YMMV / The Jonas Brothers

• Awesome Music:
  • "World War III"
  • "Shelf"
  • Their cover of "Poor Unfortunate Souls".
  • "Heart and Soul" from Camp Rock 2. Say what you want about the group or the movie, you will love that song.
  • 'Live to Party'
  • 'That's the Way We Roll'
  • 'Hold On'
  • Their cover of 'Year 3000' is still pretty good.
  • 'Play My Music'
  • 'Live to Party'
  • "Sucker"
• Broken Base: Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas' solo projects. Some love Joe's solo album Fastlife, while others hate it, the same for Nick Jonas And The Administration's Who I Am.
  • And when Nick and Joe cover each other's songs, there will, inevitably, be fights that break out over whether or not the brother covering it is doing it better than the original.
  • Lines, Vines And Trying Times qualifies. Fandom's pretty evenly split on whether to love it or hate it, since it's something of a departure from their previous straight-up pop rock sound.
  • And a new one: With Joe and Nick using Precision F Strikes during the reunion era, the fandom's pretty divided as to whether it just doesn't bug them, or whether it sounds cheap and is just an attempt by the band to get people to see they've "grown up".
  • Their single "Pom Poms" has already turned into this. There seems to be three camps about it: 1. They hate the lyrics (and the [leaked] music video) and miss their old sound, circa "A Little Bit Longer". 2. They like both and see no problems with it. And 3. the group who think it's over-hyped and doesn't live up to it.
    • "Pom Poms" is even a base-breaker critically. There's some who think it's a great pop song that's meant to be fun, and then there's some who hate it and claim it lacks depth.
  • Whether their cover of Busted's 'Year 3000' is better or lesser than the original, or just works in its own right.
• Critical Dissonance: A given, considering that critics usually see them as a Boyband first, 'legitimate musicians' second.
• Covered Up: Their "clean" version of "Year 3000" is better known than the original version in America (the All Music reviews of their albums seem to think they wrote it).
• Fanon Discontinuity: Lines, Vines And Trying Times, since it's divisive, and some fans prefer to pretend it (and the brothers' respective solo careers) never happened.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Saying they wrote 'Year 3000' or that it's better than the original Busted version will get most Busted fans mad at you, who either disagree or are salty that the JB version is more widely known than the original.
• Fan Nickname: Frankie is often called the "Bonus Jonas".
• Fridge Horror: With "Wedding Bells", which all but outright states that the singer got drunk upon hearing the news, as well as the line "if I fall asleep, then wake me up cause I'm trying to see the light", which carries the implications of suicidal thoughts. (And, like "Black Keys" and "A Little Bit Longer", Nick wrote "Wedding Bells" on his own.)
• Friendly Fandoms: Surprisingly friendly with the 30 Seconds to Mars fanbase. The Jonas Brothers reunion show at Radio City Music Hall was aired live on Mars' online music pay-per-view event service, VyRT. This made them the first band besides 30 Seconds to Mars themselves to stream a concert with the service. The Mars fanbase, the Echelon, took time on the VyRT site and other social networks to answer questions about the service, help overseas fans figure out what time the stream would be airing, and explain to the parents of Jonas fans that, yes, their credit card info WILL be safe if they pay for the ticket. Most Jonas Brothers fans appreciated the help. Of course, there was the occasional Flame War and some Echelon members were merely assisting Jonas Brothers fans because the financial and critical success of the Radio City show stream would benefit VyRT and Mars in the long run.
• Funny Moments: "Oh, how the tables have turned." And Joe dancing to "Single Ladies".
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "Hold On". Definitely.
  When you love someone
  And they break your heart
  Don't give up on love
  Have faith, restart
  Just hold on
  Hold on
  Hold on
  Hold on
  • For a song like "What A Man Gotta Do" or "Sucker", you'd expect the boys would end up dancing with random models for the video. Instead, they dance with their real life wives, Danielle Jonas, Sophie Turner, and Priyanka Chopra, and it's clear just how much everyone involved loves each other.
• He Really Can Act: Nick Jonas played Marius in Les Misérables rather well.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • For the Busted fans who think the Jonas Brothers slighted them by not saying their version of 'Year 3000' is a cover of their song for so long, them bringing them up to perform the song with them at the Capital Summertime Ball 2019 may be this.
  • In the years since they regrouped, the band has gone out of their way multiple times to acknowledge Busted as the originators of 'Year 3000' after years of (admittedly on Kevin's part) not having done that & letting people assume they wrote the song. As Busted unfortunately crashed and burned trying to make it in America, them trying to get them some more international fans helps quell the Busted fans have with their cover being more widely known than the original. Joe and Nick guesting on the 2.0 guest feature rerecorded version of the song, with Nick even singing the original chorus lyrics "pretty fine" instead of "doin' fine" like he does the changed lyrics live in a pretty nice touch, is also very nice for those who lament the changed lyrics.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Video Girl" is about girls in music videos and how they aren't going to do it again. Following his break-up with Taylor Swift, Joe Jonas dated (and then split with) Camilla Belle, who was in the video for "Lovebug".
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: All three. Joe's been paired with his girlfriends, his brothers, any one of the other Disney stars, male or female. Nick's gotten the same treatment, and even Kevin's gotten in on it. (And one of the most popular pairings for Kevin is him and Zac Efron.)
• Memetic Mutation: "Burnin' Up" got into meme status through how the second verse was sung:
  Joe: high heels
  Nick: HIIIIIIGH HEEEELS
  Joe: red dress
  Nick: rEeEEeeeD dREeeeeSs
• Narm: Their covers of the two Busted songs they did back in 2006 have some really bad changed lines that don't hold up too well. While 'Year 3000' only has one with changing Michael Jackson to Kelly Clarkson, 'What I Go to School For' has some really bad line changes to tone down the sexuality of the song to be more family friendly from an, arguably, already narmy song.
• Spiritual Successor: Like the Hilary Duff example, many boy bands came out of them as their spiritual successors: Allstar Weekend, Big Time Rush, and most recently One Direction, among others. This applies the most to One Direction, as not only are they much bigger than Allstar Weekend and Big Time Rush (and probably the two combined), but they have also been experiencing even greater success than the Jonas Brothers did.
• Stuck in Their Shadow: Kevin is by far the least famous of the three brothers, due in part to him being the only one who doesn't sing lead.
• Tear Jerker: Their new song "Wedding Bells", penned by Nick about Miley Cyrus' engagement.
  I don't wanna love
  If it's not you
  No, I don't wanna hear the wedding bells prove
  That we can't try, one last time
  No, I don't wanna hear the wedding bells chime
  • "A Little Bit Longer", which was written about Nick's diabetes.
  • "Black Keys", which some have theorized is about self-harm.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Doubt anyone saw them singing McFly's song 'Star Girl' at one of their London concerts in 2009, but you'd probably floored if the band themselves came out to sing it with them, then it happened.
  • Ok, who in the hell saw them inviting Busted to this concert for Capital FM?
  • And who would've seen them being invited by Busted to guest on the guest feature version of 'Year 3000 2.0' in 2023 besides James Bourne?
• Vindicated by History: They were no doubt superstars when they came out, but the backlash from non-fan died down with they hype and many of them eventually realized that, even if they didn't like the songs, the boys were at least skilled musicians.

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