Hanson Tidbits
A collection of little things you may or may not have known about Hanson.
1. It has been said that Taylor likes Mug root beer and red jellybeans. (For anyone who watched Rosie O’Donnell on May 14, one of the things the fan gave them was a huge bag of red jelly beans.)
2. The boys think it’s funny when people think they’re girls.
3. Tay and Zac tell Ike he looks like Chewbacca. (Brotherly love at its best, huh?)
4. Madeline is a made up name, but Lucy is after the Peanuts character.
5. Isaac names his guitars after girls he likes, but his current one doesn’t have a name yet.
6. Tay was a hyper little kid. He also had a baseball cap that he never took off and a plastic sword he used to carry everywhere.
7. Zac supposedly likes Dr. Pepper and green jello. (They have an obsessive fan club that are calling themselves "Green Jello." Apparently, these fans have been following them everywhere, and in all their interviews they’ve been saying hi to green jello.)
8. Isaac likes chunky peanut butter; Tay prefers creamy. (The fan on Rosie also gave them a jar of chunky peanut butter.)
9. I read somewhere that their toothbrush colors are: Aqua and white (Tay), flourescent green (Zac), and dark blue (Ike). I don’t know who even thought to ask, or if those colors are right, but it’s just an interesting bit of information, I guess.
10. The cartoons inside of the "Middle of Nowhere" CD are called Super Guys/Muscle Men and are drawn by Tay and Zac.
11. Hanson draw cartoons all over the inside of their family’s garage.
12. Red is Taylor's fave color because he says that red candies taste the best and that red makes everything beautiful.
13. Isaac has clear braces, and I heard a rumor that Tay wears a retainer.
14. Zac likes to chew gum.
15. When asked if he wanted a girlfriend, Zac replied, "Maybe, I'm still looking."
16. MMMBop is a very small measurement of time, as in an instant or a second.
17. In their backyard in Tulsa they have a treehouse that they built.
18. They have three younger sisters (Jessica, Avery, and Zoe) and a little brother (Mackenzie).
19. The Hansons are all Evangelical Christians and their faith is very important to them.
20. Tay wears five chokers around his neck. Two of them are crosses and one is a Magen David (Jewish star).
21. They all like video cameras, especially Ike because he likes "technical things with lots of buttons." They like to keep videos of their fondest memories, like the time they caught Taylor snoozing in the studio! Also, in "Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere," Ike comes out to a performance and starts videotaping the crowd. Is that cool or what? (Not to mention Zac’s little documentary and the way he kept flipping down the lens at the end of the video…)
22. All three of them claim to bite their nails.
23. Taylor says his worst habit is that he goes around banging things.
24. They used to harmonize to oldies songs.
25. They wrote song for each of their younger sibs.
26. They are home-schooled by their mother and have to take books with them to the studio and on tours.
27. They all keep journals to remember all of their experiences.
28. Back home in Tulsa, Tay, Ike and Zac share a 15-square meters bedroom (I don’t know where that number came from) containing a bunk bed for Ike (top) and Tay (bottom) and trundle bed for Zac. They also have a Lego table in their room, with all the castle and medieval Lego stuff.
29. They love to play video games.
30. They have a scary closet in their room at home, full of dirty socks.
31. Supposedly, Taylor wears CKBe cologne and uses Herbal Essences shampoo.
32. When they arrived at Paramus, they saw that the parking lot was packed and joked saying, "Sears must be having a sale!", and, "Ha ha, they're all here to see us!", then they found out that they were! At the end of that performance, Taylor got his shirt ripped and Zac lost a shoelace. Zac also almost got left behind!!!
33. When Hanson was driving away from a concert, they noticed a car full of girls next to them screaming for them, so they rolled down the window of their limo and said in their best English accents, "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" (!!!)
34. They say that all of the songs they wrote when they were younger, they never wrote down, they just kept them in their heads. Sometimes their parents would tell them to wash and dry dishes or something before they got home. When they got home they’d find the dishes half done, but their awesome sons had written a new song!
35. Isaac wrote his first song in the third grade (when he was 8 or 9, depending on which books you read or which interviews you see) and it was titled "Rain Falling Down".
36. Hanson refused to ride bikes around town in the "MMMBop" video for fear of "looking like kids".
37. If you listen real carefully at the beginning of "MMMBop" on "3 Car Garage," you can hear someone (I think it might be Ike) saying, "We’re recording."
38. Hanson has a new dog named Wickit.
39. Hanson's new found love is Paintball and riding Dirt Bikes.
40. They were kicked out of a five-star hotel for rollerblading in the lobby or hallway.
Email me with anything else you might’ve heard that you think I should put up here.
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