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- JUL 24, 2024
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- Top Gun: Maverick (Music from the Motion Picture) · 2022
- Native · 2013
- Native · 2013
- Waking Up · 2009
- I Don't Wanna Wait - Single · 2024
- Shock Value · 2007
- Waking Up · 2009
- Human (Deluxe) · 2021
- Waking Up · 2009
- Native · 2014
Essential Albums
- OneRepublic has never been shy about its ambitions nor its perfectionist tendencies. Before committing to the release of album number three, the band posted that “it has to literally be the best thing we’ve ever done.” Those are especially big words for a Grammy-nominated group with half a dozen hit singles under its belt and a frontman who co-wrote and co-produced Beyoncé’s “Halo,” Adele’s “Rumour Has It,” and many other pop-chart standouts. At this point, the trickiest thing for Ryan Tedder to juggle was the songs for others vs. the songs for his own band. But on 2013’s Native, his stratospheric vision for OneRepublic is abundantly clear: to be a source of entertainment and the pure celebration of life. An extension of the band’s breezy 2009 hit “Good Life,” Native packages unbridled optimism in stratospheric pop-rock, impeccably polished with shimmering keyboards and topped with life-affirming gospel rave-ups. The big twist here is in the lyrics—many of which view life in the face of death. “I had a dream the other night about how we only get one life,” Tedder intones in a lullaby-like croon on “Something I Need,” before the song builds into a swelling, swaying sing-along: “If we only die once, I wanna die with you,” a choir pipes in. This romanticism pops up throughout the album. On the EDM-pumped “If I Lose Myself,” he repeats a similar mantra: “If I lose myself tonight, it’ll be by your side.” Such grand statements come with even grander arrangements. The band deftly moves between churning alt-rock (“Light It Up”), skyscraping electro-soul (“Can’t Stop”), stomping folk-pop (“Counting Stars”), and a little bit of all of it for the triumphant “I Lived,” the ultimate anthem for living every day like it’s the last.
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Artist Playlists
- These pop-rock princes work on a cinematic scale.
- Stadium-rock icons and candid singer/songwriters.
Live Albums
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More To Hear
- The OneRepublic star reveals how he writes huge hit songs.
- OneRepublic haben bei Aisha ihre neue Single „Run“ mit am Start.
- Interviews with OneRepublic, Ryan Tedder, and Justin Timberlake.
- AJ Mitchell guests, plus music from OneRepublic and Little Mix.
- The band's “Connection" is the day's World Record.
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About OneRepublic
Pop-rock band OneRepublic have been consistent hitmakers of the 21st century, without ever sticking to a formula. A lot of that pop intuition and innovation starts with frontman Ryan Tedder, who began playing coffeehouses in Colorado in the late ’90s with high school buddies including guitarist Zach Filkins. When Tedder moved to Los Angeles a few years later, he reconnected with Filkins and together they formed OneRepublic in 2002. At the same time, Tedder was building his career as a songwriter, eventually writing and producing singles for artists like Leona Lewis, Hilary Duff, and Jennifer Lopez. But when it came to his own band, he’s said his goal has never been to write a hit, only to create genuine works of art: “It has to be a hundred-percent authentic and visceral to my human experience. If I haven’t felt it, if I didn’t go through it, if it’s not resonating with me, I can’t sing it,” Tedder told Apple Music. That straight-from-the-heart mentality is what ignites the straight-to-the-gut effect of OneRepublic’s greatest anthems, starting with their 2006 debut single “Apologize”—which eventually became a multiplatinum success—and later with even bigger songs like 2013’s propulsive folk-pop stomper “Counting Stars” and more diverse sounds such as 2016’s silvery synth groove “Kids.” As Tedder continues to rack up songwriting and production credits alongside Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Adele, and other chart-topping stars, he’s still saving up his hardest emotional punches for OneRepublic’s next global smash.
- ORIGIN
- Colorado Springs, CO, United States
- FORMED
- 2002
- GENRE
- Pop