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Unless you've been hiding under a rock, don't know any tweenagers, or are allergic to the sound of high-pitched teenage girl squealing, you're well aware that the Jonas Brothers just dropped their third album, A Little Bit Longer. The squeaky clean trio from Wyckoff, New Jersey — Kevin, Joe, and Nick — are home-schooled Evangelical Christian sons of a pastor who have all pledged to abstain from premarital sex, as symbolized by their purity rings.

 
Oh, and they also don't drink, do drugs, or smoke. Combine that with their smash albums, videos, upcoming Disney Channel series, a planned 3D concert movie, and starring roles in Camp Rock, and the bushy eye-browed siblings are living the high life of a seemingly unstoppable brotherly force of pop power, without the high part, of course.

 
We, of course, wish them well, but if history is any indication, that bond can just as easily lead to bloody lips and bruised egos. And so, we offer the Jonas Brothers a few examples from other family acts of how things can go right, or, so, so wrong.

 
Bad Example: Kings Of Leon 
An incredible band also raised by a religious leader — their father used to be a United Pentecostal Church preacher — but no purity rings on the Followill brothers' fingers. Once they broke from the church, the profane won out over the sacred: alter egos that go by names like "Rooster," drugs, alcohol, disorderly conduct, and a groupie train that extends to the horizon.

 
Good Example: Nelson and Hanson
Sometimes, being wholesome and having great, lustrous hair can work, as it did (for a little while, anyway) for these sets of brothers, who both had big initial success and have continued to rock, without much tension, to much smaller audiences.

Bad Example: Oasis and The Black Crowes
The thing about having your younger brother in the band is that it always guarantees a kind of unspoken telepathy that you've had since childhood. It also ensures that every once in a while you're bound to beat the snot out of each other, maybe even onstage.

Stellar Example: The Osmonds
The diamond standard and, in JonasLand, probably the Beatles of wholesome pop. Just look at them, it's undeniable.

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