Singer Tyson Ritter and guitarist Nick Wheeler of the All-American Rejects are working on a follow-up to the band's platinum 2005 album Move Along.
Ritter told MTV:
We write hooky songs, so right now we're just looking for our tackle box. We've got some candy that'll give you cavities. All I do is cruise around, listening to oldies, to some good ol' Motown, so stuff like that is sort of shaping what we've been writing. And we're looking at a ballad we wrote for the last Gwen Stefani album that she didn't use. We might revisit that one.
He also said something else that actually made sense:
We're a rock band, so we gotta bring it. There's always songs about missing my girl. Plus a little bit of animosity towards the way things are today. I'm gonna be very firm and not shy away from what I wanna say. I think our last record brought us further along as songwriters, and the songs are coming along really nicely.
With the success of Move Along, the band hasn't had much free time over the past couple years. Ritter purchased a house 3 years ago and says he's just now getting around to hanging pictures. If this next album does well, it's going to be 2012 before he finally gets his cable hooked up.
