{"id":3949,"date":"2017-08-21T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2017-08-23T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:51:30","slug":"aly-ajs-photoshoot-for-playboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/aly-ajs-photoshoot-for-playboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly &#038; AJ \u2013 Playboy Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just gotten a few photos from the new photoshoot of <strong>Aly &#038; AJ<\/strong> for <strong>Playboy<\/strong>. The ladies look so gorgeous in these sunny photos. We have added <em>12 photos<\/em> to the gallery, and you can also check out the interview of <strong>Alyson<\/strong> and <strong>Amanda<\/strong> for <strong>Playboy<\/strong> by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/galleries\/aly-and-aj-profile\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p class=\"thumb\">\n<a href=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=560\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_0002~6.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_D3viRf6.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_orig_Aly-AJ_4w.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/thumb_orig_Aly-AJ_9w-1.jpg\"\/><\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> [<em>x012<\/em>] <a href=\"\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=560\">Photoshoots > #103 \u2013 Aly &#038; AJ for Playboy<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(80% - 2px); width:calc(80% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYEFUS6l4ww\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">\u041f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f \u043e\u0442 Playboy (@playboy)<\/a> <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-08-21T17:13:08+00:00\">\u0410\u0432\u0433 21 2017 \u0432 10:13 PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So, it\u2019s been three years since your last new music, which was under your then-name 78Violet. What\u2019s the journey been like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ<\/strong>: It\u2019s kind of interesting. I don\u2019t really count the three years as the journey from rehabilitating our music. For us, we\u2019ve made a record under a different band name. We were a little bit gun shy about going back to Aly and AJ and I just feel like we got past that. We released one single under that name, the song called \u201cHothouse,\u201d which still is close to my heart. I love the song, but it just doesn\u2019t represent who we are. I really look at this as a 10 year reunion to our music and just finding the passion again and the love for writing and for performing.<\/p>\n<p>And those three years between 78Violet and becoming Aly and AJ again definitely helped define our music, but I really think it has been this 10 year span just for me singing music under Aly and AJ that has been the most significant and it mattered the most, in regards to building a repertoire of music and just growing as adults and entering this industry again not as a teen or a tween, which last time we were really doing this we were really young. So, whole new perspective, fresh eyes, and hopefully the growth of who we are as people as well as what we do professionally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is your first record outside the Hollywood Records-Disney ecosystem. How do you think you\u2019ve grown or changed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ<\/strong>: Gosh, in a lot of ways. I think how can you not after 10 years? Aly\u2019s gotten married. We no longer live together. We\u2019ve made film. We produced it, we starred in it, we raised the money for it. I mean, we\u2019ve done a lot in a short amount of time that I look back on and go \u201cWow, for our age, we\u2019ve been really tenacious\u201d, you know? If we say we\u2019re set out to do something, we do it and the music was kind of the last hurrah.<\/p>\n<p>We were really kind of gun shy to get back into it. We just lost the love a little bit, you know, we had experienced so much as kids and I kind of feel like we learned a lot about the industry that put a little bit of a bad taste in our mouth, whether it was a couple of people we worked with or whether it was just trying to find the right inspiration or what have you. I just feel like we\u2019re back on track with who we are as musicians and I think we had found that as actors and as performers before we had found it as musicians again. So, this is the time that felt right and here we are. I just think we\u2019ve learned a ton in regards to relationships and just how we view the world and how we look at politics and religion and so many things that we wouldn\u2019t have talked about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALY<\/strong>: I think that\u2019s a really good point that AJ makes. I think that the largest change is just been, hopefully at this point, right, left, and wisdom really. And that now we have come to a place where we have more knowledge and in so many different things, not just in the music world, but in our own personal lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, you made reference to changing your attitudes about faith earlier and, obviously in the past, you\u2019ve been very open about your Christianity. I\u2019m wondering how your relationship to your religion has changed and what that\u2019s like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALY<\/strong>: I think that our relationship to our religion hasn\u2019t changed as in our beliefs. I think that, for us if anything, our minds have been opened by the people that have tried forward this generation in loving people for who they are. Within religion there\u2019s a lot of prejudice and I think AJ and I, thankfully, never ended up growing up around something like that, but we definitely saw friends that did, just because of the church that we went to and we always wanted to make sure that we weren\u2019t those types of people, that we could love people unconditionally and not judge them. I think that\u2019s the hardest thing about religion, is that people use religion as a way to judge other people, but I think that that kind of defeats the whole purpose, unfortunately, of loving your neighbor as you would yourself.<\/p>\n<p>So, I don\u2019t think our beliefs have necessarily changed, I just think that our love for people has grown and it\u2019s funny. We definitely are liberals. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obviously, you guys are appearing in Playboy, which has traditionally found itself at odds with the religious crowd at times. Is there any, sort of, squaring that you have to do with your faith there or is it all just like \u201cThis is my career and this is my personal life and they\u2019re separate\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ<\/strong>: Yeah, I think it\u2019s separate. I think that our personal life is our personal and our career is where we\u2019re going to be creative and make certain choices. I do think that we will be always held accountable for what we put out into the world and I think that that\u2019s just under the territory of being in the industry, but I do think we\u2019re adults. We\u2019re not 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALY<\/strong>: And were going to make choices in regards to how we want to dress in a video or we write a song or whatever it may be. So, I think that people can be really hard on people and I think that\u2019s when it starts to take things away from creating. And if you can let those things not affect you, then that\u2019s awesome, but I think a lot of times when you\u2019re a young artist, those comments really weigh on you. I think that they did a little bit when we were younger. I don\u2019t think that we got the backlash like some of the other Disney artists and just young childhood actors from the past, but we definitely felt that judgment for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys have been professional entertainers from a very young age. Is there some aspect of childhood you wished could have been different or something you feel like you missed?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AJ<\/strong>: You sort of question certain things like going to college, not being homeschooled during high school. I mean, a lot of times I just get over it. I mean, we\u2019ve been so lucky to grow up in an industry where it\u2019s like how many people are experiencing life on the road and being on a film set and traveling the world and getting to know great actors and mentors and learn about film and TV and the behind the scenes work of a crew and what it takes to make a film or a show. I mean, it\u2019s just I\u2019ve learned so much that I forget now to doubt what I haven\u2019t experienced and I\u2019m okay with that. I wouldn\u2019t trade the childhood we had because, A. It was normal to me, even though, in hindsight, it\u2019s not normal. It felt normal and I think we maintained a pretty normal healthy attitude towards what we did. And B. I just wouldn\u2019t trade it, the experience that we had and the growth we\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be the person I am today. So, not to say college isn\u2019t great. That would be an amazing experience and something I would actually like to re-visit, the idea of taking online courses or something, but we were blessed enough to know exactly what we wanted to do and our careers were able to just continue in a way that we never needed to take a break from our careers due to financial struggles or whatever. We were just able to maintain a steady career and work ethic. So, pretty lucky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/galleries\/aly-and-aj-profile\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just gotten a few photos from the new photoshoot of <strong>Aly &#038; AJ<\/strong> for <strong>Playboy<\/strong>. The ladies look so gorgeous in these sunny photos. 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