{"id":645106,"date":"2026-05-03T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:11:46","slug":"the-all-american-rejects-tyson-ritter-names-his-top-5-vocalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645106\/","title":{"rendered":"The All-American Rejects’ Tyson Ritter Names His Top 5 Vocalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consequence Vocalist Week<\/a> continues with The All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter and his five favorite vocalists of all time. Be sure to check out the 100 Best Vocalists of All Time<\/a>, and stay tuned for more throughout the week.<\/p>\n

Tyson Ritter deserves his flowers. The All-American Rejects<\/a> frontman has a skyscraping tenor, and he is not afraid to use it. On AAR classics (you know the ones), he soars and belts with palpable passion; on newer favorites, like last summer\u2019s \u201cEasy Come, Easy Go,\u201d it\u2019s clear he hasn\u2019t lost any of that vigor and youthful spark.<\/p>\n

The band is gearing up for their long-awaited return album,\u00a0Sandbox, out on May 15th, and to celebrate, they\u2019ve been playing handfuls of \u201cHouse Party\u201d-style DIY shows throughout the country. It speaks to the immediacy of their music and the live experience, but it\u2019s also a showcase for Ritter\u2019s ever-durable, dynamic instrument. Looking at his personal top vocalists of all time, it\u2019s clear where Ritter gets that magnetic presence behind the mic. He\u2019s got a punk legend, a soul icon, and an influential singer whose catalogue he deems to be his \u201cmaking dinner music.\u201d Read on for Ritter\u2019s Top 5 Vocalists picks.<\/p>\n

Freddie Mercury<\/p>\n

Okay, low-hanging fruit. Of course I think Freddie Mercury is such a rock and roll archetype. He had the fastest vibrato in recorded sound, he was operatic, expressive, and I think every guy in a rock band wants to achieve even 5% of his capability in even a sentence of prose.<\/p>\n

David Bowie<\/p>\n

I pivot to Bowie because he really pushed the boundaries for the way you could project. His emotion was not only in his lyric, but it rattled through his shaky timbre and opened to a bellowing, operatic moment. He was just so graceful, it was like wiping your ears with lace when he really nailed it.<\/p>\n

Iggy Pop<\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s something about people that just bark. I always listen to \u201cI Wanna Be Your Dog,\u201d and it just gives me chills when I hear the way that guy just barks out music.<\/p>\n

Nina Simone<\/p>\n

Nina Simone was just such an accomplished pianist and great vocalist. She sang truth to her community and was such a pillar of that shit that is the magic that everyone is drawn to in music. She was great.<\/p>\n

Harry Belafonte<\/p>\n

I think he\u2019s one of the greatest songwriters and singers and just such an incredible humanitarian. But he sang in smoky clubs all the way until his voice turned to ash. I remember just hearing him speak when he was doing his philanthropy, and you could tell it was gone. It was so heartbreaking, but we can always listen to those polaroids of his heyday on record, and there\u2019s something kind of beautiful about it. Every singer lives through their life hoping to keep their voice as long as they can, but we got to hear Belafonte singing these beautiful songs that were inspired by where he came from. That\u2019s my dinner making music, that\u2019s my \u2018If I have people over\u2019 music. I just want to be in the spell of Harry Belafonte, probably thanks to Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consequence Vocalist Week continues with The All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter and his five favorite vocalists of all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-645106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}