Big Time Rush on Reunion Tour & Their Spanish-Language Collab with Maffio

Big time Rush. How are you guys? Tour live?

Man, I'm so good. Tonight is show 40. It's crazy to think we're almost done because it's the timing is so weird on the road. It's like, it's almost like we just started, but then we got to think about feels like another different tour. It's so weird. day by day. It is so crazy.

Do you think that if I was just talking to Keltie about this, but do you think that if TikTok was around when you were the younger old big time rush versus now, like your TikTok fandom and everybody what like what is it like to see all the social media posts now versus when you were around back then?

When we when we started, we really uh all we had to work off of was Twitter. Yeah. Yeah, there is a time. IG wasn't even uh it's in the bus in the background. Um, ow. Uh, sorry, multi tasking as usual. We we only had Twitter and then, like, barely barely knew how to use it. I'll never forget the first episode came back and I jumped on and I thought I had to respond to every single tweet. I'm sitting there like, wow, this is a lot. Um, that's some old man stuff right there. I mean, I was, I'm also happy even just with TikTok. We probably would have gotten some type of trouble. Um so honestly, it's probably nice to have it now, being a little wiser not to use our social media. But it's fun to see like all the old videos they have because there's a lot of that. So you see the old and then some of the new stuff kind of mixed together. It's it's cool. It's full circle now.

Yeah. And so a lot of the TikToks now are the girl that brought the I heart Kendall sign to the concert. So since that's like a big thing on social media. Was that planned? How did that go down?

What do you think? I think it was probably planned. But, yeah, it was but but to be fair, it was planned literally last second in a very spontaneous way. So, um, it it's hard to call it planned because it came together like the morning of, you know, I mean. So, Katelyn Tarver obviously played Joe played his girlfriend on the TV show. She asked for tickets to the show. And Kendall had the side, like, hey, this might be cute. That's about the extent of the planning of it. He's such a character. And so we're all in good fun. We're learning how to use TikTok. We uh still uh, you know, we're fledglings. I guess.

Yeah. And you sold out Madison Square Garden. So when you were, you know, back really performing like all seeing all the fans come back together in such a big venue. Were you kind of like was it a surreal moment for each of you? How did it feel like seeing like the crowd?

Oh, yeah. I don't think it's really, at least for me, I don't think it's really sunk in yet because we've been going full force on the tour and I think after a little bit of downtime you think back on that and you go Oh my God. I'll sold out Madison Square. I agree. We had that one filmed and so I'm going to be excited to see what it's like filmed because I think once you're in that moment and you it doesn't really decide it doesn't really sink in until you're take a step back. You're too focused, you know. So, but it was something that we've always wanted to do and it was a beautiful experience and the the fans could have been could have been better. Getting to see the marquee and I want to find, I'm sure they have a high quality photo of this. I want to find that and blow it up and print it out because one of my favorite pieces, like, you know, we have awesome gold records and awards and a bunch of cool things from the past. But one of my favorite things is somebody printed out when we played Radio City, Big Time Rush sold out. And I have that framed this a picture in my house. I absolutely love it. So I think that MSG is is the next

They got to go next. They gotta go next right next to each other. That's awesome.

Now, James and Carlos, you guys are pretty your shirt's listed a lot of the shows. So does that happen naturally or the shirt just comes off? It's hot?

But, you know what? We've all been really strict. I mean, it's a touring is not as easy as people like, oh yeah, you're on tour, you're just doing it. It's a lot of work. I mean, we spend all day prepping for the show and and and part of that is, you know, going to the gym for, you know, two hours times and Yeah. You know, I don't know, it just felt like it felt like the right thing to do. Also, in all fairness, and and these guys look good. So they shows these shows have been like 100 degrees some of them. So you can't really leave the clothes on too long. I considered performing shirtless for a lot more of the show. Totally. I think one of the motivations of the amount that they work out is to be able to look good shirtless. So you might as well take your shirt off. You know what? You're catching us with clothes. Most of the time we're half naked. That's the thing. It's not a new for us. And you know what? I've yet to find a fan that's upset about it. Yeah, there are no fans that are upset. Absolutely none.

Okay, so you guys are going to have a Spanish song coming out. So I'm going to bring up Maio. I think this is he's a Zoom user. So I'm going to bring him up and then we're going to talk about that. Maio, hello.

What up? What's up?

So, Maio, in Big Time Rush are coming out with a Spanish song. So can you tell us how that kind of came about?

Well, I think it was just too much fun in the studio. Uh, um, I mean, we started working on the record and everything started flowing. Like we have a whole EP like uh of Spanglish songs and and I think it has to do a lot with the energy that uh that we all have and how collective we collectively we're working together and our communication. I think that plays a big part of that magic that happens and that magic that you hear on on the speakers, you know?

Yeah. And what is one thing that you love about Big Time Rush when they're performing on stage? And you guys are performing together. What's one thing that you love about the guys?

What we take our shirts off.

The back flips, the back flips. Those back flips, they it's like I can't I can't I don't know, I can't I can't really like, wow, back flips. It's the it's the stunts. I saw a flip yesterday on a scooter inside. Do you know what that is?

Yep. You have a bruise on your leg? No, that's a different time different time. But I over I Kendall's act over the handle bars. But the good thing is me and James do back flips every single show and we've never once fallen. So, I love the stunts. I love the stunts. Denver though we had we had to adjust our stage because we were playing a smaller stage and our actual didn't physically fit. So we had a much shorter runway to land that and I'm not going to lie. I kind of over rotated and had one of those like almost fell into the audience. I didn't too. I almost I was out of the way, but I understand it looked like I was getting in the Yeah, No, I He was right. Logan was He allowed this because if I get kicked in the head it's probably not going to be good. Tour is over. Yeah. We just fall. They don't want Big Time Rush anymore. Well, like he could be a little forgiving at times. So I wasn't that one, but I just trusted Carlos to not be there. I know. It's not. Well, you do two back flips tonight, Logan. You will be equal amount of back flips as James. I might. I might do one next week. Hope you do.

You're joining, so you're joining them for their Mexico shows, correct? So you are reunited with them. So how do you guys communicate when you guys aren't together? Do you are you FaceTiming, you're texting or you're way too busy to communicate or how does like the show prep come up?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's you know, group chats. Mario sends us voice notes and he's uh, you know, Mario has kind of taken us under his wing, which, you know, it's we're we're so grateful for it. Big Papa. You you have taken me under your wing. What are you talking about? Yeah, I mean he he's already come out. You've been a guest on what? Three shows already? Oh, more than that. Let me just say, the tequila goes down much quicker whenever Maio's around. We have those things go. When Maio shows up, we have to double that amount. Exactly. It's it's party time. It's party time. It's true.

And the alpha coordination was pretty good too for your one of the shows you did you were like black and orange. So, alpha coordination, that that works out good too.

That's all Maio. He just shows up in whatever he thinks is going to look good and it's just worked out every time. How I don't overthink it.

Yeah. How long have you guys known each other versus now when you're like you have a song coming out together?

I I've known Maio for almost 10 years. Um, and I think the guys have known of Maio for the last probably, you know, 5, 10 years. Uh, but they they met him for the first time, like six months ago. Did we figure this out? I met him in February. Yeah. We were there in April, April, yeah. So like, May, June, July. So like 5, 6 months. Yeah.

And now they have a Spanish song coming out. Did you think you'd ever dabble in with a Spanish song?

100%. Yeah, we've been waiting on something like this wanting to do this since the very first time we played in Mexico. Since the very first tour in Latin America. Um, it just didn't happen for a bunch of reasons. I think primarily we weren't really in the driver's seat of all the decisions at that time. And this time around, we are and it just couldn't be more organic and fun because we came up with just fantastic music with one of the best producers in the game. We're like, of course we're going to release this. We're not going to be precious about it. Our fans have been asking for it for a long time. In the Mexico dates, it was 30,000 tickets. They sold out in less than a day. So, It's insane. It's it's a it's a gift as well. It's we want to show them kind of something that we've been working on, which we're super passionate about. Yeah.

And what how would you describe, so you have the Mexico Mexico shows coming up. What is one thing that, do you have anything special planned, should the fans expect anything now that you have this new song to perform together?

Uh, more tequila. So, Maio will be there, so. And and we're going to get the best tequila in Mexico. Um, you know, well, first of all, that was what that was one of the major things that we wanted to do was have Maio come play. That's a that's a big part of it. Um, he hasn't been at every show, but any almost every show we've played the song. We've been such one of the few. He's been at. Um, well, it's just going to be a party. We love Mexico. The fan the fans the fans are the surprise. The fans are so high energy that it just amplifies everything. It makes it extremely special. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, congratulations, boys, on the song coming out and all your tour success and coming back and, you know, lighting up TikTok too. You too much.