to the fold -- all during a global pandemic that has continuously forced the band to adjust all of their plans for the past 12 months.
, and held virtual meet and greets with fans. “It was an experiment in finding new, unusual and exciting ways to engage with our audience without being able to do what we do, which is be on the road, tour and play shows in front of people,” Gaskarth says. Simultaneously, their album’s stomping fourth single, about being unable to let go of a toxic relationship, was gathering steam -- even outside of their core fanbase.
Likewise, radio took to “Monsters.” Fans and critics proved receptive to the band's return to a more traditional pop-punk sound with, and by late summer the album’s fourth single was a bona fide radio hit, too. “Monsters”on the Sept. 19-dated ranking -- which, despite the band’s alt-rock-loving fanbase, was actually All Time Low’s first-ever hit on the chart.
"Monsters" was a confirmed alternative smash. But when iHeartMedia national programming group president Tom Poleman suggested to the band that they consider a new version of the song -- one that could cross it over to pop radio, too -- the band recalibrated once again and considered a second guest artist; someone who’d be more immediately familiar to pop radio audiences.
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