YRB Interview: Day 26

Mike: When there [are] only four people you get a lot more money.

Day 26: Yeah. [Laughter]

Mike: Check, please! [Laughter]

Willie: We all came in the same, we all went through the same struggles together for the show on television, [and] for somebody to not be there that chemistry, of course, will be different. But the way we were put together was five amazing, vocally talented guys, so in the studio it’s not that much of a difference, but on the stage – or as far as the image of the group – of course, it will be different because he is no longer in the group.

YRB: What is your current relationship with Que?

Brian: I spoke to him recently; everything is cool.

Willie: He actually just hit me on Twitter saying, ‘Great video.’ It’s all love; we support him, he supports us in different ways. If we can’t work together we aren’t going to kill each other over money.

YRB: Has your music changed since the release of Forever In A Day?

Robert: I think we catered more to what we think the people want from us this time. The first album was handed to us and we had to sing it. But out of the first album we noticed that we developed a style as a group and that people actually liked it and there was a necessity for it in the industry. I think, you know, this album we really harnessed in on it, and we definitely went out for that.

Brian: What we feel that R&B music is to us, that’s what we are doing now.

Mike: What we were doing when we were putting out the first album and the second album was we were trying to figure out what was going to be the next thing. We tried to get the next thing before somebody else got the next thing ‘cause we were trying to be first, but on this album we’re going back to R&B.

YRB: This summer you will be releasing your third album, A New Day, what has the recording process been like?

Brian: Long as hell.

Mike: How long have we been recording?

Brian: Three years!

Willie: Two.

Brian: Two years!

Willie: We’ve come up with an amazing record. We don’t live in the same states, so I think that that’s been the toughest thing – figuring out when we are going to get together to record on this because we all do our individual writing as well. So the process has been different because with Making The Band they had us all together because they had to film the show and see that process, so now it’s a lot harder, but we have so much more creative control.

YRB: Can you tell us about your upcoming tour?

Brian: [Shaking his head] Mm mm.

Day 26: [Laughter]

YRB: When is it starting?

Brian: We can make something up. Let’s go with soon. It’s in the works.

YRB: You premiered the video for “Made Love Lately” on 106 & Park and received a good response from viewers, what does it mean to you to have the same support after having taken a short break?

Willie: That’s amazing, because you leave and you don’t know what to expect, you don’t know if they are down with somebody else and they ain’t rockin’ with us anymore. So when they said Day 26 inside that room and the fans went crazy. I heard it was trending on Twitter.

Mike: Number two.

Willie: They hadn’t forgotten. They were being entertained by others, but they hadn’t forgotten.