Dia: I think the breakup was about us being too prideful to really talk to each other. Meg: Yeah. We were young and immature. We really needed to have that time apart, that time without music, that time without each other, to come back to really want to do it again. What do you think, Meg?
Do you like this? Dia: Recording solo was really lonely. I really trust Meg to pull me back in. Meg writes with no boundaries. Dia: We were in a van, and we were driving through Arizona or New Mexico. And Meg and I just looped the album really loud until all the other band members wanted to kill us. Meg: I started an online jewelry company, and I did that for half the time that Dia was doing her solo stuff. What were the first couple of Thanksgivings at the Frampton house like after you two stopped making music together?
Meg: I was just so mad. I think I was mad at myself, mostly, but I was projecting that onto Dia. A lot of denial. The one thing I learned the most that Meg and I do is we have miscommunications.
Dia: Did you watch the Jonas Brothers documentary? Watching them talk through this stuff really taught me a lot. Meg: We have a few songs on our album about returning back to your free-spirited, naive young self.
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Today July 26 marks the surprise release of Happysad , their fourth studio album and first since Dia auditioned for The Voice eight years ago.
Fans might have figured they were up to something after the recent shows they also played in Cleveland in early June and Mountain View, Calif.
A pact with Pure Noise Records -- home to pop-punk staples like State Champs and Senses Fail -- and a fall headlining tour were unannounced until today. It didn't come easy. Dia traded in her solo career to rekindle the band; Meg put her musician-for-hire work on the backburner and sold her share in a successful Salt Lake City coffee shop she'd co-founded after the split. Although they were raised alongside four other sisters, Meg and Dia grew up with a special closeness. Draper, Utah, about 30 minutes outside of Salt Lake City, wasn't the ideal launching pad for musicians in the pre-social media days, but their parents -- a British father and Korean mother -- bought them instruments for the holidays and shared their extensive record collection.
As the band filled out with a trio of touring members guitarist Carlo Gimenez and bassist Jonathan Snyder still play with them , the Frampton sisters wrote punchy rock songs, combining Hot Topic power chords and coffee-shop strumming, often inspired by literature most fellow high schoolers could relate to the lyrics of their vicious single "Monster" were written as a direct response to East of Eden.
Expectations were high with the release of their debut LP, Something Real, in It felt surreal and every show was exciting. We just felt we are building to something bigger than ourselves. Warner Bros. Records picked them up and released 's follow-up Here, Here and Here -- brash with newfound pop grooves and disco-rock influences -- but dropped them a year later after the album failed to meet commercial expectations.
Shortly after, management suggested Dia try out for a then-unknown singing competition show, figuring the label-less band could use some traction. Masterful performances of hand-picked covers like R. After two grueling months, Shelton's guidance and the support of The Voice viewers -- most of which were unfamiliar with her band -- catapulted Dia to all the way to second place in the season finale. Dia invited her sister to writing sessions she's credited with backing vocals on the LP and to join her band for a tour opening for Shelton, but tension abounded.
Life wasn't easy for Dia, either. Post- Voice performance anxiety led her to consult a psychotherapist and even consider beta blockers to help manage her pre-show nerves. She stresses the actual people behind the show -- its crew, celebrity judges, especially Shelton -- were kind and supportive, yet the cutthroat nature of online commentators, and the competition itself, left her shaken.
Relegated to backing-band duties on the Blake Shelton tour, Meg found herself seething. On the trek's final day, she stormed out of Dia's band.
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