3OH!3 Interview
In a lot of your pictures and in your music video for Don’t Trust Me, you have women crawling all over you. Before 3OH!3, were you lucky with women or were they not really interested?
Foreman: I was kinda a nerd in high school. I wasn’t so successful with the ladies in high school, but then I started running cross country and got a little bit more fit, and towards the end of high school, I was able to date a few girls, and I won Homecoming King. It was huge, because I was kinda chubby, then I lost 30 pounds. It’s probably because we’re in a band, but I don’t know, we’re good looking guys!
Do you just make up lyrics that you think would be fun in a song, or are the lyrics based off of real experiences and people?
Foreman: Some are kind of stories. I think they’re all based off our lives whether it’s actually happened or not. Sometimes someone we know has lived it. A lot of the times, our lyrics are inspired by things that have happened, but aren’t necessarily entirely true, but they’re definitely inspired by real things.
If you had to play one of your songs at every show you play from this day forth, which would it be and why?
Foreman: Dragon Backpack. We actually need to play that again soon.
Motte: We played it one time, and it was really awkward. We’ll do it again one day.
Foreman: Or Summer in Boulder.
Is it strange to be in a band that has only two members? It’s not common for only two guys to be in a band together.
Foreman: Yeah, because, in a larger band, if you fight with other people and stuff like that, you at least can hang out with other people. But it’s just me and Matt—if we’re gonna fight, it’s one-on-one.
Do you fight a lot?
Foreman: No, we’re pretty good about it, but like any band, we’ve had our fights.
You guys write a lot about partying and women. Usually bands write about what they do and think about most. Do your lives really consist of partying all the time?
Foreman: I don’t know, there’s songs like Still Around, Can’t do it Alone, and Colorado Sunrise. Those are for real my life. In Colorado Sunrise I talk about not having a car, and living in a room with like no windows, and missing a wall. And then there’s parts of our lives about partying and having fun. You know, I think it gathers a pretty good scheme of what our life’s like.
If you could throw the most awesome pool party you could imagine and invite only 5 people, who would you invite?Foreman: I would invite Matt Damon.
Motte: Justin Timberlake, Nicholas Cage.
Foreman: What’s her name, uh, from Friday Night Lights? Julie Taylor. And…Zac Efron.
What were you like when you were in high school?
Motte: I was 6’7”, the same height I am now. I was like 280 pounds. I played football—I was a lineman. I hit people a lot. Then I got tired of lifting weights.
Foreman: I played basketball. I played Frisbee and pogs.
If you could be a character in any movie or book, who would you be?
Foreman: I’d be Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. He’s badass.
Do you ever have any crazy fans that you see all the time or do any noticeable things for you?
Motte: Tattoos. There was a girl in Austin who had [our song title] Punkbitch tattooed inside her lip.
Foreman: A lot of fans make shirts. They’re usually pretty cool. Tie-dye, puffy paint. I saw a fan the other day—I have a picture of it—who shaved his head and put ‘3OH!3’ in it.
Do you have any weird talents?
Foreman: My weird talent is probably being able to read auras?
Really? Read my aura.
Foreman: Your aura? Yours is like…brown. It’s like the earth, like very grounded. You’re very assured of who you are.
What’s his [Nathaniel Motte’s] aura?
Foreman: His is green. Green has to do with money, but it’s also someone who’s very charismatic.
If you had to freestyle rap about an elephant, how would it go?
Foreman: An elephant has zero intelligence, but that’s not relevant, ‘cause why am I rapping about an elephant?
Motte: That was good, I liked it. I’m mostly just a freestyle appreciator.
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