Fannish Chatter for the All-American Rejects

Tyson posts photo of himself, ahem, choking his chicken on twitter...

2014-07-26T22:07:06Z

Show me YOUR air chicken. pic.twitter.com/pio9V1SWzv
— Tyson Ritter (@tysonritter) July 26, 2014

O_O

2014-04-27T19:41:00Z

Has anyone noticed anything about Chris, lately?

Anything at all?

Like the fact he may or may not be auditioning for the remake of Tangled at some point? Good goddamn, in all the best ways!

So, I'll just leave this here...

2014-01-20T23:50:27Z

It's 2014, we're back and we're awesome...

Fic: Get Your Game Face On, bandom, Nick/Tyson pre-slash, PG-13

2013-08-28T21:01:34Z

Title: Get Your Game Face On
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Swearing? None, really.
Pairing: Nick/Tyson, pre-slash
Word Count: 4475
Disclaimer: NONE OF THIS IS REAL, I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE AND I AM A LYING LIAR WHO LIES. YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW.

Summary: AU. Tyson's about to model for the first time and isn't too sure how he feels about it. Nick's the make-up artist who cheers him up.

A/N: Well, this was unexpected; it started off as a ficlet for xaritomene, because she was having a terrible day and wanted 'Nick being sweet to Tyson'. I obliged. It grew. I'm sorry.

Crossposted to my own journal, xari_xryso_fic and bandslashmania.

Get Your Game Face On

Will wedding bells feature in their next album?

2013-04-04T21:33:12Z

Congratulations to all concerned! I'll be... over here. Hiding anything and everything I've ever written to save the poor lady from trauma should she happen to get over-friendly with Google before the wedding...

Question. Tyson is a certified priest. Will he be marrying himself?

How much ice-cream has Nick consumed since hearing about this? ~~My tinhat is appropriately extra-shiny~~

AAR and... Taylor Swift?

2013-03-25T01:07:12Z

OK, so this is old news, guys, because we've been terrible at updating and keeping on top of shit. (Because AAR haven't been touring in the UK, I have naturally been thrown into a pit of despair, and spent the last six months lying in bed being TERRIBLY DEPRESSED. Trufax.)

Anyway, quite a while ago, this happened:

xrysomou and I are in a dispute (read: she's less obsessive than me about this) as to whether this is a good song, but I really enjoyed their version of it! Possibly, I have a faintly Pavlovian angst-o-meter response to Tyson singing "One day I'll be big enough that you can't hit me", but that's my own issue. (The picture on that ain't great, but the audio's just fine, jsyk.)

Yeah, so, according to various uncorroborated internet articles, Tyson and T-Swizzle were a thing.

"Taylor Swift really likes dating musicians! Not only has the country cutie gotten her claws into Harry Styles, Joe Jonas, and John Mayer, she allegedly dated the All American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter. Taylor, 23, and Tyson, 28, reportedly began dating in December 2011, but, like the rest of her relationships, it ended up in the toilet. Apparently Taylor scared Tyson off because she was too intense, which is exactly what ended her romance with Harry." (source)

Which, you know, they're both consenting adults and what they do is their business, and it's sad that it didn't work out for them (and equally sad, of course, that people like me have nothing better to do than write lj posts about it). And at the same time - what?! I don't know whether to hope that this is total bollocks or whether to laugh my arse off - both are looking like tempting options. Then again, of course, very little publicity is bad publicity, so yay Tyson? (On a side-note, that article is hilarious for not being able to decide whose side they're on. Also, "gotten her claws into"? Really? C'mon guys, that's just catty. (If you'll pardon the pun...))

The most pressing question, of course, is... if this is true, how much stick did he get from the rest of his band about it? :D

Apparently, Tyson was of the opinion that Taylor Swift's song, "I Knew You Were Trouble", is about him, which makes it infinitely funnier. It's a good song, though - or at least, I think so, though I live with my brother, so I'm very used to hearing that my taste in music is for shit. Check it out:

(This is her performing it at the Brit awards, because the video has a whole load of extraneous nonsense in it. Also, of course, the video is only here because it might be about Tyson - this is not a Taylor Swift comm! (Though, yes, I like her stuff. Sue me. :D))

So, thoughts?

Sources for this story can be found here and here, as well as the article linked above, but none of them say much more than the first one.

pokes

2013-03-23T11:25:31Z

I need a hug. This year is weird, FOB finally admit they are back together, MCR is breaking up, but you know what we need, stat?

MORE MUSIC AND A UK/WORLDWIDE TOUR!! Come on Ty, shake a leg Nick, wake up Chris, Mike stop grinning and start moving, we need an injection of AAR honey, pronto!

*ahem*

Okay, I'll go back to the housework now...

Art

2012-12-04T20:34:22Z

There are no words. Really.

(very very very very late) Halloween Sketches!

2012-11-06T09:56:21Z

So, this is extremely late, partly because of writers block, and partly cause I spent a week dying of the PLAGUE (Or more accurately, dying because my body is a delicate flower). But either way, ta da~!

AAR Halloween Sketches!

Also, tags aren't working, so I'll come back later and fix that

Fic, Glorious Fic! Dead Man's Bones (Promises to Keep) - Nick/Ty, R

2012-10-31T15:27:11Z

Title: Dead Man's Bones (Promises to Keep)
Authors: xrysomou and xaritomene
Rating: R
Warnings: Dream-depiction of murder, creepiness, abuse of Robert Frost poems
Pairings: Nick/Tyson
Word Count: 11906 ("Just a short one," they said. "Done by next week," they said. Argh.)
Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the people in this fic. Nor do we actually think they're fucking. (Shame.)

Summary: Between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year... In the woods, there is a cabin. But that's not the only thing waiting there.

Dead Man's Bones (Promises to Keep) - on AO3

PS - The AAR Halloween Challenge Community is up on AO3! If you have an account and want to post your work there, do consider posting it to the challenge community. If you type "AAR" into the "Post to Collections/Challenges" bar on AO3, we should come up. Alternately, create your fic, then go to the Challenge page and click "Post to Collection". Hope to see you there! WE'RE LIKE A GROWN-UP COMM AND EVERYTHING! (Even if I did have to get the support of a poor hardworking AO3 tech to work out how to actually create a comm. ¬_¬ Perhaps I should say THE REST OF YOU ARE LIKE A GROWN-UP COMM AND EVERYTHING! I'll be over here in the corner wishing I was old enough to drink like the adults. :D)

THIS IS HALLOWEEN!

2012-10-31T11:22:02Z

Today's the day, guys! Get posting if you feel like it, don't post if you don't - and have fun!

Anyone got any plans for this evening? Mine were going to involve a bar and probably green shots, but now I'm sick, I think I'm confined to the sofa with a cup of tea and Nightmare Before Christmas. And that's not a bad thing at all! Happy Halloween, everyone!

Picture came from here

Another Reminder!

2012-10-28T18:27:55Z

Well, guys and dolls, today is the 28th and we have THREE DAYS left until posting time begins! Don't worry if your masterpiece won't be done in time for Halloween itself - you have the entire week following Halloween to post it on this here site. So, until the 7th November (not that we'll FORBID you from posting after that, either!).

:D Who's excited? :D :D I'm excited! :D

Halloweeeen!

2012-10-16T23:29:57Z

Friends, ficcers, lj-ers, lend me your ears! For it is two weeks, give or take a day, til Halloween and there is FIC to be done.

Or art. Or a mix. Or anything, really. A mash-up of Tyson doing scary interpretive dance (or, as Tyson calls it, "dancing"). A zombie!Chris cake. Vampire!Nick rendered in embroidery silks on a cushion. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE AWESOME. But they are due in two weeks, on the 31st of October, the scariest of days of the year.

As a quick aside, who among us who is planning to write fic/draw has an AO3 account, and would they be interested in posting it there, then linking to LJ rather than posting it on LJ? Because we could create an AO3 Halloween Challenge category there (I think), if people were interested, and have them archived there. Anyone have any thoughts or feelings on this?

Anyway, yes! TWO WEEKS, MY FRIENDS. TWO WEEKS!

It's their Birthday!

2012-10-16T11:20:43Z

So, according to our boys on Twitter, ~~yesterday~~ today is AAR's 10th BIRTHDAY!

I think we all know what this means! Party time!

Cake, anyone?

Don't they all look young?

Aaand now back to the Third Reich and Degenerate Art for me! (It's not as interesting as it sounds, trust me.)

Too funny

2012-10-14T10:37:58Z

Incidentally, if anyone knows how to do stills from video feeds, there's a couple of moments in this clip that are really, really icon worthy. You'll see which ones...

Interview - but not with Tyson!

2012-10-04T20:41:26Z

Ooooo Mike and Chris interview!

http://www.mydallasmusic.com/interviews.php?page=allamericanrejects100312

Partial transcript below the cut.

When The All-American Rejects came through Dallas on their tour with Boys Like Girls and The Ready Set, Mike Kennerty (guitar, 32 years old) and Chris Gaylor (drums, 33 years old) sat down with me in the House of Blues’ Foundation Room for an interview about everything from their evolution as a band to how social media has changed the music industry.

The All-American Rejects also gave My Dallas Music the opportunity to reveal a new version of “Heartbeat Slowing Down”. While this is neither single nor an actual remix, this little “hint” from the band takes the song in question to a pleasantly surprising place.

While the album version of “Heartbeat Slowing Down” was reminiscent of the 90s ballads I grew up loving and listening to, the band added some serious punch to the flatline mix that turns the song into something you can both dance to and identify with emotionally. Many of the more danceable/upbeat songs out today lack the all-important emotional pull that makes music truly memorable and resonant, but The All-American Rejects achieved the perfect combination of sentimentality and dancability with this new twist on a not-so old favorite.

Below is a sneak peek of the interview. Click on the embedded content above to hear the interview and the song in their entirety.

Kristen Reed: I’ve listened to your music for about ten years now, and I’ve noticed that you have evolved as musicians without losing your authenticity or straying from a good sound. How have you managed to do that over the years?

Mike Kennerty: I think it’s just following ourselves as we’ve grown. I think a lot of bands paint themselves into a corner and feel like they have to play a certain genre or a certain style, and we’ve always kind of done whatever we feel like. We’ve also taken a lot of time between albums, which I think allows us time to grow as musicians and find ourselves in a different place when it comes time to make a new record. We let the songs dictate where the songs are going to go and don’t try to force them into a style.

Kristen: So you just mentioned something about how you take a while between records. Do you feel like bands are putting out records too quickly these days?

Mike: I think they are bands that fall into that… like they feel the need to capitalize on some success that they have at that moment, so [they try to] shove out a record as quick as they can and hopefully ride that tail.

Chris: It usually affects the quality and the kind of sound, and they just make the same record over and over. [They’ll follow what they did before like] “Well it worked the first time so let’s do it the same way this time”.

Mike: Yeah, we’ve always felt that a good song will rise above, so we’ve taken our time and knock on wood it’s worked so far for us.

Kristen: How important do you think image is when it comes to being successful in the music industry?

Mike: Well, if you look at us, not very.

Chris: Yeah, we’re four different dudes, I would say. We definitely don’t have a spearheaded image.

Mike: Yeah, it’s funny. It’s kind of our crutch in that you ask pretty much anybody and they’ll know our songs, but a lot of people can’t tell you who sings them or they don’t realize that all of those songs are us. We’ve seen it happen with a lot of bands around us that have a very pointed image and the kids really latch onto it and you see their audience looks like them, and it works really well, but then I think how long can that last? It’s always sort of a fad. The kid will eventually grow out of it and want to dress differently. I don’t know… It’s very effective and important and it definitely helps things. I think we’re sort of proof that you can not have that and it still works, but that’s all we’ve really cared about is the songs. We’re not cool.

Chris: We started playing a lot of music because we weren’t cool, so we weren’t hanging out at, you know, the keg parties and stuff like that. We’d rather be playing music on the weekends.

Hallowe'en Challenge Checkpoint!

2012-10-02T12:55:20Z

Well, hello! We're now into October and I'm posting a Hallowe'en Challenge reminder and sanctuary page!

How's everyone doing? Everyone still alive? Do you have any burning questions to ask the rest of the comm? Any fic problems or writers' block you want to talk through? Want to test your terrifying fic on the rest of us? Jam it all in the comments!

So, yes. Today is October 2nd, and Hallowe'en Challenge will be going live on October 31st!

I AM RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Pumpkins and falling leaves and Hallowe'en - man, I love autumn.

oh well lookie here!

2012-09-12T23:54:38Z

Hello my lovelies! It's been a bit quiet around here - in my defence, I was in Russia. xaritomene has no such excuse - so we've decided to brighten things up around here and introduce the new school year by scaring the pants off ourselves.

That's right, ladies (and gentlemen? Any gentlemen out there? ... Tyson?), we present to you:

THE GREAT HALLOWE'EN CHALLENGE!

We are aware that the last time we tried this, bugger-all happened (we are also to blame for this... we sort of forgot...). SO. There will be once-fortnightly reminders and hopeful prodding. Not to mention NO PARAMETERS OF ANY KIND! You can post whatever you like! Whenever you like (within a week either side of Hallowe'en)! Just remember to tag it, okay?

Yes! Whether you want Tyson dressing up as a ghost and going trick-or-treating while pretending he's not twenty-eight, or AAR vs the Zombie Apocalypse, or Nick the Littlest Mummy or the classic haunted house, go for it!

Get your ficcing hats on, ladies (and gentlemen/man?)! It's gonna be SPOOKY.

I'm never saying that again.

Updated Fic- Let's Fall To Pieces Together Ch.3

2012-08-23T07:59:28Z

Title: Let's Fall To Pieces Together Ch.3

Author: net04

Rating: R

Warnings: Sex
Disclaimer: (i.e. None of this is true and I am in no way affiliated with those mentioned here.)

Summary: Nick Wheeler's one night stand transforms into something more.
Authors Note: Here's the next installment of the LFTPT story. And just a reminder comments and reactions are always welcomed.So with that enjoy! :)

Chapter Three

Fic- Let's Fall To Pieces Together

2012-08-20T07:46:52Z

Title: Let's Fall To Pieces Together

Author: net04

Rating: R

Warnings: Sex!
Disclaimer: (i.e. None of this is true and I am in no way affiliated with those mentioned here.)

Summary: Nick Wheeler's one night stand transforms into something more.
Authors Note: Hey! So the community has quieted down a little for a few months and i have been extremely busy until summer hit me so now i bring to you all lovely aar fans a fic from me that i've been working on. Please if you could let me know what you think that would help me a bunch! thanks enjoy!

Chapter One

Chapter Two

You know it's time to go to bed when...

2012-07-22T09:02:40Z

It's midnight, you've been reading Avengers fanfic pretty much all day, and you misread the following tweet...

I thought Nick was rating the Batman's asses. *facepalm* As if he would do that on twitter.

Tyson on the other hand...

Just to make up for my insanity, have some bonus Tyson tongue and a confused or just plain scared Mike!

aar_capslock @ 2012-07-10T22:48:00

2012-07-10T20:49:20Z

hey hey hey!

Was just wondering if anyone goes to the concert in Munich next Sunday?
Just thinking about getting a ticket and going on my own because obviously the people I know IRL are all idiots.
Would be awesome to meet up in case anyone is going :)

Concert Report

2012-06-11T15:43:59Z

I saw AAR when they were opening for Blink-182 at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday.

You can find a report, pictures and videos here at my journal.

Enjoy! :D

Just popping in to say for your regularly scheduled dose of Chris :D

2012-05-26T17:16:32Z

*sigh* Isn't he lovely?

Round Up Post

2012-04-25T19:49:15Z

Hallooooo, my crazy little AAR-caps pals! I have been sucked into a round of work and Pottermore (evil site - THIRTY FIVE MINUTES UNTIL MY POTION IS BREWED, I need a hobby), but AAR is never far from my mind, because I'm a creeper that way. And as a ~~creeper~~ fan, it behooves me to search out EVERY VIDEO AND ARTICLE EVER.

And now I bring them to you.

Because I'm an enabler like that. :D

This one, to start you off nice and slow (like a GATEWAY DRUG, amwahah), is the Track-by-Track start-off (I assume?) for 'Kids in the Street', otherwise known as "that one where Chris talks and Nick calls Tyson 'Ty' and my heart 'sploded".

Tyson singing something to a deeply unimpressed crew. Well, alright then. (also, be warned, scariest Goblin cackle ever. :S)

(This one isn't working in preview, so here is the direct link to the scary awesome.)

In which Tyson is utterly gracious and doesn't rub it in at all that Nick has turned thirty. Nu-uh. Not one bit.

In which Tyson proves that sanity is for the weak, and him and Chris make out.

~~Nearly.~~

In which Tyson freaks out the citizens of Toronto. Everyone has to have a hobby of some kind, I suppose.

TWENTY-ONE MINUTES UNTIL POTION-READINESS, PEOPLE.

In which Tyson proves there ain't no mountain high enough (or something like that), and, more worryingly, that he has accomplices in his insanity.

ARTICLES

At some point, someone in their label clearly realised that Mike is a) the sweetest member of this band and b) the most coherent, so he's been wheeled out to do a fair few interviews by himself. As the only member of the band who isn't certifiably crazy (Tyson), liable to make interviewers cry (Nick) or liable to sit there in determined, freezing silence (Chris), Mike is an excellent choice for interviews, as these two show.

Or: EEEEEEEEE MIKE.

Interview with Shauna O'Donnell. No, I don't know who she is either, but the interview is sweet.

The Music-Moxie Interview the All-American Rejects

This interview is with Mike (eeeee!!) but comes with the prettiest picture of all the members I have seen in a loooong while. In fact, I share it here for your delectation and delight:

(Warning: It's a screen-eater. AND A HEART-EATER.)

YOU SEE.

ANYWAY, here is an article with just Nick and the interviewer seems to escape with her self-esteem intact! It's marvellous.

A Talk with Nick Wheeler of the All-American Rejects

It is also adorable, and Nick talks about basically saving Tyson from himself, all the while calling him Ty, so my heart is now a little puddle of melted goo. :D

All of that being said, there is a definite Tyson slant here, so SHARE, PEOPLE, SHARE. Videos, articles, etc... :D

Also, I have to ask: WHERE IS THE FIC!?