The Taylor effect is real.
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WHERE ARE YOU, JADEN?
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Were you a Warped Tour/emo-indie rock kid in the mid 2000s? There's a good chance you've seen Cartel hit the stage, responsible for the huge hits "Honestly" and "Say Anything." Now 10 years later (yes, 10 years!) they are back on the road playing a Chroma anniversary tour. The band stopped by BuzzFeed New York to answer fan questions — ranging from their most embarrassing moment on stage to their first AIM screen names. Here's what we learned about the quad.
Joe Pepper: New Found Glory.
Will Pugh: Yeah, as a band, New Found Glory and Jimmy Eat World were probably the two — how our music was in the early days — those were our first loves.
WP: 311. I'll own that, that's me. Thank you, Nick Hexum.
Kevin Sanders: A bunch of really bad underground bands.
Nic Hudson: Yeah, local undergrounds.
KS: Just the worst bands imaginable.
WP: Earth Crisis, Chokehold.
JP: Oh yeah, a lot of hardcore.
KS: A lot of screaming because, teenage boys.
JP: A lot of angst.
NH: I also liked a lot of '90s hits too, like Jon Secada. (laughs)
KS: Whatever our moms made us listen to.
WP: Genesis, a little Phil Collins.
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WP: Yes. However, the actual release is different than the way we initially intended. "Matter of Time" was supposed to be number eight, I believe?
JP: Right before "Minstrel's Prayer."
WP: Oh, yeah, so the label was like, "'Matter of Time' is the hit, man, we've got to move it up." So it turned out to be fourth and it ruined our tuning order.
JP: Now we have to go back and forth with our tunes all the time.
WP: But it ended up being all right.
KS: We started to rehearse for the tour and we were like, "Do we play it our way or how everyone else knows it?" We're kind of outnumbered, so.
Did you blend your albums to tell a story?
WP: If we did, it was on accident. (laughs)
KS: My favorite is "Burn This City."
WP: *Nods in agreement*
KS: It felt more like our high school growing-up song. And then we moved to Atlanta and it was like, screw all that.
WP: Yeah that really was like our high school anthem even though we didn't write it in high school. I like "First Thing's First" a lot on the new record. Pretty much the entire new record. Every song, all the songs! (laughs)
WP: "Burn This City." Good crowd participation.
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All: Yeah!
What was your best memory from the event?
WP: Every night after they turned the cameras off. (laughs)
KS: We would have candy fights, just chucking Starbursts at each other across the room.
WP: I think Jeff still has a little mark on his head. Who beaned him?
KS: Probably me. [My favorite memory was when] we crawled to the front door — there's a big glass window and then there's igloo doors to the side — and we pushed them open and started hitting golf balls out the front. That was hilarious.
WP: We also put all the couches together...
KS: Oh yeah! We built this huge fort and jumped off the loft structure inside. I must have thought I was 10 years younger than I was. It was like a supervised playroom.
JP: Yeah, I don't know. That's like asking, "Who's your favorite kid?"
WP: Personally I would say "If I Were to Write This Song," the last song on our self-titled, probably because it's the biggest departure we've ever done musically. And Tony Asher OK'd the lyrics, so that's cool. For those of you who don't know, Tony Asher co-wrote "Pet Sounds" with Brian Wilson. He came in the bubble and read the lyrics and was like, "Yeah, man it's good," and I was like... "Sweet." He wrote all my favorite songs so I was like, right on!
KS: Or the "Wasted Remix" because we got to remix with Mr. Wyclef Jean.
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JP: I don't know if we've had any crazy fan encounters?
WP: Yeah, our fans are pretty timid.
JP: Yeah, not that many crazies.
KS: Well, I forgot that we had signed that baby until you [Will] had mentioned that.
WP: Oh yeah, we signed a baby!
Was it with a permanent marker?!
NH: Yeah, it was a Sharpie!
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KS: Craziest fan sign was when we were at the bubble, we're on the pier and all mic'ed up, and apparently there's speakers on the outside.
WP: (laughs)
KS: So we're in the bubble talking shit, making fun of everyone because, why not? And they all have dry erase markers and a pad, and they write, "We can hear you."
WP: It's true. There was some lounge chairs and there was this one guy kicking it, reading the paper, and we're like, "Look at this guy, drinking his morning coffee, watching us being stupid," and he looks up. So whoops, we didn't know there were speakers outside, so thanks for the heads up!
KS: We just retreated.
WP: Immediately regretted everything.
JP: "Just kidding!"
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All: *fist bumps*
KS: That's it. We've seen some weird shit. People do weird chants.
WP: We the Kings has a good one. From the basketball Will Ferrell movie, Semi-Pro. "Let's get tropical!"
KS: Ours is more just, "Have a show."
JP: "Don't suck."
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NH: [Will], you've been mistaken for other artists.
WP: Yeah, we were driving, this was in '05, and we were driving to a show in West Virginia. I'm sitting in shotgun seat, our old tour manager is driving, and this van pulls up next to us and rolls down the window, waving to get our attention. We look over and they're like, "Are you Aaron Carter?!" I was like, Do you think Aaron Carter is touring in a 15-passenger van in the middle of West Virginia? Hell no! But apparently he was playing somewhere near. It was just serendipity that Cartel and Aaron Carter are right next to each other, when CDs used to exist. Really glad I got those black highlights to match.
KS: Did you say yes?
WP: Oh yeah. I absolutely did.
All: (laughs)
You should have sung the Shaq song. Have you ever met Aaron Carter in real life?
WP: (laughs) No!
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WP: It's between New Found and Starting Line, probably. Starting Line was our first real tour with real stuff going on, and New Found was a dream of ours. They were fun and showed us how to be actual touring artists, like how to conduct yourself in a professional manner while still kicking ass.
JP: Laundry?
WP: The driving, probably. The lack of sleep.
NH: It's the food.
WP: Oh yeah, you get fat on tour.
JP: Truck-stop food.
WP: You know, I don't know. I just kind of wrote it! (laughs) I guess a minstrel, for people who don't know, is the old-school medieval guys playing an instrument, just singing songs. I was like, "Hey, I guess we're kind of like minstrels."
All: (laughs)
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All: (laughs)
KS: Mine was K-e-v (for Kevin) and then my age, which was 15, and then Conyers, GA, which is where I was from, so it was Kev15CGA. It's so stupid, it's what a dad would do!
WP: My dad is from the Deep South and for some reason calls me Bubba — not my name, obviously — but he's called me Bubba 99% of the time. So my screen name was Bubbaman84, which was the year I was born.
JP: That's what I'm calling you from now on.
KS: Super-duper.
NH: I think it was CHudson, my first middle initial and my last name, or just Nic and my birthday.
JP: The earliest I can remember was MojoPep.
WP: You probably changed it 100 times.
JP: Oh yeah, all the time.
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WP: With smartphones instead of those big computers. (laughs) I saw a screenshot of [the video recently] and I was like, "What?! Look at how old we are. We just dated ourselves hard."
KS: Maybe do it a third time but with less alcohol. We were wasted.
WP: "Could you guys sober up a little bit?"
NH: We were running into the walls.
KS: We were so nervous. Like, "Video shoot, New York." *heavy breathing* *chugging alcohol*
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JP: I've played with my zipper down multiple times. And then you have to try and find the right moment to fix it. It's tough.
KS: I counted us into the wrong song.
WP: Oh yeah! (laughs)
KS: It's a three-count, like 1-2-3 down and then go, and we have two songs that do that, so I had a 50-50 chance of getting that right, and I got it wrong. So the worst part of that was that it happened and I'm playing what I think is the song, and they're playing what's correct. It just sounded...
WP: Like a train wreck.
KS: It was a mess. We stopped and I start looking at the monitor guy, blaming it on him. So that was my fault.
WP: Forgetting lyrics on stage sucks.
Do you just do the whole [hold out the mic to the audience thing]?
WP: Well see, that's when people actually know the lyrics to the song, and most of the time you look out in the crowd and it's just [moving mouths]. Not really singing anything.
KS: Just bubblegum mouth.
WP: It's like the Hungry Hippos.
KS: Will also does the cough. If he forgets the lyrics he'll immediately get sick on stage.
WP: I've actually come to the drums asking the lyrics and Kevin's just like, "I don't know."
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WP: There are people who are really talented that don't end up making it. It teaches you to appreciate what you do and [encourages] you to try to get better. I live in Nashville now and there's a couple sessions where I've been like, "I've played guitar since I was 12, but I don't know what the hell I'm doing at all." (laughs) So yeah, humility is probably the best thing we've learned.
KS: Rest. Taking these old bones and soaking them in a hot tub for a good year.
WP: For the last year and a half we've been planning this tour, and the vinyl release, so with all that, we haven't thought about anything after this. But once we're done, just see what happens.
KS: Wing it.
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JP: Yes I do. Blind date to prom!
KS: What was this?
JP: This girl, she was like, "My friend needs a date, want to go to prom?" I was like, "Sure!"
You know what they say about the size of a guy’s pockets?
Looking…fly.
Tonight Lady Gaga will host a Met Ball after-party in New York City, so obviously she's a busy bee! Here are some photos of Mother Monster emerging from her apartment like we have never seen her before.
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The brilliant cast members of Nashville not only are incredible actors, but they're also ridiculously talented musicians on screen and in real life. They've amassed so many country music fans that they're once again hitting the road for a spring concert tour, performing fans' favorite songs live from coast to coast. We caught up with the stars right before they hit the stage at their sold-out New York City show.
We sat down with the Nashville singers backstage at the historic Beacon Theater as they spilled some hilarious cast secrets — from the most Instagram-obsessed to the person most likely to start a spontaneous dance party. Here's what went down:
Chip Esten: We do have a couple of great crew guys on set that are very expert at catching Connie not paying attention. So, like, when Connie's picking something out of her teeth or something, and they gather around her like with complete Christmas apparel and they take a quick picture while she doesn't know it, and they sent that out as their Christmas card.
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Maisy Stella: There was one where we were in a scene where Teddy comes in with one of my huge school projects and it was massive — it literally looked like it took me a year. It was insane, super-detailed.
Lennon Stella: But obviously props did it.
Maisy: Yeah, props. And our crew made a fake one that was shattered and broken, and so they traded it out right before and he dropped it...
Lennon: And pretended like it fell...
Maisy: And it was really funny. But it turned out to be that Frank, the one we were doing the prank for, he was watching in video village. So it didn't really work, because he saw us trade it out.
Lennon: There was a lot of effort put into it. He tried! He's always trying.
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Sam Palladio: Ohhh, I thought you meant a rap party, like, "Yo, yo, yo!"
Chip: Who would get the dancing going first...
Sam: Right, the dancing. Not the rapping!
Chris Carmack: I keep getting it wrong!
Chip: No you might, you might be right, it would definitely be Oliver!
Chris: He'd be the first one to kick a beat and bust some sweet freestyle rhymes.
Chip: This would be a better dance that we all ended up doing if Laura [Benanti] did it.
Chris: Oh, no one's joining Oliver. No, that's true — so it's not a dance party.
Chip: That's a solo party.
Sam: Yeah. And then you know [Chaley] would throw down some good moves.
Chip: Absolutely, Chaley Rose.
Chris: Although Will would bust some beats, some cool back beats.
Sam: We could beatbox with Will.
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Maisy: I put me and Lennon!
Have there been any fun dance parties?
Maisy: Uh, every day! Every day all day!
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Chip: I had Lennon in first place, and second place I had Lennon again, and then Lennon and myself.
Sam: Aubrey is a good selfie-taker; I've seen a few.
Chip: Maisy? Yeah I've seen a lot of Maisy's.
Chris: You know, her Instagram is pretty, pretty solid. I'm basing it on that though, not necessarily most likely to be taking selfies.
Chip: Yeah, but I don't think anybody can touch Lennon's selfie game. I think it's on point, as the kids say. Is that what they say?
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Maisy: Don't say that.
Chip: (Laughs) I've been told not to say that.
Maisy: Eyebrows on fleek!
Chris: Well that I've never heard.
Maisy: That's 'cause you're, like, 80.
Chris: (Laughs) But something "on point" — that's been around forever! That's just English. That's just the English language!
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Chip: I just spelled Chaley Rose wrong. I think they're right; I'm wrong. (Laughs)
Sam: Massive snacker.
Chip: (In a British accent) Hashtag massive snacker!
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Aubrey Peeples: I have first-hand knowledge on this one! (Laughs)
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Chris: It's tough to separate the two.
Sam: I'm just gonna confer. (Whispers to Chris) Aha, yes.
Chip: I've heard Connie in the makeup trailer — I was probably with her breaking out some old '80s and '70s hits.
Sam: The makeup trailer seems to be the safe zone for singing.
Chip: That's where you'll walk in and hear...
Sam: Clare whistling away and singing.
Chris: Yeah. I only sing naked personally, so, the makeup trailer for me too makes sense.
Chip: Me too.
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Aubrey: I think the answer is all of us!
Maisy: Yeah, definitely!
Lennon: Every one of the girls.
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Chip: Oh, that's a tough one.
Sam: I just copied him. I ran out of time! I've been on set with Lennon once. We just had our first scene together ever.
Chip: And she never even noticed 'cause she was texting the entire time.
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Lennon: Oh, yay. I agree; there's no denying it!
Are you texting, playing games — what is it?
Maisy and Aubrey: INSTAGRAM!
Lennon: Instagram. I'm sorry!
Maisy: She's like, "50k can not be left alone!"
Aubrey: But she's been teaching me, so it's OK.
Lennon: I have! I want to help.
Aubrey: I've been asking her to edit all my photos. (Laughs)
Maisy: She's like, "They're my babies, they're my children!" I'm like...what?
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Sam: We don't really like each other, so we don't really hang out often.
Chip: I got one! Here you go, if you guys need help.
Sam: Oh, yes! That's a good one. Again, I'm just cheating.
Chris: I went with Chaley because she literally calls me at like 7 a.m., "Brunch today?! Brunch? Can we go to brunch?"
Chip: I went with pre-baby Hayden because the pilot and first season she's the only reason I went anywhere — a lot of us if we went anywhere, it's because Hayden put out the call.
Sam: Yeah, first season Hayden would've been good.
Chip: Exactly, first season Hayden. She's got the little one now so it's not quite as often. She was at the wrap party and for a while there, she was first season Hayden at the wrap party.
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In honor of Audrey Hepburn’s birthday.
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And what her eyes said without smizing.
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You be the judge!
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Including Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs’ first public appearance as an item. (Hannah Davis and Derek Jeter, too).
Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs
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Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West
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Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union
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Amal Clooney and George Clooney
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A long time ago, on a red carpet far, far away…
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Swirl mighty winds, and carry us to the Met Gala!
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Marvel
Larry David in a tux! Larry David in a tux!
Common
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Larry David
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Andy Cohen
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Usher
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Everyone just Monica Lewisnky’d all on their gowns.
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Three words: lime-human hybrid.
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According to Fast Company, the whole, bizarre campaign was Timberlake's idea. FYI, he's a partner in the brand.
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This far-out gown might be the most talked about look of the night. What did you think?
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“It was snowing, it was beautiful.”
HE GAVE HER HIS DAMN HEART ON VALENTINE'S DAY. LITERALLY.
"I just knew. It wasn't a lightbulb going off," he said about getting engaged to Gaga.
This is so sweet!
Awwwwwww!
