Oh, oh, oh–James Maslow, known from his time as James Diamond within the Nickelodeon hit “Big Time Rush,” said there’s one song from the favored boy band that he and his group members have never really enjoyed singing. During his appearance on the “Joe Vulpis Podcast,” the actor and “Big Brother” alum opened up concerning the show, which ran from 2009 to 2013, and spilled the tea on things a number of the program’s biggest fans may not have known.
While Big Time Rush was created as a fictional boy band for the TV series of the identical name, the group actually released popular songs and albums, three of which reached the highest 20 on the Billboard 200.
And while the music resonated with a number of the show’s fans, Maslow said the “Big Time Rush” theme song is the one he and his co-stars have essentially the most trouble performing.
“It was written as a theme song, in my defense, which suggests it wasn’t written to be sung… to be performed live like regular music,” he said.
Maslow Said It’s All the time A ‘Struggle’ To Sing The Show’s ‘Cheesy’ Theme Song
Maslow, 35, was first forged within the Nickelodeon series at 19. On the podcast, the actor said he didn’t enjoy singing the “BTR” theme song live back then, but now, he’s learned to understand it a bit more.
Even then, it’s not a track that he and his bandmates, including Kendall Schmidt, Carlos PenaVega, and Logan Henderson, are champing on the bit to sing live.
“It’s all the time been a struggle, and we’ve all the time found a strategy to like put it in a mashup or sing half of it and like move on, and we still do to a point because, again, it’s a theme song and it’s cheesy by nature,” he said.
Fans Probably Didn’t Know This Fact About ‘Big Time Rush’
Elsewhere within the podcast, Maslow told the podcast host that he wasn’t sure “Big Time Rush” would even make it to air, on condition that they shot a million-dollar pilot without Schmidt, the show’s leading man.
In accordance with Maslow, they filmed the pilot with a distinct actor, but after wrapping, the network shelved this system to do one other nationwide search. Despite the back-and-forth, Maslow expressed gratitude that all the things worked out because it did.
“The truth is, and I remind myself of this on a regular basis, [we] could have passed through those two years, those 4 screen tests, the million-dollar pilot, after which back to nothing, after which got it picked up, after which it still could haven’t worked,” Maslow said. “So, I’m just grateful that so many individuals fell in love with the show and the band.”
Maslow And His Bandmates Had To Fight For Creative Control Over Their Music
After Nickelodeon rounded out the forged with the precise actors, Maslow said he and his co-stars then needed to fight for a little bit of creative control, noting that the people involved in creating the show didn’t realize they’d forged men who desired to be involved within the music-making process.
“So it became art imitating life in lots of, some ways where they set out going, ‘Hey, we’re going to rent actors to make a show, and perhaps they’ll play music or something outside of this,’ but we proved to be like, no, we’re actually going to be a band,” Maslow explained.
Speaking Of Fictional Bands … This Group Is Returning To The Small Screen Nearly 20 Years Later
And speaking of fictional bands, one other group is returning to the small screen almost 20 years later.
In accordance with a previous report from The Blast, Raven-Symoné and Adrienne Bailon are returning to Disney to reprise their roles as Galleria and Chanel in the brand new “Cheetah Girls” movie titled “Next Gen.”
The made-for-TV film, executive-produced by the “That’s So Raven” alum and Debra Martin Chase, will feature her and Bailon’s characters traveling to Africa with a bunch of younger singers to assist save a wildlife sanctuary.
Sabrina Bryan, who played Dorinda within the franchise’s first three movies, will reprise her role, together with Lynn Whitfield and Lori Alter. Kiely Williams, nevertheless, isn’t attached to the project right now.
“The Cheetah Girls has all the time been about friendship, music, and empowering young people to make use of their voice,” said Ayo Davis, president of Disney Kids & Family. “That spirit connected deeply with a generation of fans, and it still resonates today. Bringing this dynamic recent group of young stars to the franchise allows us to proceed that legacy for a brand new era of youngsters and families.”