“We became Big Time Rush… and obviously, tensions will arise.” “We didn’t just want to be hired actors,” Carlos says. “Other times they were like, ‘That’s adorable, no thanks.’”Īs the show’s four seasons progressed – each bringing more success and more overlap between their fictional personas and their real, 22-year-old selves – the guys began envisioning a much broader potential for themselves than the showrunners did. “Sometimes they would let us come in and like our music and writing,” clarifies James. “At a certain point, they knew that the music we were turning in was –. “They couldn’t really stop us,” Logan, also 32, shrugs. Moments from their real lives then started popping up in their show scripts - “Maybe were running out of ideas,” quips Kendall – and gradually, the boys were allowed to help write some of their songs. “It was brutal.”īefore that, though, they’d never performed onstage as their characters: They were only ever themselves. “We didn’t have a day off for years,” James reveals. The schedule became so unsustainable, all four were ultimately ready to set the band aside indefinitely after finishing one last round of North and South American tour shows in early 2014, a few months after the TV show’s fourth and final season ended. They’d spent every weekday for years filming and pumping out songs written by other people meanwhile, their weekends were devoted to performing live. If there was a time when Big Time Rush did resent their roots, it was toward the end of their first run as a band. I’m so thankful to Nickelodeon for the opportunity, because we would not be here without them.” “We were so fortunate to be able to do that. “That show, in my opinion, brought back the boy band,” Carlos says. With their roster set, the foursome set the standard for groups of young male heartthrobs in pop-rock at the turn of the ’10s, a couple years before One Direction and The Wanted started topping the Billboard charts. Kendall was the last to be added in fact, the other three filmed an entire pilot episode with a completely different actor playing their team leader.Īt the last minute – in an effort to get the lineup for their The Monkees-reminiscent show, which would inevitably run in unspoken competition with similarly-premised programs like Disney’s blockbuster Hannah Montana and Jonas, exactly perfect – the network swapped in the Kansas native to create Kendall Knight. It took about two years for Nickelodeon to cast James as the vapid but loveable James Diamond, Carlos as the hyper adventurous, intellectually-lacking Carlos Garcia and Logan as the group’s brains, Logan Mitchell. Reminiscent of the pop music machine that once marketed Justin Bieber or One Direction with similar tactics to swarms of teenagers, the Garden is ablaze with nearly painful shrieks from start to finish. During the encore, they each take off their shirts and drink in the subsequent applause. The only exceptions are four new tracks all released in the past year, and one unreleased Spanglish project titled “Dale Pa Ya” – during which they bring out its producer Maffio, a three-time Latin Grammy winning producer who’s worked with Latin music superstars Farruko and Nicky Jam.įor their fan-favorite “Worldwide,” in which the boys lament the struggles of rock star life on the road keeping them away from their sweethearts, they bring four swooning girls from the audience onstage and serenade them directly. Their real life success quickly echoed that of their characters between 20, they released three Billboard 200 top 20 albums, landed four singles in the Hot 100, embarked on five headlining tours and filmed four seasons of Big Time Rush before everyone involved agreed to end the show.įrom their flirty, highest-charting hit “Boyfriend” to their old show’s instantly recognizable theme song, the guys are strictly playing oldie after oldie. Like most of the songs on BTR’s setlist tonight, “Turd Song” was released as part of Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush TV show, on which the guys got their start in 2009 playing four Minnesotan teenagers who serendipitously score a record deal, move to Hollywood and form a world famous boy band. Cut to the midway point of their two-hour show – the sixth so far of their summer Forever Tour – when they start singing over Carlos’ ukulele: “Oh you’re such a turd, oh yeah, a giant turd.” The crowd, a gender-mixed group of mostly twenty-somethings, are suddenly pre-teens again, cheering like it’s The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. “And ours is about the turd!” Kendall, 31, chimes in with a grin.
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