The All-American Rejects - Kids in the Street
For me, the All-American Rejects are walking around the beach listening to 'The Last Song' and 'Swing Swing' on my first iPod. Their whole teenage powerpop thing never wholly translated this side of the Atlantic in the same way that, say, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars or My Chemical Romance did. Stateside, though, they've only grown and grown in pop success - culminating in the #4 Billboard position for Gives You Hell from their 2009 album, When the World Comes Down . Working this time around with Greg Wells - the man who produced Katy Perry's career-high Waking Up in Vegas , OneRepublic's Apologize and Mika's 2007 debut album Life in Cartoon Motion , it'll be interesting to see how their forray into the popworld goes (at least musically, since statistically they've charted quite disappointingly - singles-wise at least). Let's face it, with a face (and body... *contains myself* ) like Tyson Ritter's, the band are going to con...