Interview with Honor Society

combining funky pop rock with R&B Flair
the guys in this New Jersey band
pride themselves on being accessible to
their fans hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with honor society well we’d
like to start by having you guys tell us
how the bag originally got together the
band originally started with me and
Michael we actually met in high school
in art class and that’s played in some
bands in high school and basically
through you know friends of ours through
different musical circles met Andy and
Alex and it’s been a little over two
years that we’ve been playing together
we’ve always been friends sort of first
you know I think I’m not sure people
know that sometimes people think a lot
of bands and acts are kind of put
together but we’ve all had a
longstanding friendship how do you guys
like to describe the sounds you do you
consider yourselves a boyband at all or
do you kind of shun that yeah I think
that’s an unfortunate title anyone who
sees the show will definitely see a band
you know we’ve always been a rock band
we just decide to make pop music cuz
it’s the kind of music that we love but
it’s basically funky up-tempo rock music
what would you say is your musical
philosophy as a group I don’t know if a
lot of people know sort of like the the
complexities that go into pop music you
know Michael Jackson records are some of
the most sing-along able music you know
since the Beatles yet you know you have
someone like Quincy Jones who’s such a a
jazz minded you know very deep musical
theoretical producer you know making
those songs at the point I’m trying to
get to is that we’ve always said that
our in-house musical philosophy is to
sort of make those complex type songs
you know seem accessible we usually
write songs with just an acoustic guitar
or a piano or both and and we think that
a good song is really a song that can
stand on its own in that really
stripped-down setting and it’s a very
collaborative effort we all ride
together it’s usually all four of us in
a room at one time on our record
fashionably late most of that is on our
society before of us we did do some
co-writing with the Jonas Brothers and
with some other friends of ours and it’s
such a cool experience you know to like
sit in a room the four of us and to get
other outside ears and and you know
musical hands on the music it’s really
it’s a lot of fun
now you mentioned your work with the
Jonas Brothers how how does that helped
you you know they gave us our shot when
we look back on our history you know one
day that is definitely the turning point
then becoming interested in our in our
project and signing us to their label
you know they saw something in us that
we believed in ourselves but gave us
sort of that that bigger platform and
have been awesome friends you can just
watch them walk into a room and you
learn how to sort of carry yourself how
to perform and how to be you know
professional
let’s talk about the album of it what
were you guys going for and what do you
think feel evolved to in the future we
are a rock band and we make pop music
and so the record is unabashedly pop you
know that’s that’s what we wanted to go
for the album you know shows the full
picture of Honor Society just in terms
of like the range of music
we know where our spectrum is and you
may you know depending on how we’re
feeling at the time you may hear a
really more R&B pop type album or maybe
a more raw acoustic rock I honestly feel
very very blessed you know with these
guys in the band really disguised a
limit it’s really where our heart is you
know it’s how the music is going to
sound
thank you very much guys