But then at the same time, we’re getting ready to go on tour, and this process where we bring out the gear, we make sure that we’ve got the sound just so - this was exactly the same in 2017, in 2015. So I think that we came along at a really good time to expect and be ready for change, whenever we were starting a new endeavor. We were a band that came out at a time when we said the actual phrase, “Do you think we need a website?” Social media didn’t exist until like three records in. When we started out, it was this period where we got to make a lot of mistakes, and they were private - they didn’t exist online, nobody was there with a camera, TMZ didn’t exist. Thomas: From 1996, we’ve only existed through change. So there’s definitely new things in this process for us, but it is still the process that we’ve been doing all of our adult lives. We just made a video for “Wild Dogs,” and part of that conversation is, “How does this work in small little cuts?” Those aren’t conversations that we used to have. The world is different - like, we didn’t have to worry about TikTok. note: this conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.)Ĭonsidering it’s been over a decade since the last Matchbox Twenty album, how does it feel to start the machine back up?ĭoucette: We’ve done so much in our lives, so it’s like, we haven’t done it in a long time, but it doesn’t necessarily feel that different. Ahead of the tour kickoff and album release, Thomas and Doucette chatted with Billboard about how an unlikely full-length turned into one of the most satisfying projects of their shared careers. Matchbox Twenty kicked off their 54-date Slow Dream tour earlier this month, and will be playing a mix of old hits and new album cuts on the road through August.
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