10 Reasons Joe Jonas’ 'Shocking' Interview Was Actually The Most Adorable Thing Ever

People seem to be up in arms that Joe Jonas is not the purity ring wearing teen he once was. But really he's just the cutest almost-rebel pop star out there. Joe Jonas may beat out J. Law in adorableness with this Vulture/New York Magazine interview.

1. He was one of those kids who thought he was really alternative in middle school and now he can laugh about it as an adult. Can we listen to Green Day and laugh at our teenage-selves together, Joe? Please?

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"I preferred going to punk-rock shows in small venues in New Jersey, where we grew up, wearing my jean jacket and all my band pins."

2. Did you have Hall & Oates and Freddie Mercury pins on your super-cool jean jacket in middle school, Joe Jonas? If the answer is yes, you just killed me with CUTENESS!!!! **dies**

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"I made a solo album that never saw the light of day... the album was kind of Hall & Oates–y... had a Freddie Mercury vibe (he’s one of my biggest influences)."

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3. He got f**king water bottles thrown at him! Who would throw water bottles at a child!? It’s okay Joe, I’ll pet your adorable head while you cry.

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"We opened up for the Veronicas, who had a club crowd… It was always a struggle because every single night we were walking into hate. Sometimes people flipped us off, threw water bottles at us."

4. He knew the writing on his Disney Channel show was bad, and when it was over he was all like, “You don’t understand me! This is who I am now!!!”

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"The thing about the show was that some of the writing on it was terrible. It just ended up being some weird slapstick humor that only a 10-year-old would laugh at…I had to shave every day because they wanted me to pretend like I was 16 when I was 20 (when the show was done, I cut my hair off and grew as much of a beard as I could)."

And he can’t grow much of a beard, so BONUS CUTE POINTS FOR HIS BABY FACE!!!!

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5. A Good Housekeeping spread must be the famous-person equivalent to an awkward family Christmas card. Luckily it’s the adorable kind of embarrassing, and not the totally humiliating kind of embarrassing.

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"We even did a Good Housekeeping story with our mom where we were wearing these horrible pastels. It makes me cringe just to think about it."

...but this silver newsboy cap and straightened hair duo may tread that line.

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6. Remember when Joe Jonas was respectful of women even when he was a teenage heart-throb with RAGING HORMONES?!?!?! OMG STAAAAAPH. But don’t stop being respectful of women, you delightful man, you.

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"We were kids working with Disney, so finding a girl in our hotel room didn’t feel like an open invitation. This isn’t 1986, and I’m not in a hair-metal band."

7. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone talk about “everything but” since ninth grade. You had girls hiding in your hotel room and you didn’t lose it til you were 20?! You're cuter than a puppy, Joe. A FREAKIN. PUPPY.

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"We decided to take the rings off a few years ago. I lost my virginity when I was 20. I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20."

8. How much do I love that Joe Jonas’ most scandalous secret is falling down the stairs on his 21st birthday? SO MUCH.

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"My 21st birthday, I fell down a flight of stairs."

9. Also not scandalous: smoking weed when he was 18, with two Disney kids we already knew smoked weed. And he was like, "eh." NO F**KS GIVEN.

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"The first time I smoked weed was with Demi and Miley. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, “Try it! Try it!” so I gave it a shot, and it was all right."

10. You don’t hate all your ex-girlfriends, Joe Jonas?! Well, then you might be Jesus. You could have totally been a crazy person from that whole child-star thing, and instead you’re MATURE AND PERFECT.

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"I genuinely don’t have any resentment against any of my exes."