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" Mayday Parade paid a visit to Seventeen to dish about their current tour, music tastes, crushes, quirks and more! 17: So you&amp;#039;re on the Take Action Tour now? MDP: Yeah, it&amp;#039;s a ton of fun. It&amp;#039;s us, We the Kings, A Rocket to the Moon, There for Tomorrow, Call the Cops, and Stereo Skyline. 17: And how long is this going on? MDP: Through the beginning of March, we&amp;#039;ve been on a little over a week now. It&amp;#039;s a great tour because it donates money to Driving for Donors, which is for people with Bone Marrow Cancer and Leukemia. 17: What is your favorite part of working together? MDP: Playing shows every night with these guys is the most fun thing. It doesn&amp;#039;t feel like work, we&amp;#039;re all brothers now. We rag on each other and have fun. It&amp;#039;s fun just to be with your friends and travel, and always have someone to hang out with. 17: Let&amp;#039;s do some superlatives! Who do you guys think is the funniest in the band? MDP: We all have our moments. I think we all think we&amp;#039;re funnier than we are. 17: What about most energetic? MDP: Brooks is onstage, but Jake works out. Jeremy climbs trees in the summertime. He&amp;#039;s the funniest and the most energetic. 17: What do you guys do for fun? MDP: Call of Duty. The videogame. Derek is definitely the best. 17: Who&amp;#039;s the smartest? MDP: Alex. He&amp;#039;s a history guru. 17: What are some of your music influences, and what kinds of music do you listen to on the road? MDP: We love the band The Dangerous Summer that we just got off of tour with, I think we&amp;#039;re all really into them. We&amp;#039;ve all just started listening to A Rocket to the Moon on this tour, and we like their stuff a lot. One song that has changed the way I think about writing songs now is the new Black Eyed Peas song, &amp;quot;I Gotta Feeling.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m trying to write stuff like that: simple, easy, and instantly catchy and stuck in your head. It&amp;#039;s a really good song. We also like Lady Gaga&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Bad Romance.&amp;quot; We have a lot of respect for Lady Gaga. She has interesting fashion sense, but it&amp;#039;s all her. You can tell that she&amp;#039;s just extremely creative in all sorts of ways.  17: What about relationship statuses? Are you guys dating anyone? MDP: Derek is the only single one. Brooks has recently gotten into a relationship, and the rest of us three have been in long-term relationships. 17: Would you ever date a fan? MDP: It depends a lot on what &amp;#039;a fan&amp;#039; really means. I really enjoy meeting girls that aren&amp;#039;t big fans, because it gets hard to know whether or not they like me, or if they like Mayday Parade. 17: So what about pre-date rituals, anything you guys do to get pumped up before a date? MDP: Just a good shave, a good shower. Stare in the mirror for an hour or so, try out different expressions... 17: Do you guys get nervous at all before a big first date? MDP: It&amp;#039;s nerve-wracking when you&amp;#039;re trying to decide where to eat and neither of you really wants to make a decision. I&amp;#039;ve heard that on the first date, it&amp;#039;s best to keep in mind what you&amp;#039;re eating so that it&amp;#039;s not too messy. You don&amp;#039;t want to get Buffalo wings on a first date. I think something romantic to do is to go for a walk with a girl. Maybe grab some coffee at a caf\u00E9 on the way. Another fun thing to do with a girl is to take her to a game, maybe hockey or basketball. You can talk while you&amp;#039;re watching it and enjoy the atmosphere. Check out more May Day Parade! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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