Hell Week
Graphic of obviousness: "3 Days Before Tour Starts". Chris pulls up in his PT Cruiser. That PT Cruiser is in this video a LOT. It's got more scenes than Joey does. Well, maybe not... but I hate PT Cruisers so its presence just stands out to me. Chris says, "What's up. We're in Lakeland... another day of rehearsals."
Lance talks about how much they rehearse. "You put in, I know with choreography six hours a day, and then when you get on the stage almost 14 hours a day." That's a lot of hours... but quit saying "you" when you mean "I" or "we". I think Lance is rad and everything, but this would bug the hell out of me if I were the interviewer. "You lose a lot of weight doing this," my pronounally-challenged Mississipian albino explains, "'cause you're constantly working on the choreography and sweating it out... but you feel good at the end of the day."
Graphic: "2 Days Before Tour Starts". "For selling 2.4 million in their first week, they don't approach their show, they don't approach their careers as being commonplace," says Kevin Antunes. The guys rehearse Just Got Paid without music. "We don't want to disappoint our fans," Joey says, "because we owe it to them. As far as breaking records, as far as selling albums, as far as coming to the tours it's so hard to thank them 'cause there's only five of us and there's millions of them." JC says, "We made a record. You know... a literal record," and holds his hands in a circle about the size of a CD. "The fans broke the record." In rehearsal, the guys do "Just Got Paid". I think it is important to note here that they do not slap their butts on "booty shakin'", which means it was added after the tour started. I'd be willing to bet it was Justin's idea.
Kevin says the guys want to be involved in the music, and he thinks that's "great to get to work with guys who feel that strongly about their craft." Right on. Just Got Paid rehearsal again, where Justin is slapping Chris' butt and Joey's got his fingers on JC's throat while JC sings "sweet eye delight". Joey starts making JC's voice vibrate and it's the funniest thing. Using the correct pronouns for once, Lance says he thinks that Just Got Paid is going to be another highlight, "and hopefully we can show everybody out there that we do put on a good show, and we put on a show that everyone can enjoy."
Graphic: "1 Day Before Tour Starts". The guys are rehearsing for "Space Cowboy" and Joey's missing the steps. Wade, always with the tough love, says "that whole last part... there's no reason why we should be missing that." Joey in an interview says that the hardest part is putting it all together. "These sort of things shouldn't be happening," Wade says. "You're missing a lot of choreography that you shouldn't be missing." Johnny sympathetically tells Joey that he needs to get focused. Johnny says, "No matter what the critics say, I don't come in and start controlling like puppets... I'm just like a traffic cop that makes sure everything flows smoothly."
"We just hope it works," says Chris, "we just cross our fingers that this show goes good. Please go good. Don't screw up. Like the show, please." Chris even though you look darling praying with your fingers crossed, I didn't let the pronoun thing slide with Lance and I'm not letting the "good/well" thing slide with you. You have a degree, (or maybe you don't... who the hell knows) so there is no excuse for this incorrect English. Justin is sitting on the end of the stage and reflecting about the past four or five years, and then he adds "to think about how it's come to this... it's like WHOA."
