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All-American Rejects
02/28/2003 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor
Young people offer us hope. That's what politicians say and they don't mean it. To them, young people are pests, upstarts likely to be after their job in too few years. Older musicians don't like young people either. They haven't paid their dues. They haven't woodshedded and learned what it means to suffer for their art. In some cases, it would be a great idea if young musicians suffered more before inflicting their music on the world. But then there are preening youngsters such as Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler who along with a sympathetic drum machine make up All American Rejects. Their pop hooks are the direct result of not knowing any better, of falling in love for the first time with a chord and a lyric that's been done a million times, but never quite like this. Comparisons to the Who, the Replacements, and other less flattering names probably don't even mean a thing to their audience, who only understand that "My Paper Heart" and "One More Sad Song" speak for them like no one before.
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