![]() The group is also slated to play a couple of radio station holiday shows during December - including the Z100 Jingle Ball on Dec. Gym Class Heroes are on the road with Dirty Heads until Nov. It kind of brings it full circle in a way.” So to have on there was a really cool thing. We’ve been following Adam and Maroon 5’s career since their first album actually, when we went in to cut ‘The Paper Chronicles’ we brought ‘Songs For Jane,’ the Maroon 5 record, as a reference of what we wanted some of our drum tones and guitar tones to sound like. And then at some point the idea of getting Adam Levine for the chorus popped up, and that was kind of crazy. “We bumped the song out pretty quickly, I would say maybe in an morning and afternoon, and things developed quickly. We can probably work with that,'” McGinley says of the song, which Gym Class Heroes may perform with Levine on the “Ellen DeGeneres” show next month. “Benny Blanco pitched us the idea, and we were like, ‘Yeah, that’s kinda cool. They’ve also identified the likely next two singles - “Ass Back Home” and “The Fighter” - but they’ll be held back while “Stereo Hearts” is blasting near the top of the charts.Ĭobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes Party For Fueled By Ramen Anniversary Gym Class Heroes are playing some of the new material on the road even before the album’s release, and the band’s leaked tracks such as “Martyrial Girls$” and “Life Goes On” (with Oh Land) online. ![]() So with this album we tried to almost un-learn a lot of the standard song formats that have been beaten into our brain in the last five years and bring back that naivete we had when we were writing the first album.” Back then we were just young kids kinda fooling around and making music we didn’t have a ton of knowledge about song formats and traditional arrangements for music. We tried to go for things that were a little more challenging or unconventional arrangements. So when we started writing for the sequel, that’s the direction we tried to push things musically. It just has this moody, almost eerie vibe throughout the songs. “To me, ‘The Papercut Chronicles’ is a lot darker, musically.
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