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toxin.
June 12th 2013


13036 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"we need to write a song that can be played at a club – bam, here’s ‘Apologize.’"



just noticed this and it doesn't really make sense. i don't think onerepublic was expecting to make a hit when they first wrote apologize. i'm not even sure their version charted, but in any case their version is hardly danceable. the timbaland version serves your point better but i wouldn't say the band wrote the song knowing that timbaland would remix it

anarchistfish
June 12th 2013


30363 Comments


Yeah I'm not sure who would dance to Apologise

toxin.
June 12th 2013


13036 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

they played timbaland's version at my 8th grade graduation dance in 2008 lol.

Sowing
Moderator
June 12th 2013


43963 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah I see your point toxin, I might be better served changing it to timbaland or just removing the reference altogether.

anarchistfish
June 12th 2013


30363 Comments


one time I went to this party and someone put on the pokemon theme and everyone started dancing to it and I was like no I'm not doing this and left

Sowing
Moderator
June 12th 2013


43963 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I would have rocked out

stepmaniac
June 13th 2013


202 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

and here I was thinking I was the only person secretly putting this on my albums-of-the-year list. fantastic review: much like the album, everything flows wonderfully and it packs in a lot of info without ever getting obtuse/oblique.



"Light It Up" is my jam, though...it works for me and I can't place why (though I think it has to do with how gritty it sounds--something I've never ever heard OneRepublic do).

Tyrael
June 13th 2013


21108 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

'one time I went to this party and someone put on the pokemon theme and everyone started dancing to it and I was like no I'm not doing this and left'



Oh hey this was me in my first and second year at uni except for the fact I didn't leave and was embarrased about my friends

cm7com
June 13th 2013


18 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is easily the best album of the year so far.

Sowing
Moderator
June 14th 2013


43963 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I wouldn't go that far. It's definitely one of my most-enjoyed albums of 2013, but there are certainly better ones out there.

RadicalEd
June 14th 2013


9546 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"wouldn't 3.2 round to 3.0?"



I generally round upwards. If something feels better than a 3, it gets a 3.5. Maybe that's mathematically stupid, but I hate math anyway.

PistolPete
June 14th 2013


5303 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

well a 4.1 from sowing is all the convincing i needed

Sowing
Moderator
June 15th 2013


43963 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Well if you hate them and their style of music then this obviously won't be a 4.1 for you

GiantSpeck
June 17th 2013


325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel as though the 29-year-old version of myself is going to look back at my current self and question why I liked this, just as I question why my 19- and 21-year-old selves liked the previous two albums.



That made sense. Maybe.

Sowing
Moderator
June 17th 2013


43963 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

You'll always look back and question; the important thing is whether or not you enjoy it now.

GiantSpeck
June 17th 2013


325 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I like this. I like this a lot. But oddly, I don't like this because it's another OneRepublic album. I like it for the fact it doesn't quite sound like OneRepublic.



This will sound ridiculously odd, but I hear touches of several other artists and groups in this album. I hear Mackelmore's more soulful songs (e.g. "Same Love"), some of Sara Bareilles's newer material ("Brave"), some newer Justin Timberlake ("Mirrors") and bits of Imagine Dragons, which I admit is a bit of a recursive observation.

novanebula361
June 20th 2013


25 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Is anyone else reminded of "The Escapist" by Coldplay when listening to "Don't Look Down"?

Gyromania
December 7th 2013


37146 Comments


surprise of the year for me

toxin.
December 7th 2013


13036 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i am offended that you didnt believe me

Ecnalzen
December 7th 2013


12163 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The only reason I listened to this was cuz of toxy.



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