Dreaming Out Loud

Background

OneRepublic is a pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2002. The band, which was formed in Colorado by Ryan Tedder and high school classmate Zach Filkins, also includes fellow Coloradan, guitarist/keyboardist Drew Brown, drummer Eddie Fisher, and bass/cellist Brent Kutzle. They worked in the studio for two and a half years and recorded their first full-length album. Two months before their album was due to be released (with "Sleep" as their debut single) in the summer of 2006, they were dropped by Columbia Records. The band was beginning to gain prominence on Myspace, becoming the number-one unsigned act on the site. The song "Apologize" was already released on Myspace the same year and achieved 20,000,000 plays. This led to the band catching the attention of several labels, including Mosley Music Group which was owned by Timbaland.

Timbaland liked "Apologize" and created a remixed version of it which appeared on Shock Value in early 2007, and after the song's appearance in a number of American TV dramas, allied with two years of Myspace notoriety, OneRepublic had a number one hit, even without an accompanying album.

Composition

Many critics cited U2, Snow Patrol and The Fray as the band's influences on the album. "Mercy" features an upbeat tempo and is full of hope and promise. "Apologize" has heart-felt lyrics and is heavy on self-imposed melodrama. It has hip-hop beats mingling with a string section cutting Ryan Tedder's bland vocals with a stuttering R&B drum loop. "Goodbye Apathy" has a chorus that was considered "charmingly harmonious", while Tedder's vocals were considered "U2-sounding". "All Fall Down" begins with an acoustic riff followed by strings that follow the riff, while the verses follows the instruments as well.

The seventh track "Tyrant" crank up the rock guitars, letting a little bit of angst bleed through the band's performance. "Prodigal" is a pure ballad that uses guitar riffs and keyboards to back dreamy vocals. The last track is a remixed version of "Apologize" produced and featuring Timbaland. The Timbaland remix has his trademark "yeah" grunts in the background and a slight resequencing of the drum patterns.

Critical reception

Dreaming Out Loud received generally mixed to negative reviews from music critics. Andrew Leahey from AllMusic gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, and noted that "the album still sounded derivative, almost as if it were mimicking the popular trends that Tedder helped create with his production gigs. None of this made Dreaming Out Loud a bad album, particularly, but it did make it an unoriginal one, and Tedder continued to fare better whenever he was writing for groups other than his own." Blogcritics wrote a very positive review, stating that "Dreaming Out Loud is full of hopeful ballads and a couple of rock songs, and reveals OneRepublic's vocal and musical talents."

Evan Sawdey from PopMatters wrote: "Though Greg Wells' high-budget production gives Dreaming Out Loud a professional sheen, the problems start and end with Tedder. His band, his voice, his lyrics—they've all been heard before. What's particularly disappointing is how his songs all just blend together in a strictly melodic sense." Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone commented: "On the album, OneRepublic get to assert their own identity, which is a drag, since the half-loud guitars and sob-in-the-throat vocals could be absolutely anybody." Nick Levine from Digital Spy called it "a fairly drab, characterless affair." Chris Jones from BBC Music expressed: "It remains an album that will appeal to fans of the OC and those moments when the lovelorn antics of the cast demand some cod-existentialism. It may be pop, but it's a long way from fun.

Singles

The first single to be lifted from the album was "Apologize", both in its original form and a version remixed by Timbaland. "Apologize" has also sold more than 3.6 million downloads only in the United States. It also charted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up single "Stop and Stare" was released on March 3, 2008, in the United Kingdom. number 4 on the UK Singles Chart

A third single from the album, "Say (All I Need)" was released on June 27, 2008. The song wasn't as successful as the previous singles, only reaching number 51 on the UK Singles Chart In September 2008, the band released their fourth single, "Mercy". The official video for "Mercy" debuted in the UK on August 15, 2008, on the music channel 'Q'. The video is filmed in black and white and features OneRepublic performing the song on a beach. However, the song didn't chart on the UK Singles Chart. "Come Home", a digital single, was remastered featuring Sara Bareilles and was released on July 14, 2009, in the iTunes stores and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #80.

Media appearances

"Apologize" was used in the German film Keinohrhasen (2007) and on Cold Case. "Apologize", alongside "Stop and Stare" and "Mercy", were featured on the seventh season of the American television series Smallville. Also "Stop and Stare" was featured on Castle's pilot episode. "Say (All I Need)" was featured on Ghost Whisperer and The Vampire Diaries. "Come Home" was featured on Cold Case and The Vampire Diaries while "Won't Stop" was featured on The Hills. "All We Are" was used in HBO's 2009 promo. The song "Tyrant" was used in 2010 film The Last Song as the movie's opening song and it was included as the leading track in the official movie soundtrack.

Track listing

Personnel

All personnel for Dreaming Out Loud adapted from the album's liner notes.

OneRepublic

• Ryan Tedder – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar
• Zach Filkins – guitar, viola
• Eddie Fisher – drums, percussion
• Drew Brown – guitar, keyboards
• Brent Kutzle – bass guitar, cello

Additional musicians

• Tim Myers – additional bass
• Andrew DeRoberts – additional slide guitar
• Greg Wells – additional guitar, keys and beats

Production

• Greg Wells – production (except "Won't Stop" and "Come Home")
• Ryan Tedder – production ("Come Home"); mixing ("Say (All I Need)"); engineering ("Wont Stop" and "Come Home")
• Timbaland – executive production; production ("Apologize (remix)")
• Andrew Prickett – additional production ("Say (All I Need)")
• Joe Zook – mixing (except "Come Home"); engineering (except "Say (All I Need)" and "All Fall Down")
• Craig Durrance – engineering ("Won't Stop")
• Jonathan Plum – engineering ("Come Home")
• Ari Raskin – engineering ("Come Home")
• James Mormite – A&R
• Terrence Nelson – A&R coordinator
• Steve Sheff – brand manager
• Alex Reese – marketing coordinator
• Marc Jetton – marketing coordinator
• Andrew Van Meter – production coordinator
• Dennis Dennehy – publicity
• Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
• Marcus Spence – A&R
• Eric Spence – A&R coordinator
• Monique Ideltt – marketing
• Jeremy Cowart – photography
• Jarrod Bettis – album cover & logo design

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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