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“The Players Lounge,” Nick says, smiling.
Kevin reaches over and shows me a small display screen attached to the wall. “The amazing thing about this plane? It has cameras all over.” He flips a channel. “That’s the wing.” He flips again. “That’s another.” Flip. “That’s underneath.”
In the back of the plane sit the Jonas parents, Kevin Sr. and Denise, as well as McIntyre, Big Rob and the boys’ personal assistant, Felicia Culotta, who, like Big Rob, used to work the bubblegum trenches for Britney Spears. As we talk, a pretty flight attendant delivers lunch: chicken fingers from KFC.
“We once played this show in Jersey,” Nick says, munching on a chicken finger. “It was, seriously, the most horrible little rock club in the world. It fit maybe 50 people. When we got there, the guy said there was a heavy-metal band the night before that blew out the PA system, so they’d have to take the monitors and spin them around.”
“It was out of control,” says Kevin. “And our crowds were interesting.”
Interesting?
“Curious,” Nick says.
Joe laughs. “It was like when you perform in third grade or your little sister has a ballet. They’d all go like this — ” he puts down his chicken finger and does a slow clap. “It was like that.”
“It had potential,” Nick says. “Like it could be crazy. But it wasn’t there yet.”
Despite their closeness, the Jonases aren’t exactly alike. Kevin, the oldest, is the extrovert, chatting up bus drivers and security guards, crouching on his knees to greet little kids at shows. Middle child Joe, who resembles a prettier version of the actor Peter Gallagher, is the quieter Jonas, with a wild alter ego revealed onstage, where he swivels his hips and twirls a mike stand like a lightsaber. “I’m really inspired by Mick Jagger and Freddie Mercury — the big frontmen,” he says. “I heard Jagger does an hour on a treadmill before every show.”
Nick, by contrast, is the Jonas Brothers’ boss — the spokesman, the best musician, the chief songwriter. It might seem odd for Joe and Kevin to take their lead from their kid brother, but the Jonases don’t see it that way. “Nicholas has always been older than he was,” their father tells me. Despite his heartthrob status, Nick has more Eddie Vedder in him than he does Shaun Cassidy. He says his favorite songs are Elvis Costello’s “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea” and Johnny Cash’s “Give My Love to Rose.”
Nick says he’d like to do a Jonas-Cash tribute album. “We could call it, Jonas Brothers Pay Tribute to the Man in Black,” he says.
Naturally, the Jonases have started to become tabloid targets, and they seem amused by the gossip about their dating life. Lately, Joe’s been fending off the rumor — and by fending off, I mean totally enjoying — that he’s dating country-music chanteuse Taylor Swift, who was spotted in the crowd at the Dallas concert and who will appear in the band’s upcoming 3-D movie. Kevin’s been photographed boating in Miami with a brown-haired knockout named Danielle.
“I get it,” Joe says. “When I was young, I wanted to know what my favorite bands were up to all the time. And it’s funny when there’s a rumor. It’s funny when you find out there are other celebrities with crushes on you, like when I read that Lauren Conrad from The Hills liked me.”
Nick agrees. “The Kim Kardashian rumor [about me] was hilarious,” he says. “I was honored, but I was like, ‘Reggie Bush would kill me!’”
Of course, Nick’s always being dogged by the speculation about his relationship with one particular girl: Miley Cyrus, a.k.a. Hannah Montana, the blue-eyed Disney dynamo who helped break the Jonas Brothers when she brought them onboard her hit TV show and Best of Both Worlds Tour.
“There was a point in our lives when we were very close,” Nick says softly of the Miley rumors. “We were neighbors when we were on tour together. It was good. Just really close. But it would crack me up — I would read these stories online, people saying things that were completely untrue.”
Reading the Nick and Miley gossip, you get the feeling that America is in a rush to anoint a Magic Kingdom Charles and Di. After all, the primary engine behind the Jonas Brothers phenomenon — besides the brothers themselves — is the Walt Disney Company, which has made hundreds of millions of dollars blanketing the American tweenscape with a sun shower of G-rated musical entertainment. With its various subsidiaries — including Disney Channel, Radio Disney and a record company, Hollywood Records, not to mention theme parks and merchandising arms — Disney has built powerhouse 21st-century franchises like High School Musical and Hannah Montana. In an era when music companies have struggled to connect with record buyers, Disney prospered by cultivating a demographic that had been largely ignored. “People don’t think they have much buying power, but they do,” says Disney president Robert Iger. “We decided they should be our core demo.”
The Jonas Brothers, of course, are grateful for the support of Mickey’s white glove. Disney, after all, fished the boys out of the pop-rock abyss and inserted them into the Hannah-verse, exposing them to millions of love-struck consumers (opening for Miley Cyrus in ’07 was kind of like batting in front of Babe Ruth in 1927). But today on their jet, the Jonases want everyone to know that they weren’t cooked up in a Disney laboratory by Mouse-hat-wearing demographers, that they play their own instruments, write their own songs, and that, yes, they are, in fact, brothers.
“People seriously ask us all the time,” Kevin says. “‘Are you guys really brothers?’”
Joe laughs. “It’s like, no, we named our band Jonas Brothers just for fun.”
Read the entire interview in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands July 25, 2008.
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