MTV: You shot a video for the song "Movies."

Zamora: Two.

Mitchell: Like a hundred videos of the song.

MTV: Seriously, you made a few?

Mitchell: We made two. We did one, spent 18 hours on it [in] one day, and no one was feeling the "movie" vibe. So we went back in with Marcos Siega, spent three hours, and it's real good.

Zamora: They got this shot of us jumping.

Corso: That's Tye's favorite shot.

Zamora: It's really cool.

Corso: He stops in mid-air. It's a good video. It's really moving and action-packed, and really fits the song and our characters pretty good and portrays our personality pretty good.

Cosgrove: It really captured our image.

Zamora: Which is just stupid and, "We're dumb"?

Mitchell: Yeah, we're kind of nerdy, but it's all performance, which is good for debut [material], like, "What's the band about?" Everyone kind of wants to just see their movement and stuff, and see how they behave.

MTV: Talk about the song "Whisper." I wonder, is this the first record deal you've had? It sounds like you guys got burned.

Corso: Uh-oh. [laughs]

Cosgrove: [It's the first] and only record deal we have had. We wrote the song because we went through the whole showcasing thing and did everything...

Corso: And we got passed on and passed on...

Cosgrove: And every label got into us and got out of us, like a little bitch, and then that was it, and now we're left to fall on our faces, [proving] they're all right.

Zamora: Now we're just left to fail.

Cosgrove: It's too bad when they're right.

Corso: It's kind of like when we were doing these showcases and they literally stick you in the Viper Room [in Los Angeles], and you're onstage and there is maybe five people that could give you the Caesar thumbs-up or thumbs-down. And while you're doing it, they're sitting there and some of them are bobbing their heads and some of them whisper back and forth. I was like, man, I'd give $500 to hear what they were whispering to each other about me. So that's where "Whisper" came from.

Mitchell: It's not really trying to slam anything, [but having] the experience to get to know what these people were whispering about. We were just having a hard time. It's kind of depressing, going home [when] you were showing up with these high hopes and knowing that these people can really, like, change your whole life.

Corso: Normally you wouldn't even care what anyone has to say, but you watch these people talking back and forth and you are just like, "I wonder what he's saying? Did he like the way I moved, or is he bagging on my shirt?"

MTV: It's got to be the toughest thing, playing in front of industry folks. They kind of just stand there...

Corso: It was kind of an emotional roller coaster for a good couple of weeks, but some are better than others. Like, we'd get the ones that would come in and be head-bobbin' and into it and moving around to different parts of the room to listen, because there's nobody else there. But then you get the guys that just came in and went to the back booth.

Cosgrove: With their little entourage.

Corso: And sat there with their entourage and smoked a cigarette and whatever and would leave before the showcase was even over, or come up and be like, "Yeah, it's good," and leave.

Zamora: At least we got pizza.

Mitchell: It's hard to get signed when — I hate to tell people — when I had a bad equestrian accident. I was washing my horse one day and I was down near the backside and he farted a little bit of my hair off. ... I usually wear a [hat] or something. Just want everyone to know about that equestrian accident.

MTV: Do you still write when you're on tour?

Zamora: Yes. We haven't really written much lately, but we play, and we have a good time, and we play video games.

Cosgrove: Once we have longer sound checks and all that stuff, we're gonna get some recording gear on the bus and go crazy.

Corso: There's so much happening right now that goes with just being on tour as far as press and stuff, and I think once we settle in, we're gonna be able to do a lot more writing on the road.

MTV: Do you have any idea of what the second single will be?

Cosgrove: We want "Sticks and Stones."

Zamora: Well, every one's gonna be a single. It's just a matter of lining it up, which song's gonna go where, so "Sticks and Stones." Some people are saying how it'll be "Death Day," and we're like, "I don't think so." And "Stranded" and "Courage," "Universe," and the list goes on and on.

Corso: I think we're gonna wanna go a little more heavy and aggressive on the next single.