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Be careful about putting the word "rejects" in your rock band; people might take the name seriously.
That's especially true if you give an interview that includes joking about women having no "sense of rationality and direction." That's how singer Tyson Ritter of the band All-American Rejects characterizes how he thinks "like a woman" while writing songs.
In addition, the band seems to have disdain for the music of Coldplay, about whom Ritter says: "it's the same beat on every song with that band."
The discourse reaches a high/low mark when Ritter asks bandmate Chris Gaylor:
"You know why you're gay?"
"You like Coldplay," responds the drummer.
The band is touring the UK in the wake of the success of their single, "Dirty Little Secret," which uses material from the popular website Postsecret.com, where real people send in confessions on decorated postcards.
It's too soon to tell what the fanbase for All-American Rejects will eventually be, but they may have an uphill battle wooing women. Or Coldplay fans.
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Dirty Little Secret is the song which uses postcards from postsecret.com in the video.
I love love love the All-American Rejects!!! I'm a woman and these guys won me over a long time ago. I'm not offended by their comments and in fact I think that Coldplay is a pretentious and overrated band. The woman comment is iffy but they're my boys so...way to go Tyson and Chris.
well i personally LOVE AAR (all american rejects) while i think coldplay does have a few good song and respect them as musician i do believe they re use thier own material which can be very wearing and exhausting! I do think there is nothing strange,or exceptionally bias in his statement about women. he is just simply stating that while writting he has to look through a differant perspective. it would be the same as stating that when i drive i act like a man because i will never ask for directions.
and as for him using a joke from the 40 year old virgin...hmm well he probably liked that movie and was too busy making platnium albums to crank one of his own jokes out there (besided it was very fitting for his eariler statment!) and like u have never used a joke from a movie! GET REAL! GET OVER IT!
they were just being funny, who cares what they said? i'm sure there was no deeper meaning
Hmmm... It's the mark of a successful band, secure in their own musical ability that DOESN'T have to slag off other bands.
AAR saying Coldplay is "gay" is like Lohan saying Paris is "ugly" or vice versa. Classless, unoriginal and boring.
All American Rejects, I reject you!
Errr... the quote about women is Jack Nicholson's answer in "As good as it gets" when asked a similar question... and as the other comment says, the Coldplay joke is from "The 40 year old virgin". They're quoting movies and being silly. Jesus.
HAHA.. AAR ROCK!!!
Tyler is so funny. This is out of context really if you don't know his personality cause he's kind of wacky.
Whats The big deal... Its a quote from a movie. They were just kidding around, they are always like that it spices the interviews up. They were never comparing The All-American Rejects and Coldplay anyway!! Take a freaking chill pill!
The All-American Rejects are forever in my book of Favorites..
AAR>Coldplay
Oh my god....seriously...everyone needs to calm down. If anyone was actually paying attention, the way tyson and chris were saying 'you know why you're gay' or whatever from the 40 year old virgin...the tone in their voice made it OBVIOUS they were quoting the movie and kidding around...thats just how there band is. But Coldplay actually does use basically the same sound every song. And when he supposedly made that "innappropriate" comment about women..he said 'no, im kidding, im kidding.'. so everyone needs to calm down and try to have a LITTLE sense of humor... and Tyson is actually an extremely HOT guy.
AAR all the way baby!
