't that change things
up a little bit? For everything?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, if you're born in February.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I can't ever figure it out.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's a leap year. There's gonna be a President's.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Day, don't there No? Oh, okay, we have a calendar
in front of it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Twenty twenty eight will be the next one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, that's fine. That's five years.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, see now that'll be perfect age for that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Don't get your knickers in a twist.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I'm just saying for the first one, it's kind
of a wash because we can't do anything super scary.
We're gonna do what we're doing this year. Okay, check
this out our theme? Yes, chug a chugga too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Two.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How cute is that is?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah? It's so cute?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
How cute out I get sugar to too. We're having
this little place that they're just like, you know, one
of those indoor gym. It's all candy, candy, candy, which,
of course, when they were born, I'm like, they're not
going to have sugar until they're five. That was whist
and now we're doing their second birthday. It's just revolved
(02:20):
around candy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, so that's going to fores feed them sugar.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean it's Halloween and their birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hello, their birthday, they can have sugar.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And it's going to be a costume party, it is,
the problem is we have so many costumes. I don't
know which one they should wear to their actual birthday.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well that's what happens when you order Eats Baby seven
costumes for one year of Halloween.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, well, get used to it because it's going to
be more next year. I think I want to put
him in the teen Wolf costume because since they're so little,
it's hard for them to wear wigs.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But it's not going to be really hot for him. Listen,
I'm thinking about obviously he's me running around change the clothes.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, but it's like cut off jeans and a I
don't know, some kind a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You don't know. He doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I haven't seen team in a while. And then she
has a rainbow bright that might look really great.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Should be rainbow brighter. So she could be a girl
and could be shared from Clueless. It could be Alice
in Wonderland. You could be snow white. I mean that
the possibilities are limitless.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
There's too many, too many. So I'm super excited because
you know, first birthday you they don't remember. Second they're
really not gonna remember either. But at least we have
some good pictures. Three and four, maybe you might have
a slight memory of your birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Especially four, especially four. Yeah, I remember a few early ones.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know. If I don't have pictures, I just
don't remember it these days, I just don't. My brain
is just going.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It's just elderly, elderly.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I am elderly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You have an elder brain.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I am geriatric. Come call you Jariffer now, Okay, gonna
be your jar bear.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You can be my jar bear and jer bear bay sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Also, we're starting to do something fun, So we have
s club on today, and in a couple of weeks
we're gonna have the We have the girls on. First,
we're gonna have Joe, Rachel and Tina on, and then
we're gonna have the boys come on, John and Brad.
Brad it's not Brad Lee. I think it's just Brad Well.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm sure his birth name is Brad Lee.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm I just want to you know, if we're cool,
we're friends. I'm just calling Brad and we're going Brad. Okay,
it's Mad Brad. So we want to keep it interesting
to see if they're actually paying attention. So you know
that the little bite biography I give on everyone before
we start, you know, we pull that from Wikipedia, and
you know there's all the other places place together. A
lot of times I'm pretty sure it's not true, although
(04:26):
they're very nice and they're like, oh yeah, that's all true. Well,
I purposely am putting in really wrong things to see
if they catch it. Okay, So listen out there, especially
on today's episode and with the boys, I'm going to
ask or tell everyone what they were influenced by musically,
and it is probably not going to match what they
(04:47):
really were. But let's see who's nice and just let
it go and which ones are like so super excited.
S Club seven now S Club there are five of them.
Now they're coming back on a reunion tour. They're finally
coming to America in Canada for the first time ever touring.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh the first time. Yeah, well that I'll be exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Super said they We've had so many people request them
be on this show.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I know, And I never really grew up with S
Club seven, Like I mean I was the age and everything,
but for some reason, it just never like I just
never was around it, so I didn't really know them.
But like, but since you know this in the past
few years, especially doing this podcast, like so many people
ask about S Club seven, So I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, you know, I'm excited about what Halloween. I mean,
it's just it. The season is here, I know, the
best time of the year because you have just holiday.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I mean you forced birth for children to be born
on No. Cover thirteenth. We got it. You like it?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And is that a problem?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, it's great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I just went to the first time. Okay, you know
how they have universals Halloween har Nights, which is fun.
We go every year. Well this year I just went
last weekend to the Not Scary Farm at Nott's Berry Farm.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Was it not scary?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It was very scary.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I didn't go, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I have to say it because I went with Lisa Fox,
yes who, because you know, she's a big radio DJ.
She always gets tickets, so she brings the fam and
she's the godmother of my godchild. So we brought Genevieve
and the Pink Princess Wendy and doctor Steve and they
took us to Not Scary Farm. Oh my gosh, I
did not realize how much more scary Not Scary Farm
(06:26):
is than Universal Cool. It was, you know how they
have the people out, the actors kind of running in
the park, like shaking things in your face and just
scaring the crap. Of course, Lisa, you know, our our
favorite Lisa del Campo, she giggles. She went with us,
and you know she's not really into getting scared too much.
But everywhere we went, whatever haunted house we went in,
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just walking around the park, they went for her.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Because you could just pick you can tell if you're
into scaring people. You could tell who the weak souls are.
Well they Lisa, you weak soul?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You. I mean I felt bad for it. So a
certain point, I'm like Okay, this she's gonna have a
heart attack. And she said the next day she was
so sore from screaming and tensing up all the time
that she was just like she had had a workout.
So if you want to lose some weight, just go
to Not Scary for him. Yeah, but I have to say,
compared to Universal, you know those people in the park
(07:18):
trying to scare you, there were three actors to every guest.
It felt like they were EveryWare good. You could not
take one step without someone just hitting you in the
face with something.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's like, what the sounds like? A fun night?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That was a good time. And then on top of
that you get the fun roller coaster. Oh yeah, So
I think that's going to be an annual thing that
we start to do. Now, you know, do the Universal,
but also do not Scary because it really gets you
in the mood.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Ah. So both were doing adding another thing, doing their repertoire.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah okay, and there's all other things that we're gonna do.
I'm going to talk to you about that later.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Please do because I want to talk about some S
club set. Okay, no, sorry, s.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Club All right, We're gonna start with of course, ladies
a first, So we come back. We are going to
have the new iteration of S Club seven. It's S
Club with Joe, Rachel and Tina. Right after this, Hey.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
All right, let's get going, shall we. S Club formerly
known as S Club seven, are a British pop group
formed in nineteen ninety eight. They originally comprised of Tina, Paul,
John Bradley, Johannah and Rachel s. Club seven were formed
by the former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who signed
them to Polydor Records. The band was heavily influenced by
Iron Maiden and Sammy Davis Junior, and they rose to
(09:45):
fame with their BBC television sitcom Miami Seven, aimed at
a young audience, What Turkey. Within five years, they achieved
four UK number one singles, a UK number one album,
several successful singles in Europe, top ten singles in the US.
They recorded four studio albums, released eleven singles have sold
more than ten million albums worldwide. Miami seven lasted four seasons,
(10:08):
which I can't believe you did not watch mister Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Were you too young?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, you're not your waight, No, you're too old anyway,
last four season it was watched by over ninety million viewers. Now,
S Club is back for reunion tour which kicks off
October twelfth, and I am joined. Now this is gonna
be a two for We got a two party with
Club seven here because we were splitting the girls and
the boys. First. Ladies first, of course, Rachel and Tina.
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Welcome to Frosted Tips.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Now. Was there anything in the intro that I got wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, no, I was like, oh my god, I love it.
I just love that. You're are heavily influenced by Iron
Maid and Sammy Davis Junior. These are professionals right here.
We're just going with it. The host is an idiot,
and we're just going to go with it. All right,
(11:04):
Girls Se Club reunited and heading out on tour. But
let's go back to the beginning, all right. Mister Simon
Fuller behind the Spice Girls looking to create a new group.
How did you first hear about this opportunity?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
So I was a dancer at the time, so I
was saying I was working for Disney actually, and I
was doing that and it was living my best life.
And then my agent called me and said, oh, there's
an audition for this thing and it's a band and
it's a TV show and it's this and it's that.
(11:38):
And I was like, Okay, yeah, I'm up for giving
it a go. And yeah, auditioned and I got a
call back and then met Summer Fuller and he was like,
you're in, So yeah, it was quite Yeah, it's quite
easy as auditions go. Yeah, I think it's really good
that all of us were like got into the brand
(11:58):
in such different ways because I was I used to
be a country singer and I was actually spotted seeing
country in the place that I was working as a
country singer at the time, and somebody from obviously Simon
Fuller's company, was in that evening asked me to go
along for the audition.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I went, and there I am twenty five years o
easily slideing door moments.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Yeah, I was actually only Sony Records, my brother works there,
and I was in the canteen, just minding my own business,
having lunch. I knew nothing about the auditions that were happening,
knew nothing about anything about the band, and I got
approached by two producers who were looking to do a
sort of solo project. When in the studio and started recording,
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and then they were working with Simon Fuller at the time.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
We got connected. I met Simon and then the rest
is history. Like a couple. I mean, that's a very
long story, cut short, but a couple of weeks later
I got asked everyone to be a part of Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's grazing because it was like ten thousand applicants applied
to audition for this and when the auditions were held, one,
what do you remember about the auditions And was it
kind of like American Idol where it started with you know,
ten thousand and goes down to one thousand, and there
was there like stages of making it to the next level.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I know, I think there was.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I was by myself actually, I know, I know some
people were in the sort of you know, it was
more like a normal audition where there's quite a few people.
I was like, just me, and it was kind of like,
because if you have an agent you get private auditions,
it's a bit less castle market, which is quite good.
So yeah, it was just me and they.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
They were sort of like, yeah, okay, you're in, You're
in lucky Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
My audition the only thing I can really really remember
about because I'm very big ballad singer, and they said, oh,
do you do you know anything? I was like, oh,
I ended up growing out a bit of I want
to dance with somebody who said really badly.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but always a show stopper.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I mean, you play that song in any bar any club,
everyone's going to start dancing and singing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's true, you'll always be a hero, especially karaoke. Like,
if you're horrible at karaoke, you put that one on.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It does not it doesn't matter because everyone's going to
start singing and I'm not going to even listen to you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Exactly. Now, you're a group of seven at this time,
basically strangers. What did you do from here? Did y'all
all have to live in a house together? How did
y'all get to know each other so quickly?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How was that?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
But enough? It started as five of us, Well, actually
it was the four of you, wasn't it, John, Paul
and myself?
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Then I joined and we were we were I think
we're going to be a five and then yeah, later
I don't have timelines, but Joe and Brad then enjoyed
and we came ye seven.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Lived together in the same house, though I don't think
that ever worked. But we used to sort of like
do like bonding weekends. We went bowling and.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
And used to go to like London hot spots and stuff,
and we spent a lot of time together that way.
But I don't think I think if we'd have all
lived in the house together. We might not have been
sitting here.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Like like kild each other. The album.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
We spent weekend, didn't We go down to Caffield and
record for the weekends the album, and then we would
do sort of work.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
For the TV show. We do like workshops type thing. Yes,
lots of bonding.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And so the producer he said, we don't know if
they can act, so he sort of got us all
in like a studio and made us still all these
like acting so so awkward, and he was so into it,
and so he's really lovely and we were doing all
these sort of actuary things and just giggling the whole.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Time, and apparently he saying they can all act. So
that was good, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So going in they knew that y'all. They wanted y'all
to do television.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, that was always going to be part of S Club.
It was a TV show and the like the Monkey Monkey.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, y'all are like really yeah, very monkeys. But also
you kind of led what K pop is doing now
with the seven people. Yeah, I think you'll need a
percentage of BTS. I'm just going to put that out there.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah, yeah, cool cool.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Our agent so what's what was your first impressions of
each other? Were some of y'all getting along more than others?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Well, I think we were.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Really You think we were really, really lucky. We did
all naturally just get on. There was something that very
magical that just happened with the seven of us from
the very first day. I think, Yeah, you know, that's
why I felt. I felt like it was just a chemistry.
You can't make it, then you've either got it or
you don't.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And yeah you did.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
It's like muma sauce with all different spices. Yeah, and
it sort of worked so different.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I mean that can be difficult, especially, I mean because
you're a mixed group, you know, guys and girls when
you're on tour. Did y'all separate boy girl bus or
did y'all each have your own bus?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
No, we've always been together, shoved.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
All of you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Can I say, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It wasn't like now where they're all sort of you
know what, you could like her, you know. But yeah,
it was good. Though we were fine.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I think we would have liked to separate though we
did all like that's the carnage of the band is
what makes the chemistry work.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
We're all chaos always.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Who was the dirtiest on the bus?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Mine was the dirtiest. Yeah, yeah, you don't mind.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, And we do have to touch on, you know,
not being with us anymore. I know you were planning
on doing a reunion tour right before he passed. Uh,
And I'm so glad that y'all continued to do this
to honor him after. I mean, what what was it
like getting the news about Paul And I mean, did
that bring your group closer together?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It did? Yeah, so much.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah. I think it was just a complete and utter
shock that had just come out of nowhere because we
were just so all buzzing for the tour and buzzing
to we'll be back together, and then obviously to find
out something as tragic and devastating as that, it knocks
us all for six in him.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yeah, I'm so so sad. He was like our best friend,
like family, like you know, it is a family member and.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You are losing one of your own, And yeah, it was.
It was very tough to deal with, but we were
very lucky. But we've all had one another and we've
all shared the same grief together, and it has definitely
unified and wanted us close together for sure, and didn't We.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Had the time after to just try and take it
all in and share memories and have time where we
could just still be. And yeah, it was never an
option not to do the tour. It was never something
I don't think we ever thought. It's not We're not
going to do. It's just made it. It's take a
different journey which is really special because it's a celebration now.
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It was always a celebration, but it's now.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Paul's life.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
And yeah, and also honoring him because I think he
would have been really annoyed.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
If we hadn't done this tour. So because he really
really wanted to do it.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, from day one we were doing meetings, he was
always like the most enthusiastic and really like yeah really so.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
So so wanting to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So yeah, well he'll be looking down at every single
show that you'll have. I know it'll be beautiful. You
are starting over in Europe, but I think are you
bringing the tour over to the States at all?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
We are so excited about because we have never done
this before.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You've never toured here in America, no TV show.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
So we spent so much time in America second home. Yeah,
but yeah, he's never ever toured. No, we can't wait.
I cannot wait to get over there and do it
live for everyone the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What are you most excited about coming over here? Is
there something different you think America will be compared to
your home country. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I don't know what to experience because this is completely
new territory for us as performing as a tour.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
So yeah, and we always look.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
At America is really really special because we shot our
TV show there and America you just sort of look
at America like being from England, you sort of think
wow that everything is so big, it's all came and
you guys really sort of you you go for it
and it's just like wow, you know, whereas whereas in
Britain we just apologize a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah. Sorry, sorry, terribly sorry. It's been such a huge
part of this club.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
You know, we've been half of well more than half
our time, like on the beach in America, and so
it'll be really special to bring this to an American audience.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
And we've always had so much support and yeah, it'll
be amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
We love we always hear from American fans on social media,
so you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Know, we're just like, you know, you'll have huge fans
here in the States. Huge. What was it like in
so Miami seven went four seasons? Now, Michael here, my hubby,
he is from Miami Beach, so he obviously knows the place.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, where did you actually shoot that show? Was it
in l A? Though? Was that La?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Miami South Beach?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
South? Okay, just north of it?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I think they said, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, get them away from Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, we did three series in l A.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, that's crazy. So y'all are basically more American than
you are British.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
In terms of television. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do you ever think about moving back here?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I think if the opportunity ever came for us to
do anything again over there, then I think it's definitely
something we would be interested in doing.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Yeah. Never say never.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You never know, do you We never never get to
do this again? So I know, yeah, did we was
doing this twenty five years later?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
You know, but you never know.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What It's definitely the time, I mean, this is the
time for reunions.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well especially yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I had no idea,
no idea that we were be doing this yeah, like
it was so crazy, but you know it is, it
is all about just that that time, and it just
kind of it revealed itself to us. We didn't. I mean,
six months ago, I told you there's no way in
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Sync would ever have come back and done a song
or anything. Uh, And then all of a sudden it
just kind of landed in our laps with you guys.
How who was the first to say, hey, let's let's
do this again.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Well we did. We didn't talk back in twenty fifteen.
We did.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
We did, And I'm not taking credit, but I was.
I put feelers out that way, were manifesting, Like everyone
over to my flat and we had Chinese and I
was just like, what if you know, and they were like, okay,
that's where you can vite. It was all like yeah,
my manipulative plan. Yeah, but yeah, and we loved it,
(24:27):
didn't We like, we should do this again.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
And then eight years later.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
We got an email out the blue twenty five years
since we first started. So we're we're celebrating our twenty
fifth anniversary. And it just feels really really special, and
especially with everything that's happened in the last few months,
it feels like, sure, Yeah, it just feels like it's
all come together and it's a very special way to
celebrate everything that we are and have had and bring
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it back to the fans.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
That nostalgia for people, I think is.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
So special to And are you noticing so the gen
zers are loving our era of music. It's it's just
it's crazy that they're just.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
It's crazy, you know. Nineties. Yeah, nineties wasn't even really
fashionable in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, we always say that.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I remember being.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Loads and loads of rock bands and loads of like
yeah body, and we were like so uncol like yeah,
now it seems to come hop bands cool.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
But now it's like we're okay, we're right now. Time.
I think the nineties and the naughties pop was just
the best.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's the best.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It was the best time in music for pop music.
There was nothing better than the nineties and like that.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh, you know, we're very fortunate to work with some
of the best writers produced in the business, and you know,
it stands a test of time, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
So, did you ever get to work with Max Martin?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Max, you know, niceish, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I mean he's I mean, he's just so responsible for
pretty much every number one song in the last twenty
five years, like it's crazy out of we need Yeah,
I don't think so, no.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Okay, yeah, so she does a lot of sure for Brittany,
Yeah Britta okay, Oh I.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Actually do you know who she is?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Yeah? Okay, very.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, between there are music filming or TV shows, touring,
you had crazy schedules. I could only imagine were you
able to take it all in, like all the success
at the time.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I don't, you know, I don't think that we actually do,
because we didn't really get a chance because he was
always on the next flight or we was always learning
the next script or whatever. So I don't think it
was too many years later and you actually look back
on the footage and you see, wow, I can't believe that.
It's almost like looking at another person doing it was like, yeah, yeah,
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it was real rollercoaster. We literally didn't have like any
kind of breathing space. It's like bang raang, which I'm
sure you guys. Yeah, So that's why this time around
we want to just sort of like enjoy every minute
of it.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Do you feel that way? How was it for you, guys?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You feel like you yeah, one hundred percent, it's you don't.
It felt like a dream. It's just like you said,
it felt like you're watching someone else. You didn't really
realize how big it had gotten because you don't watch television,
you don't listen to radio. You don't know how big
it is because you're just working every single day until
you do have like a week off and you're watching
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that age is.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yeah, you're that age as well, sort of late teens,
early twenties. You're kind of you're experiencing so many incredible
life moments, but you're also not necessarily experiencing some of
the more sort of social sides of what you would
be doing at that age, and I think that kind
of takes things.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, I say that all the time too. It's you know,
I love what I got to do. We were so
lucky and like wow, privileged that I was able to
do this amazing, incredible thing. But then you do miss
some of the things, like I didn't get to graduate
with my my friends, I didn't get to go to college.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
So many events friends.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all able to have friends come
on the road and keep those relationships going because I know,
within sync, I had like my core set of best
friends from high school that I always had on the
road with me. Just I just needed them around me
as much as possible to keep if.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I could, if we could do that, that would have
been great. We like obviously shows tours, they'd come yeah, yeah,
but always be there. But not we just just yeah,
there was too many of them.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I was gonna it was just just too too many guys.
All right, so you even had your own dolls. Now
I have a I have a thing about dolls. What
did you think of when you first saw the dolls
and were all into them?
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Mom, was frightening.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I look like a witch, remember, Oh I can Barbie, Yeah,
I was disturbing looking thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Horrid. Yeah, I can't. I'm quite liking. But I was like,
oh I wish I didn't like that. The day was wrong,
it was wrong place.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
No, Yeah, I look mine looked like a witch. Like
we had marionettes and it just just like my teeth
were all liked and like sharp.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And give you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
When you look at a doll version of yourself, that's yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
This is how they see me.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Oh, we're doing all right, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The same thing with pictures, you know, the pictures that
they would pick, and of course there's five of us
or seven were also like someone's going to have something
wrong with them. It was always me. It was always like, well,
Lances left eyes closed, but who cares, Let's.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Just go with it.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Yeah, I have one with both close, like justin j C.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Look great.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That was like that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If they had those Instagram filters, now, if you didn't,
probably was.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I asked about the dolls because I remember at the
beginning of our careers someone from the New Kids on
the Block camp or someone said, look, whatever you do,
just don't put out doll because it is a kiss
of death to any band. Once you release a doll,
the band disappears. The next couple of years, they're done.
And we were always laughing about that, and so we
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finally did marionettes. Were like, well they're marionettes, they're not doll.
So and literally within the next year we were done.
So wondering if your doll came out, were you all
done within the next year?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well, I don't know when did the band well before
we ended the day before that was the last short
for us. We did the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah Wait a Minute, landed a movie too, and then
then thinking that broke up. I think it was the
movie to be honest.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, well I think we stumbled upon some Yeah, may
we discovered I was blaming the breakup on but.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Now it was your budding film career.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Allus got all the blame.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So funny, all right, Well, you also released your first
new song in twenty years These are the days. It's
also a tribute to Paul tell Us about the song.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
The song actually has been around for a long time.
It's an old song and it was Yeah, it just
it was rotten. You know what I think the story
is that the song was actually written for us. It
was twenty years ago. They didn't fit in with what
we was doing.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Back then, no one else had done it, and the
song was still sat there.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
And when you listen to the lyrics and the message
in the story of the song, it just works absolutely
perfectly for the situation sadly we found ourselves in.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
It was very anointing.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, so now it was the right time to re
record the song and and of it as our trip
beautiful and also to look forward to what the future
holds for us.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Now. Yeah, it felt like a very.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Special song from where we've come from where we're at now,
where we come to the next step the next.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Chapter exactly, Well what do you what do you want
that next chapter to be?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Wow? Well, I think the dolls, do you know what
I think?
Speaker 7 (33:27):
And I think what's really special coming at it everyone,
but like just to be in the moment and enjoy it,
you know, at the ages we are now with twenty
five years on and yeah, it'd be in the moment
and just ye be present and what we'll cut just
I think that's.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
And we're embracing it so much more now because we
feel so lucky to be in this position to come back,
like we've been away for you know long a long time,
come back and still be able to go on tour
and like a huge scale is just unbelie So we
just love our fans and you know, we're just really
enjoying things together again, absolutely more than we ever have actually,
(34:08):
I think so yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's it's so great to see the fandoms come out
because like I said, I mean for the last twenty years,
your fans have been amazing, especially here in the States,
Like I mean, I hear about you all the time,
you know, and you had music in a long time.
What do you want to tell your fans out there,
the ones that have stuck by our for so long.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
So there's not very much more you can say the
part from you thank you for sticking with us, and.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
We love you. Yeah, we love you so much.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Yeah, And it's so special when people come up to
you and say you were my childhood or you know,
you made such a positive impact on my life. I think,
you know, I think now about our lyrics to our music.
I mean, I've got two kids, and we've all got
kids now, and the lyrics take on different meanings at
different points in your life. And I think that our
songs are just so positive and have such a beautiful
(35:02):
message in them, and and I think that's so special.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Probably that's probably why the fans have stuck with us
for so many years, because it takes them back to
a really positive.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Time in their life.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
So, yeah, we love them very much and we can't
wait to get over for the first time ever. Well, definitely,
I hope you're.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Becoming I hope you're playing Los Angeles, right, I hope.
I mean we're there. So you were saying that you
know you have kids now, which really puts things into
perspective these days and and saying, you know, you are
going to enjoy every second of this time and just
eat it all up. Did you ever think ause, you know,
(35:47):
with with the InSync readion, you know, that just happened.
I never thought in my life that my kids would
be able to see dad on television or on stage.
Did you ever think that your kids would be able
to get to see y'all like back on stage.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
That's what's going to be the most amazing thing for
all of us with the kids doing the arena, like
doing the big stages and the big arenas, and they're
a whole old enough now to actually go wow. So yeah,
it's going to be pretty special.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And how did how did y'all explain to them, you know,
the fame part of your lives?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Did it?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Was it easy for them to grasp or are they
still kind of like what is this?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yeah, it's just something that comes over time, you know,
with with age. And yeah, I have a seven year
old and he's I think he's just getting it.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah, but he he I think he thinks everyone sings
and dances to honest, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Yeah, you know, yeah, they don't know any different but
he's interesting now because they're nine and twelve.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
But now they really do, like you were saying, they
get it now, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
And they understand it, and they're now asking lots of
questions and they they just get the begetting.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would you encourage them to go into entertainment or would
you highly suggest they choose a different field?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, sorry, mine's quite clever. Maybe a proper job, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Proper proper job.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Ye please, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
If he does go to the jids hands, that's fine.
My daughter is there anyway, She's that's it. There's no
she's there's no other options. Oh yeah, she's already been
on the stage. She's that's all she wants to do,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
If you know, when you know right, you know.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
They love they love it and they're passionate about it.
To encourage them to do whatever, I love exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I know you're not supposed to push things on your kids,
but I am slightly pushing. I mean, our kids are
only two, but I am. I'm really guiding them into
like animals. My my my goal for them, my wish
for them is for them to be vets veteran veterinarians
(38:16):
so they start their own vets, So it's like a
twin vet thing, right, So work with animals I would love.
I think it would just be the best best job.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
We could save so much vet bills, Oh my gosh,
we have free vet bills exactly. They should be or
they could be a dentist then they could, or you
can save money and dental work.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, but nothing like crazy like open heart surgery are
types off? No, no, no, just like a nice you
can breathe a little bit less stressed.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm glad you're here for the planning of Virgil that yeah,
there too. They're gonna be two next week.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
That sounds like.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
We honestly don't know. We don't know the difference because
we started with two, so I could only imagine how
harder it would feel after having one. But uh, we
don't know the difference.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I can imagine the difference, and it's a lot harder,
It's true, just imagining it when we have our little
separate time with them and I just have one, Like,
oh my gosh, this is amazing, this is so easy.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I can like actually watch this one and know that
they're safe. Yeah, because you know, at all times there's
one you can't see, so you know they're on the round.
All right, ladies, let's get some frosted tips from you.
So you guys are reunited after twenty five years, what
is your tip to working with old friends after all
(39:43):
this time.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Respect for each other?
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, be kind and respect to each other, each other
for who they are as individual and accept people for
who they are to Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Boundaries, yes, yeah, that's that word. And communication. Communication is key.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
All right. Now, we're gonna play a little game of
this or that. You just have to choose your favorite
out of these. All right, butterfly clips or choker necklaces.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Fly clips for me, choker for me?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Okay, a frosted tips or the Rachel.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Rachel Rachel. Well, hello, she.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Has a modern day Rachel.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
She's just a modern day Rachel.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
She's a model.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
This is a good one.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
Tips or I'm gonna go with frosted tips only because
it just giggle by the way we love it.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It's just like, oh yeah, we'll speaking of frosted tip
backstreet boys or take that.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Take that. We've got to go.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I gotta support your home team.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
If you have says insane and you can look back
on this. I actually sit in sing million.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, okay, good, That's why I've always been my favorite. Really, No,
I'm from America, and I would choose to take that
just because they were such an influence on us, because
they broke up right when we got together. And if
it wasn't for them breaking up, because they were in
b MG Ariola in Germany, we are the ones who
(41:41):
replaced them on the label. So so without take that,
there would be no inst this or that flip phone,
BlackBerry or sidekick.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
I know, so exciting flip and I remember I had
one and I used to kind of snap it ready.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Me too, coming back talking to like my mom.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I know, me too.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Yeah, it's funny, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I had the BlackBerry. I loved because I could type
with one hand without wak looking to blindfold. I see,
I never did. I never did the Sidekick because it
was so big with like Paris Hilton and a Cole
Ritchie and it was just I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
What it was, just like it looked like a video
game control click it and it like flipped open like
we and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
It was too big. It was like a video game console.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It was, but it was just very It was branded
like Paris Hilton issues and I was like, that's a billy.
I can't do that. Yeah for girls all right? Uh?
Full House or Boy Meets World?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Did you even watch any of those?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Full House?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Full House all the way? All right.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Now we have some rapid fire A couple of questions here.
Favorite TV show theme song? Mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
Friends?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Okay, that was so insane.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Friend, I watched Friends over and over love it?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
So good.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
I mean, one of the best shows ever. If you
could only listen to one song on Loop forever, what
would it be?
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Hotel California.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Do you know I find it's so hard to pick
use one thing? One adore Prince?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Okay, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a hard when
that's a thinker, I'd have to like, it would take
me a day to figure out which song to do.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
I would go, don't stop to you get enough? Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh yeah, I thought that's a good one.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you imagine you're like with a British
serious Yeah happened?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Do you believe in ghosts or aliens? O?
Speaker 6 (44:27):
No, I believe in those. I believe in something. I
believe in a thing called love you did twenty years ago. Okay, yeah,
no more, no more.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
No more, Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I have a couple of fan questions for you. Uh
the Fresh Nostalgia would like to know, will you perform
any B side songs on tour? Like so right, we're
not doing so right, which.
Speaker 7 (45:02):
That we're not doing, but it's a really difficult thing
when we were planning the tour is what songs to
because there's so many.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
So many B sides that I don't think there are
there's some album tracks.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, sorry, that'll be the next tour, the B side exactly,
the B side tour. Beth Miss five would like to
know would you do another TV show? And if so,
what would the plot be? Now?
Speaker 6 (45:34):
For another way, we've toyed with the idea.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
I've been like coming up with ideas now and it's
been very interesting to see what actually happened at the end. Yeah, yeah,
we need like an were Yeah obviously we're in London, London, London, London.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
That would actually be great if you, like if you
just filmed the ending, but you just pretend it was
like you filmed it right after original, so you just
like just continue.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The plot and just pretend you're twenty something years younger.
That would be great. This would say the same, that'd
be amazing.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Look, if they can make Harrison Ford look thirty, I
think we're good.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
We can. I mean, you all basically do look the same.
I know you look exactly, so you really could just
do that.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Well, ladies, it was so great to get to know
you early. You'll are lovely if we if we ever
come over there, you'll have to show us around because
we haven't been to England a long time. I know
last time we were there with the opening of the
Angulia Angeliette, which was a really good show.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Oh my god, I loved that show.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
That was fun. It was really fun.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
It was well.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Congratulations again on everything. I can wait to see you
guys here so excited in the stage. Thank you for
having us anytime. We're gonna have the boys on next.
So is there anything that I need to ask them
or y'all want to give them any ship?
Speaker 6 (47:06):
Oh no, I'd say, and give them everything you've gone
give them.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Okay, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Easy with you girls, but I'll go hard with them.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
All right. Well, Joe, Rachel, Tina y'all are the best.
Thank y'all so much for doing so much by what
(47:41):
some lovely lady.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
I know. They were so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I want to just hang out with him, I know, right,
I was so serious about when we come to England,
whill you show us around because I just want to hang.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
With it seems so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
They're real fine. No, okay, we're gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
You can form a new group.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I don't have their numbers, but before sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
John and Brad we're two new members of the group,
and Michael, well.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
We can add because look and we'll be back to seven.
S Club seven.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Dude, we just.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Missed our opportunity. We already let them go for them. Well,
when they come to the show November seventh here in
Los Angeles, we are going to bring this up to
them and just you know, say, look, maybe just for
the American run, they don't have to go over to No,
(48:33):
you need two Americans for this because originally S Club
seven was supposed to be just people from all over
the world. That didn't really work out. But now we
could bring we could bridge the countries together. Oh wow,
bringing the world together is what we do, all right, guys.
Well that's all the show I have for you. I
think I had too much coffee today.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I think you're drunk on coffee.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I think so. All right, guys, that is all the
show I have for you today. Thank you so much
for listening. I'm be good to each other out there.
Don't drink and dry, take care of all those animals
because they're just too sweet. And we'll see you next
time on Frosted Tips. Then, until then, say hey, Frosty, Hey,
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Gobble, It's almost Friday thirteenth, baby, And you know what
that means.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yes, it's our baby's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's our birthday of our babies. We might have had
them worn a couple of days only for this exact
scenario Friday thirteenth. And I'm here's a problem though, Like
I'm excited. Their thirteenth birthday is going to be on
Friday thirteenth, right, So, and they're gonna be old enough
to have spooky, scary Halloween Friday thirteenth, which is my jam. Which,
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by the way, we're already surrounding them by really scary stuff,
so it just sensitizes them.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
True, So what's bothering you about this?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
They're just because they're two and they're not going to
really under stand the significance of Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, you're just gonna have to wait another year or two.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, it won't be Friday thirteenth. We gotta we gotta
wait another what seven years or so? I don't know when.
When is it every said.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
When they turn thirteen. I know it's gonna be I know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But there's gonna be one in between that, right, I mean,
then there's a leapier thing going on. I don't believe
here there's gonna be a leapier Doesn't that change things
up a little bit? For everything?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I mean, if you're born in February.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I can't ever figure it out.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's a leap year. There's gonna be a President's.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Day, don't there No? Oh, okay, we have a calendar
in front of it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Twenty twenty eight will be the next one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, that's fine. That's five years.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, see now that'll be perfect age for that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Don't get your knickers in a twist.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I'm just saying for the first one, it's kind
of a wash because we can't do anything super scary.
We're gonna do what we're doing this year. Okay, check
this out our theme? Yes, chug a chugga too.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Two.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How cute is that is?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah? It's so cute?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
How cute out I get sugar to too. We're having
this little place that they're just like, you know, one
of those indoor gym. It's all candy, candy, candy, which,
of course, when they were born, I'm like, they're not
going to have sugar until they're five. That was whist
and now we're doing their second birthday. It's just revolved
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around candy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, so that's going to fores feed them sugar.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean it's Halloween and their birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hello, their birthday, they can have sugar.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And it's going to be a costume party, it is,
the problem is we have so many costumes. I don't
know which one they should wear to their actual birthday.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well that's what happens when you order Eats Baby seven
costumes for one year of Halloween.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, well, get used to it because it's going to
be more next year. I think I want to put
him in the teen Wolf costume because since they're so little,
it's hard for them to wear wigs.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But it's not going to be really hot for him. Listen,
I'm thinking about obviously he's me running around change the clothes.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, but it's like cut off jeans and a I
don't know, some kind a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You don't know. He doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I haven't seen team in a while. And then she
has a rainbow bright that might look really great.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Should be rainbow brighter. So she could be a girl
and could be shared from Clueless. It could be Alice
in Wonderland. You could be snow white. I mean that
the possibilities are limitless.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
There's too many, too many. So I'm super excited because
you know, first birthday you they don't remember. Second they're
really not gonna remember either. But at least we have
some good pictures. Three and four, maybe you might have
a slight memory of your birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Especially four, especially four. Yeah, I remember a few early ones.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know. If I don't have pictures, I just
don't remember it these days, I just don't. My brain
is just going.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It's just elderly, elderly.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I am elderly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You have an elder brain.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I am geriatric. Come call you Jariffer now, Okay, gonna
be your jar bear.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You can be my jar bear and jer bear bay sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Also, we're starting to do something fun, So we have
s club on today, and in a couple of weeks
we're gonna have the We have the girls on. First,
we're gonna have Joe, Rachel and Tina on, and then
we're gonna have the boys come on, John and Brad.
Brad it's not Brad Lee. I think it's just Brad Well.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm sure his birth name is Brad Lee.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm I just want to you know, if we're cool,
we're friends. I'm just calling Brad and we're going Brad. Okay,
it's Mad Brad. So we want to keep it interesting
to see if they're actually paying attention. So you know
that the little bite biography I give on everyone before
we start, you know, we pull that from Wikipedia, and
you know there's all the other places place together. A
lot of times I'm pretty sure it's not true, although
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they're very nice and they're like, oh yeah, that's all true. Well,
I purposely am putting in really wrong things to see
if they catch it. Okay, So listen out there, especially
on today's episode and with the boys, I'm going to
ask or tell everyone what they were influenced by musically,
and it is probably not going to match what they
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really were. But let's see who's nice and just let
it go and which ones are like so super excited.
S Club seven now S Club there are five of them.
Now they're coming back on a reunion tour. They're finally
coming to America in Canada for the first time ever touring.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh the first time. Yeah, well that I'll be exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Super said they We've had so many people request them
be on this show.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I know, And I never really grew up with S
Club seven, Like I mean I was the age and everything,
but for some reason, it just never like I just
never was around it, so I didn't really know them.
But like, but since you know this in the past
few years, especially doing this podcast, like so many people
ask about S Club seven, So I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, you know, I'm excited about what Halloween. I mean,
it's just it. The season is here, I know, the
best time of the year because you have just holiday.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I mean you forced birth for children to be born
on No. Cover thirteenth. We got it. You like it?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And is that a problem?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
No, it's great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I just went to the first time. Okay, you know
how they have universals Halloween har Nights, which is fun.
We go every year. Well this year I just went
last weekend to the Not Scary Farm at Nott's Berry Farm.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Was it not scary?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It was very scary.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I didn't go, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I have to say it because I went with Lisa Fox,
yes who, because you know, she's a big radio DJ.
She always gets tickets, so she brings the fam and
she's the godmother of my godchild. So we brought Genevieve
and the Pink Princess Wendy and doctor Steve and they
took us to Not Scary Farm. Oh my gosh, I
did not realize how much more scary Not Scary Farm
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is than Universal Cool. It was, you know how they
have the people out, the actors kind of running in
the park, like shaking things in your face and just
scaring the crap. Of course, Lisa, you know, our our
favorite Lisa del Campo, she giggles. She went with us,
and you know she's not really into getting scared too much.
But everywhere we went, whatever haunted house we went in,
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just walking around the park, they went for her.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Because you could just pick you can tell if you're
into scaring people. You could tell who the weak souls are.
Well they Lisa, you weak soul?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You. I mean I felt bad for it. So a
certain point, I'm like Okay, this she's gonna have a
heart attack. And she said the next day she was
so sore from screaming and tensing up all the time
that she was just like she had had a workout.
So if you want to lose some weight, just go
to Not Scary for him. Yeah, but I have to say,
compared to Universal, you know those people in the park
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trying to scare you, there were three actors to every guest.
It felt like they were EveryWare good. You could not
take one step without someone just hitting you in the
face with something.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's like, what the sounds like? A fun night?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That was a good time. And then on top of
that you get the fun roller coaster. Oh yeah, So
I think that's going to be an annual thing that
we start to do. Now, you know, do the Universal,
but also do not Scary because it really gets you
in the mood.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Ah. So both were doing adding another thing, doing their repertoire.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah okay, and there's all other things that we're gonna do.
I'm going to talk to you about that later.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Please do because I want to talk about some S
club set. Okay, no, sorry, s.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Club All right, We're gonna start with of course, ladies
a first, So we come back. We are going to
have the new iteration of S Club seven. It's S
Club with Joe, Rachel and Tina. Right after this, Hey.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
All right, let's get going, shall we. S Club formerly
known as S Club seven, are a British pop group
formed in nineteen ninety eight. They originally comprised of Tina, Paul,
John Bradley, Johannah and Rachel s. Club seven were formed
by the former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who signed
them to Polydor Records. The band was heavily influenced by
Iron Maiden and Sammy Davis Junior, and they rose to
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fame with their BBC television sitcom Miami Seven, aimed at
a young audience, What Turkey. Within five years, they achieved
four UK number one singles, a UK number one album,
several successful singles in Europe, top ten singles in the US.
They recorded four studio albums, released eleven singles have sold
more than ten million albums worldwide. Miami seven lasted four seasons,
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which I can't believe you did not watch mister Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Were you too young?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, you're not your waight, No, you're too old anyway,
last four season it was watched by over ninety million viewers. Now,
S Club is back for reunion tour which kicks off
October twelfth, and I am joined. Now this is gonna
be a two for We got a two party with
Club seven here because we were splitting the girls and
the boys. First. Ladies first, of course, Rachel and Tina.
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Welcome to Frosted Tips.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Now. Was there anything in the intro that I got wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
No, no, I was like, oh my god, I love it.
I just love that. You're are heavily influenced by Iron
Maid and Sammy Davis Junior. These are professionals right here.
We're just going with it. The host is an idiot,
and we're just going to go with it. All right,
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Girls Se Club reunited and heading out on tour. But
let's go back to the beginning, all right. Mister Simon
Fuller behind the Spice Girls looking to create a new group.
How did you first hear about this opportunity?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
So I was a dancer at the time, so I
was saying I was working for Disney actually, and I
was doing that and it was living my best life.
And then my agent called me and said, oh, there's
an audition for this thing and it's a band and
it's a TV show and it's this and it's that.
(11:38):
And I was like, Okay, yeah, I'm up for giving
it a go. And yeah, auditioned and I got a
call back and then met Summer Fuller and he was like,
you're in, So yeah, it was quite Yeah, it's quite
easy as auditions go. Yeah, I think it's really good
that all of us were like got into the brand
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in such different ways because I was I used to
be a country singer and I was actually spotted seeing
country in the place that I was working as a
country singer at the time, and somebody from obviously Simon
Fuller's company, was in that evening asked me to go
along for the audition.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I went, and there I am twenty five years o
easily slideing door moments.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Yeah, I was actually only Sony Records, my brother works there,
and I was in the canteen, just minding my own business,
having lunch. I knew nothing about the auditions that were happening,
knew nothing about anything about the band, and I got
approached by two producers who were looking to do a
sort of solo project. When in the studio and started recording,
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and then they were working with Simon Fuller at the time.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
We got connected. I met Simon and then the rest
is history. Like a couple. I mean, that's a very
long story, cut short, but a couple of weeks later
I got asked everyone to be a part of Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's grazing because it was like ten thousand applicants applied
to audition for this and when the auditions were held, one,
what do you remember about the auditions And was it
kind of like American Idol where it started with you know,
ten thousand and goes down to one thousand, and there
was there like stages of making it to the next level.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I know, I think there was.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I was by myself actually, I know, I know some
people were in the sort of you know, it was
more like a normal audition where there's quite a few people.
I was like, just me, and it was kind of like,
because if you have an agent you get private auditions,
it's a bit less castle market, which is quite good.
So yeah, it was just me and they.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
They were sort of like, yeah, okay, you're in, You're
in lucky Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
My audition the only thing I can really really remember
about because I'm very big ballad singer, and they said, oh,
do you do you know anything? I was like, oh,
I ended up growing out a bit of I want
to dance with somebody who said really badly.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but always a show stopper.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I mean, you play that song in any bar any club,
everyone's going to start dancing and singing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's true, you'll always be a hero, especially karaoke. Like,
if you're horrible at karaoke, you put that one on.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It does not it doesn't matter because everyone's going to
start singing and I'm not going to even listen to you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Exactly. Now, you're a group of seven at this time,
basically strangers. What did you do from here? Did y'all
all have to live in a house together? How did
y'all get to know each other so quickly?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How was that?
Speaker 6 (14:43):
But enough? It started as five of us, Well, actually
it was the four of you, wasn't it, John, Paul
and myself?
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Then I joined and we were we were I think
we're going to be a five and then yeah, later
I don't have timelines, but Joe and Brad then enjoyed
and we came ye seven.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Lived together in the same house, though I don't think
that ever worked. But we used to sort of like
do like bonding weekends. We went bowling and.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
And used to go to like London hot spots and stuff,
and we spent a lot of time together that way.
But I don't think I think if we'd have all
lived in the house together. We might not have been
sitting here.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Like like kild each other. The album.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
We spent weekend, didn't We go down to Caffield and
record for the weekends the album, and then we would
do sort of work.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
For the TV show. We do like workshops type thing. Yes,
lots of bonding.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And so the producer he said, we don't know if
they can act, so he sort of got us all
in like a studio and made us still all these
like acting so so awkward, and he was so into it,
and so he's really lovely and we were doing all
these sort of actuary things and just giggling the whole.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Time, and apparently he saying they can all act. So
that was good, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So going in they knew that y'all. They wanted y'all
to do television.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, that was always going to be part of S Club.
It was a TV show and the like the Monkey Monkey.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, y'all are like really yeah, very monkeys. But also
you kind of led what K pop is doing now
with the seven people. Yeah, I think you'll need a
percentage of BTS. I'm just going to put that out there.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I agree.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah, yeah, cool cool.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Our agent so what's what was your first impressions of
each other? Were some of y'all getting along more than others?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Well, I think we were.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Really You think we were really, really lucky. We did
all naturally just get on. There was something that very
magical that just happened with the seven of us from
the very first day. I think, Yeah, you know, that's
why I felt. I felt like it was just a chemistry.
You can't make it, then you've either got it or
you don't.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And yeah you did.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
It's like muma sauce with all different spices. Yeah, and
it sort of worked so different.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I mean that can be difficult, especially, I mean because
you're a mixed group, you know, guys and girls when
you're on tour. Did y'all separate boy girl bus or
did y'all each have your own bus?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
No, we've always been together, shoved.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
All of you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Can I say, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It wasn't like now where they're all sort of you
know what, you could like her, you know. But yeah,
it was good. Though we were fine.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
I think we would have liked to separate though we
did all like that's the carnage of the band is
what makes the chemistry work.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
We're all chaos always.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Who was the dirtiest on the bus?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Mine was the dirtiest. Yeah, yeah, you don't mind.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, And we do have to touch on, you know,
not being with us anymore. I know you were planning
on doing a reunion tour right before he passed. Uh,
And I'm so glad that y'all continued to do this
to honor him after. I mean, what what was it
like getting the news about Paul And I mean, did
that bring your group closer together?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
It did? Yeah, so much.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah. I think it was just a complete and utter
shock that had just come out of nowhere because we
were just so all buzzing for the tour and buzzing
to we'll be back together, and then obviously to find
out something as tragic and devastating as that, it knocks
us all for six in him.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yeah, I'm so so sad. He was like our best friend,
like family, like you know, it is a family member and.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You are losing one of your own, And yeah, it was.
It was very tough to deal with, but we were
very lucky. But we've all had one another and we've
all shared the same grief together, and it has definitely
unified and wanted us close together for sure, and didn't We.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Had the time after to just try and take it
all in and share memories and have time where we
could just still be. And yeah, it was never an
option not to do the tour. It was never something
I don't think we ever thought. It's not We're not
going to do. It's just made it. It's take a
different journey which is really special because it's a celebration now.
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It was always a celebration, but it's now.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Paul's life.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
And yeah, and also honoring him because I think he
would have been really annoyed.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
If we hadn't done this tour. So because he really
really wanted to do it.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, from day one we were doing meetings, he was
always like the most enthusiastic and really like yeah really so.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
So so wanting to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So yeah, well he'll be looking down at every single
show that you'll have. I know it'll be beautiful. You
are starting over in Europe, but I think are you
bringing the tour over to the States at all?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
We are so excited about because we have never done
this before.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You've never toured here in America, no TV show.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
So we spent so much time in America second home. Yeah,
but yeah, he's never ever toured. No, we can't wait.
I cannot wait to get over there and do it
live for everyone the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What are you most excited about coming over here? Is
there something different you think America will be compared to
your home country. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I don't know what to experience because this is completely
new territory for us as performing as a tour.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
So yeah, and we always look.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
At America is really really special because we shot our
TV show there and America you just sort of look
at America like being from England, you sort of think
wow that everything is so big, it's all came and
you guys really sort of you you go for it
and it's just like wow, you know, whereas whereas in
Britain we just apologize a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yeah. Sorry, sorry, terribly sorry. It's been such a huge
part of this club.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
You know, we've been half of well more than half
our time, like on the beach in America, and so
it'll be really special to bring this to an American audience.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
And we've always had so much support and yeah, it'll
be amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
We love we always hear from American fans on social media,
so you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Know, we're just like, you know, you'll have huge fans
here in the States. Huge. What was it like in
so Miami seven went four seasons? Now, Michael here, my hubby,
he is from Miami Beach, so he obviously knows the place.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, where did you actually shoot that show? Was it
in l A? Though? Was that La?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Miami South Beach?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
South? Okay, just north of it?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I think they said, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, get them away from Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, we did three series in l A.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, that's crazy. So y'all are basically more American than
you are British.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
In terms of television. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do you ever think about moving back here?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I think if the opportunity ever came for us to
do anything again over there, then I think it's definitely
something we would be interested in doing.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Yeah. Never say never.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You never know, do you We never never get to
do this again? So I know, yeah, did we was
doing this twenty five years later?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
You know, but you never know.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What It's definitely the time, I mean, this is the
time for reunions.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well especially yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I had no idea,
no idea that we were be doing this yeah, like
it was so crazy, but you know it is, it
is all about just that that time, and it just
kind of it revealed itself to us. We didn't. I mean,
six months ago, I told you there's no way in
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Sync would ever have come back and done a song
or anything. Uh, And then all of a sudden it
just kind of landed in our laps with you guys.
How who was the first to say, hey, let's let's
do this again.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Well we did. We didn't talk back in twenty fifteen.
We did.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
We did, And I'm not taking credit, but I was.
I put feelers out that way, were manifesting, Like everyone
over to my flat and we had Chinese and I
was just like, what if you know, and they were like, okay,
that's where you can vite. It was all like yeah,
my manipulative plan. Yeah, but yeah, and we loved it,
(24:27):
didn't We like, we should do this again.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
And then eight years later.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
We got an email out the blue twenty five years
since we first started. So we're we're celebrating our twenty
fifth anniversary. And it just feels really really special, and
especially with everything that's happened in the last few months,
it feels like, sure, Yeah, it just feels like it's
all come together and it's a very special way to
celebrate everything that we are and have had and bring
(24:55):
it back to the fans.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
That nostalgia for people, I think is.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
So special to And are you noticing so the gen
zers are loving our era of music. It's it's just
it's crazy that they're just.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
It's crazy, you know. Nineties. Yeah, nineties wasn't even really
fashionable in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, we always say that.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I remember being.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Loads and loads of rock bands and loads of like
yeah body, and we were like so uncol like yeah,
now it seems to come hop bands cool.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
But now it's like we're okay, we're right now. Time.
I think the nineties and the naughties pop was just
the best.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It's the best.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It was the best time in music for pop music.
There was nothing better than the nineties and like that.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Oh, you know, we're very fortunate to work with some
of the best writers produced in the business, and you know,
it stands a test of time, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
So, did you ever get to work with Max Martin?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Max, you know, niceish, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I mean he's I mean, he's just so responsible for
pretty much every number one song in the last twenty
five years, like it's crazy out of we need Yeah,
I don't think so, no.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Okay, yeah, so she does a lot of sure for Brittany,
Yeah Britta okay, Oh I.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Actually do you know who she is?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Yeah? Okay, very.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, between there are music filming or TV shows, touring,
you had crazy schedules. I could only imagine were you
able to take it all in, like all the success
at the time.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I don't, you know, I don't think that we actually do,
because we didn't really get a chance because he was
always on the next flight or we was always learning
the next script or whatever. So I don't think it
was too many years later and you actually look back
on the footage and you see, wow, I can't believe that.
It's almost like looking at another person doing it was like, yeah, yeah,
(27:11):
it was real rollercoaster. We literally didn't have like any
kind of breathing space. It's like bang raang, which I'm
sure you guys. Yeah, So that's why this time around
we want to just sort of like enjoy every minute
of it.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Do you feel that way? How was it for you, guys?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You feel like you yeah, one hundred percent, it's you don't.
It felt like a dream. It's just like you said,
it felt like you're watching someone else. You didn't really
realize how big it had gotten because you don't watch television,
you don't listen to radio. You don't know how big
it is because you're just working every single day until
you do have like a week off and you're watching
(27:49):
that age is.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yeah, you're that age as well, sort of late teens,
early twenties. You're kind of you're experiencing so many incredible
life moments, but you're also not necessarily experiencing some of
the more sort of social sides of what you would
be doing at that age, and I think that kind
of takes things.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, I say that all the time too. It's you know,
I love what I got to do. We were so
lucky and like wow, privileged that I was able to
do this amazing, incredible thing. But then you do miss
some of the things, like I didn't get to graduate
with my my friends, I didn't get to go to college.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
So many events friends.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all able to have friends come
on the road and keep those relationships going because I know,
within sync, I had like my core set of best
friends from high school that I always had on the
road with me. Just I just needed them around me
as much as possible to keep if.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I could, if we could do that, that would have
been great. We like obviously shows tours, they'd come yeah, yeah,
but always be there. But not we just just yeah,
there was too many of them.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I was gonna it was just just too too many guys.
All right, so you even had your own dolls. Now
I have a I have a thing about dolls. What
did you think of when you first saw the dolls
and were all into them?
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Mom, was frightening.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I look like a witch, remember, Oh I can Barbie, Yeah,
I was disturbing looking thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Horrid. Yeah, I can't. I'm quite liking. But I was like,
oh I wish I didn't like that. The day was wrong,
it was wrong place.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
No, Yeah, I look mine looked like a witch. Like
we had marionettes and it just just like my teeth
were all liked and like sharp.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
And give you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
When you look at a doll version of yourself, that's yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
This is how they see me.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Oh, we're doing all right, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The same thing with pictures, you know, the pictures that
they would pick, and of course there's five of us
or seven were also like someone's going to have something
wrong with them. It was always me. It was always like, well,
Lances left eyes closed, but who cares, Let's.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Just go with it.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Yeah, I have one with both close, like justin j C.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Look great.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That was like that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If they had those Instagram filters, now, if you didn't,
probably was.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I asked about the dolls because I remember at the
beginning of our careers someone from the New Kids on
the Block camp or someone said, look, whatever you do,
just don't put out doll because it is a kiss
of death to any band. Once you release a doll,
the band disappears. The next couple of years, they're done.
And we were always laughing about that, and so we
(31:11):
finally did marionettes. Were like, well they're marionettes, they're not doll.
So and literally within the next year we were done.
So wondering if your doll came out, were you all
done within the next year?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well, I don't know when did the band well before
we ended the day before that was the last short
for us. We did the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah Wait a Minute, landed a movie too, and then
then thinking that broke up. I think it was the
movie to be honest.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, well I think we stumbled upon some Yeah, may
we discovered I was blaming the breakup on but.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Now it was your budding film career.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Allus got all the blame.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So funny, all right, Well, you also released your first
new song in twenty years These are the days. It's
also a tribute to Paul tell Us about the song.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
The song actually has been around for a long time.
It's an old song and it was Yeah, it just
it was rotten. You know what I think the story
is that the song was actually written for us. It
was twenty years ago. They didn't fit in with what
we was doing.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Back then, no one else had done it, and the
song was still sat there.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
And when you listen to the lyrics and the message
in the story of the song, it just works absolutely
perfectly for the situation sadly we found ourselves in.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
It was very anointing.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, so now it was the right time to re
record the song and and of it as our trip
beautiful and also to look forward to what the future
holds for us.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Now. Yeah, it felt like a very.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Special song from where we've come from where we're at now,
where we come to the next step the next.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Chapter exactly, Well what do you what do you want
that next chapter to be?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Wow? Well, I think the dolls, do you know what
I think?
Speaker 7 (33:27):
And I think what's really special coming at it everyone,
but like just to be in the moment and enjoy it,
you know, at the ages we are now with twenty
five years on and yeah, it'd be in the moment
and just ye be present and what we'll cut just
I think that's.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
And we're embracing it so much more now because we
feel so lucky to be in this position to come back,
like we've been away for you know long a long time,
come back and still be able to go on tour
and like a huge scale is just unbelie So we
just love our fans and you know, we're just really
enjoying things together again, absolutely more than we ever have actually,
(34:08):
I think so yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's it's so great to see the fandoms come out
because like I said, I mean for the last twenty years,
your fans have been amazing, especially here in the States,
Like I mean, I hear about you all the time,
you know, and you had music in a long time.
What do you want to tell your fans out there,
the ones that have stuck by our for so long.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
So there's not very much more you can say the
part from you thank you for sticking with us, and.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
We love you. Yeah, we love you so much.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Yeah, And it's so special when people come up to
you and say you were my childhood or you know,
you made such a positive impact on my life. I think,
you know, I think now about our lyrics to our music.
I mean, I've got two kids, and we've all got
kids now, and the lyrics take on different meanings at
different points in your life. And I think that our
songs are just so positive and have such a beautiful
(35:02):
message in them, and and I think that's so special.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Probably that's probably why the fans have stuck with us
for so many years, because it takes them back to
a really positive.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Time in their life.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
So, yeah, we love them very much and we can't
wait to get over for the first time ever. Well, definitely,
I hope you're.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Becoming I hope you're playing Los Angeles, right, I hope.
I mean we're there. So you were saying that you
know you have kids now, which really puts things into
perspective these days and and saying, you know, you are
going to enjoy every second of this time and just
eat it all up. Did you ever think ause, you know,
(35:47):
with with the InSync readion, you know, that just happened.
I never thought in my life that my kids would
be able to see dad on television or on stage.
Did you ever think that your kids would be able
to get to see y'all like back on stage.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
That's what's going to be the most amazing thing for
all of us with the kids doing the arena, like
doing the big stages and the big arenas, and they're
a whole old enough now to actually go wow. So yeah,
it's going to be pretty special.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
And how did how did y'all explain to them, you know,
the fame part of your lives?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Did it?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Was it easy for them to grasp or are they
still kind of like what is this?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Yeah, it's just something that comes over time, you know,
with with age. And yeah, I have a seven year
old and he's I think he's just getting it.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah, but he he I think he thinks everyone sings
and dances to honest, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Yeah, you know, yeah, they don't know any different but
he's interesting now because they're nine and twelve.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
But now they really do, like you were saying, they
get it now, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
And they understand it, and they're now asking lots of
questions and they they just get the begetting.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would you encourage them to go into entertainment or would
you highly suggest they choose a different field?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, sorry, mine's quite clever. Maybe a proper job, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Proper proper job.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Ye please, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
If he does go to the jids hands, that's fine.
My daughter is there anyway, She's that's it. There's no
she's there's no other options. Oh yeah, she's already been
on the stage. She's that's all she wants to do,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
If you know, when you know right, you know.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
They love they love it and they're passionate about it.
To encourage them to do whatever, I love exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I know you're not supposed to push things on your kids,
but I am slightly pushing. I mean, our kids are
only two, but I am. I'm really guiding them into
like animals. My my my goal for them, my wish
for them is for them to be vets veteran veterinarians
(38:16):
so they start their own vets, So it's like a
twin vet thing, right, So work with animals I would love.
I think it would just be the best best job.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
We could save so much vet bills, Oh my gosh,
we have free vet bills exactly. They should be or
they could be a dentist then they could, or you
can save money and dental work.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, but nothing like crazy like open heart surgery are
types off? No, no, no, just like a nice you
can breathe a little bit less stressed.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm glad you're here for the planning of Virgil that yeah,
there too. They're gonna be two next week.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
That sounds like.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
We honestly don't know. We don't know the difference because
we started with two, so I could only imagine how
harder it would feel after having one. But uh, we
don't know the difference.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I can imagine the difference, and it's a lot harder,
It's true, just imagining it when we have our little
separate time with them and I just have one, Like,
oh my gosh, this is amazing, this is so easy.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I can like actually watch this one and know that
they're safe. Yeah, because you know, at all times there's
one you can't see, so you know they're on the round.
All right, ladies, let's get some frosted tips from you.
So you guys are reunited after twenty five years, what
is your tip to working with old friends after all
(39:43):
this time.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Respect for each other?
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, be kind and respect to each other, each other
for who they are as individual and accept people for
who they are to Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Boundaries, yes, yeah, that's that word. And communication. Communication is key.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
All right. Now, we're gonna play a little game of
this or that. You just have to choose your favorite
out of these. All right, butterfly clips or choker necklaces.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Fly clips for me, choker for me?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Okay, a frosted tips or the Rachel.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Rachel Rachel. Well, hello, she.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Has a modern day Rachel.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
She's just a modern day Rachel.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
She's a model.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
This is a good one.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
Tips or I'm gonna go with frosted tips only because
it just giggle by the way we love it.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
It's just like, oh yeah, we'll speaking of frosted tip
backstreet boys or take that.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Take that. We've got to go.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I gotta support your home team.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
If you have says insane and you can look back
on this. I actually sit in sing million.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, okay, good, That's why I've always been my favorite. Really, No,
I'm from America, and I would choose to take that
just because they were such an influence on us, because
they broke up right when we got together. And if
it wasn't for them breaking up, because they were in
b MG Ariola in Germany, we are the ones who
(41:41):
replaced them on the label. So so without take that,
there would be no inst this or that flip phone,
BlackBerry or sidekick.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
I know, so exciting flip and I remember I had
one and I used to kind of snap it ready.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Me too, coming back talking to like my mom.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I know, me too.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Yeah, it's funny, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I had the BlackBerry. I loved because I could type
with one hand without wak looking to blindfold. I see,
I never did. I never did the Sidekick because it
was so big with like Paris Hilton and a Cole
Ritchie and it was just I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
What it was, just like it looked like a video
game control click it and it like flipped open like
we and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
It was too big. It was like a video game console.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
It was, but it was just very It was branded
like Paris Hilton issues and I was like, that's a billy.
I can't do that. Yeah for girls all right? Uh?
Full House or Boy Meets World?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Did you even watch any of those?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Full House?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Full House all the way? All right.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Now we have some rapid fire A couple of questions here.
Favorite TV show theme song? Mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (43:21):
Friends?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Okay, that was so insane.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Friend, I watched Friends over and over love it?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
So good.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
I mean, one of the best shows ever. If you
could only listen to one song on Loop forever, what
would it be?
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Hotel California.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Do you know I find it's so hard to pick
use one thing? One adore Prince?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Okay, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a hard when
that's a thinker, I'd have to like, it would take
me a day to figure out which song to do.
Speaker 6 (44:04):
I would go, don't stop to you get enough? Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Oh yeah, I thought that's a good one.
Speaker 6 (44:14):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you imagine you're like with a British
serious Yeah happened?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Do you believe in ghosts or aliens? O?
Speaker 6 (44:27):
No, I believe in those. I believe in something. I
believe in a thing called love you did twenty years ago. Okay, yeah,
no more, no more.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
No more, Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I have a couple of fan questions for you. Uh
the Fresh Nostalgia would like to know, will you perform
any B side songs on tour? Like so right, we're
not doing so right, which.
Speaker 7 (45:02):
That we're not doing, but it's a really difficult thing
when we were planning the tour is what songs to
because there's so many.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
So many B sides that I don't think there are
there's some album tracks.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, sorry, that'll be the next tour, the B side exactly,
the B side tour. Beth Miss five would like to
know would you do another TV show? And if so,
what would the plot be? Now?
Speaker 6 (45:34):
For another way, we've toyed with the idea.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
I've been like coming up with ideas now and it's
been very interesting to see what actually happened at the end. Yeah, yeah,
we need like an were Yeah obviously we're in London, London, London, London.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
That would actually be great if you, like if you
just filmed the ending, but you just pretend it was
like you filmed it right after original, so you just
like just continue.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The plot and just pretend you're twenty something years younger.
That would be great. This would say the same, that'd
be amazing.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Look, if they can make Harrison Ford look thirty, I
think we're good.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
We can. I mean, you all basically do look the same.
I know you look exactly, so you really could just
do that.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Well, ladies, it was so great to get to know
you early. You'll are lovely if we if we ever
come over there, you'll have to show us around because
we haven't been to England a long time. I know
last time we were there with the opening of the
Angulia Angeliette, which was a really good show.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Oh my god, I loved that show.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
That was fun. It was really fun.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
It was well.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Congratulations again on everything. I can wait to see you
guys here so excited in the stage. Thank you for
having us anytime. We're gonna have the boys on next.
So is there anything that I need to ask them
or y'all want to give them any ship?
Speaker 6 (47:06):
Oh no, I'd say, and give them everything you've gone
give them.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Okay, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Easy with you girls, but I'll go hard with them.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
All right. Well, Joe, Rachel, Tina y'all are the best.
Thank y'all so much for doing so much by what
(47:41):
some lovely lady.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
I know. They were so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I want to just hang out with him, I know, right,
I was so serious about when we come to England,
whill you show us around because I just want to hang.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
With it seems so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
They're real fine. No, okay, we're gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
You can form a new group.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I don't have their numbers, but before sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
John and Brad we're two new members of the group,
and Michael, well.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
We can add because look and we'll be back to seven.
S Club seven.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Dude, we just.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Missed our opportunity. We already let them go for them. Well,
when they come to the show November seventh here in
Los Angeles, we are going to bring this up to
them and just you know, say, look, maybe just for
the American run, they don't have to go over to No,
(48:33):
you need two Americans for this because originally S Club
seven was supposed to be just people from all over
the world. That didn't really work out. But now we
could bring we could bridge the countries together. Oh wow,
bringing the world together is what we do, all right, guys.
Well that's all the show I have for you. I
think I had too much coffee today.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
I think you're drunk on coffee.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I think so. All right, guys, that is all the
show I have for you today. Thank you so much
for listening. I'm be good to each other out there.
Don't drink and dry, take care of all those animals
because they're just too sweet. And we'll see you next
time on Frosted Tips. Then, until then, say hey, Frosty, Hey,
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