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.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Made for YouBrent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 04:17 | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| 2 | All the Right MovesRyan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 3 | SecretsRyan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 03:44 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 4 | Everybody Loves MeBrent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 03:39 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 5 | Missing Persons 1 & 2Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 04:59 | 11 MB | 29 MB |
| 6 | Good LifeBrent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella | OneRepublic | Play | 04:12 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 7 | All This TimeBrent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 03:35 | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| 8 | FearRyan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 9 | Waking UpDrew Brown, Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 06:07 | 14 MB | 38 MB |
| 10 | Marchin' OnRyan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 04:11 | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| 11 | LullabyBrent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder | OneRepublic | Play | 04:36 | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| 47 mins | 107 MB | |||||
| 47 mins | 294 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drew Brown | Composer |
| 2 | Brent Kutzle | Composer |
| 3 | OneRepublic | Primary Artist |
| 4 | Ryan Tedder | Composer |
| 5 | Noel Zancanella | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |