April 15, 2004

The members of the once tooth-achingly sweet pop band HANSON have grown up and, with their upcoming album Underneath, their music has followed in their maturing footsteps. Tonight on ET, we chat with Hanson, who say that although they're older, they're still the same group fans grew to love!

"Who we are hasn't changed," 18-year-old drummer ZAC says.

But one thing has changed. Twenty-year-old TAYLOR is now a new husband and proud papa. "It's a whole other aspect of my life that makes it richer and fuller," Taylor says of his toddler son. The long-haired Hanson also suspects his son has inherited some of his talent. "It's hard to imagine he wouldn't get into music because he's just so musical," he says. But oldest brother ISAAC is a happily single 23-year-old and Zac has had the same girlfriend for three years and says right now he just enjoys being an uncle.

After three years in the making, Underneath makes its way onto store shelves this Tuesday, April 20th. It is their third studio album and Zac reveals that working together hasn't always been a bed of roses. "There are hard times and struggles, but there are a lot of good times too."

The young brothers blasted onto the music map back in 1997 with the ever-catchy single "MmmBop," off of the 8-million-copy-selling album, Middle of Nowhere. Although the song earned the band three Grammy nominations in 1998, their second album, This Time Around, only mustered to sell a fraction of the copies Middle of Nowhere did. But the trio from Tulsa is back with their critically acclaimed, self-produced Underneath and the first single, "Penny & Me," impressively debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 Single Chart.

Isaac says no matter what happens in the future, music will always be a priority in their lives. "The thing we love the most is what keeps us together, but it's probably what we fight about the most -- and that's music." The dirty blond continues: "Music is what we love and what comes first."

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