Joe Jonas, professional heartthrob and occasional singer, is no stranger to fan madness. After all, when you’ve been famous for nearly two decades, you collect wild stories like Pokémon cards – the rare ones, not the energy cards nobody wants. While out promoting his new track, “Thick Of It All” (because apparently, he’s thick of it all?), Joe decided to spill the tea on one of the most bizarre fan encounters of his career. Grab your popcorn – this one’s a doozy.
“So, picture it,” Joe begins dramatically, probably wearing sunglasses indoors because, well, celebrity life. “We were in Chile – years ago. I walk into my hotel room, right? Tired, beat from travel. The kind of tired where you start questioning your life choices, like, ‘Why did I become a Jonas Brother? Why not a professional napper?’”
Anyway, there he is, dragging himself onto the couch when dun dun dunnnn – the curtain moves. Now, in a normal world, this could be the air conditioning, maybe a ghost, but we’re talking Jonas World™️, where fan antics are weirder than any poltergeist.
“I sat down, thinking, ‘Eh, it’s probably just the AC,’” Joe recalls, clearly having watched too many horror movies where the main character does something reckless. But nope. Instead of Casper, a full-blown human fan launches from behind the curtain like she’s Spider-Man.
“She just pops out, and I’m sitting there like, ‘Uh…what’s happening?!’” Joe says, with the kind of casual shock you’d expect from someone who’s seen it all – but, you know, not this. And of course, who does Joe call? Not Ghostbusters, but Big Rob – the legendary bodyguard who moonlights as a musical collaborator, because why not?
“Big Rob swoops in, handles it like the pro he is,” Joe continues, probably thinking, “Why don’t more bodyguards double as rappers?” The fan, as it turns out, had some sort of connection to the hotel – her mom worked there or something, which explains the stealthy infiltration, but still doesn’t make it any less bizarre.
And what does Joe think about all this? “Crazy stuff like that happens all the time, but I love my fans,” he says, ever the diplomat. Sure, Joe – we’d love anyone who surprised us from behind a curtain in a foreign country. Totally.
In non-curtain-popping news, Joe’s been busy dropping new tunes. He recently released “Work It Out”, his first solo single in over a decade, because apparently Music For People Who Believe In Love (out in October) is the theme of his next phase. So, while fans might be popping out from curtains, Joe’s popping out new bops. And that’s something we can all support.