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OneRepublic Talk ‘Glee’ And Going For The Gold In Video Postcard
7:00 PM on Wed Mar 3 2010 by Becky Bain
We know the 2010 Winter Olympics are so last week, but we just received this neat lil' video postcard in the mail from OneRepublic, who were nice enough to take a brief break from prancing around Vancouver and performing for the masses to answer a few questions while warming themselves up by the fire. Jump below to check out Ryan Tedder and his mates as they talk about the recording of Waking Up and weigh in on Glee, Shaun White and going for the gold:
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The Idolator Interview: Ryan Tedder
1:08 PM on Tue Dec 8 2009 by Robbie Daw
It’s been one hell of a year for Ryan Tedder. In addition to his band OneRepublic releasing sophomore album Waking Up last month, the singer-songwriter is also reveling in the fact that “Halo,” which he co-wrote with Beyonce (as well as co-produced), has been nominated for a Record Of The Year Grammy. Additionally, Beyonce’s full LP containing “Halo,” I Am… Sasha Fierce, is also up for Album Of The Year.
But with “Halo” came controversy after Kelly Clarkson basically accused him of using the same melody for her own Ryan Tedder song, “Already Gone.” And then in the fall, while tackling a break-neck pace of work that saw him crafting music with everyone from Adam Lambert and Natasha Bedingfield to Adele and Leona Lewis, Tedder says he came down with H1N1: “It nearly killed me. I was sick for three weeks.”
But, hey, why not add more work to the schedule—Tedder also says he’s been asked to contribute material to a forthcoming episode of Glee that’s set to contain original music for a change.
Hop below the jump to read our interview with possibly the busiest man in music at the moment, OneRepublic frontman and 2010 Grammy nominee Ryan Tedder. More »
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OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder Brings Leona Lewis To The Copy Machine
1:00 PM on Tue Sep 8 2009 by Maura
Hot on the heels of Ryan Tedder fending off self-plagiarizing accusations by eagle-eared listeners who picked up the similarities between his compositions for Kelly Clarkson and Beyoncé, the OneRepublic main main/inexplicably in-demand songwriter is seemingly copying himself again. After the jump, hear the new OneRepublic single “All The Right Moves” and Leona Lewis’ latest single “Happy”—both of which were penned by Tedder—and tell me if I’m crazy for hearing the same damn song, albeit at slightly different speeds. More »
How The Mighty Have Fallen, Part XXVII
9:45 AM on Thu May 29 2008 by Maura
Former Soundgarden frontman/renegade “Billie Jean” reworker Chris Cornell has been reduced to making cameos in videos by OneFreakin’Republic. More »
Busta Rhymes Has Something He’d Like To Apologize For
5:20 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008 by Jess Harvell
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Which Z100 Star Will Put On The Most Painful Performance At Tonight’s Jingle Ball?
11:05 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007 by jharv
Tonight, Maura and I will be at Madison Square Garden for New York pop station Z100’s annual Jingle Ball, taking in the cream of Billboard’s crop: Fall Out Boy! Alicia Keys! Avril Lavigne! The Jonas Brothers! Jordin Sparks! Colbie Caillat! Backstreet Boys! Boys Like Girls! Timbaland! With OneRepublic! And Keri Hilson! Is pop music really dead? Probably, but we’ll find out for sure tonight. As a friend put it, it’s going to be awfsome! But which iTunes bestseller is going to put on the most awfsome performance tonight? For the answer to that, we turn to the crystal ball of our handy poll software.
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The True Genesis Of That OneRepublic Song Revealed Through The Power Of Math
5:10 AM on Tue Dec 11 2007 by Maura
“Apologize” by OneRepublic and Timbaland: It’s still inescapable. But last night, while being subjected to it for the 8,439th time this month, I hit on the formula that no doubt led to it blanketing radio stations in this drained-of-true-adult-contemporary-hits era! Let’s think of it in mathematical terms. To wit:
“Apologize” X (oomph factor) + an honest-to-God big hook =
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Radio Programmers Love OneRepublic (And Very Little Else)
3:20 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007 by jharv
If you have never heard OneRepublic, the bland rock band that enjoys the minor distinction of being shepherded by Timbaland, that’s probably because you no longer listen to the radio. And if you no longer listen to the radio it’s probably because of formatting decisions like playing OneRepublic’s hit “Apologize” 10,240 times last week, over 100 times on certain stations in a seven-day stretch, setting a record for “for the most plays of a song on the nation’s Top 40 stations.” At this point, we’re all very familiar with stations overplaying a handful of songs, making this bleak New York Times report the horse’s mouth confirmation of something disgruntled former listeners already know: that radio has dealt with a world where the “audience fragments and rival entertainment choices abound” by adopting a bunker mentality built around the Billboard Top 10. And the process has sped up dramatically over the past five years.
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Lady Business: It’s Been A Good Year For Females On The Hot 100
11:45 AM on Thu Nov 29 2007 by chrism
Ed. note: Chris “dennisobell” Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of “100 And Single”:
For the first time in its three-month chart life, Alicia Keys’ “No One” sells fewer digital singles than it did the week before. But that’s no problem, as her continued radio dominance means she’s still tops on Billboard’s Hot 100–even as one song given up for dead starts to make a comeback.
