HAIR
TODAY...
...gone tomorrow. Back in about a month.
The Hanson boys return...
Even the name sends tingles down the backs of anyone that remembers their
spectacular arrival on Planet Pop. It was almost three years ago to the day that Hanson
came crashing into our lives in an explosion of hair, geetars and poptacular choons. MMMBop
took the three bruvs straight to the top of the charts and straight on to the cover of Smash
Hits. The boys stayed on Planet Pop for about a year and then...nothing, bar the odd
transatlantic phone call, for nearly two Hanson-less years.
But in April, Zac (now an all growed-up 14), Taylor (16) and Isaac (19) return
with a stomper of a single, If Only, so Smash Hits jumped on the first
plane to LA to find out what they've been doing all this time. "We did a US tour in
'98, and played a few shows in Europe, including one at Wembley, but once we'd finished
the tour," explains Taylor. "We'd been going for basically two years
solid." Two years? Time for a break then. Or not. "Then straight away
we started working on music for the new record," Ike continues.
The boys did manage to fit in a small holiday, as Zac tells us. "We
chilled for a little bit, we went skiing with the family, but pretty much, we didn't
stop."
And the new record? Well, it's different. "The sound has got a bit more rock
'n' roll," admits Taylor, "this time around it had to be big, when that
chorus comes in it's got to knock you over!"
And knock you over it does - the new album will have you headbangin' even if
you're not a rocker.
And the other difference..."No!" cries newly-shorn Isaac, shaking his
head. "No, we didn't make a conscious decision to change our hair! It just sort of
happened." Just sort of happened, eh? Well, Ike, you tell us who did it and we'll get
'em for you... |
