Aly & AJ - September 7, 2007

Here are some of the highlights from the Interview.

Tommy: Greetings, how are you guys doing today?

Aly: Good

AJ: Good, how you doin?

Tommy: Doing real good. Now to get warmed up how about we run through this real quick. It’s gonna be a this or that. I’ll mention two things and you both will get to choose one.

AJ: I love this.

Aly: I love this game. We play this game with our friends when we want to get to know someone.

Tommy: With trends coming around and the 80’s are real popular right now I thought we’d base it around that. When you were to buy an album would you buy a record or cassette?

Aly: Oh a record for sure!

AJ: Record

Tommy: What would your favorite accessory of choice be – a walkman or a boombox?

Aly: Walkman

AJ: Walkman

Aly: These are gonna be very similar I bet!

Tommy: We’ll see! And the ultimate concert t-shirt. Would it either be Journey or Bruce Springsteen?

AJ: Journey

Aly: Journey

Tommy: What about Teen movies. Sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club?

AJ: Breakfast Club

Aly: Breakfast Club

Tommy: You know both of those films were shot in Chicago?

Aly: Oh really!

AJ: Were they really?

Tommy: What about drinks? Coca-Cola Classic or the New Coke?

AJ: Coca-Cola Classic

Aly: Coca-Cola Classic

AJ: Love the packaging!

Tommy: And video games. Pac Man or Donkey Kong?

Aly & AJ: Pac Man

Tommy: Clothing patterns. Checkers or Zebra Stripes?

Aly & AJ:: Checkers

AJ: Oh – we’ve gotten every one the same!

Aly: My word!

AJ: This is awesome!

Tommy: What about those purple pants?

AJ: Oh yeah, I love those! Maybe Zebra and Checkers – I’ll mix it up!

Tommy: Okay – and the last one. Your favorite 80’s Pro Wrestler. Hulk Hogan or Rowdy Roddy Piper?

Aly & AJ: Rowdy Roddy Piper

AJ: Cause he played my dad in the movie, so definitely him.

Tommy: Let’s move on to your new album. It’s out and it’s by the name Insomniatic. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about it?

Aly: Well um – we’ve been working on Insomniatic for quite some time now. Ya know we ‘re doing a lot of writing on and off the road last year. It’s been nice to finally put out all of our feelings and emotions and experiences that we’ve gone through in the last – ya know year and a half and really kind of show the fans a side of us I don’t think they’ve seen before. Ya know it’s very – it’s a very personal record and a lot of the songs are relationship based and I feel like it definitely has a new sound to it – I mean it’s still the Aly & AJ that you guys know from Into The Rush but it definitely has a different vibe, it’s evolved. Ya know I think our sound has changed.

AJ: I agree. I think not only have we changed vocally only because we’re older now but I think we have changed ya know in our writing and our style. Ya know I think we’ve experimented more too, we’ve been able to take risks which is really important when you’re making new music cause you want to be able to reinvent a little bit without totally you know straying from your other records. But I feel like for us to make Insomniatic was a lot of fun and we really dabbled in a lot of different arenas. I mean just being able to play Potential Break Up Song – and we wrote that from a beat, not from a guitar or piano. That was kinda cool for us and something new.

Tommy: And the one thing that you mentioned there which is different from a lot of your peers is the fact that you actually write your music. You guys pride yourself in that?

AJ: Yeah, thank you! Thanks – I think you know it’s fun to write your own music. I feel like it seems like it just comes totally from you and I feel like it’s very genuine and it’s like and open diary.