Boys Like Girls are in the midst of their Soundtrack of Your Life tour, where they’re celebrating the anniversaries of their 2006 self-titled and 2009’s Love Drunk by playing them in full. Before their sold-out Brooklyn show last month, frontman Martin Johnson joined the latest episode of AltPress: In Session.
Sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Anna Zanes, Johnson opened up about impostor syndrome, gratitude, and inviting his 18-year-old and 22-year-old selves onstage for the milestone album play. “‘Look what you did.’ You know what I mean?” he reflects. “It’s like these millennials living out their teenage dream, just hands in the sky, eyes closed, and they’re illuminated with floodlights. We have these really backlit sets. I could see everybody’s eyes, and I’m like, ‘OK, come onstage, 22-year-old Marty. Look what you did, dude. You did pretty good. I know you were ashamed of yourself for a while, but just check it out.’”
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He also spoke about how different his rider looks now, versus in 2008 — from Patron, condoms, and jelly beans to mineral water, whole milk yogurt, and cottage cheese. Elsewhere, he shouted out Boston, touched on nostalgia, and contemplated how we currently live in a culture that informs music, rather than the other way around.
Boys Like Girls’ Soundtrack of Your Life tour is streaming now on Veeps. Listen to In Session with Johnson below, and revisit previous episodes of the podcast here.
