Nothing hurts like heartbreak, and Floridan pop-punkers Magnolia Park are delivering some bittersweet fact with their newest single “I ought to’ve listened to my mates.” The vivacious, head-bopping anthem particulars the conclusion that your pals who warned you about relationship somebody have been completely proper, and it’s come again to chunk you.
The music video performs on the whimsical irony of the tune, that includes frontman Joshua Roberts being examined in a hospital setting, after which kidnapped. All of the whereas, the remainder of the band got down to discover and rescue him.
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Ending their run supporting Sum 41 and Easy Plan, solely to leap onto one other huge U.S. tour with the Used and A Day To Bear in mind, we caught up with Magnolia Park to seek out out extra about their new music, what touring with their idols is like and the best way to heal heartbreak.
Firstly, how is life treating you?
JOSHUA ROBERTS: Life’s been actually good! We simply completed our tour with Easy Plan and Sum 41. So now we’re about to start out our trek again house. However the tour has been superb. Each band that we play with has opened their arms to us, so it has been very nice to satisfy a couple of of the legends within the scene and play with them.
I wanna soar straight into the only. Might clarify in your personal phrases what it is about?
ROBERTS: Once we went into the studio with Nick Lengthy and Andy Seltzer, we got here in with only a clear slate. We did not know what we have been going to put in writing about that day. We simply wished to go in there with a contemporary thoughts and see what we might actually do. Nick got here up with the thought of a breakup story. Him and Andy Seltzer began working collectively to create the instrumental, and we had inputs as effectively. The lyrics are very relatable but in addition very open-ended on the similar time.
The music video exhibits you in a hospital, and your pals try to save lots of you. Are you able to converse on the significance of friendship, particularly being in a band collectively?
ROBERTS: Oh, it is essential. We’ve to make it possible for we accommodate everybody’s personalities. It is a very essential reality of how Magnolia Park works, is very why we’ve got to have that friendship, that household, as a way to make this work. As a result of, such as you mentioned, we’re at all times collectively. We’re at all times doing one thing collectively. So having that friendship, having that household is essential.
The tune is about listening to your pals. Who offers one of the best recommendation within the band?
ROBERTS: [Laughs.] It is between Jerry and Freddie [Criales, guitarist].
You will have nice chemistry. Whenever you’re on tour, is it vital so that you can have your personal house in addition to be round one another?
JARED KAY: A few of us are extra introverted, some are extroverted. I believe we do a terrific job of understanding one another’s boundaries and letting folks do what they should do. We keep fairly easygoing with one another. We do not actually hate one another in any respect.
That’s good to listen to. You have been on tour with Easy Plan and Sum 41, and now you are happening tour with A Day to Bear in mind and the Used. Have you ever realized something whereas being on tour with these trade legends?
ROBERTS: I went to lunch with Pierre [Bouvier] from Easy Plan. We talked for some time about simply being a singer, being a frontman and what the job actually entails and the best way to actually navigate by way of being on tour as a singer. So I’ve realized quite a bit about the best way to put together myself for lots of the upcoming stuff that we’re doing.
KAY: One factor Jaret [Reddick] from Bowling For Soup mentioned to me that actually caught. He mentioned, “Bands like Easy Plan, Sum 41, all these bands which have nice guys, that play nice music, that deal with their crews and their fanbase effectively, they’re round due to that. They stick round due to how a lot love they offer to the neighborhood.” And he mentioned, “You guys clearly have that as effectively. So maintain at that. Be real, be humble, maintain giving again to your followers, to yourselves and to your crew, and also you guys will stick round 20 years into the long run, identical to we’ve got.” And that was a hell of a factor to listen to from Jaret.
How does it really feel to tour with the bands that you simply listened to in highschool?
ROBERTS: Oh, it is surreal. The truth that now I do know them and I can converse to them about stuff, that is fairly superior. It is a fairly good feeling.
I puzzled in case you might give any recommendation to the youthful model of your self once you have been going by way of your first heartbreak.
ROBERTS: Write about it. Put it in a tune.
KAY: You recognize, it occurs, and it sucks. However you’ll heal. You will come out on high. Simply maintain doing you. Preserve persevering.
ROBERTS: I obtained the “write about it” factor from Oprah again within the day. I used to observe Oprah with my grandmother, and she or he was like, “When you ever have something that you simply need to say however you’ll be able to’t actually say it, let it out. If you wish to give it to that individual, do it if you wish to throw it away.” In order that approach, no less than that emotion’s out — that feeling, that thought course of is out.
