OneRepublic is an American rock band from Colorado Springs,
Colorado. They formed as a band in 1996. The lead singer, Ryan Tedder, had become
friends with Zach Filkins their senior year. They made their rock band “a
beautiful mess” a good start with attending at small gigs and coffee shops
until they parted their ways and went to college. They reunited with an
addition of a couple more members in the band in 2002 and wrote their first
full album.
As the years went on, they had a lot of success with singles
being on the US Billboard Hot 100. Also having their second album, waking up,
number 18 on the US Billboard 200 and selling over 200,00 copies in the US. Waking
Up was later certified Gold in the US for sales of over 500,000.OneRepublic supported
many other bands on tour including Maroon 5 and Pink.
OneRepublic’s third album, Native, hit success with many
singles including “If I Lose Myself” and “Counting Stars.” Counting stars has
become their most successful single from the album thus far, and the band's
biggest release in recent years.
Counting stars is very fast pace with the verses showing a
joyful view. I really enjoyed listening
to this song and many songs on the album. A lot of songs on the Native album have
a message including this one. The life lesson in this song is to be hopeful and
optimistic in life. The music video to this single was very clever. Ryan Tedder represents a broke man in the bottom
of a filthy, wrecked building. It shows the toughness of life and the many problems
that go with it. You get through life with hope that it will get better. The
other people in the music video are having a great time in the upper part of
the building dancing and partying. This shows the people with no stress in
their life. The alligator in the music video represents the greedy people of
the money hungry people.
I was a really big fan of OneRepublic’s first hit “Apologize”
on their first album, although I never listened to a lot of the rest of the
songs on that album. After the single “Counting Stars” came out I started to
listen to more of OneRepublic. I would give this album honestly 4.5 stars out of 5. OneRepublic has a lot of energy in every one of
their songs from beginning to end. I
really enjoyed listening to their songs on the native album.
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