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Fast Facts on the MON

The following facts have come from these 3 bros. themselves!! Read on to find out what THEY have to say about the songs that you just so happen to listen to 24/7!!!

THINKING OF YOU.......... "We were just jamming together and the song started flowing and in about thirty minutes it was written,"recalls Isaac of the writing process of "Thinking of You." "That's a weird example of how a song can come together. It happens in all kinds of different ways."

MMMBOP.......... According to Isaac, "MMMBop" is "basically about friends...." and adds Zac, "....holding on to the ones who really care." Taylor, who sings lead on "MMMBop," this is his favorite song from the "Middle of Nowhere." He also explains that they chose three M's for the word "MMMBop" because "it just looked good." Isaac continues: Three M's looks like the right size. It wasn't quite MMMMMBop, and it wasn't quite MMBop; it was MMMBop, a little bit in the middle. It just looked good---three M's and a Bop."

WEIRD.......... "'Weird was inspired by the word weird," explains Taylor. "We were trying to-----"

"-----think of interesting ideas for a song," interrupts Ike. "No one had ever written a song about the word 'weird,' but, yet, we use the word in our language so much....."

"We-e-e-i-r-d!!' yells Zac!

SPEECHLESS.......... This bouncy bit of heartbreak mourns the last days of a romance gone bad. Taylor sings lead and makes you believe he has been hurt by love before........that can't be!!

WHERE'S THE LOVE.......... Taylor sings lead on this catchy love song, "Where's the Love," and Isaac has a small solo about the moment when you realize that love isn't always enough to keep a relationship going. The video was filmed on location in London, and directed by Tamera Davis, who also worked with them on "MMMBop." She was thrilled to work with Hanson once more (WHO WOULDN'T BE?!?) and described "Where's the Love" as "crispier, not as rough-edged as 'MMMBop.' It has to do with the world, and what makes things turn in the world, like love. It's really good."

YEARBOOK.......... Isaac claims that he doesn't really have a favorite song from the Middle of Nowhere, "that you really get attatched to all the songs in different ways because of how they came about or their meaning."

"Yearbook Song"----or "Johnny" as it was originally called----is the eerie song about a highschool yearbook that merely has a blank space for a boy named Johnny. "'Yearbook' is a pretty cool song because of the meaning behind it." explains Isaac. "We were talking about a yearbook..."

"...and a lot of times it says 'picture unavailable,'" interjects Taylor. "This song was kind of built on that thought."

LOOK AT YOU.......... The lyrics of "Look at You" talk of a girl who is something of a mystery. Hmmm....souds a bit like Zac....except, of course......Zac isn't a girl.

LUCY.......... "I wanted to write a song with each brother," says Mark Hudson. "'Lucy was Zac's, i helped him with the lyrics, but kept his perspective."

I WILL COME TO YOU.......... Taylor sings the lead in this song. The lyrics say that even if the love is over, doesn't have to dissapear. This is a theme in many Hanson songs.

A MINUTE WITHOUT YOU.......... Mark Hudson wrote this song with Isaac. Hudson say that it was great working with "brothers all over again." Mark Hudson and his brothers were in the band "The Hudson Brothers" in the 70's.

MADELINE.......... There's a controversy over who "Madeline" really is, but the boys are mum on this topic.

WITH YOU IN YOUR DREAMS.......... This song was written in memory of Jane Nelson Lawyer, Ike, Tay and Zac's grandmother. Isaac says, "She was dying when we wrote it and it's basically what she said to us---'Don't cry, I'll be with you in your dreams."

Zac adds, "The sick thing is, someone thought that it was about a one-night stand. SO, if anybody hears that song, no, it's not about that. C'mon.....we're only 16, 14, and 11--what are you thinking about?!"

MAN FROM MILWAUKEE.......... This is a bonus cut on the CD. It's origins are from the meanderings of Zac. "Zac was thinking of aliens," says Isaac. "The man in 'Man in Milwaukee' is really an alien."

But that's not all there is behind the legend. It seems that ZAC was inspired to write the song when the family was stuck on the side of the road in their broken-down van. They were right outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but Albuquerque doesn't exactly flow in the lyrics of a song (even though the Partridge Family wrote a song called "Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque"). So Zac did a little editing and changed it to Milwaukee.

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