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The Star
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter launches free OnlyFans account
Tyson Ritter says his OnlyFans followers can expect 'full-frontal rock and roll', though he kept what he meant by that deliberately vague. Photo: TNS All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter is planning to go 'full-frontal' on OnlyFans. The 41-year-old rocker shared the career update while promoting the band's latest singles. 'I'm starting an OnlyFans. And the All-American Rejects are behind me doing it,' he told GQ in a new interview. Ritter said his OnlyFans followers can expect 'full-frontal rock and roll,' though he kept what he meant by that deliberately vague. Subscriptions are currently free for exclusive content, though Ritter joked that he wouldn't be against charging '69 cents' just because he's 'cheeky.' The decision to launch an account on the platform, typically known for its sexual content, came after the band went viral for performing 12 surprise concerts over the course of 10 days at tiny venues across the country. 'I don't think anybody would have expected the All-American Rejects to make a ripple in the water ever again,' Ritter said about their recent resurgence. 'So the excitement behind this whole thing is like, Where else can we be disruptive?' Ritter said they've always been a band who's got 'a tongue bursting through the cheek,' so why not ride the wave with 'a little peen bursting through a zipper' on OnlyFans. The All-American Rejects was formed in Oklahoma in 1999 and reached peak popularity in the mid-to-late aughts with hits like Gives You Hell and Dirty Little Secret . Its last studio album, Kids In The Street, was released in 2012. Following an unofficial hiatus that began around 2020, the band announced its latest album this March. Its new songs Sandbox and Easy Come Easy Go were both released on Thursday. A 'dirty version' of the latter track is available on OnlyFans. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
All-American Rejects' Tyson Ritter planning to go ‘full-frontal' on OnlyFans
All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter is planning to go 'full-frontal' on OnlyFans. The 41-year-old rocker shared the career update while promoting the band's latest singles. 'I'm starting an OnlyFans. And the All-American Rejects are behind me doing it,' he told GQ in a new interview. Ritter said his OnlyFans followers can expect 'full-frontal rock and roll,' though he kept what he meant by that deliberately vague. Subscriptions are currently free for exclusive content, though Ritter joked that he wouldn't be against charging '69 cents' just because he's 'cheeky.' The decision to launch an account on the platform, typically known for its sexual content, came after the band went viral for performing 12 surprise concerts over the course of 10 days at tiny venues across the country. 'I don't think anybody would have expected the All-American Rejects to make a ripple in the water ever again,' Ritter said about their recent resurgence. 'So the excitement behind this whole thing is like, Where else can we be disruptive?' Ritter said they've always been a band who's got 'a tongue bursting through the cheek,' so why not ride the wave with 'a little peen bursting through a zipper' on OnlyFans. The All-American Rejects were formed in Oklahoma in 1999 and reached peak popularity in the mid-to-late aughts with hits like 'Gives You Hell' and 'Dirty Little Secret.' Their last studio album, 'Kids in the Street,' was released in 2012. Following an unofficial hiatus that began around 2020, the band announced their latest album this March. Their new songs 'Sandbox' and 'Easy Come Easy Go' were both released on Thursday. A 'dirty version' of the latter track is available on OnlyFans.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
2000s Rock Icon Makes Jaw-Dropping Career Move & Fans Are Here for It
2000s Rock Icon Makes Jaw-Dropping Career Move & Fans Are Here for It originally appeared on Parade. All-American Rejects frontman made a jaw-dropping career move by joining OnlyFans—and fans of the 2000s rock icon are here for it. On June 4, Ritter, 41, revealed the controversial update in an interview with GQ. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 "I'm starting an OnlyFans. And the All-American Rejects are behind me doing it, and it's really nice to be supported by my band in this wild adventure of 2025 for us," the "Dirty Little Secret" singer told the publication. Evidently, the decision came after the band went viral for its pop-up concerts—12 shows in 10 days—ahead of the release of their new album in 2026. "I don't think anybody would have expected the All-American Rejects to make a ripple in the water ever again," Ritter told GQ of their sudden reemergence. "And so the excitement behind this whole thing is like, Where else can we be disruptive?" Ritter added, "We've always been a band who's got a tongue bursting through the cheek when it comes to our music. So why not, you know, do a little peen bursting through a zipper?" In a June 5 TikTok video, the "Swing, Swing" singer joked about his OF decision, "Gotta pay for these house party shows somehow." In the comments of a GQ TikTok slideshow of Ritter's revealing photoshoot, All-American Rejects fans sounded off on his latest career move. One user declared, "My middle school inner child is screammiiinnnggg," as a second admitted, "Well my high school heart is freaking out right now. 😂." Someone else reacted, "A small step for Tyson Ritter. A giant step for straight womankind." Another joked, "A dirty little secret we didn't need." "👀I'm looking respectfully," a different TikTok user insisted. Meanwhile, yet another fan confessed, "Actually going feral over this." Next: 2000s Rock Icon Makes Jaw-Dropping Career Move & Fans Are Here for It first appeared on Parade on Jun 5, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 5, 2025, where it first appeared.
USA Today
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
All-American Rejects' frontman Tyson Ritter teases 'full-frontal' on OnlyFans
All-American Rejects' frontman Tyson Ritter teases 'full-frontal' on OnlyFans Show Caption Hide Caption Watch as All-American Rejects perform surprise show Less than 30 hours after the show was announced, hundreds attended the All-American Rejects' surprise show in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter wants to bare it all. The lead singer of the emo pop-rock band is starting an OnlyFans, he reveals. He's coy on the details, though, telling GQ in an interview published June 4 that fans can "expect full-frontal rock and roll with all access" on the risqué content site. "The All-American Rejects are behind me doing it, and it's really nice to be supported by my band in this wild adventure of 2025 for us," Ritter said, noting the band's viral house party shows and new album have put a battery in their back. "I don't think anybody would have expected the All-American Rejects to make a ripple in the water ever again." Ritter previously told USA TODAY that their house party tour – a string of impromptu concerts in everywhere from backyards to barns – started as a "rite of passage moment" shared with University of Southern California students. "It feels incredible and indescribable right now. It's from this hope to have something to say again as a band and present to an audience we didn't resonate with anywhere but radio and MTV," he said. "To be able to put out new music and find our footing as a band with this activation, I'm so beside myself with gratitude." All-American Rejects singer answers burning questions about those viral pop-up shows The momentum has inspired a unique way of getting more plugged in, with OnlyFans. "The excitement behind this whole thing is like, 'Where else can we be disruptive?' We've always been a band who's got a tongue bursting through the cheek when it comes to our music. So why not ..." he told GQ, making an explicit joke suggesting the page would include nudity. But Ritter doesn't actually suggest NSFW content would be included in his subscription; instead, he seems to be offering a way for All-American Rejects followers to connect with the band unfiltered and outside of traditional platforms, including concerts and social media. "It's a platform that is offering an experience where the artist can set the price, and it's artists-to-fans," Ritter told the outlet, highlighting OnlyFans' innocent start before explicit content took over. "There's no middleman, there's no subscription costs." As for Ritter's account, "maybe you'll pay 69 cents just because we're little cheeky cats." The band recently released "Sandbox" and "Easy Come, Easy Go," the first two singles from their first album in almost 14 years. They will tour more conventionally starting Aug. 10 as openers on the Jonas Brothers' stadium tour. The singer lamented the price of being a music fan today. "Some of these concerts are like $300, and then in order to get the closer experience, the tier system goes through the roof," Ritter said. "We're not trying to offer a VIP meet and greet that you just empty your account and max out a credit card. I heard some people have credit cards now just for their concert expenditures. Like, what ... ?" The frontman appeared dismayed by the state of hyper-commercialization in music. "When art becomes content, you are commodifying inspiration, and you are destroying our culture by not sincerely approaching your gift," he said. "All I can do, as the elder statesman, man, is just sit back and say, 'How can we scream in this vacuum for the kid in his garage?'" Contributing: Melissa Ruggieri
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The All-American Rejects Plan to Give More Hell: ‘We're Here to Be Disruptors'
The All-American Rejects don't put up with bullshit. So when they announced their new album and played it to a crowd of industry people in Los Angeles, it was too much inauthenticity to handle. 'We were like, 'Man, this is what everybody does, and I fucking hate that this is what everybody feels obligated to do,'' lead singer Tyson Ritter tells Rolling Stone. The next night, the band played a free show for a local college radio station at the University of Southern California, just a few blocks away from their last gig. It felt like a whole different world. 'It was feral, alive, and vibrant,' Ritter says, recalling the young, boisterous crowd. More from Rolling Stone All-American Rejects Won't Play When We Were Young, Blame Fest Management Don't Talk About Putting Your Fingers in Megan Fox's Mouth Around Machine Gun Kelly All-American Rejects Announce 2023 'Wet Hot All-American Summer' Tour That was early May. Since then, the All-American Rejects have tried to redefine live music with their DIY house party tour. The band put on impromptu live shows in six U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Midwest flyover stops like Ames, Iowa, and Columbia, Missouri, before wrapping the whole thing up in Nashville. They've made stages out of backyards, bowling alleys, and cornfields with videos of their system-defying speeches and raucous crowds going viral. In just a couple of weeks, the All-American Rejects' house parties became the hottest show experience of the season. 'These are the best shows we've ever played in our lives,' Ritter says. It's the morning after their biggest bash yet in East Nashville the night before. The lead singer is an early riser and ready to share his reflections on the past week, the band's no-bullshit approach, and what fans can expect next — including more house party shows. How was last night? I saw some videos, and it looked like a great way to cap things were just kind of hoping it didn't get shut down. We had Grace Bowers coming out with us, and she's such a young promise for people who play guitars and rock & roll, and coming out of this younger generation realizing there's that spirit of wanting to stand in front of a live audience that's feeding off of something that's happening in real time out of your hands. We were just hoping it would go off. And it did. People were reportedly renting ladders from neighbors next door and paying 150 shitting me. That's incredible. Apparently, these kids broke through the fence, made a little hole Alcatraz-style, and were funneling in through the side neighbor's fence. Nashville's usually so music spoiled, like Los Angeles, so to see a crowd actually engaged, that made me actually feel like I would want to play Nashville again. You usually just don't get that connection. The thing that we're realizing on this run is that when we're at eye level with people and seeing kids go up on the shoulders of their peers, it shows that the carnal community connection over the last seven years has just been so fractured and detached from, because of every reason post-Covid. It just felt like we unknowingly created something that resonated with people in a communal sense. It seems like each show has gotten crazier and last three days have been so incendiary as far as just realizing what happens when the word gets out in 2025. In Iowa, people were running through the cornfield because there was no way that we could barricade off any sort of line. We couldn't hold and they broke through our little partition of people, which were just volunteers banding together and holding hands. That show was actually scary. The line at that was 300 deep and I was like, 'This is going to be a bad Warped Tour.' That night rattled us because it was an overwhelming amount of people in a space with a very feather-fragile infrastructure. The next night was Missouri, and the cops came to that one. The cops let you keep playing, though, since they were fans, right?That saved our ass. It was funny. I don't think they even saw the bus. They just saw the crowd and my manager pulled me off stage and was like, 'They're going to arrest me.' And I go, 'OK, OK, we'll stop.' Our guitarist stayed onstage and he just goes, 'Boo.' [Ritter holds two thumbs down.] The crowd went up in arms, and I walked back to the cop and I go, 'Hey man, if you want these kids to get out of here in a nice peaceful order, just let us play one more song.' And he goes, 'I didn't know it was you guys. Go play another song.' That was a really cool moment. So how did this whole concept begin, and what was the intention behind it?When we played USC, it reminded us of when we started playing, when we would drive around in a van playing VFWs, playing student-promoted backyards, playing basements. With this new record, we wanted to go back and find where we fell in love with doing what we did, to sort of connect to the why the fuck are we doing this? When was the moment that you realized the house party shows were catching on? The next day after the USC shows. I told my manager, 'You were right.' We owe all the flowers to the brilliant team that we've surrounded ourselves with. The incredible manager we have now is a 29-year-old named Megan [Kraemer] who was ripping VIP tickets for us two years ago. Our managers at the time were dinosaurs who didn't believe in the youth and the way that the world has changed. The music business is still packed full of gatekeeping dinosaurs, so it was important to bring in a young, hungry person who loves this band. She's definitely our unicorn goddess. I told her, 'We got to do these again.' My wife's pregnant and literally about to pop the first week of June. We had this window this week, and I told [Kraemer] to fill it. Let's see if people come out. I definitely didn't expect it to turn into this. I was like, 'Maybe we'll get a few hundred people, just show kids a good time for a cheap date.' [Kraemer] was so hesitant to spend our money. I was like, 'I'm not going to go pay creators on TikTok to put my song and embed it into some meme thing to program children across the world into thinking a song is great.' It's a false approach, and so why not just make a bet? Worst case, we lost the money. Best case we made something that felt real. How did your wife respond to the idea?I asked her. I go, 'Babe, he's got a birthday. It's fated. So he's coming when he's coming, and the last thing I would want to do is miss that birth, of course.' She said, 'You got to do it.' She gave me the blessing and I was like, OK, babe, let's dance. How does it feel to be rejecting the mainstream way of things with DIY shows as an independent band?It feels great to flip the bird to the giant titanic music industry. I only hope young bands can see this as an inspiring way to disrupt this market. People are tired of being force-fed everything. Music is seen before it's heard. We're in the age of celebrity-defining success. If you're a popular artist, you could literally fart on a microphone and have a hit song. That's a shame. But luckily this tribal culture of humanity still knows what smells like shit when it looks like shit. Last night you revealed that the band is using a lot of this footage to make the music video for your upcoming single 'Easy Come, Easy.' When did you make that decision?We already have a music video for it. But I was on the bus the other day day and was like, 'If I was a kid at one of these shows, I would want to see myself at this show as a little trophy memory.' So we thought to shoot every one of these for 'Easy Come, Easy Go' and let these kids come back and try to find themselves. Everything with this whole new record we're putting out was because we wanted to have something to say and to feel like we were doing something that was true and authentic in our music. A lot of people emulate some sort of legacy in order to shake the purse strings of their audience.A lot of people emulate some sort of legacy in order to shake the purse strings of their audience. But my question for us as a band was, can we evolve? And I think it's been that sort of natural intention of let's just do something that feels right every step of the way and we've been following that guiding intention. I know you said you were surprised by the huge audience that came out at your When We Were Young set in 2022. Did that make it so you were less surprised by the reaction you've been getting at these backyard shows?It was a really conflicted decision for me because I didn't know the intention when we played that first year of When We Were Young. It was a beautiful show experience, but when I looked out at the infrastructure, I was like, 'This looks like the most corporatized thing.' All I smelled was new plastic, brand-new carpet. I saw branding everywhere and I'm like, 'Is this what all this shit's becoming?' We are all beholden to this capitalistic world, but to be able to disrupt it with something that felt honest this last week has been just soul food for this band. We've always been the songs that had that band and whatever happened this week showed everybody, we're the band that has all those songs. I feel like we released successful music for a 12-year period in the 2000s, but we didn't do it year after year after year. We tapped into that bridge between younger millennials transitioning into Gen Z. It was a fractured sort of presence throughout a transitional generation moment. This is the first time where we've actually found our culture by way of the music. We aren't the people that wore the emo badge of courage. We didn't march in the black parade. We weren't operatic Fall Out Boy. We were the Rejects. That band name had been a curse in the beginning. Now, it's finally married itself to our rebellious Oklahoma spirit. I'm just so happy that we found our place, even all these years later in music. Maybe a lot of these kids think the view is cool from where they're standing, but the view from where we're playing is sweeter. I'll never forget this week my entire life. We're getting ready to go play at MetLife Stadium with the Jonas Brothers, and it won't even hold a candle to last night in Nashville. I already know it. People online are still begging you to play their backyards and graduation parties. Will there be anymore house party shows?There will be more house parties. And I can't wait for 'em, man. No one wants to be IOUs, and I feel like when we go out on JoBros, there's going to be some time to skate around to maybe go to Susie Q's backyard and make her parents put something on the barbecue and actually have an infrastructure that will ensure everyone has a great time. We want to make it sustainable. You can expect a lot more disruptive behavior from this band. We're here to be disruptors in this market. That's one thing that this thing has awakened in us. How else can we fuck with things? How else can we make the Rejects even more reject-y? Do you have ideas you're working on to accomplish that?Oddly enough, we do. Everything about this has just been this pool of ideas from this incredible little engine we have behind us, and there's been things that we're like, I can't believe we have this coming next after this because it's equally disruptive and kind of naughty. I'm so excited to see what's going to happen.I can't tell you just how genuinely happy that I am to speak with you about this because there's moments in your life, if you don't write 'em down or if you don't remember them, it's like looking at a photograph and it tells you a different story. I don't know if in five days I'll be able to remember it as well as I do right now. Launch Gallery: The All-American Rejects Throw a House Party for the Ages in Nashville Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
