Jack & Jack Hang with Fans and Talk New Music at SXSW

Jack & Jack Hang with Fans and Talk New Music at SXSW
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YH is hanging out with Jack Johnson and Jack Gilinsky, AKA viral superheroes Jack & Jack, at SXSW in Austin, Texas! The boys scoop us on their new music ventures, how they come up with their epic Vines, and working with their pal Nash Grier! They also answer some Twitter questions from fans, plus see what happens when a few fans crash the interview and we let them ask the boys a few questions in person!
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Welcome here in Austin. We have live a tree, live. Oh, yeah. What's up guys? It's Tracy with Young Hollywood and I am sitting with none other than these two Jacks.
We're two Jacks.
Two Jacks.
What's up? How you doing? I feel like I should be in like a Jack sandwich though, but I'm going to just
Do you want to hop in middle?
We gotta make it right. We gotta make it right.
That was a mid-interview switch right there. That was a mid-interview switch. Sorry. That was a I don't know why we didn't plan that for the last twenty minutes that we were sitting here, but hey, it's impromptus too. Oh, I feel so much
This is awesome.
I'm gonna ask I'm gonna ask
Oh, this is the worst.
Aren't you just more comfortable now?
Exactly. There you go. There you go.
So we're in Austin, Texas with this ridiculous scenery. This awesome lake behind us and we're just chilling at South by Southwest. It is so fun. The birds here are insane. They're like
They are. They attack. They do attack. They do attack. It could happen in this interview. We never know. Like I'm watching them having our last interview actually. We we our last interview we were over by that tree and a bird just decked into the tree and made like the loudest noise. We just like jumped so hard in the middle of the interview, but hopefully that doesn't happen again. Austin birds. Austin birds are nuts. It's pretty much like the whole city. It just kinda goes with the theme.
This is your first time, right?
First time in Austin.
First time to Austin. First time to South by Southwest. So, it's just a fun time. We're having a great time today.
What about Austin like have you seen a lot of stuff? I mean, you've There's lots to see.
Nothing. We have seen not much at all except for the inside of the Four Seasons. I mean me and Mister G over there went out last night, you know. We had some fun. We we experienced downtown a little bit. I think it was downtown. Actually, yeah.
Wait. I saw you tweeted that you were talking to a drunk woman for like 20 minutes and you didn't know what she was saying.
Yeah, this drunk woman. She was at a party like the music was loud and she was like just saying all this stuff. She was so into it. She was like just speaking her mind on I don't know what it was. I wish I could tell you, but yeah, it's for about 20 minutes and I was just sitting there like, oh yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So sick. That's like a normal occurrence for me. Like literally 20 minutes straight. And I mean, it's whatever. I'm sure I made her a
Did you make her a friend?
I don't know, maybe. I don't know. She's just a random drunk lady. That's all I know.
That's the story of South by Southwest. Yeah. We need a lot of those at South by. Yeah.
So you haven't had like any of the barbecue.
Oh my gosh. No, nothing that
Nothing. We need to go get Oh my gosh. What should we go to after this? That's the thing. What should we go to? We gotta get
Sorry to put you on the spot, but like what should we go to? This is hard. What do you like? Barbecue or do you like Mexican? Cause those are like the two things that are asked for.
I can go for either, honestly. I could honestly go for either.
All right, we're back. Minor uh interference. Yes. Sorry. It wasn't on camera, but
Yeah. It wasn't You didn't see it. We couldn't air it. We couldn't air it. It was really bad. His back's all scratched up. He's got his side of shirt. This is actually a different jacket, even though it looks exactly the same. I had to get a new one. It all got ripped up. It was bad. So now that we're back that that's why I moved spots actually because I had a feeling the bird was gonna come right here. Right here and it flew from behind me. It was bad. But still the question remains. We didn't get it on film actually. I don't know why we went filming during that, but it's whatever. It's all right. It's whatever. Yes. You never know.
Yeah. So this is different though because I feel like we're you know you guys go to like IntoOn and VidCon and you have I mean your fanbase is amazing, by the way. Oh, my God. They're They're hardcore. They're the best.
They are the best.
And you know you can't even probably go anywhere, right, with people just like running after you and screaming?
Well, I mean, it's not really to that level, but you know everywhere we go, we'll see a couple. If we tweet out we're somewhere if we Snapchat that we're somewhere then then usually people will show up. But if we're just out and about, it's never it's never really that big of an issue, you know what I'm saying? There might be like a person here and there who will recognize our face. They're like, can I get a selfie? But yeah, it's never usually an issue. Nothing crazy, which is perfect for us. It's like all on the low key type or whatever. We can still live our normal lives for the time being, which is good. It's so it's a fun it's a fun mix cause you have like a taste of like what fame tastes like, but at the same time we're still completely normal people who really don't get noticed that much. So it's fun. It's a good it's a good combo right now.
And your Vines I can't like Something about I don't know. They're so weird and random, which is what makes them awesome. But like how do you I just will watch one of them, I'm just like crack up laughing. I don't even know what I just saw. I'm like, what did I just watch? But it just somehow
A lot of it a lot of it just comes out of like random inspirations. Just random inspiration. Like Jack, like it's simple as Jack tripping when he walks up the stair. And he's like, wait, this we could do something, you know, like I was just like something random.
I thought you were trying to actually explain it. I'm like how are you gonna
No, I was just like, no. I'm just saying. Yeah, makes sense. Sparks from such random occurrences. So yeah, it's just random inspirations when we see like an object or like something funny happens. And then we'll just flip it into a Vine and like add some stuff to it. And yeah, that's just kinda the process. I mean, it's just random each time like each incident, each Vine is completely different than the way we go about it.
How long does it even take you guys? Is it like different each time?
Yeah, exactly. Depending also who's in it. Like you you had you did one of them with Nash recently. Yo Nash. Oh what the
Oh yeah. Nash is like a perfectionist. Slapped him in the face and then he like fell into the door or something. That was just like
So was that wait. Was that real? That was just like perfect.
Yeah. That was real. That was not real. No, I literally Okay. The top hinge the top hinge was actually broken already. And there's like three hinges going down. So the bottom two were still on there. And so since the top one was broken, I guess there was enough like leeway for the door to give when he pushed it. And yeah, he he just fell hard and I somehow captured it all on camera.
I'm seeing that picture everywhere of Nash like against like He's like when blank did blank and then it's like a picture of Nash like up against the wall like. What what was he trying to do? Like what what was he trying to do?
He was trying to come after me cause I slapped him in the face. I mean, like we're like good enough friends to the point where like he would like try to like wrestle me like after that and like you know like hurt me physically. So so yeah, I mean he was just coming after me. I don't really know where I was going in the bathroom for cause I was kinda trapping myself, but I mean I knew it was only a six second. Oh. We got another president. We got another president. The second president is here now. The second president. But yeah, it was uh it fit in the Vine just crazy. I was just really happy about that and it's crazy. It's just going viral right now. It's awesome. Yeah. That's sick.
And then don't you guys have like a house that you all all your buddies all your friends Cameron Nash, like they all hang out, right? And you guys just
Yeah. I mean, we have we have different like Cam and Nash live together. Me and Jack live together. Uh Sammy Carter has his own house. Matt has his own house. So like all all the homies have their own place.
How do you guys organize? You just sort of like paired off.
Yeah. I mean Cam and Nash were always kinda like the two top dogs, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And so they kinda moved in together. And then me and Jack obviously like We're like the only duo, so it's just We can't separate the Jacks. Come on now. Come on. I'm not about to like move in with like Matt and he moves in with Carter. It's just not be logical. So Exactly. Carter got his place and I don't know. We all have like our own little places to go and it's fun to just you know when we're all in one spot, it's just like a content hub. It's like craziness just in like an hour we'll get like 20 Vines done. And like then it's just like we're done for like a week. It's like Yeah, exactly. It's not like crazy amounts.
But yeah. We get a lot done. Not that many Vines, but like you know what I mean.
Is there anything that you guys don't Vine? Cause I feel like you you'll Vine yourself like opening the fridge and getting food or something.
Exactly.
Oh yeah. There's a lot that we don't Vine honestly. But I don't really know when the
Exactly.
But a lot of the stuff Yeah. A lot of the stuff that we don't Vine though goes on our Snapchat story. Sorry. We just Sorry. Sorry. Here's trying to get vine. We just made a guy walk around. We're in the middle of a walkway. We just kinda took over.
So let's talk about your music because you guys are freaking awesome.
Thanks, man.
Thanks. Thanks.
I mean, what can't you do? You rap you sing you
We're fine. Oh, there's a lot we can't do, trust me. But but we try to do some cool things, you know. Yeah. We try to do some cool things. Our music is really really about to take off in my opinion and I think in Jack's opinion too just we've been talking and we're really starting to make the music that you know we really mess around with and
We'll plug in.
stuff that we would bump to in the car, you know.
Exactly. We'll plug in play it for our homies and actually be really proud of it.
Which everyone is so excited to see what is gonna come because Yeah. You guys just did an awesome music video not that long ago.
For For like that.
For like that. Yeah. Oh, and Wildlife. Yeah. We had two recent ones. Yeah. And they're both I mean like they're both doing way better than any of our other videos on YouTube thus far. So we're just really excited to put more More effort in music.
Yeah. Exactly. More effort in music.
Yeah. We kinda found our like nook and cranny with music. I'm sorry. I'm I'm I don't know our Our niche. Our bread and butter. Our bread and butter, baby. Whatever you want to say. But yeah, we're just really excited cause like a lot of the fans seem really eager on Twitter for new music. And we've been working on some crazy stuff. So we're just excited to get that out there soon, you know? Yeah. It's gonna be fun.
And it's like in terms of like your sound is it gonna like Is there anything like surprises that we should look forward to?
I mean, let's just say we're not going down the generic pop route. It's uh Cause we did try that and we have a couple pop songs in the books right now. And we just It's not us, you know what I'm saying? It's not us. And we don't want to release. You don't want to release stuff we wouldn't listen to in the car personally. So we're gonna release music that we would personally listen to and stuff that we like. And we think our fans like our fans at this point kinda have similar tastes to us. So we really think they're gonna just love everything that we're putting out soon. Yeah. And hopefully we can gain more fans like that like the music that we like too. So it's just gonna be cool to actually gain followers and fans off of our music and straight from that and not just from you know from Vine.
From Vine and what not. Which is obviously amazing. Yeah. That's already started happening, which is awesome. So
We got some fans hiding in the tree. We got some fans hiding in the tree.
Oh, so we are. See, they do find you. They find you. How did you find them?
I saw some of them last night. You guys can come over. Come over. You guys should totally come and hang out. Come hang. Yeah. That's probably You never know what's gonna happen. There's just fans in all different angles coming by. Yeah. Off-road.
All right, Jack. We gotta hook up the next set of scenes. Oh, my God. This is One more set. Just go just go for it. We're helping her. Make sure we wait. All right, we'll be there in a sec, all right, guys. Are you guys excited for new music? Yes. Yes. Who is ready for it? It's gonna be so good.
They're not ready. They're not ready. I don't think they are. They say they're ready.
But I feel but I you know on Twitter, I saw you guys were saying how like fans like expect it to just like come out every day. And you're like
Yeah. I mean, that's cause okay. That's cause like in the past we would release like a song every month, like on average. And so so our fan base is used to used to like getting that content quickly. And a lot of other artists like they'll take a lot like they'll take years on albums, you know. And so it's really not that crazy like the break we're taking. It's only been like three or four months, I think. And I'm just excited because this break is for a reason like we want to come out with a project. We don't just want to drop another single and another single and another single. We want to actually have a nice work together that we want to put out. So yeah, it's gonna be cool. It's gonna be cool for sure.
What's up? You can come on camera. What is your name?
I'm Kelly.
Kelly. Introduce yourself.
Kelly introduce yourself.
I'm Kelly. I'm Kelly Sing. I'm a UT student.
No way. You go to UT? Party school. Huge party school. Yes. Can I give you a hug real quick? I give hugs too. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Again. What is What yeah, right. How you doing? How you doing? Good hug. He's got it nice and tight.
Okay. So now we got you in frame. It's gonna get bigger. You'll see. The group is just gonna get bigger. All right. Tiz your question. Tiz your question.
So how old are you guys? First of all?
We are both 18. I'm I'm 19 next Wednesday.
Next Wednesday. Yeah. He's getting old.
Oh, my gosh. Are you guys We need to do we need to come up with a for a pre-birthday party song?
Pre-birthday song? It's almost It's almost to birthday. It's almost too early for that. Maybe like a few days leading up, but Yeah. I can't sing.
Just one more. How would you guys describe yourselves in three words?
In three words. So Jack and Jack describing Jack and Jack or should I describe him and he should describe me.
However you want it. I like you describing him.
Yeah. We've done this before. I know we have done this before. All right. Glinsky, uh Glinsky's a perfectionist. You've heard that one. Um organized.
Thank you.
And What else are you? I mean, he's a lot of things. But I'm I'm trying to think of like stuff that makes him stand out from others. Is he that perfect? He's a salsa. Yeah. His room's his room's always clean. He's a he's a energetic for the most part. I mean he he always just brings energy to the room when he comes in. You know what I'm saying. I'd say. I'd say I get half my energy from him right here. So energetic I guess it's pretty basic of me to just It's like I don't know. Getting emotional. Just just being like. But when Jack's in the room, I'm automatically I'm just like I'm just like more. We're just like on our game together. You know what I mean. We are. It's it's chemistry. So energetic. I'd go opposite of organized. I go a little bit a little bit slobby. My room's kinda bad. But that's just like your room. Like your thoughts and like
My thoughts are very nice.
You clean his room. He won't make me, but sometimes it gets to a point where I'm like, dude, I can't even walk in here. Like I need to just clean it. That would be me. Have you ever Okay. That should be a video of him you cleaning his room.
All right. We're shifting to the fans over here. Let's go say what's up. Young Hollywood shift. Young Hollywood They're the best. Let it be known. What's going on over here? Yeah. You can't see We're getting some some Glinsky love. So you just got Glinsky giving you some love. Like what how are you feeling right now?
I'm trying to calm down. I mean. Oh, my God. Did you see me come down the stairs? I was just freaking out. I'm freaking out right now. I'm trying to calm down cuz like you know.
So who wants to ask a question? Take take the mic. Who's gonna take the mic first? Nice. Okay. So this is for Jack.
So my prom is next year in May. My prom is next year in May. Would you go with me?
Oh, my gosh. Next year in May. Next year in May. If we even knew what we were doing next week, I'm sure he could say yes, but I'll say yes like right now if I have no plans then, but if I have plans then I I can't do it, but I want to. I want to. I'll let you know that.
He wants to.
You live here, right? Yeah. All right. Let's make it happen. Me and I will. We'll we'll be there to document that. So just just remember the document of Jack Jack going to prom in Austin.
We're gonna be like the cutest looking couple there probably. So.
Do your best fangirl impersonation actually. Both of you at the same both of you at the same time.
I don't want to do anything mean that like would offend But they but they know themselves. I mean, they make fun of themselves, right, guys? I mean, mostly it's just like the terminology that like they use. It's like like bae and on fleek and stuff and like we all use that too cause like that's what we see on Twitter. So like it kinda has
Yeah. That cab is becoming like all of our fans vocabs because like I'm just seeing it every day.
I read through my timeline and I'm like, I find myself saying like the weirdest stuff.
How do you how do you pick people to like respond to on Twitter and stuff? You know, it's usually just
How do you follow people? Whoever's like asking a positive question. Something funny maybe like a question that could have a funny response. I don't know. We just want to find something like if I look at it and I'm like I have a good response for this, I'll respond to it. Or if it's something like if we're trying to get a point across and like the tweet mentions the point that we're trying to get across anyways. It's a good organic way to like do it. Second guest: Exactly.
Yeah, too. So it's just random. Whatever we see, whatever we whatever we feel responding to, you know.
Before we go, we have three questions from you guys who submitted using the hashtag askthejacks on YH. So I'm gonna pick three for you guys to answer. Okay. So this is from Second guest: We're like we're like we're like a little family. We're We're taking a picture, but like not really. Come on. I want to be like somehow like. This is a good photo. Ready? Okay.
All right. Three questions. This is from @JockWinkel.
Jock Winklinski. My Spanish name. That was my Spanish name. I know that that's how to pronounce it, but when it's all in one word then it just looks it's confusing.
Okay. She wants to know if you're stuck on a deserted island for a week without any technology. What three things would you bring?
Oh. So not a human. Can you bring humans or just it's yourself? Yeah. If I could bring like humans I'd just bring some friends and we'd just have a good time. Just three friends. That's all you need, right? Second guest: I'd bring a I mean, we gotta find an escape mechanism. You need like a boat, right?
Uh oh, wait that'd be really nice. Yeah. Just like say a boat. Or like a pilot a fully gas plane and yeah, that's all I need. Just two things. I'm good to go. And some water. Second guest: That's a lot of serious things. We could just dip out of there right away. We could just dip right out of there right away. We wouldn't have to spend that awful week on an island.
@JockS2Dallas what type of theme does your new music follow?
Theme? I wouldn't consider it a theme, but the sound I'd say is is more like more us. It's more us, you know what I'm saying? It's more like, you know, we actually sat down That probably that probably means nothing to you guys. But yeah, it's it's just stuff that we would listen to in the car and and stuff that we just really think the fans are gonna enjoy. It's We got some nice turn up music in there. We got some nice chill stuff. I mean, there's a good variety. So so just be ready. Second guest: Why don't you pick?
Yeah. You pick the last one. Last one. I know who that is. But that's like a boring one. We need like a Favorite candy. I mean, oh, sour patch kids who cares. It's gonna be like a lot of questions. Ooh, wait. Um um My my phone's not loading anymore. My Wi-Fi which sucks here. Favorite thing about Austin. Favorite thing about Austin so far. I mean, since we're in Austin, maybe he's been here for like four hours. Second guest: Four hours now. I've been here for like 18 maybe. I don't know. We haven't seen that much, but from what I've seen, uh I don't know. I just like meeting all new fans here that we haven't met yet. Yeah. We haven't met like any Austin fans unless they came to Houston and
Hello. Look at this situation right now. We're digging it. We're digging it. And I mean That's what we're saying. We kinda came here more as like a business trip, you know what I'm saying, to do some panels and stuff and kinda like give other people information like some professional business world people who are interested in social media. So it was like a nice surprise to like actually Cause I didn't think there were gonna be It was cool to be able to like talk about like more like more like intelligent stuff and more I don't know. We usually don't do that like on most of our shows or anything or when we're talking to fans. And this was cool because there was like a bunch of professional business people listening and I don't know. It was different. It was a change. But I thought it was cool. It was just fun. It was a good trip.
All right. Well, thank you guys so thank you guys so much. This was awesome. This was really fun. Young Hollywood. Well, we'll see you soon.
All right. That's a good one. Last, I just want to do a shout out to the YH fangirls because they really want one. And uh YH fangirls, you're the best. Wait. YH fan YH fangirls on Twitter. We love you. We're about to follow you right now. We learned about you today and and we were inspired. So We were inspired. Keep telling your story and let's do it. I don't know what your story is, but you gotta tell it. Second guest: You'll find out. You will find out.
Oh, yeah, you will. All right, YH fangirls on Twitter go. All right. Follow them too. Bye. Bye. See you Austin.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Jack Johnson
One half of the duo Jack & Jack
- Jack Gilinsky
One half of the duo Jack & Jack
- Tracy
Interviewer from Young Hollywood
- Nash Grier
Friend and collaborator, featured in a Vine
- Cameron
Friend who lives with Nash Grier
- Sammy Carter
Friend who has his own house
- Matt
Friend who has his own house
- Kelly
UT student and fan who asked a question
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