I’m a little more prepared this time because I know what it consists of, but in no way am I looking forward to that part of the night.ĭo you remember specific insults they said to you guys? They’ll yell things about what you’re wearing, about it being not cool or stupid, so that you look over at them and get mad and they get the right shot. The photographers are trying to prompt you and get you to react. They just kind of drag you along to the next person and then people take a picture of you. It feels like some sort of weird dog and pony show. You have someone assigned to you that holds a sign of your name in front and then all these cameramen take a picture of that sign so that when they’re flipping through pictures of the night, they can see which person they’re taking a picture of. I’ve always sat back and let him be the icebreaker and then I’ll maybe say, “Hey, I’m the other guy!” I drum in this band and I’m a big fan of you and I really appreciate what you do.” Josh has all these great friends in the industry now. Josh is the guy in the band who’s just so friendly and super wanting to walk up to you and say, “Hey, I’m Josh. It’s not really my thing, and maybe this stems from an insecurity that nobody knows who we are. Is there anyone you’re especially looking forward to meeting at the VMA’s?
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Watch Twenty One Pilots perform “Car Radio” at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards: When you work with live television you have a very strict time schedule we have to fit this in three minutes and 30 seconds. I don’t know exactly what songs we’e performing, but I’ve got a lot of ideas on my laptop, like transitions. That’s cool, because a lot of times with these collaborations, you might only bring a person out for a verse. We’re looking for a certain type of energy.” They want Rocky and I to be a part of the performance from top to bottom. They said, “This is what we’re looking for. We’re looking at it from more of a performance space, rather than pushing singles. I never have met Rocky before but from talking to him on the phone, we’re pretty like-minded, as far as being performance-focused. We’re talking about how we’re living in times where our fanbases and audiences get to decide which songs rise up, maybe become a single … We’re going to go into rehearsal and talk about what songs we like most off the records we just released, which ones are resonating with fans. What’s your performance going to be like? What’s it like to be such an outsider at the VMAs? Joseph took us behind the curtain.ĭescribe your talks so far with A$AP Rocky and MTV. The Ohio-based duo of Joseph and drummer Josh Dun isn’t exactly a rock band, but its left-of-center combination of rock, rap and dance music makes them the lone representatives of what you might call “alternative” at this year’s VMAs, alongside megastars like Miley Cyrus and Kanye West.