After a busy weekend of lots of food variety and musical variety, the 2006 edition of the Comerica Tastefest came to an end with a packed performance by the Oklahoma based All American Rejects. The group played the free show for a loosely estimated crowd of about 6,000 fans, for whom the Rejects gave a spirited 55 minute set in the warm sun.

Newly shorn lead singer/guitar Tyson Ritter had the crowd of mostly teenage girls in oversized beads and oversized black sunglasses jumping up and down to the band’s material from their two albums. Their winter hit Dirty Little Secret was the second song of the set, which put the young fans in a frenzy early.

The Rejects dove into new material from their very successful Move Along album, including Top of the World, and the much slower tempo-ed It Ends Tonight (which was “for the ladies”, according to Ritter. Yawn…). The band displayed a lot of energy during their set, which was possibly from the amounts of food that the band talked about in between songs.

As expected, the biggest reaction of the evening was for the band’s largest songs. Their first hit, Swing, Swing evoked a lot of bad karaoke from the crowd. Probably the band’s best track, The Last Song was met with similar fervor. When the group finished with the smash title track from their new album, you could tell that the Rejects played just about as long as they should have. Anything more would have been too long, and puzzled the short attention span of the fans in attendance.

So, bonus points go to the Rejects for knowing what the audience wanted, and not giving them any filler to become bored on.