get back on track, pick me up some bottles of booze

[hardparade]

Hello. :) It's your friendly neighbourhood incestuous-RPF enthusiast, here, bringing yet another post about brothers who should be screwing if they aren't already, and trying to convince you to ship them.

Okay but let me preface this by saying: Kings of Leon are a really recent obsession for me. I've only properly been listening to them for the past week or so, and it was only yesterday that I like, found out their names and stuff. SO this might be kind of like that Tokio Hotel spam post I made, where I was all I DON'T FIND BILL ATTRACTIVE! and I DON'T LIKE THEIR MUSIC! and I HAVEN'T READ ANY FIC YET! And then all of that changed within about a day.

So basically, things might change, I will probably discover more about these guys, this isn't like, an all-inclusive introduction to the band or anything.


This is Kings of Leon. Left to right, that's Matthew, Caleb, Nathan and Jared. Nathan, Caleb and Jared are all brothers (that's in age order from eldest to youngest), and Matthew is their cousin.



Nathan and Caleb are the main focus of this entry, ngl. They just sort of FASCINATE me. And they're hot, too! No, really! I'm one of those people who totally FAILS at understanding the concept of 'conventional beauty' and usually I have totally bizarre taste, but...well, I can SEE that Jared is probably the most conventionally attractive of the group. And yet for some reason...I think maybe I find Nathan the best-looking? Is that weird? I don't know. He reminds me of my ex-boyfriend, Y. ANYWAY here they are looking slightly confused and uncomfortable about having their picture taken. That's pretty much their default expressions, btw.




A while ago (idk when, I haven't got a coherent timeline for these guys yet) Nathan had an epic beard and Caleb had long hair. Here's a boring story: years ago, when my BFF and I were first getting to know each other, she mentioned Kings of Leon to me and said she and her Mum really loved them and they'd been to see them a few times. And ALL I remember her saying is that they had long hair and beards and were really Southern and drunk all the time, and always seemed confused that people turned up at their gigs at all.


I really want to call her up and talk to her about them now, right, but because she's one of those fans who's been there from the beginning I feel she might think they've 'sold out' and not like them so much anymore now they're popular. And then it'd be awkward that when she lent me a CD a few years ago I was like "meh" and now that they've become popular, I love them. WHATEVER. Here they are in phoneboxes!


Beard!


BB!KINGS OF LEON. Adorable.


Nathan and Matthew.


Jared. Remember what I said about 'conventionally attractive'? I see the pretty here, and I like it, and I actually discovered I had this picture saved for several months without knowing who he was JUST BECAUSE HE'S PRETTY, but...eh, he's a little bit boring for me.


...Nathan, on the other hand...


This picture is so, so pretty.

This is them recording 'Sex on Fire', and, okay, that song has taken on an entirely different meaning to me since thepodsquad wrote up a bit of their Rolling Stone article for me. I shall quote:

Caleb, and Nathan Followill don’t fight very often, but when they do, get the hell out of the way. One night in 2007, the brothers – at 27 and 29, respectively, the two eldest members of Kings of Leon – arrived home after a night of heavy drinking in Nashville. What precipitated the fight, no one remembers exactly, but “I had just walked in the front door when I heard pots and pans falling everywhere,” says their cousin and guitar tech Nacho. “I ran into the kitchen , and Nate and Caleb had handfuls of hair, just rolling in grease in front of the stove.” Nacho eventually separated the brothers, sequestering Caleb, who’d dislocated his shoulder, in the adjacent greenhouse. But Nathan was still going ballistic. He shattered a $7000 mirror in Caleb’s bedroom and repeatedly stabbed his brother’s mattress with a kitchen knife. “Nathan definitely gets psychotic when it comes to fights,” says their younger brother, Jared, 22, who plays bass in the band. “He’s like the American Psycho – he’s told me that one day he’ll kill Caleb.”

The following morning, Caleb, the band’s singer and lyricist, and Nathan, the drummer, made peace. “I love ya, bro,” Nathan told him. I’ll pay for everything I broke.” But the brawl also had an upside: It led to Caleb writing the group’s biggest song yet, “Sex on Fire,” the smash anthem that has helped the Kings’ latest Album, Only by the Night, sell more than 2 million copies worldwide. “I came up with that song fresh out of shoulder surgery,” says Caleb in his hushed Southern drawl. “The doctor told me not to play guitar for nine months, but within a week I’d popped my sling off.”

Because, okay, in my mind now? Caleb and Nathan totally had AMAZING angry!sex during all this. Maybe it's just the way the journalist phrased that but...seriously. At the end of the video Nathan says he doesn't know where Caleb got the lyrics for that song because he's 'pretty sure he's saving himself for marriage' ahaha. And then he says it must just all be a fantasy of how he imagines it'll go, and 'he's onto something because it's only a minute and half song and he apologises at the end'. Amazing.

Also let's take a moment to lol at Caleb's moustache.

Whew. Okay. SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS. First of all, I had not seen the 'Sex on Fire' video until I saw this, which is the 'making of' video or whatever. And like...okay. How did I go so long without even WONDERING what the video was like? I honestly remember sitting in my cousins' living room when everyone was at school/work, DOING A JIGSAW with music channels on, and this came on, and I barely paid it any attention. I don't think I even looked up. I think I changed the channel like thirty seconds in. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH YOU, PAST SELF?!

But yes. Basically, the video...is hot. Caleb is writhing around all sweaty and that's interspersed with shots of Nathan, shirtless, under a shower. Also, chickens. This video, it's Jared talking about it, and, well—

"For the most part, it was Nathan holding down Caleb, or at least for the first half of the day, and they were getting pretty intense. I think they were drunk or something, they got a little physical for a second, it was a little uncomfortable to watch, and Caleb ripped Nathan's shirt, and in between fighting every once in a while they would break into big time kissing."

OKAY FIRST OF ALL, LOL, THIS BAND'S SENSE OF HUMOUR. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. But...woah, okay, I really kind of love the fact that Caleb and Nathan fight all the time? I really like it when siblings I ship are like, constantly happy and loving each other, and say they never ever fight, but...I think I love it more when they're like this. Tom and Bill Kaulitz have admitted to attacking each other with frying pans, and then making up and everything being fine the next morning. Emily and Katie Fitch (in Skins) are a good example too, in fictional terms, because they really DO NOT get on and it just adds a much more interesting dynamic, idk.

Also! The video is just generally pretty awesome. Jared tearing pages out of the bible, not realising it was the bible, and then feeling weird afterwards? AMAZING. Matthew eating the chicken because '...he just really wanted to eat some chicken'? LOL.

And, speaking of these fights:


I LOVE EVERY SINGLE BIT OF THIS.


Just an extra bit of love. ♥

Caleb goes to physical therapy because of Nathan fucking up his shoulder during the aforementioned epic fight and angry!sex.

UM OKAY. Also. I might maybe just have a bit of an obsession with brothers who are in bands secretly writing songs about each other (Hanson's 'Georgia', the Jonas Brothers' 'A Little Bit Longer', Tokio Hotel's 'Reden') but I was just listening to 'Sex on Fire' properly again and looked up the lyrics and...it's now SERIOUS personal canon that Caleb wrote this about Nathan. Observe:

Lay where you're laying, don't make a sound
I know they're watching, they're watching
All the commotion, the kiddie-like play
Has people talking, talking

You, your sex is on fire

The dark of the alley, the breaking of day
The head while I'm driving, I'm driving
Soft lips are open, knuckles are pale
Feels like you're dying, you're dying

You, your sex is on fire
Consumed with what's to transpire

Hot as a fever, rattling bones
I could just taste it, taste it
If it's not forever, if it's just tonight
Oh, it's still the greatest, the greatest, the greatest

You, your sex is on fire
And you, your sex is on fire
Consumed with what's to transpire

And you, your sex is on fire
Consumed with what's to transpire

...Okay, so, people were obviously there during the fight, right? Because Nacho, at least, (lol Nacho) came in to break it up? And 'all the commotion, the kiddie-like play'...that's like, brothers fighting when they're young! Sibling rivalry! Right?! And the stuff about knuckles being pale and feeling like you're dying = fighting! Clenched fists! Dislocated shoulders! 'Rattling bones'! IT MAKES SENSE TO ME, OKAY.

...Further research weakens my theory a little but I'm standing by it anyway.

Also just as a sidenote, it took until this very moment, copy-pasting those lyrics, for me to realise the meaning of 'the head while I'm driving'. THIS BAND IS DIRTY. Actually it's taken me a surprisingly long time to really process the meaning of a lot of their songs, like 'Soft'. Maybe I'm more innocent than I thought. I just seem to listen without quite GETTING it right away.

First of all, I could totally listen to Caleb Followill's voice just...forever. I kind of want him to just sit in my room and talk about random stuff when I'm going to sleep, because there's seriously just something really soothing about it. It's all lazy and lilting and, idk. But yes! They were all drunk while recording Cold Desert, him especially, to the point where he forgot they'd even recorded it. And then they played it for him and he almost cried.

And he says that all he remembers about the recording session is singing 'Jesus don't love me', and getting chillbumps and wanting to kick himself for ever saying that. And he sniffs and he sounds close to tears and THIS IS INTENSE STUFF, YOU GUYS. It's like a THERAPY SESSION OR SOME SHIT. The song means like 128942836x more to me now. In another interview he's said that he didn't even write lyrics for it, really, he was just a drunk guy singing what was on his mind. :'(

This...appears to be them talking with Nathan, Caleb and Jared's parents about...balls. It's too bizarre not to share, okay. Their Mum is saying how she was 'whoopin' Nate with the belt' once and caught his balls by mistake. D: And then the whole conversation deteriorates into HILARIOUS INSANITY.

There are more videos like this here, I just picked some of my favourites. WATCH ALL OF THEM IF YOU HAVE THE TIME THOUGH.

I feel like this ENTIRE ENTRY fails so far because I haven't actually uploaded any songs. Like, with the Jonas Brothers and Tokio Hotel, I figure it's okay to be in the fandom or shipping whoever even if you don't know/like the music? But with Kings of Leon, THAT WOULD BE A CRIME. Because they are awesome. So awesome. I really have hardly stopped listening to them for days now. Whenever I turn off my iPod I'm like D: D: but even then, the songs just carry on playing in my head.

But sadly, I'm on my laptop at my Dad's house and have no music to upload here. But, basically, LISTEN TO THEM. I honestly did not like them at first and then BAM, I'm obsessed. So keep trying. It will be worth it. ♥

MORE PICTURES. ALWAYS NECESSARY:

















And THIS leads on nicely to my next point:




(Thank you thisissirius for locating this video for me. ♥)

Right. Okay, this SOUNDS weird at first, but honestly it is so true and makes SO MUCH SENSE. Kings of Leon? They are like a bizarro-world version of the Jonas Brothers. They honestly are SO SIMILAR that it's creepy. Like...okay, clearly they are IMMENSELY DIFFERENT right now but, their upbringings are really pretty much the same.

This whole thing is basically what led up to the fic I wrote. The Jonas Brothers LOVE Kings of Leon, IDOLIZE them, to the point where they mention them in interviews, knowing young girls are going to investigate and end up listening to songs that use words like 'cunt' and talk about erectile dysfunction, AND NOT CARING, APPARENTLY. It is awesome. It is so awesome. They are subtly rebelling against Disney, I like to think. I really don't think they'd do this if Kings of Leon didn't MEAN a lot to them, you know? And I really think they must feel some connection there. 'Cause, hello:

Nathan, Caleb, and Jared Followill were born to Leon Followill, a Pentecostal evangelist minister, who traveled around the South. Caleb and Jared were born in Tennessee, while Matthew and Nathan were born in Oklahoma. [4] The brothers spent much of their youth travelling around the South with their father, Leon, a traveling United Pentecostal Church preacher and their mother, Betty Ann, who taught them when they were not in school. The boys learned to play drums, guitar and bass as children while performing gospel songs in the church.

I REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SAY MUCH MORE.

So they had this INTENSELY REPRESSED childhood, basically, where they weren't allowed to go to the theatre or watch TV, play sports, wear short pants, or listen to any music besides church music. And probably many more restrictions. They're different to the JoBros in that their upbringing was kinda scarier, BUT it also went on without them being in the public eye.

By the time Jared entered kindergarten, Ivan began behaving erratically. “I guess the pressure was getting to my dad, being the leader of the flock,” says Caleb. “Things were really up and down, depending on how his nerves were.” Ivan started drinking. “He was trying to be perfect, but in the process, he was imperfect.” […] According to Nathan, his father was arrested after he spotted a cop speeding through the neighbourhood and bizarrely attempted to make a citizen’s arrest. “I wouldn’t call it a nervous breakdown, but it was about as close as you could get,” says Nathan. As word spread about Ivan’s troubles, the family returned to the road, beginning a four-year itinerant period, with the boys home-schooled by their mother.

OKAY. I can't quite be coherent about this, but, SERIOUSLY, BIZARRO-WORLD VERSION OF THE JONAS BROTHERS. Kings of Leon are like what the Jonas Brothers would become if Papa Jonas went off the rails and became an alcoholic.

TWO MORE PICTURES TO BREAK ALL THIS TEXT UP:

Caleb has settled down since her met Aldridge. His whiskey days are over—now he sticks to wine, beer and the occasional shot of tequila, and his self-destructive alter ego, dubbed “the Rooster” by the rest of the band, hasn’t surfaced for a long time. “When my grandpa Washington was drinking whiskey, he was the same way,” says Caleb. “I’d drink whiskey knowing I was going to turn into [the Rooster], but I didn’t care. I had so many insecurities that stemmed from putting my faith into things that ended up breaking my heart”

When Ivan left the pulpit, Caleb became disillusioned. “I was going to be a preacher – it was everything I knew,” he says. “My heart got broken seeing that it was impossible to be perfect. So I said to myself, ‘I have to go the opposite way.’ I couldn’t be a sober man. When I started getting fucked up, I got fucked up. I thought I was going to hell. I had nightmares about money and girls. The sky would open up and the Lord would take my soul.”

Caleb Followill...IS Nick Jonas, okay. The perfectionism? Desperation to make something of himself? If Nick ever, ever becomes disillusioned like this, you know he'll go all the way and totally break down. GOD, Caleb, just. My heart got broken seeing that it was impossible to be perfect. MY HEART IS BREAKING AT THAT SINGLE LINE, OKAY.

At the Kings of Leon’s farmhouse in rural Tennessee, a few days before the Australian tour, Caleb stands behind the stove, whipping up spaghetti puttanesca. A dented frying pan hangs above his head, a reminder of one of Caleb and Nathan’s brawls from a few years ago. “Caleb is the sorest loser ever,” says Jared. “Every fight that Caleb’s been in has to do with losing in shuffleboard, or getting his ass beat in pool.” The frying-pan fight came after Caleb lost a game of poker and started making fun of Nathan’s date. Nathan attached, and Caleb whacked him across the forehead with the pan, drawing blood. “They’re a weird couple,” says Jared. At 2 a.m., their mom was summoned to break up the fight.

THEY'RE A WEIRD COUPLE. S'all that needs to be said, really. EXCEPT HI, 'making fun of Nathan's date'. That's how that fight started. MAKING FUN OF HIS DATE. Jealousy? I THINK SO.

Caleb and Nathan, who both have places in Nashville, share the property as a second home. They come here to fish in the lake, shoot trap and skeet, cruise around on ATVs and throw parties. The boys plan to build new houses on the property, as well as a studio, a bar and two holes of golf. Nathan wants a “French colonial” country house, and Caleb is leaning toward a Spanish-style villa.

I'm just starting to quote everything thepodsquad typed up, she gets SO MUCH CREDIT FOR THIS OMG. ♥ But yes—shared property! Do you guys remember that one JoBros interview where Joe was like, making it sound like he'd live with his brothers forever and ever? As if none of them would ever get married and nothing would change? PARALLELS, YOU GUYS, PARALLELS.

It's all summed up perfectly, really, by what thepodsquad said: It's sort of like if you took the Jonas Brothers music, digitally rendered it into an image, stuck it in Photoshop and hit ctrl+i to invert it. Everything the Kings of Leon are, the Jonas Brothers have to avoid being. This. It's true. And at the same time, their lives are just ENTWINED somehow by the way they were brought up. It's really like—like how the Jonas Brothers might turn out. Or how they would, if everything went wrong for them.

Kings of Leon, right, I would not want to meet them. I would not want to know anyone even LIKE them. They seem basically INSANE. But I find their whole existence fascinating. Jared got sent to his room all the time when he was discovered smoking weed, and Nathan and Caleb would blow bong hits to him through the vent in the garage. Jared was doing cocaine when he was like fifteen. Basically, they're all alcoholics with past drug problems. It's intense. But it makes it so much more interesting! Like obvs tons of rockstars have drug problems, but the fact that all of this has happened AFTER the childhood they had? FASCINATING, OKAY. SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE A BOOK.

Also:



The Jonas Brothers met Kings of Leon at the Grammys this year. Note Joe's EPIC JOY and KOL's general confusion and discomfort.

This has led to MUCH SPECULATION about crossover fic. Jared/Joe because they're both sort of impulsive and ridiculous and hot. Caleb/Nick because they're basically the same person. CALEB/NATHAN AND JOE/NICK IN THE SAME FIC. It's all happening, you guys, and it MAKES SENSE.

What's so depressing is that there is NO FANDOM HERE. We are literally creating it. There's a community for Kings of Leon slash, and it's UTTERLY DEAD. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY. THIS BAND IS SO EASILY SHIPPABLE. Let's ignore the incestuous RPF aspect and how, y'know, that tends to weird people out. IT'S A GOLDMINE, THIS THING. SRSLY.

Comments

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT, JENNIFER. I FEEL - I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THIS, OKAY.

Jared is MF hot for starters, okay, and the fic will totally be written about Joe Jonas and Jared Followill getting it on, no lie.

UH. I don't even know where to BEGIN quoting this thing back at you and just generally being a giant pain in your ass with a thousand word essay on why I have decided to fall to the dark side and adore the whole KOL/Jonas Brothers thing.

I don't know why I didn't even get it to begin with. I think it's because I was more okay with them just being GIANT FANS of KOL rather than on even footing with them and having them making out and just generally shagging in dark coridors but now that I see it THIS way? I don't know.

The whole Joe/Jared thing makes more sense than anything but like, I can see where the Caleb/Nick comes from as well. Caleb is everything Nick would be if Papa Jonas had done a Papa Followill and I just - that appeals to me just a little. Nick, meanwhile, is everything Caleb would have been if his dad had stayed a preacher and Ijust - I dig that they are polar opposites and what the other HATES most about where they are.

None of this is making sense, I don't think? W/ever.

Caleb utterly fascinates me, I can't lie. His voice. Jesus. It's like the same way I feel about Nick's voice? THey just give me CHILLS and I can't even explain what this whole THING is going to do to me.

I'm sorry if none of this is making sense but right now the only thing I can think about is Nicholas, Joseph and Kevin in the same position as Caleb, Jared and Nathan and it's fucking with my MIND. With the drunkeness and the fighting and everything and then JOE/JARED.

KINGS OF LEON, OMG. THEY ARE JUST - DJSHFJKSJKFD/.

I WILL BE BACK WITH MORE )POSSIBLY) COHERENT THOUGHTS.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

YOU KEEP SAYING THINGS DON'T MAKE SENSE WHEN THEY TOTALLY DOOOO. LIKE THIS: ...they are polar opposites and what the other HATES most about where they are. THIS. IT'S SO TRUE. And Caleb seeing himself in like, what Nick's like? Remembering how he used to be? He would hate that, so much. He wouldn't want to even be CONFRONTED with the possibility of a life like his that might NOT get fucked up.

Also you would NOT be a pain in my ass to quote stuff and explain why you're getting into this, for real. IT'S AMAZING, I'M ENJOYING IT. I could talk about this forever.

I get what you mean, though. At first I was just intrigued by the parallels, and found it kind of awesome that the JoBros LIKE Kings of Leon so much when they're everything the JoBros have to AVOID LIKING. And now it's like--oh man, just taking it that one step further.

CALEB'S VOICE. OH GOD, I CANNOT EVEN. I really have barely stopped listening to them at all lately and even when I do, I can still hear the songs in my head. So Caleb's singing voice has just been in my mind for days. IT'S AWESOME.

I AM SO GLAD YOU GET THIS, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. If you'd just been all "eh...no" IT WOULD HAVE BROKEN MY HEART. This is such an amazing extension of the Jonas Brothers thing, for real.

[sillyfax.livejournal.com]

Pssssst! Girls, girls, this is where Caleb comes in and utterly destroys Nick's innocence, eh? It'd be such a dysfunctional relationship. Gods, the angst. Almost like your Joick fic, Jen... except with more angry!sex. *drooling*

._. That is all.

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

YOU KEEP SAYING THINGS DON'T MAKE SENSE WHEN THEY TOTALLY DOOOO.

THAT IS BECAUSE I AM ETERNALLY PARANOID THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT THINK THE WAY I DO AND DISOWN ME FOR BEING TOO WEIRD. IDEK.

Caleb seeing himself in like, what Nick's like? Remembering how he used to be? He would hate that, so much. He wouldn't want to even be CONFRONTED with the possibility of a life like his that might NOT get fucked up.

EXACTLY! I think this is why the idea intrigues me so much? The fact that they ARE both opposite and that like, Nick just sees someone who let everyone get away from him and fell to drink and drugs etc. when he didn't have to and that, sure, he might not have had his dad but he had his brothers okay, and Nick gets that because he has HIS brothers and they would have never let this happen. The three (i know, i know, but w/ever frankie) of them woudl have stuck it out and they'd have MADE something of themselves. (maybe not, but my fic addresses that so w/ever.) WHeras. Caleb just - he turned to drink and drugs and sex and he became what he is now and Nick maybe hates it a little because he's trying to be the best boy and it's all working out but Caleb gets to make music the way he wants to and he gets to do whatever and Nick's music keeps getting passed over and okay, he hates Caleb just a little.

The thing he hates MOST? IS that despite all of this, KOL are so awesome and their music is to die for. Nick HATES liking it so much because it means he advocates this, advocates Caleb for doing what he does and it's conflicting with what Nick's been raised to believe, does believe.

For Caleb? Caleb sees this little shit who's toed the line his whole life and he's walking around like he owns the world (He does, but w/ever, Caleb doesn't even CARE) and he doesn't understand that life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. OKay, so the kid doesn't have to drink and do drugs and whatever to get it, but he's just so RIDICULOUS and he's so nice and his mum stuck around and his dad didn't just... turn into this drunk and he doesn't fight with his brothers and Caleb loves Nathan and Jared, he does, but he wouldn't be able to BE the way the Jonas Brothers are and it's all irritating and shit.

IDEK. WHY AM I TAKING THIS SO SERIOUSLY? WHY DO I EVEN CARE WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT EACH OTHER? THIS IS HANNAH'S BSNSS NOT MINE.

IT'S AMAZING, I'M ENJOYING IT. I could talk about this forever.

HAHA. I AM FEELING IT NOW.

CALEB'S VOICE. OH GOD, I CANNOT EVEN.

LET US TALK ABOUT THIS FOREVER. Seriously, I'm sorry but nothing beats Nick's voice for me? But Caleb comes hella close. It's just - jdshgfkjhdskfsd. iI can't textually render what it does to me and it's just so UNIQUE that if you hear it on the radio or in a shop or something there's no doubt as to who is singing.

I AM SO GLAD YOU GET THIS, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. If you'd just been all "eh...no" IT WOULD HAVE BROKEN MY HEART.

THANK YOU BB. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY. IT's true, I would have felt left out and stuff and heartbroken myself that I couldn't understand something you and Hannah seemed to be enjoying immensely. IDEK. I'm glad I get it, because it means we can have those three way conversations ;)

(DID YOU LIKE CAMP ROCK BTW?)

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT YES TO EVERYTHING HERE. This is exactly what it's like with Nick and Caleb. Nick would get all pissed off at Caleb looking down at him, right, but NICK WOULD BE LOOKING DOWN AT HIM TOO. Not in a totally self-righteous way (though Caleb'd see it like that) just...he'd feel sorry for him, for things ending up the way they did, and maybe yeah, secretly, he'd think that could never happen to him and how he'd never let it.

GOD I just feel like they'd be jealous of each other and also hating each other equally, and in this totally weird way. Nick's jealous 'cause of the whole ~musical freedom~ thing but he also hates everything that goes along with it, and Caleb's jealous of the fact that the Jonas Brothers are doing BETTER than them and managing to stay in control of their lives, and he hates that their music does better when (he feels) it's all 100% manufactured pop shit, and he hates that the Jonas Brothers don't seem to NEED alcohol and stuff like he does. I feel like Nick would make Caleb feel really, really immature, somehow. He'd want to fuck things up for them BIG TIME.

Nick HATES liking it so much because it means he advocates this
YES. I feel like that's not SUCH a big deal to them but if they were assholes to them when they met, that would totally give Nick a dilemma, because HE LOVES THE MUSIC but he'd hate the people behind it for everything they are. It'd be so ~conflicting~. Maybe it even is now, actually. I'd love to talk to them and ask what they think of KOL's lifestyle and history and all of that.

IDEK. WHY AM I TAKING THIS SO SERIOUSLY? WHY DO I EVEN CARE WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT EACH OTHER? THIS IS HANNAH'S BSNSS NOT MINE.
IT'S ALL OF OURS, OKAY, DUDE. WE'RE GOING TO START A WHOLE NEW FANDOM WITH THIS SHIT, OKAY.

CALEB'S VOICE CALEB'S VOICE CALEB'S VOICE. MY GOD. I REALLY CAN'T, EVEN. IT'S JUST. I LOVE HOW IT'S SO SORT OF, IMPERFECT AND GROWLY AND SOUTHERN AND HE REALLY JUST SINGS FROM HIS HEART ALL THE TIME.

CAMP ROCK. It was awesome. I really didn't remember much of it and when I saw it the first time I left to go watch an ice hockey game for a little while in the middle (loool long story) so it was awesome to properly pay attention to it and know who everyone was and everything.

And I could never disown you for being weird. :P

[expastic.livejournal.com]

"IF YOU'VE EVER HAD REALLY GOOD SEX, I DON'T THINK IT'S CORNY."

.....;SDLK JD;

"I DUNNO WHERE CALEB GOT THE LYRICS FOR THAT ONE, 'CAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE HE'S SAVING HIMSELF FOR MARRIAGE, SO..." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I still need to take a minute every time I watch the Sex on Fire video. Like, CHRIST. I CANNOT HANDLE CALEB WRITHING AROUND LIKE HE DOES.

"For the most part, it was Nathan holding down Caleb, or at least for the first half of the day, and they were getting pretty intense. I think they were drunk or something, they got a little physical for a second, it was a little uncomfortable to watch, and Caleb ripped Nathan's shirt, and in between fighting every once in a while they would break into big time kissing." HAHA, EXCUSE ME, WHAT. WHAT.

JARED AND THE BIBLE, OH BB.

AND THEN SLAPPING MATTHEW! AND THEN IN THE VIDEO THEY START WRESTLING AROUND. BOYS.

AN AGREEMENT TO NEVER HIT EACH OTHER IN THE FACE. THEN NATHAN SAW CALEB WAS REALLY HURT AND WANTED TO BE THE PROTECTIVE BROTHER. !!!!!!!!!

ALSO, CALEB BREAKS MY HEART. Like, Cold Desert already makes me cry ANYWAY because it's a SAD SONG and I've been associating it with Nick Jonas 'cause of the "I'm too young to feel this old" and stuff which makes me SO SAD I CAN'T BEAR IT and then WATCHING THAT VIDEO, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF. EXCEPT CRY.

Oh look, Nathan wears those ILLEGAL WHITE V NECK TSHIRTS JUST LIKE NICK JONAS.

UMMMMMMM OKAY THE NATHAN AND CALEB FISTBUMP AND THE JOE AND NICK FISTBUMP ;SLFDKJ ;DSLK J

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

LOL IKR I KIND OF DIED WHEN HE SAID THAT. AND THE OTHER THING. SAVING HIMSELF FOR MARRIAGE? UH HUH, OKAY. What I love is how half the comments on Youtube are like "WAS HE SERIOUS OMG?" because like, their sense of humour is so WEIRD and straightfaced, I bet they mislead people a ton with that.

BIG TIME KISSING. That caught me SO OFF GUARD. I was just like--wait what? Did I just imagine...*rewinds* no, okay. But like, guh. I choose to believe everything up til that part is true, so, ripping his shirt? Nngh.

CALEB. WRITHING. Another thing I was not prepared for.

I kind of love the fact that they have an agreement never to hit each other in the face, but like, they'll do EVERYTHING ELSE. What kind of a fucked up rule is that? ONE THAT LEADS TO DISLOCATED SHOULDERS, APPARENTLY. But yes omg Nathan instantly going back to protective big brother mode, and them making up right away the next day and just saying "I love you," OH GOD.

COLD DESERT. I just, I get so sad listening to that now. I always found it a sad song and there were the Nick comparisons, like you said, but NOW? It's just so much more intense and depressing and incredible, I can't handle it.

V-NECKS. FIST BUMPS. IT ALL LINKS IN AND IS AWESOME.

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

SDFNLDSFNDKFLDSnfDS!!!!

I love you SO MUCH for doing this post. Seriously. SO MUCH. This is just fantastic and amazing, and I would still hit it with Jared, but I definitely see where you're coming from with Nate.

I still think it's so amusing thinking about growing up somewhere where you aren't exposed to the brand of religion that the Kings of Leon were, and take it from someone that grew up around that, either you grow up believing it to your bones, or it seriously fucks you up. If you can maintain the faith and the blind belief in that doctrine, you'll grow up and be the exact way you were raised. But if, like the Followills, you're confronted with the imperfection of humanity it can break your faith like a straw. And it's really hard for young people, especially the kids of preachers, to deal with the hypocrisy that so often goes into it.

I feel like the JoBros were never really confronted with the hypocrisy and have been so sheltered from the world, that to them, their family is still the only safe place. And god, I hope it stays that way for them, because I shudder to think what would happen if Nick Jonas's faith was broken.

And just yes yes yes to everything about Caleb being Nick or vice versa. I know we've all been through this a billion times or more, but it's just the truth. So much of their personality seems similar, but Caleb is the broken beaten-down version of Nick. And ugh, it's like a stab to the gut.

ALSO: I TOTALLY HAD THOSE THOUGHTS ABOUT SEX ON FIRE WHILE LISTENING TO IT THIS MORNING. I'm not lying!!!

And I fully plan on watching every single one of these videos today once I'm not baby-sitting my nephew anymore.

As *~*research*~* for my fic. And also because I just need to know more about these guys.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RN TOO, BB. I WOULD NEVER HAVE GOT INTO THIS WHOLE THING IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU, YOU REALISE? YOU STARTED IT AND IT'S AMAZING.

If you can maintain the faith and the blind belief in that doctrine, you'll grow up and be the exact way you were raised. But if, like the Followills, you're confronted with the imperfection of humanity it can break your faith like a straw.
I WISH YOU HAD BEEN HERE WHILE I WAS TALKING TO MY DAD'S GF ABOUT THIS. She was saying how it's okay if you maintain 100% of the belief and everything, just the WAY OF LIFE in general, because then you never end up in a different place. And even would LOOK DOWN on people who do. She suggested that maybe the Jonas Brothers just think it's such a shame that KOL are how they are. But I just don't see it that way. I feel like KOL have introduced this whole other idea of HOW YOU CAN LIVE EVEN IF YOU WERE BROUGHT UP LIKE THAT to the Jonas Brothers. And okay, they might disapprove, but with the pressure of the way they live right now, they're going to see it as a little bit tempting, I think. It's so hard to explain that, though.

And yeah, I agree, though, that the Jonas Brothers need to stay feeling safe and everything forever. This really can't break down for them, it'd be--I REALLY CAN'T EVEN ENTERTAIN THE THOUGHT SOMETIMES.

DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT ABOUT SEX ON FIRE? When I was writing it all I was like, am I just losing it, like, GRASPING AT STRAWS or whatever, but it seemed to make so much sense. And I can't turn my back on the angry!sex thing now. It totally happened.

I AWAIT YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE VIDEOS, BB. ♥

[littledivinity.livejournal.com]

I WOULD NEVER HAVE GOT INTO THIS WHOLE THING IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU, YOU REALISE? YOU STARTED IT AND IT'S AMAZING.
AND YET WEIRDLY, IT ALL TRACES BACK TO MY LITTLE SISTER WHO HATES THE JONAS BROTHERS. IDK. IT'S AWESOME THAT WAY.

And okay, they might disapprove, but with the pressure of the way they live right now, they're going to see it as a little bit tempting, I think. It's so hard to explain that, though.
Yeah, no, I get that, too. To be sort of self-involved, I guess it's kind of like me in a way. I was raised in the church til I was 8 when my parents left (not the Pentecostal church, but nonetheless), my parents were always pretty big on being good people, but not strict in the religious sense. We're expected to be responsible for not pure. It's like...I don't know, the Jonases and the Followills are almost incapable seeing a middle ground. The Followills were so desperate to just not be that anymore that they went to the other extreme. The Jonases are so scared to be anything but that, that they cling to the fold, in a way. If it starts, where does it stop? If you do one bad thing, what's to prevent you from doing another. Is it all just one big slippery slope to what the Followills do. But at the same time, there's so much pressure to be good, sometimes they with they could be happy being like the Followills, but they all know they couldn't be happy that way. ... Did that make sense?

DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT ABOUT SEX ON FIRE?
I REALLY DID. Other than the chorus, there's definitely not a lot that says it's definitively about Sex. A lot of the verses are just about something intense. And the kiddie-play, rattling bones, and white knuckles? Totally could be construed as something else.

I WILL GET AROUND TO IT. PINKIE SWEAR.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

LOL oh yeah, I remember that! What a bizarre start to this thing.

I totally agree with you about the middle ground thing. I was saying that last night too. It's just like there ISN'T one for them, and I honestly believe that's because of the strict upbringing. I don't have a problem with bringing up your children as religious (as long as it's not totally forced on them), but when it's as intense as this is, they only see that and the other extreme. Nothing in between. And so if they ever break off from one thing, they go to the other. That's kind of why it's so dangerous.

If it starts, where does it stop? If you do one bad thing, what's to prevent you from doing another. Is it all just one big slippery slope to what the Followills do.
This is kind of how I see it, actually. I know it's probably not that black and white, but, idk. I can't see the Jonases one day just, y'know, fooling around with a girl or having a beer and then leaving it at that. Testing it out and then going back to how they used to live. I like to think they'd be able to continue with it in a normal, functional way, but I feel like once they try something it'll all kind of snowball from there, because they've never really been taught any kind of CONTROL, only abstinence. :/

And yeah I do think it makes sense, what you said about them maybe wanting to be happy being like the Followills but knowing they probably wouldn't be able to. I think just because it's so OUT THERE to them. It'd be hard for them to even imagine, really, and being brought up to see that lifestyle as bad and wrong and everything would make it hard to see it as desirable. Unless the way they're living now gets too pressured and stressful, anyway, WHICH IS WHAT I FEAR.

God, MOAR ESSAYS. I really just find the whole thing so interesting.

I'm glad you agree about Sex on Fire anyway because it's totally become a Caleb/Nathan fighting-and-sex song to me now. The 'kiddie-like play' bit particularly just keeps standing out to me because it seems like, you know, downplaying the epic fights they have or something. And it having 'people talking'. Idk.

[wirelesstouch.livejournal.com]

NATHAN!! <3

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

:D :D

[myjadedhavok.livejournal.com]

I don't really like Kings of Leon. Like, I've listened to a few of their songs because I have this friend who is OBSESSED with them and sends me youtube videos of them all the time, but I don't really like them, sound wise.

I can, however, appreciate Jared's pretty-ness. And Nathan's hair. And, also, this picture:






(P.S. I now also have to locate your TH post. I love Tokio Hotel epically. TomBill for the win.)

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone has different music taste! It's cool. Especially if you can appreciate the prettiness anyway. XD

[blackwayfarers.livejournal.com]

OKAY STOP THIS.


STOP THE THING YOU DO WHERE YOU SO MUCH AS MENTION SOMETHING NEW AND THEN GET ME ADDICTED TO IT. Even before I knew you you got me hooked on Narnia RPF, Skins, and you are largely the reason I like the Jonas Brothers. YOU MAKE EVERYTHING SO ADDICTIVE.

So I don't like Kings of Leon. I said that before. And then I found myself like, listening to "Sex on Fire" all day today? And this is what happens right before I fall, I go "yeah, that one song is okay but the rest I can't be bothered with" AND SOON EVERYTHING WILL FALL TO PIECES. This is your superpower! Your superpower is to make me LIKE EVERYTHING I DON'T WANT TO LIKE :(

That being said. Whoa. I've always been fascinated with these kind of... Hollywood Death Cults? that sounds so BLACK DOOM ANGST but I've always kind of loved those people who burn out fast... I have a pretty unhealthy love for James Dean and River Phoenix and so on, and KoL kind of fit into that pefectly. All those quotes, the whiskey and the crazy fights and it's so... gritty and interesting and kind of live fast, die young.

I literally got shivers at the bit where Caleb kind of talks about how he broke down after his religion/need for perfection failed him. I mean. I always thought Joe would be the one to spin wildly out of control, that if it weren't for the Jonas Brothers thing he would be a dive bar musician alcoholic. But THIS. It makes sense, it makes sense that Nick's dreams aren't going to last, that there are things he can't control and that he's going to react badly when they do. I mean, he's so hard on himself when he has a successful band, what about later? And it just makes me worry for Nick's future more BECAUSE I HAVE BIG BROTHER ISSUES APPARENTLY.

I will totally read whatever is out there though. I'm really intrigued by the Nick/Joe/Caleb/Nathan parallels foursome thing. It's like some surreal before/after situation...

JENN, WHAT HAST THOU WROUGHT? My life was so normal before you :(

(Seriously though, I don't get the Tokio Hotel thing BUT DON'T EVEN TRY AND TALK ABOUT THEM BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE LAST STRAW IF I LIKED THEM. THE LAST STRAW.)

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

STOP THE THING YOU DO WHERE YOU SO MUCH AS MENTION SOMETHING NEW AND THEN GET ME ADDICTED TO IT.
BUT THAT IS MY FAVOURITE THING TO DO ON LIVEJOURNAL. Idk, I don't even think I have a special ~skill~ for it, it's just when I get a new obsession I have to SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD. In the hopes that people will want to discuss it with me and squee over it, and, idk. IT USUALLY SEEMS TO WORK SOMEHOW.

But with this, I completely understand! I liked a FEW Kings of Leon songs but was basically 'meh' about the rest of them, and SUDDENLY I AM LISTENING TO EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.

Hollywood Death Cults = BLACK DOOM ANGST, but also A GOOD DESCRIPTION, imo. It is like--yeah, the live fast, die young thing. Obviously so many rockstars live lives like these but the way it all connects back to something that was THE TOTAL OPPOSITE makes it fascinating. I don't even know.

I understand what you mean about Joe seeming like the one to lose control, too, totally. That's how I always saw it. I couldn't really imagine Nick being anything other than this serious boy with this desperate need for perfection and like, ORDER. But after reading about Caleb like this, I can't even--I know they don't have the EXACT SAME PERSONALITY and are different people, but it's scary because I do honestly feel that Nick would react the same way if everything went wrong for him like that. I WORRY FOR HIS FUTURE, TOO. MY GOD. IT'S STUPID HOW MUCH.

It IS like a surreal before/after situation!! I'm thinking of doing the Caleb/Nathan and Joe/Nick fic, but there's really just so much potential with EVERYTHING. It's almost too much.

JENN, WHAT HAST THOU WROUGHT? My life was so normal before you :(
AH, THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HAVE HEARD THAT. ;) Lol, but really, it's just an accident, all of it. SHH KEEP MY SUPERPOWERS SECRET.

We don't have to talk about Tokio Hotel. To this day I still have no idea how that obsession happened. XD

[sagee-x3.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I love this picspam and I realized that one of their names is Jared.

That made me want to ask you if you watch Supernatural by any chance? The Winchester brothers are totally incestuous that even I realized it (and, I don't really like incest). So, I was just wondering if you watch it?

I realize that was extremely random...

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Haha! I did actually watch about half of the first season, but somehow I just never really got into it. I don't know. For one thing I'm a total wimp and don't do well with anything remotely scary, so like, this is embarrassing, but I couldn't watch it at night, and that's like...the time I would usually get a chance to watch stuff. So that slowed me down with it at first and then I lost interest. :/

[sagee-x3.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually have the same issue. I love the show and all, but I have to watch it during the day. But, its all worth it because Jensen Ackles is just the most gorgeous man I have ever seen

[lettersandliars.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I love me some Followills. They grew up in Tennessee, which is like, my backyard, so I've always thought that was really cool. I also like that they don't shy away from their southern heritage which is something I am very, very guilty of.

I remember Caleb's long hair! I used to fangirl about it back in the day XD

Also, Caleb/Nick because they're basically the same person. YES.

Also, can I just say? Caleb. Ngh. I would hit that.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

I obviously don't have to convert you, I'm glad to have people who are already fans on my flist. ♥

SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE WRITING CALEB/NICK, I BELIEVE.

I can't decide if I like Caleb better with the longer hair or not. I WOULD HIT IT EITHER WAY THOUGH FOR SURE.

[lettersandliars.livejournal.com]

Is 'someone' code for you? BECAUSE IT SHOULD BE.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

ACTUALLY NO although it did totally sound like that. thepodsquad is planning an AWESOME fic and you'll probably have to add her if she posts it 'cause it'll be locked but OMG IT REALLY SOUNDS AMAZING.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

They really are.

I seem to have kind of ignored Matthew in this spam, sorry about that. D: I keep just focusing on Caleb/Nathan. There needs to be a fandom of ANY kind, though. Like I know it'd be entirely incestuous, but the Jonas Brothers have so much fic written about them! IT'S NOT FAIR.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Omg, why would you stop?! That sounds pretty awesome. I vote we all write something each and START a fandom. Or kick it back into action or something. :D

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Argh! Keep searching?! Omg. I NEED FIC FOR THIS BAND (OF ANY KIND!) SO BAD.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

OMG I HOPE YOU DID TOO.

I have! WHY IS IT SO DEAD. The last post was in 2006 and it was only pimping some other community! WTF. I really cannot understand why there isn't a bigger fandom.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

Holy Epic Post, Batman!!

I think I like Caleb the best, but it's a close race...

he's onto something because it's only a minute and half song and he apologises at the end'.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

[sillyfax.livejournal.com]

LOL. Who's late to the party? ...me. Apparently.

Hey, bb. Jeez, you already hooked me by mentioning them in 'Too Young to Feel this Old'. Cos, haha, I went to the grocers to pick up some apples yesterday. Meandered through the aisles and spotted the magazine rack. Lo and behold! Kings of Leon on the cover of Rollingstone. I was like: THESE ARE THE GUYS JEN IS CURRENTLY OBSESSING OVER, THUS THE FIC INSERT MENTIONED IN HER FIC! (I so flipped through and read the whole article. It made me lol that you included the beginning of it, the part where Nathan dislocates Caleb's shoulder.)

And now. This is the sinker, I tell you. Just. ALSJDGLAKSJDFLKJASG. I know you have your Nathan/Caleb thing. I'm kind of leaning towards the Caleb/Jared or Jared/Matthew. OMFGSOHOT. OROROR, A COMPLETE DEBAUCHED KOL ORGY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS. Y/Y?!

PS. You and Sissi both... always dragging me willingly into new territory. Shame on you. *waggles finger*

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Yayy!

I think pretty much any combination would be hot, but Nathan/Caleb is appealing to me the most because of the way they interact with each other, all the fighting and stuff, it makes it totally believable to me. But omggg a debauched KOL orgy!! HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE. Back in their days when they were constantly fucked up on drugs and whisky all the time, I BET IT TOTALLY HAPPENED.

Willingly, eh? ;) I FEEL THERE IS NO DRAGGING TO BE DONE.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but:



YES PLZ.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

OM NOM NOM.

I can't believe how good he's been looking lately, NEED DAWN TREADER NOW.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

IKR?! AND HE'S GOING TO BE ALL SEA-FARING AND SEXY IN IT, OMG.

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

WTF. WHERE THE HELL IS THIS FROM?

SKANDAR, BB, COME TO MY HOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

IDK I FOUND IT AT NARNIA_DAZZLE.

TAKE A NUMBER AND GET IN LINE, BB. :D

[elyanell.livejournal.com]

Kings Of Leon omg. omg. omg.
I Love them. so. much.
and I'm gonna see them life! In MY city! xD God, I'm so excited, I can't even.. *catches breath*

And I'm soooo happy that I've got this obsession with a band that actually makes GOOD music. Finally.

AND I LOVE YOU, LIKE, SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH RIGHT NOW!!!
THAAAAAAANK YOU FOR THIS POST.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

:D :D YOU'RE WELCOME. I'm glad you love them too! EVERYONE SHOULD LOVE THEM.

I'm kind of jealous that you're going to see them but also kind of not, because I really don't do well in crowds of people and would probably faint. BUT STILL. AWESOME. I hope you have fun!!

And I'm soooo happy that I've got this obsession with a band that actually makes GOOD music. Finally.
LOL, I know! SAME HERE.

[ethan-aral.livejournal.com]

omg, this is crazy! AWESOME CRAZY!

i can't even begin to form words around my FEELINGS! the jonas parallels, the nick caleb being the same person, the LOVE, the fighting, the angst!

caleb's EYELASHES, the sex on fire video, caleb's EYELASHES! and his VOICE!

i've heard the song when it first hit the charts as a single and it was really good but now, with all that info, and the actual lyrics, not just the one i've heard and the video that i never bothered to watch because i was like mah, those are probably some sick rockers, mah. was that an understatement!

and the song is just stucked in my head the hole day and i can't stop singing. because i've read the post in the morning and replied just now.

god that southern drawl, it kills me!

wow, feelings.

and that's all the coherent thoughts my brain was able to produce.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

:D EXPRESSING FEELINGS ABOUT SOMETHING THIS AWESOME IS DIFFICULT, I KNOW.

CALEB'S EYELASHES. And the way he's all sweaty and writhing? GUH. AND HIS VOICE OH MY GODDD.

And yeah, exactly! The song, while it's amazing, is so easy to just be like...I don't know, it doesn't make you want to find out more about the band or anything? I really wasn't interested in watching the video before.

[tellcincinnati.livejournal.com]

(Hahahaha, I DID NOT MEAN TO SEND THAT YET. LET'S TRY AGAIN.)

OH, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

Okay, so I just followed a link on delicous here and after reading thepodsquad's epic post and now THIS?! It is all a little much to take.

Um um um um um. FIRSTLY. I only have two KoL albums but I fucking adore them SO MUCH. I totally got into them because of Sex on Fire and I am so happy for that songgggg because I would not have known the epicness that is this band without it. But they are totally just a band I like listening to, not one I ever purposely went to learn about, so this post has been VERY EDUCATIONAL. I didn't realise they were so SO FUCKING CRAZY and just... IDK. How is this band even real? They are like caricatures. And Nathan and Caleb! WHAAAAAAAT THEY ARE THE STRANGEST PAIR OF BOYS I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED. Oh my gosh, they have this amazing thing where it's just like they hate each other because they love each other so much! I don't understaaaaaand. Oh my gosh, and then epic fights! FIGHTS THAT DISLOCATE SHOULDERS! That is serious shit. And then it's followed by that little bit about Nathan getting engaged and "I didn't want to lose him."

a;dfjkgdfhdajk; I AM HAVING WEIRD THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL OF THIS. It's just, I never knew all this and it's crazy and awesome and I'm just having such a weird reaction to it because, well, JONAS. The thing is, the Jonas Brothers are also a band I love, but one that I actually did go and learn about. So, like, reading all this stuff about KoL and the PARALLELS, OH GOOD GOD THE PARALLELS.

And Caleb is Nick! AHHH. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
And, like, I don't know, how can they start so similarly? It's like you took the two most similar families you could find and then... and then THAT. Like, how did they turn out so completely different? It's so crazy. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone or something.

IDK IDK IDK THIS IS ALL REALLY WEIRD. I don't think I'm saying much of anything, I'm just freaking out and repeating things back at you that you already know, but seriously! This is just so weird. I am going to be thinking about all of this for a while, I think.

SO, UM. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THESE EPIC THINGS TO MY ATTENTION.

(Ahahaha, award for the worst LJ comment ever goes to me! FOUR YEARS IN A ROW! HELL YES.)

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

LOL THIS IS SO NOT A BAD COMMENT, I ENJOYED IT. ♥

I'm glad to get you in on the MADNESS of Kings of Leon and the AWESOME CRAZY PARALLELS between them and the Jonas Brothers.

And, like, I don't know, how can they start so similarly? It's like you took the two most similar families you could find and then... and then THAT. Like, how did they turn out so completely different? It's so crazy. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone or something.
THIS, OMG THIS. IT'S SO FASCINATING, I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

And you're so right about the caricatures thing!! Apparently people in the US didn't ~accept~ Kings of Leon right away because it seemed like their whole story and the fact that they're a family was MADE UP. Which is kind of understandable because it's just so FUCKING CRAZY. But also TRUE. Amazing. And the fights! The fights that are instantly followed by love and forgiveness even though they involved dislocated shoulders wtfffffff.

See, my comment is just me freaking out and repeating what you repeated, maybe MY comment is the worst ever. BUT WHATEVER.

[yetunknown.livejournal.com]

I randomly found this link through delicious. and wow, did I ever not know what I was clicking into. but YES. YES to them all.

(also, hey, you know who else has a freaky but sweet relationship? Aaron and Nick Carter. *points to icon*)