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Eleventy Sevens

MEMBERS:

Matt Langston (vocals/guitars),
Caleb Satterfield (bass guitars),
Jonathon Stephens (drums).

Album:

In The Land of Fake Believe.

Release Date:

September 12, 2006.

You'll Like 'Em If You Like:

Relient K, Hawk Nelson, Blink-182.

Eleventyseven on eleventyseven in Five Words or Less:

Save the Unicorns.

What went through your mind the first time you saw yourself on MTV?
I was like, holy crap -- this is so weird! But whenever we see videos in places, it's weirder. I was shopping at a store with my girlfriend yesterday, and all of a sudden, our video and I was like, "Oh my gosh -- how embarrassing!" People were looking at me and looking back at the video, like "Is that the guy…?" It's cool and weird -- we enjoy it. It's more like we're watching the band eleventyseven on TV [than watching ourselves].

So tell us about the album. How would you describe it?
In The Land of Fake Believe was written when I was 15 to 18, [but] they're relevant to what we're doing now. Most of them are written from the standpoint of looking back at things I've done, how dumb everything is when it's happening right then, and how shortsighted you can be. We try to just make fun of a lot of stuff to get kids thinking and not take themselves too seriously. The songs on that record are encouraging [and] uplifting -- they're just good songs to roll down the windows and ride to.

One of the most noticeable tracks on the album is "MySpace." What made you write a song about that?
We had so many kids that were "friending" us on MySpace. There would be some kids e-mailing us on MySpace, like "Hey, we're coming to the show tonight!" We thought [some] were guys, and they would come to the show and they were all girls. It's totally weird. You can put up such a persona and image of yourself on MySpace when there's nothing there to back it up. [The song] was meant to get kids thinking -- there's got to be more to life than a profile to live up to.

Are you on MySpace yourself?
The band has the MySpace, and I check a lot of the band mail as much as I can to stay in contact with the fans we have and keep people updated with what's going on with the band. Jonathon and Caleb have their personal MySpaces, but I probably won't ever have a personal MySpace. I hate the impersonality of it. You can't develop relationships or a real community or real anything with people on MySpace because there's no anything -- you're not there [with them], you don't see their lives, and they don't see you.

What's in your land of fake believe?
Definitely unicorns. I would equate the land of fake believe to something like in Lord of the Rings -- it kind of looks a lot like that.

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