The Fray Shares Insight Into Having Landon Barker Join Them on Tour

“We weren’t very active on TikTok,” he explained. “And I had friends come up to me and be like, ‘Did you see that Landon Barker’s singing and dancing to your song?’ Then TikTok was about to shut down and I was like, ‘I’ll just post a video in my bathroom cause it’s going to go away.’ Posted that and then it just became this sort of synergy and created even more of a collaborative spirit between the three of us.”

“Again, can’t script that stuff,” he added. “Like I don’t know the best things in life come from left field and as far as like the TikTok world that was certainly left field for us.”

Another thing that came out of left field? The younger generation of fans who are connecting with the How to Save a Life album—now RIAA-certified 5X Platinum—two decades after its release. After all, the title track’s legacy lives on as one of the most devastating Grey’s Anatomy musical moments.

“It’s incredible,” Joe said. “Those first couple records, we were wrestling with a lot of questions in life. A lot of why, a lot of how and we still don’t have the answers to those questions.”

"This younger generation, those questions are still relevant," he added. "Those questions are still real and they’re asking the same thing.”

“There’s a human story in that,” he added. “I mean it’s incredible to see. People cover our songs and attach their life and their story to it and then they post it, and then we see it, it just feels new. Songs take on new meaning with people’s stories.”

The band is set to tell some new stories of their own with the release of their upcoming album A Light That Waits on March 13 and are eager to see the reaction from their day one fans.

“That’s the thing, you never know what fans will respond to and if anything,” Joe—who became the lead singer 2022 after Isaac Slade stepped away from the spotlight—said. “That’s what I’m most excited about, is these songs, where they will go in their lives. In this sky we have. It’s again, like the fact that we have more to say and we’re doing this is a dream.”

Indeed, Joe, Ben and Dave aren’t letting 20 years together go over their heads as they embark on their latest chapter.

“If you would have told us that we’d be in this point in life 20 years later,” Joe told E! News. “Putting out new music. That’s the dream that we get to continue to do this and play all over the world. It’s beyond what we would have wanted.”