DC Interview

Dan: You know the tour is a weird thing. A lot of tours, just in general, are getting pushed back further and further to the summertime just with the current economy. Sounds kinda weird, but with the current economy and with the war impending a lot of tours are getting pushed back further and further. Right now, they are saying April so I’m gonna say April, but it could get pushed back even further. Kinda a reoccurring theme! (laughs!)

Trevor: You know, its gonna be November 12th! No, not really! (laughs!)

Heather: Do you believe that the troubled economy and current political situation have negatively impacted the music industry and your ability to accomplish goals as artists?

Dan: There’s some goals that have nothing to do with the economy, but for the most part it’s affected everything that’s going on right now. A lot of people have to scale down what they’re doing, whereas 2 or 3 years ago they would be in arenas and stadiums. It’s definitely had an effect, a negative effect I think.

Heather: You have had an opportunity to see the critics', fans' and industry's responses to O2. Have their responses influenced your direction as artists?

Trevor: NO! I don’t think so.

Ashley: No... I think....I think I’m gonna let Trevor answer this question!

Trevor: We definitely read what the critics say but that’s not going to change the way we want to do our music, and the way I feel about my music or he feels about his music, or the way he feels about his music. We’re gonna always do what we want to do. We’re not out to try and impress the critics, we’re out to make our fans happy and that’s the main thing.

Dan: And make ourselves happy. Especially with this record, like we’ve always said that we just want to make a record we were happy with, it really has nothing to do with the critics, it’s more about us.

Trevor: But, I mean... how could you not like it? Come on! What did you want from us?!

Heather: Do you believe that your label, the fans, the music critics and the music industry agree on what they want from O-Town? If not, how do you address that conflict?

Ashley: I think that with making the second album, we just wanted to still keep those fans that were in love with the way we sounded in the first album yet we had to change, we had to grow. I think we tried to find a middle ground of what we felt we could pull off as a group, and gain those new fans, and yet still keep those core audience fans that bought the first album and loved that sound, so I think its about finding a middle ground.

Heather: We hear that through an agreement with Donzi Marine, a boat will be dubbed O-Town Audacity Racing for the 2003 American Power Boat Association offshore season. Are you going to be appearing at any boating events?

Trevor: Oh yes! We’re so excited to be part of that, cause when we went to the race down in Key West, we went and did a performance down there. We just watched and just the whole being around the water, the boats, the whole atmosphere of power boat racing is like something that we wanted to be a part of, so when we got the boat we were extremely excited and were going to try and be at as many of the races as we can ... to support our team.