Say Anything

What is "Daddy"?
Alex: The term "Daddy" is used at all times, whether it's "Daddy I just farted" or "Daddy, I'm on the bus."
Max: It refers to everyone in the band.
Coby: It's also things like, "Can I have some of that Daddy?"
Parker: Or when go to a restaurant and they bring you food, you say "Thanks, Daddy!"
Coby: That's the best!
Alex: Just anything, like when you say "Hi": "Daddy."
Coby: Jake's been saying it his whole life, pretty much.
Max: I think it was his first word.
Jake: I just blew it way out of proportion.

How have people reacted when you insert "Daddy" into conversation?
Max: It's a subtle thing.
Jake: No one really notices. It's like, "Did they just say 'Daddy?'"

How did you guys come up with the setlist for this tour, since you had two albums of material and then the double-album?
Alex: Just ask Daddy.
Jake: It was actually pretty easy. We started making a setlist one night on the MySpace music tour [last fall], just started talking about the songs and which songs we wanted to play from the new record. I think there's seven old songs, eight new songs, a b-side and then a cover, so it's pretty equal.

Which cover are you doing?
Max: The Smashing Pumpkins' "Stand Inside Your Love" I'd been listening to it a lot, and we'd always talked about doing a cover but never done it. The mood of the song is a nice break, but it's still up-tempo. We all like it.
Parker: It's really cool to have it in the set. It's not like you get sick of playing your own songs, but you're playing an hour and fifteen minutes or so and all of a sudden you're playing a song that you've never really played before or never get to. it's almost like you're living vicariously through Billy Corgan.
Jake: It's kind of cool because the crowd chills out, too.

Do a lot of people recognize it?
Max: It's like half and half.
Jake: The older people, yes, the younger people —
Parker: They've heard the song but they don't know the lyrics.

Have you heard of anyone covering your music?
Parker: There are videos of kids on YouTube.
Max: They're singing mainly "Alive with the Glory of Love."
Alex: I saw someone do "Belt" which was probably the funniest thing.
Coby: It's kids at talent shows. The best are these two guys who are stoned —
Alex: — They're on ecstasy, they say it.
Coby: They're both shirtless and wearing bandanas and one guy is singing, the other one is on guitar and they fuck up the beginning like five times (watch it here).

Do people send you these videos?
Coby: We search every night.
Parker: We scour.
Jake: Probably the most insane one I've ever found was this seriously, maybe six-year-old boy —
Max: Yeah! The "Wow, I Can Get Sexual, Too" one?
Jake: No, he does "Baby Girl, I'm A Blur" — just him, A Cappella. His dad's saying "C'mon, sing it" and when he gets to the chorus, he gets really intense and pretends to hold a microphone.
Max: There are also a lot of kids who are too young to know what ["Wow, I Can Get Sexual, Too"], about, and they're singing it. There's one with two fourteen year old girls, and I saw one with a seven-year-old boy singing it word-for-word. It was intense.