Hey there. How are you?

Yeah, I'm Zach and I'm in Wichita, Kansas right now in my parents' home. It's me, my two sisters and my two parents and we've been chilling for like a month and a half or so and just maybe two months now, right? Yeah, it's been going good.

I'm Garrett and I'm in Nashville, Tennessee where we me and the band we typically live, so I'm still in Nashville.

Nice.

And I'm Colton and I am in West Virginia with my wife and and daughters and my parents.

Getting into music, we gotta talk about it, obviously. So, we did an article with you guys at Young Hollywood, just New Music Friday, talked to you guys. That was before you guys had the EP with four tracks. So now that you have the EP, how's like life been going? What's your favorite song from the EP? How you feeling?

Favorite song from the well, I mean life, life was getting really wild there the week that it came out, you know, like we went from uh, Kane put a video of us on his Instagram and then our social media blew up and then a day later with the EP dropped and we were just getting all this amazing feedback from everybody. We were just on this incredible high and then we started the Worldwide Beautiful Tour. So it was just like a few weeks of just like living in this dream. And then uh, I mean obviously what happened happened and we've, we've all been home but uh, it's really been nice that we were able to at least put a little something out there and start connecting with people and and we've just been doing our best to to just stay connected during this time and everyone's support's been incredible.

What about you, Colton? What's your favorite?

It would be really hard for me to pick one. I think, um, I love all the ones that we wrote on the EP, but I think that Take Me Home is something that's super special to us too just because, um, I I, me being from West Virginia like and John Denver has the state song, Country Roads Take Me Home. It's like, it's, it's in like my DNA. So it's, so to be able to do like a new uh, kind of a new interpolation of that song is something that that means a lot to me and to have, um, to have Kane jump on it with us and and to be working as close as what we are with Kane throughout this whole thing and to have him want to be involved in it, it was uh, that that's a super special song to me on the EP.

Yeah, and I know that you guys get asked, obviously, what it's like to work with Kane Brown. I watched your Facebook live and everyone was asking and everything but how was that like shooting the music video with him and actually like recording, did you, were you in the studio together recording it or?

Yeah, Kane was with us every day in the studio. Um, it was him, the baby. He had, he had one of those uh, like strapped with the baby. He was was right there. So he had the baby and and Caitlyn was there and uh, yeah, we were going through all the songs and he he uh, was really cool about giving us his input and uh, you know, we we took a lot of that stuff to heart and and and applied it in our songs but he also really has a cool way of just letting us do our thing too and supporting us and and uh, just helping us be the best we can be. But yeah, it was, it was really fun having him in the studio and part of the music video, I mean, part of it we filmed out in the desert, um, and then it was just the three of us. And then the other kind of half of the video is us performing for the first time ever as a band. Uh, we Kane brought us out for his sold out Staples Center show and we never the gave us uh, together had had done a show. So uh, not even one song. And so we we just walked out in front of, you know, 20,000 people and

In the Staples Center too, like Los Angeles, like not just like it's LA.

And so literally the first time we literally the first time we ever saw ourselves performing together or or anything was when we saw the music video and we're like, oh my god, that looked like yeah. That was a crazy moment. I know we can't, we couldn't believe like yeah, like he was saying, it's just, that's one of those iconic venues that you just hope one day to like, I mean, even see a show at or something and just to be able to just go out and do that, you know, for the first time like together and just go out with Kane. I mean that was a really special moment and uh, you know, it was, it was cool.

What went through your head right before you went out on stage?

I told the guys, I blacked out. Like, I literally, I remember, I remember standing side stage and I'm like talking to them, putting our in-ears in and stuff and I looked to them and I'm like, all right, here we go and they they called us out to, you know, walk on stage and I think that was the last thing I remember was like hitting the top of the stairs and then as soon as I could like, just like remember it, it just came right back. I was just walking back down the stairs and I I like, honestly, it took me a minute to just be like, what even just happened? Like, I can't even remember like going up there. It was just such a like, it was such a surreal experience.

Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, and I think that that was, I mean like the Staples Center's basically on everybody's bucket list if you're an artist. And like, be able to do that like right out the gate, that was insane. I think it was a little nerve-wracking just because nobody had any, at that point in time, we hadn't even been announced as a group that we were back and that we were gonna uh, be putting out music or anything. So it was just kind of like, we honestly, I mean, you didn't know how people were gonna react. I mean, there was no, like, I mean, it was just kind of like, surprise, these guys are out on uh, stage with me and then they're gonna be doing a song. So, I think from like that standpoint, it it made it a little bit easier because there wasn't a a huge expectation yet. And and so you were able to just try to win people over just by singing harmonies. And it was awesome that we were able to do a song that was so familiar to people, um, just from a, Country Roads Take Me Home. So that was, that was cool.

Oh yeah, for sure. I just, I can't even imagine going out in the Staples Center in front of all those people.

Yeah. I don't think I could have been able to do it and if it wasn't for um, Colton uh, the bachelor uh, Colton Underwood, he was right there. I was like literally he was the last person to talk to me before I walked up there and he put his hands on my shoulders. He's like, you can do this, man, you got this. I was like, man, I love you. And I love you so much, man. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. Let's link up sometime.

Meeting meeting them was really cool. Colton and Cassie, they were, they were really nice and uh it was funny like we're big, we're big Bachelor fans. Like we whenever it comes on, you know, we always have our friends over, we'll go over to our buddy's house and just like, we'll have like our fantasy league where like night one, we're like, all right Colton, I'm Zach, who is about to win the show? And like, we'll try to predict who's gonna win but

Yeah, we're big fans. So to meet him that was that was pretty funny. And for him to talk to you right before you got on the Staples Center, like

Yeah, he was hyping us all up. I mean he talked to Zach and then we got off stage, he was like, I love you guys. You guys are awesome. You know, like, we should be friends. And like, we we've like, we've talked to him since and he's just pretty, pretty cool guy.

Oh, I bet. It was awesome. Yeah. Oh my God, that's so awesome. And then for the one, one step ahead song, that was kind of like to figure out logic of girls like mindsets and everything like that. Are you guys, Colton, we know you're married and have uh, kids.

I still have no clue though, what goes through my wife's mind or what goes through a girl's head. It's still, married or not, yeah. I still feel like none of us have any idea what what goes, what a girl wants or anything. It's just you, you just hope that you, that you plan the the right date or you do the right thing, you say the right things and that's all you can do really because and I think that's kinda what the song talks about just like, we don't really have any idea what we're doing but we're gonna have a plan at least.

But do you guys, do are you guys in relationships, single?

I've had a girlfriend for two years.

Okay.

Yeah. No, I'm a single Pringle.

Do you think that the single side of it do you think writing down your feelings help to like express like figure out girls logic? Or no.

Uh, writing down my feelings, uh, you know, for someone who writes a lot of songs I don't always do that, I gotta be honest. Um, I I want to say that we wrote One Step Ahead like a few years ago and it was, we were pretty new to Nashville.

So I was like, it was really for me like a big moment where I was like, oh, I'm finally, you know, coming to the age where like, I'm an adult, I'm independent, I'm living in my my first, you know, apartment on my own in a in a big city and so I was meeting people and like we were meeting all these new friends and like trying to meet girls, you know, and I was just, that was what was on my mind I think a lot and uh so, and and at the time probably Garrett, I mean this was a few years ago too, so I want to say we were, we were both single when we were writing this. Yeah, we first, yeah, we first moved here. Yeah. We were going on dates and trying to meet people and and I we just asked one of our co-writers were like, you know, she was a girl and we were just like, uh, what do you, what do you think, what would really impress you, you know, what what could a guy do? And she said, a guy with a plan. And uh, so we just wanted to write like a romantic and sweet song about showing someone we care about, you know, like everything we wanna do for them and and that's kind of how that song was born.

Mhm. Who's most likely to watch old X Factor videos of themselves?

Colton and Zach. I would say I probably watched them the most. I I would Honestly, I would say Garrett because truthfully, I I don't get me wrong. X Factor's what started all of this but when I look at us back then to where we are now, like you just cringe, like at some of the stuff that you're like, oh, why did I? And and it's just like Colton like I remember when we were on X Factor, there was one time, uh, that One Direction came and they were like the guest that week and we were talking to Liam and he literally said the same thing. He's like, I was like, yeah, you know, we loved you on the show. And he's like, oh, I can't I can't go back and watch that. And that's kinda how how we feel it's just like, we feel like we've come so far. It's just kinda weird, I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah. Colton, you are a dad. For Garrett and Zach, do you does he ever do things that you're like, okay like he's definitely a dad, like say things and stuff.

I don't know, Colton to me is like the like, he I think he, he's a great dad, you know, he's a good dad. Is he a cool dad? I never look at it, I never look at Colton like that though, like he, like, I, it's like hard for me to like discern between him being like, like a, like a dad, you know, with the dad jokes and all the stereotype things. Like to me he's a pretty cool guy. I mean, we hang out, he's my friend and it's hard for me sometimes to like look at him and be like, that guy has kids and a family like, I mean, don't don't let the dad thing fool you. I mean, we've been to some, I mean, Colton can be the life of the party. I mean, he's probably gonna be in the, we were at Kane's birthday party and Colton like would not stop dancing. I think he shut the whole thing down. So Yeah. I mean, we I honestly it's something I really hope and that we can get to do more of, um, when when this all ends and we can be together. We've been talking about like going to West Virginia where Colton lives and and just like it's been a long time for me since since I've been there and I know that Garrett hasn't hasn't been there yet. And it'd be fun for us all to see that whole side of Colton and being in dad mode a little bit because up until this point it's just been a lot of, you know, being in Nashville and and working and on the road. So we haven't really, uh, seen that side of Colton yet.

Do you have any piece of advice for people that are just social distancing right now?

I like to tell people just like, um, uh, to not not put pressure on. I know I'm, I'm saying this from from how I feel like sometimes I kinda feel this pressure like, oh, I'm supposed to, I should be doing this, this and that and being grateful for this and and it's like, um, don't put pressure on yourself to be as productive as you've ever been or like feel, you know, amazing and it's like sometimes it just, it just sucks, you know, when when life gets flipped upside down. So I think it's just okay to embrace however you're feeling and just do your best to, uh, find things to be grateful for but like, I don't know, don't don't put so much pressure on yourself in this time, you know, to feel a certain way.

My advice would be to, you know, I think it's important, I think now that we have more time than ever to just like start a new hobby or you know, maybe like start a workout routine or something. I I think that's been keeping me sane is trying to just like find new things to like try to learn or experience while, you know, there's not much going on.

I thought you were gonna say, my advice is you could add me on Call of Duty.