Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas have been famous for exactly 20 years. They’ve made dozens of hits and dazzled millions of fans. Now they’re in their thirties—all of them dads—on one of the biggest tours of the year. Together, and apart, they’ve become defining acts of the 21st century. As ESQUIRE’s Dave Holmes finds out in this digital cover story, “The Jonas Brothers Got Through It Together,” it’s never been easy.
THE JONAS BROTHERS on touring in their thirties: “Sleep is so much more important,” Nick says. “The drinks hit a little harder, the hangovers hit a little harder,” Joe adds. Self-care for adult Jonas Brothers means built-in time alone. “We each have our own space now,” Kevin says, “so that we can come back together and do it better.”
JOE on going unrecognized in public: “Oh, it’s pretty chill,” he says. “Outside of New York and L.A., people don’t expect to see entertainers walking around. When it’s the three of us together, people are maybe a little more excited.”
JOE on the special guests on the JONAS20 Tour: “I wrote Demi Lovato to see if she would be up for it,” he says. “She was. That was really special. It set the tone for us to bring out familiar faces and artists who mean something to us, who matter. We didn’t want to bring out just anyone; we wanted to bring out people who we felt could really speak to our journey.” They’re featuring artists who helped them on the way up, like Jesse McCartney, whose shows they opened in their first days of touring. They’re featuring artists whose music they admired, like Dashboard Confessional. “His music got me through so many breakups as a kid,” says Joe. And they’re doing the Lord’s work: giving a boost to some deserving artists whose careers are being affected by the ever-changing yet never-improving music-business economy. “JP Saxe, who’s this incredible artist, made a pretty vulnerable video about not being able to sell enough tickets to his tour,” Joe says. The guys put him up onstage in Toronto. “We’ve been lucky, and we try to have some understanding of what artists are going through now,” Joe adds.
KEVIN on the JONAS20 Tour: “This time around,” he says, “I think we’ve really learned to understand and respect each other’s individuality. For so long, the mothership was the mothership. Nothing was more important than the band, and everything else came second. But now we can celebrate each other’s solo music.”
KEVIN on his own solo music: “It’s taken a long time for me to feel confident and right about the music I make on my own, but it finally felt right to do it,” he says.
NICK on their fan base: “The core of our fan base are around our age,” Nick says, “and they used to come to our shows with their parents. Now those parents still want to come, and that core fan is bringing their kids.”
NICK on the JONAS20 Tour: On the JONAS20 Tour, Nick says, “We’ve been looking around and saying: ‘Maybe the good old days are happening right now.’ We’ve already had a few extra bites at the apple in different chapters of our journey, and the significance of the momentum we feel from these shows isn’t lost on any of us.” And then, like the legacy musician, industry warhorse, and veteran of twenty-first-century fame that he is at age thirty-three, he concludes: “It makes the getting older part of this feel a little easier.”
[Photo Credit: Billy Kidd for Esquire Magazine – Video Credit: Esquire/YouTube]
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