Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato see bright Future on joint tour
Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato are best friends, business partners and newly minted tourmates. So of course they know exactly how to drive each other up the wall.
"I'm a big sports fan and Demi will pretend to know about sports, and then you actually try to start a conversation and she just doesn't," says Jonas, 23. "Although, now it's getting better because she's really into (UFC) fighting, so we can have deep conversations about that."
"Nick, you can be bad at texting back," says Lovato, 23. "But you've been a lot better about it lately."
Luckily for Lovato, her pal will soon just be a dressing room away, as the pop stars embark on the Honda Civic Tour: Future Now in Atlanta on Wednesday. The joint trek will stop in 42 cities across North America, including New York, Chicago and Houston, before wrapping in Los Angeles Sept. 17. (The duo canceled its two North Carolina shows, in protest of the state's controversial HB2 "bathroom bill.")
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The ex-Disney Channel stars last hit the road together in fall 2010, when Jonas was one-third of teen heartthrob band The Jonas Brothers with siblings Joe and Kevin. Lovato, then 18, supported her Camp Rock castmates on tour, but left that November for rehab, where she sought treatment for issues stemming from bulimia and addiction. Although they've played shows and recorded together since, the notion of a co-headlining tour didn't come until last year, shortly after the launch of their label Safehouse Records.
The idea, Jonas explains, is that "it's a continuous night of music: going in and out of the different sets and trying to build a dynamic show that showcases different things for both of us." Pulling primarily from Lovato's fifth album Confident, released in October, and Jonas' third solo effort Last Year Was Complicated, the loose set lists will feature both solos and duets. "The great thing about this show is that we can really play around," Jonas says. "If there's a song that I love of Demi's that I might want to jump up and just play on, that's a possibility."
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Traveling from city to city, the duo plans to catch up on some of their favorite shows: Jonas, with Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley; Lovato, with Thrones and The Walking Dead. They'll also have a studio on the bus so they can work on new music. Lovato, particularly, says she has already rehearsed what will likely be the first single off her next album, which she may unveil on tour.
The singer, who recently teamed with Brad Paisley on the sultry duet Without a Fight, says "this new sound is definitely sexier. It's more adult and there's also some songs on my album that have more of a country influence. We'll see where it goes — you never really know until it's finished."