American pop rock

One Republic is an American pop rock band from Colorado Springs, Colorado, formed in 2002 by Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins, the band achieved commercial success on Myspace as an unsigned act.

In the fall of 2003, after playing shows throughout the Los Angeles area, a number of record labels approached the band with interest, but they ultimately signed with Velvet Hammer, an imprint of Columbia Records. They made their first album with producer Greg Wells during the summer and fall of 2005 at his studio, Rocket Carousel, in Culver City, CA. Originally scheduled for release on 6/6/06, they were dropped by Columbia 2 months before the album ever came out.

In 2007, OneRepublic released their debut album, Dreaming Out Loud. Its lead single, "Apologize" was notably remixed by Timbaland, becoming a huge international success, reaching number one in sixteen countries, subsequently earning them a Grammy Award nomination. The second single, "Stop and Stare" mirrored its predecessor's success. The album was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The band's second album, Waking Up (2009), produced the successful singles, "All the Right Moves", "Secrets", "Marchin On", and "Good Life", the latter reaching the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100.

OneRepublic's third album, Native (2013), became the band's first top ten album on the Billboard 200, and highest charting album to date, charting at number four. The lead single, "If I Lose Myself" charted within the top ten in several countries, while the album's third single, "Counting Stars", became the band's most successful single in recent years, obtaining top five placements in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.S. and the UK. This marks their highest charting single in the United Kingdom to date. It has also peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, matching their highest peak of "Apologize" in 2007.

Song Talk

I believe this song is about a man who has fallen in love with a woman. The woman never wanted to be in a romantic relationship with the man, but the man can’t help himself. Now the man wants the woman to burn the bridges down, meaning cut off contact with him. Either because the man can’t do it himself, or he realizes it’s for the best.

“Look for my heart, you stole it away” is my favourite part of this song. He’s so in love with this person and they have such a pull towards each other that he’s had his heart stolen from his chest, for me this song in general means that there was a man that loves a lot a woman, so much that he would do everything to have a relationship with her, but the woman realizes that she doesn’t want him as a boyfriend, so now this man is asking for help to forget this woman that he loves so much

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