It is a heat summer time evening. You’ve managed to attain a coveted ticket to the Jonas Brothers live performance, the place you’re singing on the high of your lungs about scorching temperatures, outselling Kelly Clarkson and getting bitten by the love bug. Perhaps you’ve purchased some JoBros merch too. A tote bag. A “JB” dad hat. A graphic tee with the bros smoldering on the digital camera.
The fangirl in you has been unleashed in a manner that solely a trio of brothers from New Jersey might unleash it. It looks like 2008 once more, solely it isn’t. It is August 2025.
Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers kicked off their JONAS20: Greetings From Your Hometown tour on Aug. 10. In simply six reveals, they’ve already served up what can solely be described as a millennial dream come true. Along with performing their earlier hits, the brothers have already invited a handful of bands and artists who had been widespread within the aughts to affix them onstage as shock friends at every tour cease. Aughts-era pop-rock bands Boys Like Ladies and the All-American Rejects had been additionally tapped as opening acts for choose dates.
Demi Lovato, maybe probably the most notable visitor to date, was greeted by ear-shattering shrieks from millennial followers when she strutted onto the MetLife Stadium stage on the opening evening of the tour. Lovato carried out two Camp Rock-era duets, “This Is Me” and “I Wouldn’t Change a Factor” with Joe, whom she dated in 2010.
For Lovato, who struggled with sobriety and her psychological well being on the peak of her Disney stardom, taking the stage with the brothers was a “therapeutic” expertise.
“It was so therapeutic for me too,” she mentioned on the Chicks within the Workplace podcast final week. “You realize, we’ve been via a lot collectively, all of us, the Jonas Brothers and I.”
The “Quick” pop star wasn’t the one nostalgia-inducing visitor that evening — Jesse McCartney serenaded millennials along with his Disney hit “Lovely Soul,” and Switchfoot carried out their 2003 music “Meant to Stay,” together with the JoBro observe “Maintain On.” The entire Jonas household — mother Denise Jonas, dad Kevin Jonas Sr., brother Franklin Jonas, Kevin’s spouse, Danielle, and their daughters, Valentina and Alena — additionally took the stage to sing “When You Look Me within the Eyes” to emotionally shut out the primary present of the tour.
Two days later, on Aug. 12, the boys descended upon Bristow, Va., the place they introduced out pop-punk phenoms All Time Low to carry out their 2007 single “Expensive Maria, Rely Me In.” For his or her Camden, N.J., present on Aug. 14, the Jonas Brothers tapped the Click on 5, the band they really opened for 20 years in the past, to rock out to their 2005 hit “Simply the Woman” onstage. Hanson, a fellow iconic trio of singing brothers, performed a rendition of their music “MMMBop” with Nick, Joe and Kevin throughout their Virginia Seaside tour cease on Aug. 15.
Sunday evening’s present in Hershey, Pa., was stuffed with extra aughts-era greatness. Pulling on the heartstrings of millennial Warped Tour attendees in every single place, the brothers introduced out Cartel to carry out their 2005 single “Say Something (Else).” Rounding out the visitor appearances for the Aug. 17 present was none apart from Hoobastank, who carried out their 2003 ballad “The Cause.”
On Monday evening in Bethel, N.Y., Boys Like Ladies made their debut as a Greetings From Your Hometown tour opener. The pop-punk band performed a number of tracks from their 2006 and 2009 albums, together with “The Nice Escape,” “Hero/Heroine” and “Two Is Higher Than One.”
Troves of millennial followers have flocked to social media to gush about all of the nostalgic appearances to date.
One fan commented on a TikTok video, “It’s like Joe goes via my outdated iPod,” whereas one other wrote, “I concern an enormous portion of the crowds are going to be too younger to understand these friends. So good for us 30-something’s lol.” Added yet one more fan, “Switchfoot and now Cartel??? I didn’t acknowledge your recreation Jonas Bros.”
The Greetings From Your Hometown tour hits completely different for these of us who grew up with the Jonas Brothers. It’s a celebration of our childhood — of the music that dominated our iTunes libraries and soundtracked our adolescence. Millennials, it appears, are in settlement: There’s consolation in understanding that these bands and artists are nonetheless right here and nonetheless right down to rock out with us in any case this time.
