Kings of Leon song "Northcote (So Hungover)" as inspirational icons: "Riding around on the 86, so hungover / Gonna go down to Pony, pretend I'm in Kings of Leon", and depicted in the music video. Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill made a guest appearance in the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" episode "The High School Reunion" (season 7, episode 12). The episode mocks the Fox musical-comedy "Glee", which itself is set in a high school. The members of Kings of Leon dislike "Glee" and refused to let them use their music, and as fans of "Sunny", asked to make a guest appearance. Kings
Kings of Leon number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them. In an interview with "Billboard", however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, "We don't want to be Evan and Jaron. We're going to buy our little brother a bass, he's a freshman in high school. Caleb will teach himself the guitar, Matthew played guitar when he was 10 and I'll play the drums. They said, 'All right, we'll come down in one month and see you guys.'" Later in the interview Caleb admitted to the brothers "kidnapping"