CINCINNATI — It's not every day your favorite band features you on their social media pages but it happened for one Cincinnati woman.
It all started in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic brought our world to a screeching stop. Morgan LaBarge took her daughter, Payton, to her first Jonas Brother concert.
"I was telling her that we had gotten tickets to Disney World and we had never been to Disney World before. So I was trying to film her reaction that, 'hey we're going to Disney.' And I said, 'so I got some tickets today' she got really excited and she's like 'to the Jonas Brothers concert?' and I said no and that's why I bought the tickets for her," Morgan LaBarge said.
LaBarge bought three tickets and asked her best friend, Alexa, to come along even though she's not a big Jonas Brothers fan.
"I actually ended up making us all matching T-shirts. So my daughters and mine said 'I heart the Jonas Brothers and I made her one saying 'I heart Morgan'."
While at the concert, Alexa captured a video of LaBarge and Payton when the brothers first took the stage. In the video, you can see LaBarge burnin' up with excitement.
"It was overwhelming for myself as well because, you know, you wait so long to see somebody live and somebody that you've been a super fan of for so many years and it's finally that moment, like 'oh my God' they're here in real life. It's just overwhelming joy, excitement."
Little did they know two years later this video would be the reason LaBarge would go viral.
The Jonas Brothers somehow saw the video and shared it on Instagram to their seven million followers. They also shared the video on Facebook and Twitter.
"I cried for hours. I'm not going to lie to you. I was at my daughter's softball practice and so I wasn't getting any notifications and then when I came home my phone was blowing up. I mean, I was getting Facebook DM's, Instagram DM's, TikTok DM's, like it was just, text messages. It was crazy!"
And to top it off the oldest "Jo Bro," Kevin, even "dueted" the video on TikTok with his wife, Danielle, and their two young daughters.
"And they tagged me in it which is crazy because, you know, you have the Jonas Brothers sliding into your DM's. It's like what on earth. So I mean it's just been crazy. It's been a blessing honestly. It's really cool to have somebody that you look up to really notice you that your video is funny. So it's just been really cool. I'm really thankful."
While LaBarge isn't hopeless she is head over heels in the moment and maybe in the year 3000 her great-great-great-granddaughter will see the video and love the Jonas Brothers too.