Anyway, usually we aren't into interview transcripts because, as you can tell, this is not a fan site, but these interviews were some of the funniest ones we have ever seen them do and they deserved commentary....so without further a do...
AND REMEMBER...anything you see in italics is our commentary! Enjoy and laugh your butts off!
INTERVIEW #1
PLAYGIRL Magazine...April 2002...Parental Advisory...Explicit Content ;)
From the April '02 issue of Playgirl Magazine... LFO crosses the fine line between naughty and nice.
Rich Cronin, Brad Fischetti, and Devin Lima went from being pop's young boys to PLAYGIRL's hot young men. Free from Lou Pearlman (who helped them get started financially along with The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync) and free from Jennifer Love Hewitt (yes Rich dated the actress for two years), LFO is available for it all. Their first album, LFO, brought us the contagious hit "Summer Girls" and had us ladies scrambling to find the latest fashions from Abercrombie & Fitch--Rich's self-professed favorite female attire. We can tell that their sophomore release, Life is Good, is poised for success, especially after viewing their sexy and fun video for the catchy song "Every Other Time." All in their mid-twenties, the guys have already sold over two million albums and have performed more than two hundred concerts to an obscene amount of screaming fans-mostly teenage girls. But we can't let the teens have all the fun! (No we can’t!!! At least we’re legal!) Make no mistake, LFO is not a boy band. (HELL NO! How many times do we have to say this?) Once the topic sex was brought up, Rich (the frisky blond-next-door-type), Devin (the naughty "I'll get naked" kind) and Brad (the sexy-eyed, passionate, long-haired one), told us exactly how they like it-in and out of the bedroom.
PG: What does LFO mean? (Can we PLEASE stop asking this question?)
Rich: When I was a lot younger, I...rapped. The people who were [rapping] in my neighborhood were black guys and one day one guy called me a "light funky one". I didn't really have a good name, so I thought ...I'll be LFO. After the other guys joined me, I kept the name.
PG: You guys used to work with Lou Pearlman.
Rich: We went to Lou to get started in music. (We know the story...you knocked on the door, demo in hand…etc.)
Devin: We needed a loan.
Rich: Back at that time, he didn't have a bad name. He was just a guy interested in music that had the money. We took a shot and said, 'hey, do you want to invest in us?' and he decided that he wanted to. It was only later that he became...you know...whatever he is now. (C’mon, you know there’s a million names you want to call him…go for it!!!) I didn't think that everyone with him would be stereotyped.
PG: Do you feel he had too much control over you?
Brad: He tried to make us into something that we weren't musically and as individuals. (We saw the pics...it was a scary vision!) But we didn't have any money...he was holding our dream in his hand.
PG: Devin, you play a Chippendale's dancer in yet-to-be released film Longshot a.k.a Jack of All Trades. Do you get naked? (NICE segue there…any journalism student could’ve come up with a better transition from talking about Lou to sex!)
Rich: He (Devin) wants to pose for your magazine. Do an audition. (Is your name Devin? Geez, Rich, you’ve always gotta answer for other people…lol).
Devin: Audition? I'll just do it. (Whoa, what? Steph wants to know where she can find the pictures)
PG: What did you do for that role?
Devin: I just danced a little and took off my clothes. (You did not take off your clothes…we didn’t see any more of you than we’ve seen already!)
PG: Were you naked or did you wear a G-string?
Devin: No, I just took off my shirt. If they wanted that [to get naked] it would be no problem, but they didn't want it. (But we do, we do!!! I thought the fans were important?? LOL!)
After I gave them some PLAYGIRL 101 and told them about the Dream Lovers sets, Brad interjected. "I'll do that one," he said. I went on to tell them about the Voyeur View section, and again Brad offered himself. "Can I do that one, too? I love that stuff."
Brad: So how risque are the boy/girl sets? (Now you’ve started asking questions, Brad?After you’ve already offered yourself?)
When I started to tell them about the licking and touching, they all blushed. (Awww, can we see that?)
PG: What is your favorite part of a women's body?
Rich: Her chest. (That explains Jennifer Love Huge-tits…)
Brad: Besides her face?
PG: If that's it for you then...
Rich: That's so not PLAYGIRL!!! (Thank you, boob man!)
Brad: ...her ass. I don't care if a girl doesn't have big tits, but she needs to
have back. (Did he just say “tits”?)
PG: What is it that you can't live without?
Brad: Girls' asses. (Yeah, we’ve established that already…someone has a one-track mind!)
Rich: Girls, music, obviously my family first, performing, and my phone. (If family is so important, why did you say girls first? Is your “mind in the gutter”?!)
Devin: Girls, Internet, food...(Okay, why do I get the feeling they switched answers for the guys…Devin can’t live without the Internet????)
PG: "In my bedroom you'll find..."
Devin: A bed, a girl, handcuffs...(That’s a pretty empty bedroom…and what exactly do you do with the handcuffs?)
PG: Where is your favorite place to have sex? (Oh God…now this is really going down hill!)
Rich: Anywhere. (Rich just wants some action, ladies!)
Devin: On the stairs. (Don’t you worry about rug burn??)
Rich: The stairs, dude?
Brad: No shit, I've been there. That's dope. (Couldn’t he at least go with orgasmic? Ya had to use the word “dope”, didn’t ya, Brad?)
Devin: Yeah, it gives you angles for your knees. (Yeah, we didn’t need an explanation/visual, thanks.)
Brad: I like all different positions on the bed. (That narrows it down. Thanks for being specific, Brad.)
Rich: No, mine is on the kitchen sink. No, the bathroom sink. Yeah, I've been there before. (Okay, the SINK? Just don’t fall in! ;) We’re thinking it’s safer on the kitchen counter…or as Shaggy suggests, you can bang on the bathroom floor! BTW, Remind us never to eat in Rich’s kitchen!)
Brad: Or the shower. (Devin agreed)
(So basically…as long as they’re getting some…it’s all good!)
PG: _____ is sexy. _____ is sexier.
Brad: No panties is sexy. Barely there panties are sexier. (Okay, if you’re wearing barely there undies…why wear any at all?)
Devin: A big booty is sexy...bigger is sexier. (So you’re like Brad…the ass man)
Rich: Girls who are not brunettes are sexy, but brunettes are sexier. I love
girls with brown hair. (Again, this explains JLH.)
PG: Good girls_____. Bad girls_____.
Rich: Good girls are for marriage. Bad girls are good to hang out with a lot. (And exactly what do you do with them?)
Brad: Good girls can be bad, bad girls... (We can be very, very bad…*wink, wink*)
Rich: can't be good.
Devin: Good girls pretend. Bad girls get to the point.
Rich: Someone told me once that guys are dogs and girls are cats-they just cover up their shit. They probably do as much, maybe more bad stuff. They just cover it up. (Well…we’ll agree with the fact that we can talk just as bad as he can…we just put on the halo and make like we’re angels!
PG: Good boys____. Bad boys____.
Brad: Good boys will eventually turn bad. Bad boys were once good. (Were you ever good, or have you always been bad?)
Rich: Good boys want sex. Bad boys want sex. (Do you just like saying “sex”?)
Devin: Good boys are bad boys, bad boys are good boys. We're all the same.
Rich: I don't think there's any difference. Some people go for what they
want, others stay reserved. Everyone has the same urges. (There he goes using big words again!)
PG: Are you a good boy or bad boy?
Devin: Bad. (Prove it!)
Rich: I'm a bad boy in disguise as a good boy. (So that frisky, boy-next-door type isn’t really you?)
Brad: I'm not even in disguise.
Rich: He's a good boy, he's a really good boy. (And you know this how?)
Brad: So when are we going to set up a Dream Lovers pictorial? (Yeah, when? We’d like to see the pictures!!!)
INTERVIEW #2
What follows is a transcript of an interview that aired the week of the release of "Life is Good" It aired on 6/28/01 on Metro Channel out of NYC. We're not too sure of how many people saw it, since it was aired at an ungodly hour of the morning on a NYC area cable channel. We didn't even know it was on...Steph happened to be flipping channels before work and caught it and taped it! **NOTE: Just because it's been asked of us lots recently...To clarify: This is a REAL INTERVIEW! and we do have it on video... :)
FYI: Michael Musto who's a writer for the Village Voice is the interviewer. (Not that you or I care who he is...but if you saw the interview, you'd know he was a bit "unusual") AND REMEMBER...anything you see in italics is our commentary! Enjoy and laugh your butts off!
Michael Musto (MM): LFO,the male trio formed in '96, sprung to fame singing about those summer girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch. Now the group, who consists of Rich Cronin, Brad Fischetti, and Devin Lima, is back with a well dressed CD (oh yeah, they are looking fine and well dressed!) called "Life is Good" and life definitely is good and it certainly is... (Huh? What?)
***Rich is sitting with arms crossed, slouched on the couch. When MM says "Welcome!" Rich finally perks up and says "How you doing?"
MM: What does LFO stand for? (How many times has this question been asked of them?) I assumed it was "Low Flying Objects" or "Linda Fiorentino's Ovaries"... (Who the f*ck is THAT? and Why the f*ck are we talking about her ovaries 2 minutes into the interview?)
Brad (B): That's it
MM: Am I warm? (Ummm...sure...you're so close)
***Devin and Rich are sitting there like "Who the heck are you, dude? You're sooo not funny!"
Rich (R): It's the second one.
Devin (D) : Larry, Frank, and Oscar! (Dev, you've said this in how many interviews now? You've given no explanation for your joke, so WTF, buddy?)
MM : Now you guys were formed more ORGANICALLY than a lot of bands. That sounds like arugala or something. (Huh? Isn't that a kind of lettuce? So we're talking about LFO as organically grown produce? Ok....whatev...) A lot of other bands were formed cookie cutter style, like Frankenstein style by some mastermind. (Lou P.=Frankenstein? Sounds correct to us!) But, you guys actually like each other, right?
R:We love each other. We're best friends. We're like brothers. We fight like brothers. We get along like brothers. It's cool, but you know we came together on our own. There was no audition. It was NOTHING like that. We've always written our own songs. We've never done anything but in an organic manner. (Now Rich is on the produce aisle...great...) I mean, everything's come up like that. You know, we do our own thing.
MM: You're not really part of that boy band genre. (Rich shakes his head "No") But do you think that's oversaturated? I mean, it seems to me like the Backstreet Boys are just going through the paces at this point, I mean, maybe I'm reading too many teen magazines. (If you could see this guy, it would frighten you to know he reads teen magazines) It seems like they're a little tired. They need to put it on the back burner.
R: We definitely have been lumped in as a boy group. I mean, when most people think of LFO, they say "Oh, well, they're one of those boy groups". But I think if people would look a little deeper into it, you know, they'd see we really don't have too much in common with them. Yeah, we write pop songs, you know what I mean, but again, the way we came together, the way we sing, the fact that we write all of our songs. Everything we've done is SO NOT THAT. (Its like that and that's the way it is??? And you're SO NOT WHAT? We're lost!) But, we still get lumped into THAT. (Again? Huh? You're so not what?)
***Ok, it's 7 minutes into the interview and is it official that Rich has taken over and talked for 12 years yet? Collectively, Brad and Devin have said a total of 6 words and have laughed. AND...Brad hasn't been able to sit still. Antsy much, Brad?
MM: You must be babe magnets, though, are you swatting people off left and right? (Is this Wayne's World with the use of the words "babe magnet"? And the fans are insects that are being swatted away? Mr. Musto is not gaining points here!)
B: No
R: No, No, No! I wish! (Well, we'll help you out!)
***Devin laughs (Does this imply he's getting some and no one esle is?)
MM: (dead serious) How many of you slept with Jennifer Love Hewitt?
R: Ohhhhhhh!
MM: Raise your hands
***Devin is still laughing
MM: Show of hands
***Brad looks away, Rich is fidgeting and looking very uncomfortable. Devin is STILL laughing. (Devin, please, clue us in! WHAT is so funny?)
R: (under his breath) NO.... (and he's looking quite pissy)
MM: They're raising their hands, but to hit me. Do you read the gossip columns? Do you keep up with dirty gossip about celebrities? Cause I do, I write it.
R: Yeah, absolutely. It's fun. It's interesting... (Alot of it's about Jennifer Love Hewitt and all her men...)
MM: What's with the Lou Pearlman guy? He creates all these boy bands. Then, they turn around and dump him. Backstreet, Nsync, O-Town...
B: It's a lot deeper than just one statement. It's a history of time with him. Lou had a lot of money and was willing to put money behind groups. That's basically why people were working with him. But when push comes to shove, certain contractual things weren't right; personal things weren't right. There comes a time when things need to be fair and that's the bottom line. It's not like people thought, I'm just using this guy, you know, it's just a matter of making sure life is fair for everybody.
***They flash Brad's name under him while he's talking. It says "Brad Fishetti". (So now he's Brad FISH-etti? Great...BUT, BRAD FINALLY SPEAKS! HOLY CRAP!) Devin is STILL laughing. (Dev, what is soooo darn funny?)
MM: So, Devin, (FINALLY! A question directed towards him, because he hasn't spoken at all yet.) had you had dealings with this guy; did you find him a little shady?
D: I came late into it; they already did their thing. I came just like everyone else. He gave me the opportunity to look at things. I was never close, like, "Hey, Lou, hey." I just went along with it. I never really got to know him like everyone else knew him, you know?
R: I met him, I met Dev... ( Devin cuts Rich off before he finishes his statement.)
D: ...that felt their, their, their, ordeals and pain, like, "Oh, man, this guy is doing this."
MM: I met him and he seemed nice. I expected this creepy guy, like maybe he was diff... ( Once again, Devin cuts off someone as they're speaking. Okay, so he's finally talking and now you can't shut him up!)
D: Like that, in that point, he's nice, he is!
B: He's fun to hang out with. If you want to go out to dinner and a movie, there's nobody better to hang out with than him, you know? But, business-wise, there were certain things that needed to be fixed and we fixed them.
MM: Are you all rolling in money now? I mean, you have a new hit CD, you must be just...
R: No. It's not a hit CD yet, you know, it just came out yesterday. But, you know, we worked on it for a year; we really put our hearts into it. We wrote 60 songs, cut it down to 15 and, umm, we hope for the best. But ummm... ( Basically, go buy the CD, ummm, yeah, request it on TRL...you know?)
MM: Do you wear Abercrombie and Fitch(A&F)?
R: No. ( Devin is still laughing. WTF is soooo funny? We know this Michael Musto guy's a little strange and his shirt is a little scary, but come ON!)
B: We like it on girls. We DID like it on girls.
R: 3 YEARS AGO.
B: 3 YEARS AGO. ( He even echoes Rich in interviews!)
R: And it made sense...
B: And there's still a time when you see a girl...
MM: So you like it off girls?
R: YEAH! ( He's sitting there, looking at Brad answering the question, then when MM asked the question, he perks up and like, yells. What a perv!)
B: Looks pretty good on the floor too. Whatever works!
D: It's awesome. ( Awesome? Umm, yeah.)
R: Looks better on the floor.
MM: You guys are so vulgar. ( You're just realizing this now? The girl on the stripper pole in the EOT video confirmed it for us. )
R: We're bad. ( Wanna prove it? )
MM: Are you aware that the A&F catalog, speaking of vulgar, is considered pornography in the Mid West?
R: Sure.
MM: I mean, I have twelve copies, but...
B: I bought it the other day.
R: He bought it the other day. ( Now Rich is echoing Brad?)
B: What happened to it anyway?
R: I got it, I got your copy.
B: Alright, cool.
R: We picked it up the other day. It's good. (Haven't we already established that you bought it the other day. You even repeated what Brad said!)
B: Six bucks, not bad.
R: Not bad; it isn't. (Devin starts to laugh. Does this surprise anyone?)
MM: You read the articles, right?
R: No, I don't think he reads ANY of the articles. (His eyes are all wide as if, I KNOW Brad isn't reading the articles.)
B: There's a lot of reading in the catalog. I don't know if you noticed that, but there's lots of stories and stuff that I've never read. (So, wait, you're admitting that you're not reading it for the articles? So basically you want it for the half naked chicks.)
MM: I never noticed that. (We know what your twelve copies are for then!)
R: The last time they, um, had a catalog, the one before this one, they had a big party to launch it.
D: Oh, that's right.
R: And we went to it. That party was crazy and they gave the catalog out. I was never really aware of the catalog, so when I got home I opened it up and it was, it was REALLY dirty...
D: I never expected it.
R: ...in the best way possible. I loved it.
MM: Yeah, like, how can I get some more of this?
B: (On his soapbox) They're trying...you know, a lot of younger kids wear their clothes, especially after Summer Girls came out, but their thinking is "Oh no, we don't market to young kids." It's almost like they don't want young kid wearing their clothes, so they are going out of their way to alienate these kids by putting out these catalogues like they are, but in reality, they should grasp the whole audience because, you know, if you come to an LFO show in 1999, and even today, 80 percent of the girls have Abercrombie and Fitch on. (That was one big run on sentence, Brad, but well said!)
R: The only reason we even said that in the song, like the song wasn't about that. The song was a song I wrote for me and my friends. I never even meant to release it. It was like, ya know, a senior blurb in a yearbook where you write things that are inside and only you get. Well, I wrote that song as our senior blurb that only we would get and it got into the right hands. The record company never released it. It just blew up on its own in DC and then...
MM: Yeah, organically, like you said... (Produce and arugala again??)
R: Exactly (My question is does Rich even understand the organic metaphor? Cause, YA KNOW, UMMM...we'd be confused....)
MM: But shouldn't A and F call you and give you a cut of the profits? I mean, you've done so much in promoting them...
R: We certainly have, but you know, that was never our intention. We wrote a song...it became popular and we happened to mention their name in it. I mean, by all rights, they could've sued us for using their name, so at least they didn't do that...(What are you giving A and F ideas for?? Genius we tell ya!)
MM: I don't think so. I think they owe you money.
R: They probably, maybe they owe, they don't owe us money... (CONFUSING MUCH? Make up your mind, Rich!)
MM: Wrapping up now...but how is this new cd a step forward for you? Is it an act of growth? (No, they're reverting, idiot....And we're finally covering the new cd now that we are wrapping up! Fabulous!)
D:We had time to feel it out.(Can we feel you out?) The first album, the single by itself just blew up. We're like OHHH!! scrambled people giving us songs to do. After the tour ended in September, we had all until now to just do songs, to put ourselves into it cause we had a lot of time.
R: It was a difference of having a year to write an album. The first album we had a month so...(GO BUY IT!)
MM: Good luck with it! It's called "Life is Good"...TLC...Oh, LFO (That was an extremely lame joke!)....Linda Fiorentino's Ovaries, right?
***Devin starts laughing, apparently he's the only one who gets it....
R: Yeah, that's the one...
B: Right, exactly...
MM: Thank you
R: Thank you
MM: Thanks, guys
D: Thank you
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