Hellogoodbye: "Would It Kill You" Era: 11/9

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23 weeks on the Billboard 200. Peaked at #13.

2/10/07 chart:

100 Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens!... 8,297 7,348 +13% 236,444

Their new single, Here (In Your Arms), is climbing the Hot 100.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

I reserved this at my local library

[George]

Perhaps they will sell GOLD after all...

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

This album had been available for like $9.99 in Hollister stores. I have heard some songs from the album and they're pretty good.

[reception]

HelloGoodbye Says 'Hello'
Feb 16, 2007 12:10PM EST

Forrest Kline, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the playful pop band HelloGoodbye, is back home in Orange County after doing shows in the U.K. and Japan, where Kline, who's a vegan, says is wasn't easy sticking to his strict diet of animal-free foods. "They don't eat as much tofu over [in Japan] as you are led to believe," he tells TeenPeople.com over the phone while on his way to pick up a smoothie of guava, pineapples, strawberries, bananas, sorbet, and ice. Sounds like an interesting and delicious concoction–sort of like his band's debut album, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, a collection of dance, new wave and sentimental pop tracks that bounce around about as much as the guys do on stage.

In addition to Kline, HelloGoodbye is made up of keyboardist Jesse Kurvink, bassist Marcus Cole and drummer Chris Profeta. The guys came together in Southern California and are signed to Drive Thru Records, where Kline once worked as an intern. Kline chatted with TeenPeople.com about about HelloGoodbye's highly original sound, their DIY esthetic and what it's like to see their single "Here (In Your Arms)" to be charting along side pop's heavy hitters like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce.

TeenPeople.com: Speaking of Beyonce, what's the deal with the cut outs of her on stage with you guys?
Forrest Kline: It wasn't a cut-out. She guest appeared! She's thin but she's not a cut-out. We're like friends.

TeenPeople: Is she your favorite member of Destiny's Child?
Forrest Kline: Definitely.

TeenPeople.com: What's your favorite Destiny's Child song?
Forrest Kline: I don't know.

TeenPeople.com: Seriously, what is the story? You've also used water guns, confetti and stuff like that.
Forrest Kline: We always just go and spend extravagant amounts of money on stupid things. We'd see some store and we would just buy a bunch of crap like that. We would just go and be very wasteful. It was kind of our thing–we like to keep it entertaining for us.

TeenPeople.com: Your shows are all very fun and random. How did you get started playing music?
Forrest Kline: I got a guitar in sixth grade for Christmas and I kind of messed around. I had a bunch of middle school and high school stupid bands in the talent shows. And then I didn't have a band for a while. But during that time I got a computer and started learning how to record things on it. It was horrible, horrible equipment.

TeenPeople.com: Do you know what programs you were using?
Forrest Kline: There was a program called Emtrack. I think it cost $30.00.

TeenPeople.com: That's funny. Were you always into electronic music?
Forrest Kline: I don't like straight up electronica really. I like pop music and stuff that has melodies and vocals as a format of a song. But I like using all that stuff and most of the bands I like are that kind of thing.

TeenPeople.com: Just how pop does it get on your current playlist?
Forrest Kline: I like a lot of things that may be considered guilty pleasures. I like a lot of cutesie, radio pop and Disney. I got the Radio Disney Jams 8 compilation and it is sick.

TeenPeople.com: What else?
HG: There's that song–I never know who they are though you know? I think it's like Paula something.

TeenPeople.com: Paula DeAnda?
Forrest Kline: Yea. That song is sweet. And I love Justin Timberlake. That's not really guilty though.

TeenPeople.com: How does it feel to be listed right alongside people like that on the Billboard Hot 100 chart? Does it surprise you?
Forrest Kline: Yeah, it does. Sometimes I feel out of place in the company that we are with. It's good–but it's just like 'Man! I'm not a top 40 star!'

TeenPeople.com: What was the inspiration for your 'Here (In Your Arms)' video?
Forrest Kline: It's crazy. There's a movie called White Hot American Summer that came out in 2001 and it's just a ridiculous comedy written by two comedians who did Stella for Comedy Central and they also did The State for MTV. We just completely ripped off that movie basically. Not entirely, but that's basically where it came from.

TeenPeople.com: You've played a really fun song called 'Touchdown Turnaround (Don't Give Up On Me)' at your Myspace show. What is that about?
Forrest Kline: It's about nothing. Most of the songs are about something but that one's not really about anything.

TeenPeople.com: Well, then the rest of the album, you've said, is like a soundtrack of to being your girlfriend?
Forrest Kline: Technically it would be.

TeenPeople.com: So who's your girlfriend?
Forrest Kline: Her name is Chelsea. I won't tell you her address.

TeenPeople.com: Have you been together a long time?
Forrest Kline: Three years in March, which is long for me. That's the longest I've ever had. Before that my record was nine months.

TeenPeople.com: She must love the album, no?
Forrest Kline: No. She never listens to us. She hates us.

[HolidayGuy]

I LOVE "Here in Your Arms"- I have it playing on my myspace page.

Is the album worth getting? I listened to samples at iTunes, but it's hard to judge some tracks just by 30 seconds.

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3/3/07 chart:

26 DTRU 103 98 95 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 11,295 +10% 10,296 270,429

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3/17/07 chart:

28 DTRU 95 80 77 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 10,481 -1% 10,617 291,527

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3/31/07:

99 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 7,891 307,526

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4/14/07 chart:

126 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 7,674 7,257 -05.4% 322,457 (no cert)

[roentgenizdat]

04/21: 126 124 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 8,841 21.8% 7,257 331,298
04/28: 124 121 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 7,000 -20.8% 8,841 338,298

[George]

Wow, they've sold more than a lot of other current artists (Ruben, Monica)...

[roentgenizdat]

05/05: 121 150 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 5,271 7,000 343,569

[Modern Myth]

This album is really good. I hope it continues to sell.

[roentgenizdat]

05/12: 150 177 HELLOGOODBYE ZOMBIES! ALIENS! VAMPIRES! DIN 4,533 -14 5,271 348,102

[roentgenizdat]

Dropped off the BB200.

[nitro]

They failed to have another hit after Here In Your Arms.... what single did they release after that? Hopefully they can get another hit soon.

[roentgenizdat]

Looks like "All Of Your Love" is the next single.

[George]

I wonder if they'll get a 2nd video.

[eljefro]

They rode Here In You Arms for AWHILE...this group kinda reminds me of the Plain White Tees and Gym Class Heroes...

[George]

3rd Single: "Baby, It's A Fact"
Video | www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5tQhUvFBs