The path to their new album When the World Comes Down has been an interesting one. Going bush for inspiration, covering Britney and getting with strippers in little old NZ, we may not have head from the All American Rejects for a while, but they’ve been anything but boring...
Lead singer Tyson Ritter and guitarist Mike Kennerty battled through their hangovers from a raucous night partying in the Fall Out Boy headquarters, to catch me up.
What song are you most proud of on When the World Comes Down and why?
Mike: There are a lot of moments we can listen to and be like damn, that turned out f***ing cool.
Tyson: I think the one I’m most proud of is ‘Falling Apart’ sonically and our song ‘Wind Blows’, which is supposed to be our next single. That song I think, there was a crazy energy about it because some people were for it and some people were against the song. What came out of it was this moment of creativity and this energy, and crazy chemistry... It ended up turning into a song that is most special.
How effective was ‘going bush’ in kick starting the creativity?
Tyson: We were in a real new world; no cell phone service, no nothing and we wrote ‘Mona Lisa’ there, which is where the title of the record, When the World Comes Down, comes from. It’s a song about a love story in the apocalypse...Really interesting pieces of the record came out of Georgia, Georgia was definitely a honey spot for us.
How did the cover for Womanizer come about?
Tyson: Yahoo told us we had to do a contemporary cover or we won’t be able to get on the front page so we said, “OK, we’ll pick one. Let’s pick a song that was a good song but the person that paid for it...” So we picked ‘Womanizer’ because we thought the song was good, but it just needed a little spice.
Mike: It’s a pirate's song at it’s core.
What’s the most rock n’ roll moment from this tour?
O: I fell off the stage the first show.
Tyson: Me too.
Mike: And we read a review the other night of the show and they said our falling over made them question what we were on and we thought that was pretty rock n’ roll. I just made a dumb mistake and stepped where there was no where to step.
Tyson: I think my most rock n’ roll moment was last night hearing about the fact that there were three strippers on our floor with two of our boys...
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