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OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder says "Apologize" almost ruined the band's career

Music sensation Ryan Tedder has revealed that OneRepublic's instant success with their hit single "Apologize" almost derailed the band entirely

He told the Huffington Post that OneRepublic was originally an "alternative band", but ended up finding fame off the back of the pop remix of the aforementioned song so it altered their appeal from the get go:

"That song, ‘Apologize’, was the biggest double-edged sword ever. We were this alternative band, our first album that never came out, you could hear Buckley and Doves influences on it, when we got dropped that was the universe telling me, this isn’t going to work, this version of you isn’t happening, so we made a new album more accessible, but not a blatant pop album and then ‘Apologize’ happened. We went from Coachella and alternative radio stations in the US, to alternative radio stations not even talking to us because of this hit, which was pop. It was a remix!"

"‘Apologize’ was the icing. We had a cake, but the icing was so immense, that it drowned the cake, and so we had to... we almost broke up, we couldn’t be taken seriously any more, number one in 30 countries with our first record, and it didn’t even sound like a band, it sounded like a remix."

Frontman Tedder added: "We, as a band, were on tour, and we had a conversation and said, if ‘Stop and Stare’ doesn’t connect, we’re done. I’m not going to be the one-hit wonder band that’s trying to come back after one song, always playing ‘Apologize’. We put everything on ‘Stop and Stare’, it was the most important song of our career, and if it hadn’t connected, we would have killed the project."

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