Dance-pop duo Cherub quickly skyrocketed to the top of the charts, and isn’t slowing down any time soon

ew bands had a better 2014 than rising megastar group
Cherub. Hailing from a city bursting at the seams with country artists of all
types, Nashville, Tennessee, the dance pop duo saw their star really begin rise
and take off this last year with their viral hit, “Doses And Mimosas,” several
highly praised tours and performances, and their first major label record, Year of the Caprese. Through it all, the
duo of Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber never sought any downtime or ever
attempted to rest on their laurels, instead focusing on working hard performing
live everywhere they could and continuing to write and develop new material.
This strong work ethic and ambition has the group rocketing into 2015, ready to
continue its world takeover and dazzle the masses with its clean, hook-laden
pop sounds. Recently, CULTURE was
able to catch up with Jason and Jordan to hear all about their unique musical
style, love of cannabis and plans for 2015.

Last year, you
released your major label debut, Year of
the Caprese. Looking back on it now, what do you notice as the biggest
differences between that and your
debut, MoM and DaD?

Jordan Kelley:  The majority of the MoM and DaD album was made on Reason and then there were a couple
of things that were added in live through Pro-Tools once we had the foundation
of the song established.  While with Year Of The Caprese, there is a way more
organic feel that we achieved by recording more things, like analog synths and
percussion, live.  Really with this last
record there was just a lot more equal input from us as a group.

These days, you all have a pretty fair amount of material
under your belts, how do you two go about deciding what you’re going to play
live?

Kelley:  Well, that’s actually getting to be a really
fun thing for us now.  It’s kind of
difficult because we absolutely want to play every song every single night.  And whenever we don’t play a certain song,
there’s always somebody sure to remind us that we didn’t play that song.  And sometimes people even remind us that we
didn’t play certain songs just after we’ve played it, so that’s always kind of
funny. 

So, planning out the sets
is a lot of fun for us.  When we’re on
our own headlining tours we get a chance to play a lot longer and we can play a
lot of our upbeat material, but then we can also do some of the slower, more
sentimental material that we don’t usually get to on shorter sets.

When I was watching your tour diaries from Spring 2014 on
VEVO, I couldn’t help but notice you two seem to enjoy your cannabis out on the
road. Do you have any particular feelings on the growing push for legalization
in the country?

Kelley:  We’re both obviously for it.

Jason Huber:  I mean, we both definitely believe that it’s
a to-each-their-own type of thing.  But,
marijuana is something that’s not very invasive or offensive to people, other
than the smell and the smoke if you don’t like that.  But really, it’s a personal decision and
people should be allowed to do what they feel like.  It’s something that we both definitely enjoy
seeing that people are becoming more open minded about it, across the country, and
something we look forward to seeing more of.

Is it nice touring through states where it’s been
legalized already?  Does it make you feel
more relaxed not having to worry about it?

Huber: Yeah, it is a lot
more comfortable in those states.  In
those states where it’s more legal and free, you can really see that there are
people who regularly smoke pot and then go out and do really cool things;
whether its artists, chefs, store owners, etc . . .  It’s really cool to see it more embraced in
society as opposed to having it be something that’s taboo or frowned upon.  It’s nice to see people breaking the stoner
stereotypes.

What are Cherub’s
ambitions for 2015?

Kelley: It’s been
really cool to watch our live shows grow, we’ve haven’t hit a slump yet, and I
don’t want to jinx us, but we’ve continued to grow in venue size and
capacity.  It’s been a really cool
thing.  So I think our next goal is to,
in the best way possible, keep pushing toward the mainstream without
compromising our sound.  We just want to
continue to make sure that we keep on getting our music out to as many people
as possible and continue building what we’ve started.  So for us, it’s to keep on making music
that’s breaking into the mainstream, that people can sing along to without feeling
bad about it.

Huber:  That’s definitely our mission.

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