Yet Tedder smartly frontloaded Oh My My with sing-alongs, starting with this strummy one that sounds very much like the Lumineers. OneRepublic's just-released fourth album, Oh My My, sees Tedder showing off his Crossfit-style musical versatility in an hour's worth of music - "recorded in 26 countries!" the overheated promotional material exclaims - that spans EDM, hip-hop, folk-pop, and East Village post-punk. Ryan Tedder is a remarkable character who's often hardly noticed by chroniclers of the pop zeitgeist a songwriter in the Brill Building tradition who can churn out hits across genres (including for this Denver band he cofounded) but who rarely gets credit as an artist in his own right.
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From the classic to the corny to the unexpectedly poignant, these 10 songs predict a musical season full of loud declarations, strong stances and plenty of chances to over-relate. Each would-be anthem or soulful confession comes with a story attached: about the need to change, the desire to get back to basics, the importance of claiming the self and living in the now. Yet perhaps unintentionally, in their efforts to regain ground in an ever more-crowded pop arena, these artists have created a soundtrack to the anxious present day. In most cases, this isn't political music, even by generous definitions.
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With their devoted audiences already established, they're trying to figure out how to stay relevant without necessarily seeing their songs ascend up charts dominated by producer-driven EDM and other beat-driven styles of music.ĭespite their disparate sources, these songs add up to a playlist that reflects and sometimes seeks to remedy the unrest that plagues our nation this season. All mentioned here are going the conventional route, eschewing the increasingly popular, Beyoncé-defined strategy of surprise in favor of more measured approaches that play on their established strengths.
From Lady Gaga to John Legend to Bon Jovi, they're returning to the pop arena in hopes of dominating it. This fall brings a bumper crop of new music from major artists who've long traded in the art of relevant timelessness. These artists are others' role models now because they've perfected the art of being timeless in the here and now. Adele embodies sadness, solitude and eventual healing through her North London working woman's accent and slightly rough vocal cords.
Drake follows his search for self and meaningful love into the Cheesecake Factory and onto the dance floors of the Caribbean diaspora. The two best-selling albums of 2016 so far - Drake's Views and Adele's 25 - exemplify their makers' ability to refract pop's classic themes in ways that strike listeners as fresh and real. It's this mix of the familiar and the seemingly unique that allow for pop hits to reach millions of often very different people in ways that feel direct and personal. Popular music is made that way: Its surface meanings are broad and inclusive, while its idiosyncrasies are vehement, upheld within a startling rhythm or a novel sample or a highly relatable voice.
It's easy to read too much into a hit song. Bruno Mars has released the first single, "24K Magic," from his upcoming album of the same name.