''Waking Up'' is the second studio album by American
pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...
band
OneRepublic
OneRepublic is an American pop rock band formed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2002. It consists of lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Tedder, lead guitarist and violist Zach Filkins, rhythm guitarist Drew Brown, bassist and cellis ...
, released through
Mosley Music Group
Mosley Music Group (MMG) is a record label founded and formed by producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley. Founded in 2006, the imprint is distributed exclusively by Interscope Records and Def Jam Recordings.
History
The label was created after Timbala ...
and
Interscope Records
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on November 17, 2009. Despite being released to mixed reviews, the album peaked at number 21 on the
''Billboard'' 200.
Lead singer
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. As well as being the lead vocalist of the pop rock band OneRepublic, he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists since th ...
has stated in an interview that Jerrod Bettis, OneRepublic's former drummer, had come up with the idea for the album cover while in
Seattle
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.
Background
After the success of OneRepublic's debut album, ''
Dreaming Out Loud'', they began work on a second album in 2008. Lead singer
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. As well as being the lead vocalist of the pop rock band OneRepublic, he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists since th ...
announced on July 21, 2009, that the band's second album would be completed five weeks from that date which was August 25, 2009. On September 6, 2009, the band posted a low-quality version of the first single from their second album, "
All the Right Moves", while a higher quality version could be found on their
MySpace page. On September 8, 2009, the band posted samples of 4 of their songs from the new album onto their MySpace page. Eleven songs were announced to make up the track list, which was officially confirmed by Amazon's German site on November 3, 2009.
Promotion and release
''Waking Up'' was released through
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M imprint. Founded in late 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field as a $20 million joint venture with Atlantic Records of Warner Mus ...
on November 17, 2009, in North America, November 20, in Australia, while being released on November 13 in Germany and not until January 18, 2010, in the United Kingdom. A deluxe version of the album was released exclusively in North America at the same time as the standard version. The album was completed on August 25, 2009. The lead single from the album, "
All the Right Moves", was released on September 29, 2009, for airplay and officially released on October 6, 2009. The lead single in Germany, "
Secrets
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Secrecy is often controvers ...
" was released on October 30, 2009, and it was released as a single in the US on June 1, 2010.
The first single from ''Waking Up'', "All the Right Moves", was released for radio airplay on September 29, 2009, and then received an official release digitally on October 6, 2009. The music video for the single was released on October 8, 2009. It has peaked at number 18 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. OneRepublic then digitally released "Everybody Loves Me" on October 20, 2009, after having already posted a snippet of the song along with three others on their MySpace page. "Good Life" was then released digitally on November 10, peaking at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
"
Secrets
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Secrecy is often controvers ...
" was released as the lead single from the album in Germany for airplay on September 21, 2009 and was released digitally on October 30, 2009, in Germany. It was also released on November 3, 2009 as the album's second digital single in the US. "Secrets" was released as a single in Germany due to the fact that it is being used as the title song in the film ''
Zweiohrküken
''Rabbit Without Ears 2'' (German title: ''Zweiohrküken'', "Two-Eared Chick") is a 2009 German romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Til Schweiger. A sequel to 2007's ''Rabbit Without Ears'' (''Keinohrhasen''), it was co-writte ...
'', the sequel to ''
Keinohrhasen
''Rabbit Without Ears'' (German title: ''Keinohrhasen'', "No Ear Rabbits"), is a 2007 German romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Til Schweiger. Co-written by Anika Decker, and starring Nora Tschirner and Schweiger himself, ...
'', which used the band's song "
Apologize" as the title song. The song was also featured in the 2010 film
''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''.
The song "Marchin On" was selected to support the German TV channel
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
and serves as the channel's official
FIFA 2010 World Cup song. It was released for digital download in Germany on June 18, 2010.
The song "Good Life" is featured on the advertisements for the films ''
Eat Pray Love
''Eat Pray Love'' is a 2010 American biographical romantic drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, based on Gilbert's 2006 memoir of the same name. Ryan Murphy co-wrote and directed the film, which was released in the United St ...
'' and ''
One Day'', as well as advertisements for Disneyland and Honda.
The song “Everybody Loves Me” was featured on the soundtrack for the video game
NBA 2K16
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.
Critical reception
The album received lukewarm reviews upon release from
music critics
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. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic
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gave the album 2.5/5 stars and criticized it for having "no joy, only dogged diligence, an alienating insistence that texture means more than warmth or melody." Matthew Cole of ''Slant Magazine'' gave the album 1.5/5 stars and stated that "OneRepublic's music just isn't that interesting".
Conversely, August Brown of ''The Los Angeles Times'' gave the album 3/4 stars and acknowledged that "the band needs to stop mistaking the cello as an inherently "meaningful" instrument" but ultimately concluded that "OneRepublic is using
imbaland'sold tricks even better than he is lately. Sputnikmusic also gave the album a 3/5 "Good" rating and summarized that "further ambition results in marginal progression, but Coldplay need not fear just yet."
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Mike Diver criticized the lyrics for being (among other things) "saccharine and suffocating of faux-emoting", but admitted that "despite its obvious shortcomings, it’s hard to criticize
he album
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too heavily", ultimately concluding that it's "oddly admirable".
The album currently holds a 61 score on
Metacritic
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based on nine critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Track listing
All songs written and produced by
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. As well as being the lead vocalist of the pop rock band OneRepublic, he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists since th ...
, except for where noted.
Notes
* signifies an additional producer
* signifies a co-producer
* "Secrets" incorporates "
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007" by
Johann Sebastian Bach
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.
Personnel
OneRepublic
*
Ryan Tedder
Ryan Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. As well as being the lead vocalist of the pop rock band OneRepublic, he has an independent career as a songwriter and producer for various artists since th ...
– lead vocals, piano, rhodes,
rhythm guitar
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, programming
*
Zach Filkins
Zachary Douglas Filkins (born September 15, 1978) is an American musician, actor and songwriter. He is a guitarist for the pop rock band OneRepublic.
Biography
Early life
A significant part of Filkins's childhood was spent intensely studying c ...
– lead guitar, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
*
Brent Kutzle
Brent Michael Kutzle (born August 3, 1985) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and film composer originating from Fountain Valley, California. He is the bassist and cellist for the pop rock band OneRepubli ...
– bass guitar, cello, acoustic guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
*
Drew Brown – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar,
glockenspiel
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The glo ...
*
Eddie Fisher
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– drums,
cajón
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,
percussion
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Additional musicians
* The London Studio Orchestra – strings on tracks 7, 8, 9
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
Official website
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2009 albums
Interscope Records albums
Interscope Geffen A&M Records albums
OneRepublic albums
Albums produced by Ryan Tedder
Albums produced by Mikal Blue