{"id":41542,"date":"2021-09-28T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=41542"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:42:32","slug":"music-hype-human-by-onerepublic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/music-hype-human-by-onerepublic\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Hype: Human by OneRepublic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This album has been hovering on the horizon for months now, as I waited to order it until a release date was officially announced. Now, it’s finally here! So let’s talk about OneRepublic: who they are, how they got here, and how we feel about their latest offering: Human<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

OneRepublic is an American pop band formed in 2002. I know many of us in the millennial and maybe Gen X camps grew up listening to Apologize<\/strong> and Stop and Stare<\/strong> from their first album Dreaming Out Loud<\/strong><\/em><\/a> – both of which became massive hits around the world. Apologize<\/strong> in particular became iconic after being remixed by Timbaland.<\/p>\n

All the Right Moves<\/strong> was the big hit from their second album, Waking Up<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, from 2009. Other earworms included Secrets<\/strong> and Good Life<\/strong>. More recently a lot of people found they’d accidentally memorized all the words to Counting Stars<\/strong>, the hit song from 2013’s album, Native<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Their fourth album was Oh My My<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in 2016 and it was a major departure in their sound, producing singles Wherever I Go<\/strong> and Kids<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Human<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has been delayed a number of times (and I’m sure COVID was part of it), but there have been singles released from it to build hype, including Rescue Me<\/strong> and Wanted<\/strong>. According to some critics, this makes the album feel more like a time capsule than a new release: Rescue Me<\/strong> came out in 2019, which as we all know was a very different emotional moment than 2021. But there’s still a lot to love including the upbeat anthem Run<\/strong> and yearning track\u00a0Distance,\u00a0<\/strong>which echoes some of the band’s classic vibes. Speaking for myself, a band than can do soulful, emotional, and danceable all equally well is definitely worth following, and OneRepublic has a very strong track record to recommend them.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a solid pop album that captures some nostalgia and some optimism, you might want to try OneRepublic’s Human<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, finally<\/em> available for checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This album has been hovering on the horizon for months now, as I waited to order it until a release date was officially announced. Now, it’s finally here! So let’s talk about OneRepublic: who they are, how they got here, and how we feel about their latest offering: Human. OneRepublic[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,1,8],"tags":[3253,2706,2872],"class_list":["post-41542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-music","tag-nostalgia","tag-pop-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-aO2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41542"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions\/41878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}