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“You can sit beside me when the world comes down/If it doesn’t matter than just turn around/You be the queen and I’ll be your clown/You can sit beside me when the world comes down.” The All-American Rejects front man, Tyson Ritter, sings the verse to “Mona Lisa” for the 29 th time. “All right, nice pass,” comments the voice behind the glass. “Some good stuff in there.” Producer Eric Valentine sits behind the console in his Barefoot Studios control room and imparts his bohemian brilliance. On the soundstage beyond the wall, the band o’ Oklahoma brothers track live their third cd. Welcome to the womb of creation where minds meld, riffs congeal, voices carry, lives alter, skin sheds and a modern rock multi-platinum success story swing, swing for the fences. But for The All- American Rejects, the road to When the World Comes Down , their third long form musical offering, has been anything but a straight line. “This record hasn’t been smooth sailing,” confesses Nick, sporting a wry grin across his boyish face. “After the success of Move Along , we felt an innate need to challenge ourselves to grow. And to challenge our fans to grow with us. On the last record, all the songs were there before we even entered the studio. We were completely rehearsed. We just had to show up, play the parts, producer Howard Benson pushed the buttons and in six weeks, we were done. This LP is where we’re at as people, not just artists, here and now. That’s why we took the bus trips and locked ourselves away in remote cabins to recreate this sense of torture like we had in the past, before we sold any records.” Bus trips? Cabins? Torture? How divinely placed are the potholes on the creative road less traveled? “When we first started working on “Real World,” a pretty aggressive rock song for us, we all got in a room, jammed it, and it sucked!” recalls Mike. “So me and Chris went to Florida to Nick and Ty’s place on the gulf coast and hung out for about a month. Ty has this electric d

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