HAVERFORD, Pa. — The All-American Rejects played a surprise pop-up show during an All-American Rejects set at the Haverford Skatium, sources confirmed.
“I was worried there were technical difficulties during the All-American Rejects show, because the lights suddenly went out and the sound dropped off,” said Pippy Newster, a fan in attendance. “When the lights came back on, a new band was on stage, and they were all wearing these big hats. The sound came back up, and the band threw off the hats. I couldn’t believe it: the All-American Rejects! They played one of their famous pop-up shows with all my favorite songs. And after they ended the pop-up show they continued on with the original show. Would’ve been nice if they didn’t go with the same setlist for both though.”
Fans were in for yet another “dirty little secret.”
“I stopped the pop-up right in the middle of ‘Move Along.’ It was the perfect time to do a pop-up to debut my new solo stuff,” said frontman Tyson Ritter. “So, yeah, it was a pop-up show inside of a pop-up show. If you count the time I stopped to shake off a rat that crawled up my leg, there was another pop-up show inside of that one, too. We might work that into the regular rotation if we can find the rat again.”
Experts disagreed over how many pop-ups within pop-up shows are too many.
“Technically, there is no limit to the number of pop-up shows that can exist within an individual pop-up show. These multi-layered performances by the All-American Rejects provide a tangible example of the multiverse speculations we’ve had for years,” said Denice Nedry, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. “It makes me think this nostalgia act from the 2000s spent a lot of time thinking about the nature of infinity prior to launching this comeback tour of secret pop-up shows. For example, when Tyson sings, ‘your subtleties, they strangle me,’ on ‘It Ends Tonight,’ that’s a clear signal he’s confused about how many numbers rest between any two other numbers, such as between zero and one. Some would say the answer is ‘infinity,’ but AAR boldly solves this with ‘pop-up.’ And then to put it in a piece of performance art? Brilliant.”
As of press time, the All-American Rejects hinted at a pop-up show on the next Artemis mission to the moon.
