All About Foster the People
Birthdays!
Mark Foster was born on February 29, yes a leap year, make sure you don’t miss his birthday this year because it won’t come in another 4 years!
Cubbie Fink was born October 2nd
Mark Pontius was born January 3rd
Isom Innis was born January 7th
and there’s no info on Sean Cimino but I’ll update when I find out!
Mark Foster moved to Los Angeles at age 17, and he originally wanted to be a lawyer.
Cubbie and Ponsi were good friends of his, and Ponsi, after breaking with previous band Malbec, was ready to move to Australia, but Mark convinced him to stick it out with FTP and wait a while, and voila! They are still together.
The band was originally named Foster and the People, but after people misheard it as Foster the People, the name kind of stuck because it meant the band was taking care of the people.
They’ve been nominated for two Grammy’s right now!
As for the famous mango interview, there’s a vevo interview where Mark talks about his inspiration to track 8 on Torches, Life on the Nickel, and how he tried to give mango chicken to a hobo on the street, and the hobo went, “I dont like mango!” even though the food was barely touched. Just a funny story that us Foster Kids completely made a big deal of.
Foster Kids is obviously the name of the people in the fandom.
Mark Foster likes porcupines and rocks.
Mark Pontius loved The Notebook and cats.
Cubbie Fink is married to Rebecca James who is a famous Christian singer.
Cubbie used to be a missionary in Africa!
Tattoos:
Mark Foster has a tattoo of a shamrock on his shoulder, and both Ponsi and him share a Free Mago tattoo, which pertains to Sean Cimino’s bad luck and his nickname being the Guitar Wizard.
Pontius has a tattoo of his mom’s name Rudy on his arm, one of his favorite paintings under his biceps, an apple/ear thing on his waist, and a plaid duck on his butt that nobody’s seen yet ;)
Mark Foster’s favorite song on Torches is Houdini.
Extra Songs:
There are two extra songs featured on the Best Buy edition of Torches, which is the song Love and Chin Music for The Unsuspecting Hero. Two more songs are Downtown and Broken Jaw. Ruby was also leaked, and the boys have played it at some venues, and it’s a ballad about a middle aged woman trying to make it out. Ruby might feature on their next album, which as quoted by Ponsi, might be released by the end of 2012.
Famous Interviews:
Song Interpretations:
1. Helena Beat: Helena Beat is about the young pop culture that is all about drugs and wasting your life. How they could be doing something better instead they spend their life getting high and partying. It is named Helena after Mark’s ex-girlfriend Helena Reznor, who partied a lot.
2. Pumped Up Kicks: It’s about Mark digging into a head of a kid who’s been bullied his whole life, and what he wants to do to the world. Mark sings to bring awareness of gun violence among kids. And no, it isn’t about a school shooting.
3. Call It What You Want: Societal expectations and conforming to what everybody expects. Individualism, or you can just call it what you want.
4. Don’t Stop: It’s about 4 year olds ruling the world.
5. Waste: Based on a past relationship Mark Foster had, about unrequited love.
6. I Would Do Anything For You: This is just a sweet love song.
7. Houdini: About how Mark Foster, as a musician, sometimes wants to become Houdini and disappear, because you have to pour your heart out in front of the crowd, and if you don’t please the crowd, you just can’t disappear, you gotta give everything you got.
8. Life on The Nickel: Associated with the Mango interview, this song is about how poor people live in the most humblest situations yet still gamble and mess around.
9. Miss You: Again, a love song, probably unrequited love.
10. Warrant: Warrant is similar to call it what you want in a sense because Mark’s being conformed into something he doesn’t want to do, so he’s trying to get away from all the lies and cover ups of the person (or people) chasing him around and telling him what’s right and what’s wrong even though every individual needs to figure out their own rights and wrongs. (x)
11. Ruby: Ruby is a ballad about a middle aged woman trying to make it out in the real world.
EXTRAS!
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