An Open Letter To Jonas Brothers Fans (and everyone else)

What a night I had tonight!!! Wooohhh!!!

I became public enemy #1 in the country to all hardcore Jonas Brothers fans.

I don't normally mention my radio career on this blog because I like to keep this totally separate from my radio thing (even though I link these articles on my radio page). But let me explain what happened earlier tonight.

We're running a win tickets and soundcheck passes to see the Jonas Brothers contest on the air right now. The phones are basically locked for my whole shift with people calling looking for tickets. It's seriously nuts. So - since I know the Jonas Brothers fans are listening heavily right now - I decided to run a Jonas Brothers poll on my page.

The poll I ran was meant to be a tough decision for any Jonas Brothers fan to answer. It was in the same vein as when you used to play those "what would you rather" games with your friends. Like "what would you rather eat: a bowl of spiders, a dirty diaper, or a pair of fish eyeballs?" Or "who'd you rather make out with: Boy A, Boy B, or Boy C" all of whom are nasty. It's not that you'd want to do any of the three... but you have to make a decision... just for fun.

So the question I asked was "if you were forced to make one of the Jonas Brothers disappear forever, which would you choose?" The choices were Nick, Joe, Kevin, or all of them. I didn't put "I'd keep all of them" as an option because I know it would be all "keep them all" or "get rid of all of them" as answers, thus defeating the purpose of the poll in the first place. I didn't do the poll because I want people to hate on the JoBros, I just did it for fun.

A ton of votes came in and Kevin was trailing pretty far. So on the air I gave an update (as I said I would throughout the night like it was an election). I said "man, Kevin is trailing hard right now. He's dead to you, huh?" Totally tongue-in-cheek-sarcastic. That's where the backlash started.

Some Jonas Brothers fan took serious exception to this and thought I was saying that I wanted Kevin Jonas to die! So instead of calling me and letting me clarify - or to be able to listen to why she (and other big fans) wouldn't want this poll on the air - she went online and posted a huge bash message about me on Myspace urging other fans to take action and to repost the message over and over. So they did. And the emails started to come into me.

These emails weren't looking for clarification from me. They were simply blasting me and my character. Calling me names that would make their mothers faint.

All it would have taken was a call. I would have pulled the stupid poll. It was just meant for fun... for the same people that were now threatening me via email.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE EMAILS I GOT TONIGHT!!! Warning: language is very foul in many of them.

This was all a big misunderstanding. As much trash as I talk about the celebs, I don't want any of them to die. In fact I play the Jonas Brothers new song at least 3 times a night during my 5 hour show. Do I have to??? No. I play them because I want to help get their music out there - in Boston - the 10th biggest radio market in the country. That's a lot of exposure.

What I don't understand is why these fans -- and I notice it mostly about Jonas Brothers fans and Miley Cyrus fans -- take everything soooooo seriously about the stars they love. [And let me clarify that I'm not generalizing all their fans into this category by any means.] It's almost as if they're always waiting to get angry about anything you might say about the Jonas Brothers (or Miley Cyrus). They're always on edge. I don't know why they let such small things effect their lives and their moods so dramatically.

Most these people who were emailing me hatred have never listened to me before, have no clue who I am, and DEFINITELY didn't hear any of what was said on the air about the poll. They reacted to one post from one fan who took what I was doing completely the wrong way. And they reacted by cutting me down without even clarifying that I indeed "wanted the Jonas Brothers to die" or even disliked the band at all. None of those people that were emailing me took into account that I'm trying to help the band they love so much by giving them exposure on the air every night.

So to the Jonas Brothers fans -- sorry I angered you so badly. It's entirely the opposite of what I meant to do. BUT -- take things a little less seriously. Don't think everybody is always on the attack of you or "your boys." Life is too short to let things bother you so dramatically.

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