Kings of Leon reflect on their road to success as they kick off new tour

Kings of Leon dropped their ninth album, "Can We Please Have Fun," earlier this year and are hitting the road again with a newfound energy.

Kings of Leon, who exploded onto the music scene in 2008 with songs like “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire,” are back with a fresh new sound and a newfound energy.

The rock group, which dropped their ninth album “Can We Please Have Fun” in May, has garnered significant buzz and climbed the Billboard charts again thanks to songs like “Mustang.”

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“I will say I’ve never felt this good in my life. And I feel like all of us could say that this is the best we’ve ever felt as a band,” lead singer Caleb Followill told NBC News in an exclusive interview from their studio in Nashville, Tennessee. “After success... it just feels like you’re trying to kind of match something or meet people’s expectations. With this album, I feel like we just kind of shed all that and just wanted to make something that excited us and us alone. As selfish as that sounds.”

But the group says that their latest album title isn’t ironic.

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