I read somewhere that you guys are working on two albums simultaneously, a children's album and a regular album?
Well, we did that [with] our last two albums, The Else and Here Comes the 1,2,3s, and right now we're working on the new children's album, Here Comes Science and we'll be doing some rock project in very short order after that, we might do an EP or something — something for adults — sooner then later just because we don't want to be off the radar for too long. But the kids stuff has been so successful, it's become like a parallel career for us. It was not something we intended. There's more than one part to doing kids stuff, there's the actual writing and recording, then there's the shows and the explaining, and I really enjoy the writing and recording but the shows and the explaining is a little more complicated. As a writer, it's such an interesting opportunity to be able to write stuff for kids, but I think being a children's entertainer is one of the hardest jobs in the world. In a culture that is really into putting governors on what people can and can't do within one career, the idea of being a dangerous rock band and being a kids' act is just too paradoxical to wrap your head around.
And at the same time, what I think is really cool is your fans are so great and your children's music is just as strong as your adult music and most of your fans enjoy your children stuff as much as your adult stuff.
Our fans are so great and I have to give, to the people that I refer to as the front row of our audience, a lot of respect for understanding that we're capable of doing more than one thing. And even appreciating it, a lot of the kids' stuff has been really warmly received by people that don't have kids and otherwise wouldn't be interested in kids' music. That's actually very interesting and heartening to me because I think we were expecting a lot of bad vibes from trying to stretch out like that and people seemed to have rolled with it very well.
Article comments
1 - Mr. mE
That's great!
2 - John
I love the Giants, but this is a very poorly written article. You "superior writers" should proof-read a little better.
3 - Damon
Don't listen to the critic! I found this article to be very well-written and gratifying. Thank you!
4 - Kris
"I assume there's a lot of killing, right?
Yeah.
Well, that's the important thing."
Hahahaha... That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard Flansburgh say.
5 - Terry Bartley
Thanks you guys, I really appreciate the compliments and I'm sure John does too!