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Success is the gateway to many indulgences, not just those born of the flesh. Success opens the gates to any numbers of pretensions: sawing strings, children's choirs, minor-key piano lines reminiscent of Nigel Tufnel, cavernous U2 reverb, long ponderous instrumental sections of piano and orchestra duets. OneRepublic hits every one of these marks on their second album, Waking Up, along with numerous other excesses, including a title track that bears echoes of the Killers, only with their goofy pomp replaced with po-faced circumstance. There’s no room for humor, intentional or otherwise, within OneRepublic’s music: everything is tightly controlled and serious, with love songs playing as blood oaths and the group’s modern R&B affectations - the one thing that keeps them from dipping into an adult contemporary morass - playing like a graceless assault, a cold clinical wall of synths. Chief songwriter/producer/singer Ryan Tedder can construct some chilly hooks out of this iciness, just like he did with "Apologize” and Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,” but there’s no joy, only dogged diligence, an alienating insistence that texture means more than warmth or melody.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Brent Kutzle, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Brent Kutzle, Producer - Andy Prickett, Producer
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Andy Prickett, Producer
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Brent Kutzle, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Prickett, Producer
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Eddie Fisher, ComposerLyricist - Noel Zancanella, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brent Kutzle, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Wil Malone, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - The London Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Brent Kutzle, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Prickett, Producer
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Wil Malone, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - The London Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Drew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Wil Malone, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - The London Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, Producer, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Brent Kutzle, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ryan Tedder, ComposerLyricist - Mikal Blue, Producer - OneRepublic, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
Ryan Tedder, ComposerLyricist - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Charles Pollard, Producer
℗ 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
Ryan Tedder, Guitar, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mikal Blue, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Drew Brown, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Fisher, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Myers, ComposerLyricist - Joe Zook, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Zachary Filkins, ComposerLyricist - Brent Kutzle, Cello, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Zach Filkins, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2007 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
Ryan Tedder, ComposerLyricist - Mikal Blue, Producer - OneRepublic, MainArtist - Tim Meyers, ComposerLyricist - Zach Filkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
Album review
Success is the gateway to many indulgences, not just those born of the flesh. Success opens the gates to any numbers of pretensions: sawing strings, children's choirs, minor-key piano lines reminiscent of Nigel Tufnel, cavernous U2 reverb, long ponderous instrumental sections of piano and orchestra duets. OneRepublic hits every one of these marks on their second album, Waking Up, along with numerous other excesses, including a title track that bears echoes of the Killers, only with their goofy pomp replaced with po-faced circumstance. There’s no room for humor, intentional or otherwise, within OneRepublic’s music: everything is tightly controlled and serious, with love songs playing as blood oaths and the group’s modern R&B affectations - the one thing that keeps them from dipping into an adult contemporary morass - playing like a graceless assault, a cold clinical wall of synths. Chief songwriter/producer/singer Ryan Tedder can construct some chilly hooks out of this iciness, just like he did with "Apologize” and Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,” but there’s no joy, only dogged diligence, an alienating insistence that texture means more than warmth or melody.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:39
- Main artists: OneRepublic
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Mosley - Interscope
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records ℗ 2009 Mosley Music/Interscope Records
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