Good Morning America
New York, New York
16 April 2004

DIANE SAWYER: Well, we all remember the explosion when Hanson burst onto the music scene. Those three boys from Tulsa, all under 16, imagine your first album selling 8 million copies. It was Middle of Nowhere, the album, and there was that song, "MMMBop," that every radio station-country, rock-played over and over again and everybody here has already been rocking to it. And now they've got their third album coming out, it's under their own label, it's called Underneath and it's coming out next Tuesday. And here, as we said, all grown up. my, how you've grown. [cheers] Let me see if I can do this. 23?

ISAAC: 23.

DIANE: 21?

TAYLOR: Yes.

DIANE: 18?

ZAC: Yep.

DIANE: And you're in uncle, Isaac, and Zac.

ISAAC: Yeah, yeah, we've got uncles. Tay's got a little boy.

TAYLOR: I'm a dad.

DIANE: You're a dad, you and your wife have a 17-month old baby.

TAYLOR: Yeah, yeah.

DIANE: And what instructions have you given them about their behavior?

TAYLOR: Just stay away, stay away from them [motions to Isaac and Zac]. No, they're awesome uncles. We're from a big family so we've been around little kids for a long time, so…

DIANE: And how is it being back under your own label doing your own kind of touring, controlling your lives in a very different way?

ISAAC: Well, it is definitely a very cool step for us, I mean Underneath comes out on Tuesday so we're really excited about that and it's the first major release we've done on our independent label, 3CG Records, so we're just, we're stoked about it.

DIANE: But is it still hard when you have that much success when you're young to have people coming up and saying-had your voice chanced Zac, when…?

ZAC: Um, it had sort of, yeah.

ISAAC: Yeah, it started to.

TAYLOR: You know, it's just amazing to have been playing music for as long as we have. And with everything we're doing now it's been four years since the second album, the second album came out in 2000 and it's just exciting to finally have new music out. Like what we were just talking about, all of the things we're doing to get this music out. We'll be, actually just around the corner in Times Square at Virgin doing an in-store on the release date. I know some of these fans will be there.

ISAAC: Also, we've got a big screen premier in theaters around the country which is going to be cool, too.

TAYLOR: It's exciting just to finally have new music coming out and being out there playing for fans.

DIANE: Well, it's great to see you and you look just the same. I would have known you anywhere. And for old times sake, how about "MMMBop?"

ISAAC: Absolutely.

DIANE: Okay.

ISAAC: Here we go.

MMMBOP ACOUSTIC

DIANE: Again, the new record is Underneath, it'll be out this Tuesday and the first single released of it? "Penny & Me." Here's Hanson.

PENNY & ME ELECTRIC