This 12 months formally marks the 2 full many years of the Jonas Brothers, given they recorded their first tune collectively again in 2005. One among their most beloved songs can also be considered one of their earliest: “Yr 3000” (their very own tackle Busted’s tune of the identical title). The JoBros had an interview with Kelly Clarkson lately within the 2025 TV schedule, the place they received to speak concerning the singer and daytime host being title dropped within the tune, and I really like her response to all of it.
When the Jonas Brothers helped kick off Songs & Tales with Kelly Clarkson, Clarkson recalled the primary time she discovered she was a part of “Yr 3000.” In her phrases:
I believe it was in a meet and greet and someone [said], ‘Did you hear the Jonas Brothers tune?’ and I used to be like ‘What, no?’ and so they had been like ‘They are saying your title!’ and I used to be like ‘What!’ I used to be like, ‘That’s so cool to be referenced in any manner in popular culture’ — I adore it.
Simply to take you again nearly twenty years in the past, when “Yr 3000” got here out in 2007 Kelly Clarkson was in full music profession mode and doing a ton of touring for her albums Breakaway and My December. It couldn’t have been far off from her successful two Grammys on the age of 23 after turning into well-known for successful the primary season of American Idol.
Within the tune whereas the younger Jonas Brothers are manifesting their future within the 12 months 3000, they are saying “This tune has gone multi-platinum / Everyone purchased our seventh album / It had outsold Kelly Clarkson”. Humorous sufficient, the trio lately put out their seventh album, Greeting From Your Hometown and are at the moment on tour while Clarkson is at the moment very fashionable for being a daytime present host, doing viral Kellyoke numbers, and being a decide on The Voice.
As Clarkson shared, she had no thought she was a part of the tune till a fan talked about the very fact to her and she or he geeked out on the thought. By that point, she had already additionally been famously talked about in The 40-Yr-Outdated Virgin when Steve Carell yells her title throughout his character’s waxing scene. In the course of the interview, Nick Jonas shared a humorous connection they’d with Kelly Clarkson on the time they wrote their model of the tune:
For like years as a approach to get our foot within the door in interviews we’d be like, ‘Yeah we opened for Kelly Clarkson,’… We weren’t an opener — we had been like in a parking zone on the B, B, B, C stage.
As Jonas reminisced, of their early days they performed the identical pageant as Kelly Clarkson of their dwelling state of New Jersey. The brothers would apparently brag that they opened for the megastar despite the fact that they had been most undoubtedly nowhere close to the stage the place Clarkson performed the pageant. Clarkson was completely right here for his or her white lie, suggesting they completely opened for her by these phrases.
Whereas we don’t know what’s in retailer for these two acts come the Yr 3000, it’s so full circle to see the Jonas Brothers and Kelly Clarkson in the identical room speaking concerning the different.