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After a break in the action, OneRepublic appeared on the big
screen and we listened as Ryan Tedder told the audience that he doesn’t hold back
anything with any performance. He was
right. OneRepublic stormed the stage and
we got to watch as Ryan showed his multitude of talents. He could play the guitar (not to mention, he
could throw one and hit another of his bandmates in the back), he could play
the piano, beat on drums, jump up on large speakers, run up stairs into the
arms of hundreds of screaming tweens and teens, he could yell, jump, dance,
prance…but he couldn’t sing.
Ryan Tedder is
talentless with his voice. Every single
note he tries to sing is at least a 64th off key. The first couple songs were so bad, I was
ready to leave the arena. My favorite
pop song of all time, “Good Life”, was butchered right before my eyes – by the
group that originally sang it. I found
myself trying to sing the notes and get Ryan back on key and yet I failed to
telepathically enable him to do so.
The crowd seemed to catch it and had a hard time responding
to him. Ryan must have felt it and did
what every male singer knows how to do to get the girls back on his side – croon
in falsetto. When he would, he would
elicit a huge scream from the girls in the arena and then lose them
immediately.
If it hadn’t been for the stage presentation of “Apologize”
where the cellist brought the house down with his imaginatively talented cello
playing, and the best drumming of the entire night by their drummer, as well as
the introduction of their new single “If I Lose Myself” (they handily nailed
that one), the crowd would have left in one unit to hit the bathrooms.
Then they sang, “Feel Again”. Ryan Tedder again butchered the tune but the
band saved him and the crowd was able to enjoy one of the better written songs
of the year.
All in all, I would never go to a OneRepublic concert
again. Buying the album allows the music
company to fix Ryan Tedder’s voice and make the music the awesome sound we hear
on the radio every day.
As OneRepublic left the stage, the room was
electrified. Everyone knew the choice
meat of the evening was about to enter.
Ed Sheeran was in the house.
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