PropertyOfZack had the chance to sit down with Tay and Jordan from We Are The In Crowd at the beginning of the Gimme Summer Ya Love Tour for a brief interview. Tay, Jordan, and I discussed the beginning of the tour, their new album, Best Intentions, working with Zack and Kenneth once again, missing the Taking Back Sunday tour, and a whole lot more. Read up and enjoy!

For the record, could you state your names and roles in We Are The In Crowd?
Tay: I’m Tay and I sing in We Are The In Crowd.
Jordan: I’m Jordan, and I play guitar and try to sing.

We’re just a few dates into the All Time Low tour, but the shows have been in massive venues. How have the shows been?
Tay: The first two were really awesome. I don’t know what I was really expecting going into it. It beat my expectations for sure. We’re really, really excited about it. It’s one of the biggest tours we’ve been on.
POZ: Is it an added perk to have The Starting Line?
Jordan: We’re so stoked about that. We’re huge fans of them, so that’s definitely awesome.

The band just released a new song called “Rumor Mill.” How has the reception to it been?
Jordan: It’s been awesome and super positive.
Tay: It’s more than I wanted. I just wanted people to listen to it. You release your EP and you just hope that people still care. The response was just amazing.
POZ: How has that been going over live?
Tay: It’s the first song we play.
Jordan: It’s kind of cool because usually we come out with obviously an old song, so it’s nice to have a new one.

Is the band looking to shoot a music video for that song?
Tay: We don’t know which song yet, but we’re looking to do that in the beginning of September. I think we have a week planned out to do that. I’d be down to do “Rumor Mill.” I think that’d be a fun video.

Before this tour you guys were obviously supposed to be with Taking Back Sunday. Did that just come down to scheduling?
Tay: Absolutely. It was last minute scheduling issues. Technically, maybe, we could have squeezed it in, but that would be with rushing the record and not doing the b-sides that we wanted to do. It was a bummer for us. That was one of the hardest decisions that we had to make because that’s a tour that you just don’t give up. There’s something permanent here, which is the record, and I think that’s extremely more important.
POZ: How many b-sides did you do?
Jordan: We did three acoustic tracks with our friend Alex. I think we’re going to have two b-sides, but I’m not sure.
Tay: We recorded a bunch of stuff, but we’re not sure yet.

How was your time with Zack and Kenneth in the studio?
Jordan: They’re the coolest guys. I can’t see us ever recording with anybody else.
Tay: We consider them the sixth and seventh band members. It’s literally that tight.
Jordan: It’s not a stuffy environment at all. It’s not like we’re in a room where everybody is hunched over computers and not talking. Even when we had no time to finish it and were cramming it was fun.
POZ: Why did things get down to that last minute?
Tay: I think it’s because of the way we work. We work as a democracy and we’re a huge team. When it comes to writing and recording there are five minds in one pot and it gets crazy. A lot of people tell us that we’re different in that sense that we’re a family that bickers and fights until we’re happy. I think that’s the best way to do it. In the end we’re all happy. I think I remember explaining that to you before. That’s exactly what happened though. We had this time set out and then we realized that we weren’t where we were going to be when we needed to.

Can you talk about more information regardiong the album?
Tay: This Tuesday we’ll be launching the pre-orders. The title of the record is Best Intentions, and it’s based on having the best intentions on anything. Sometimes it may backfire or really work out for you. We tend to kind of live in that situation, and I think everybody does, where you work as hard as you can with the best intentions. It’ll be out on the first week of October.

When should we see a fall tour announced?
Tay: It’s already planned, but it’s not released yet. I’m not really sure when it’s going to be released, but it’s going to be awesome. They’re bands that we’ve toured with before, so it’s going to be cool to week up and tour with again on a brand new record. We can finally pick a set list and not have just seven songs to play every day. We’re going to do a lot of international stuff too, so we’re stoked to do that.