Interview with TITANIUM

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Yas Coe (1:00)

Guys, this is a very special podcast.

Harrison Keefe (1:03)

It's one of the biggest reunions in New Zealand music industry. We're with Titanium. Titanium, boys, welcome.

SPEAKER_5 (1:13)

Hello, how are we doing?

Yas Coe (1:14)

Half of Titanium.

SPEAKER_5 (1:15)

I think I was third.

Harrison Keefe (1:17)

Yeah. Andrew and Jordi. The best third? Yeah. Whee!

Andrew Papas (1:20)

For sure. Go on.

Harrison Keefe (1:22)

The only third day she remembered that it was a 20-year reunion today.

Jordi Webber (1:25)

No, well then that's one sixth because I didn't remember.

Harrison Keefe (1:28)

How long has it been?

2012? 2012? So what?

Jordi Webber (1:32)

Do the math.

Yas Coe (1:33)

Fourteen years, maybe?

Harrison Keefe (1:35)

Fourteen years. Fourteen years?

Andrew Papas (1:36)

Yeah. Let's go with that.

Harrison Keefe (1:37)

Crazy.

Yas Coe (1:38)

And for all the pals, well, first off, we have a lot of international pals that listen to our podcasts.

Harrison Keefe (1:44)

So give your best international greeting. Both of you, what would you like to say?

Great.

Andrew Papas (1:48)

Kia ora. How's it going? All the way over here from New Zealand.

Harrison Keefe (1:52)

That's nice. Beautiful. I like it.

Jordi Webber (1:53)

Bafelona. Hello.

Yas Coe (1:55)

Sisi. Titanium were a boy band that was actually created by The Edge. And you had multiple songs, but the one song that people probably will recognize.

Harrison Keefe (2:11)

Is that you, Andrew?

Andrew Papas (2:12)

I can already feel like I'm there, listening to it.

Yas Coe (2:16)

It's so good that it kicks into the chorus.

Harrison Keefe (2:25)

It's actually pretty crazy that the first song you guys released, it's like, it's an earworm.

SPEAKER_5 (2:30)

That's quite hard to do.

Yas Coe (2:31)

And now it is Platinum.

Andrew Papas (2:34)

Yeah. Well, the single, this single is double Platinum.

Harrison Keefe (2:37)

Double Platinum.

Andrew Papas (2:38)

So it went double Platinum.

But our album just recently blew up and went Platinum. So the album that we released, what, 13, 14 years ago, has gone Platinum, which is crazy.

Harrison Keefe (2:50)

For context for people, you guys are no longer a band, right?

Jordi Webber (2:53)

You're not making music.

Andrew Papas (2:55)

We're all doing different things now, hey?

Harrison Keefe (2:56)

Yeah. So this album was, how many years ago was this?

Andrew Papas (2:58)

It's like 14 years ago.

Harrison Keefe (2:59)

It's gone Platinum.

Andrew Papas (3:00)

Yeah.

Harrison Keefe (3:01)

What's the deal with that?

Jordi Webber (3:02)

Who's buying this?

Andrew Papas (3:03)

So I guess people are just out there listening to it, streaming it, buying it, because it's like, I don't know, I was listening to it again today, just to sort of like remind myself, and I was like, man, this songs on this album is really good. Like they are so good. I know I was like in the group, but listening back to it, you're like, man, these are actually good songs.

Yas Coe (3:20)

I think if you've had some separation from 14 years, and you come back and you still go, oh, this laps, then you have merit in saying that.

Andrew Papas (3:28)

Absolutely right, because so much time has passed.

Harrison Keefe (3:30)

I think people want to know, can we go way back, way back to the very beginning?

What made you guys want to be a part of this? How was the journey of being Titanium, getting into it? Let us know everything.

Jordi Webber (3:41)

Well, 1D at the time was popping off. So 1D was like massive. And then Edge were like, we want our own 1D, so it's more accessible for Kiwis. And then they ran this comp, and like hundreds of people over the country started kind of auditioning.

Harrison Keefe (3:54)

And you were both singers?

Jordi Webber (3:56)

No, Andrew was actually a pop singer.

Andrew Papas (3:58)