{"id":315048,"date":"2017-04-30T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315048"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:57:11","slug":"ryan-tedder-was-on-verge-of-a-mental-breakdown-after-anxiety-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315048","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tedder was ‘on verge of a mental breakdown’ after anxiety battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic says he was “on the verge of a mental breakdown” after spending 200 days on the road last year.<\/p>\n

In a long Facebook post, Ryan writes about his health and the band’s recent hiatus.<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter says he’s spent the last four months writing songs and recovering.<\/p>\n

OneRepublic are releasing new single Vacancy this week but have no current plans to release an album.<\/p>\n

Ryan, who’s written and produced for Adele, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, talks in the post about the tour supporting OneRepublic’s album, Native, which lasted two and a half years and saw them visit more than 50 countries with 225 tour dates.<\/p>\n

“[We went] straight from that into promo for Wherever I Go in April 2016,” he writes.<\/p>\n

“About 3-4 weeks into the promo for the second single Kids I hit a physical, emotional, psychological wall.<\/p>\n

“I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, not sleeping, on meds, not happy, anxiety on a crippling level and it was triggered from sheer exhaustion.”<\/p>\n

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“I looked at a calendar, realised I had been gone 200 days of 2016 and still had three more weeks of being gone. From my family, my wife, my kids, my friends, basically my life.<\/p>\n

“I also realized that had been the last 10 years. At that moment I wanted to quit, and almost did.”<\/p>\n

The Grammy Award winner says that the pressure to release albums was making him ill and wants to change the way OneRepublic releases music from now on.<\/p>\n

“I had the idea even before our last album of releasing “songs”… when we want, as often as we want, however we want. Not albums, songs.<\/p>\n

“It’s always frustrated me that by the time u get to a 3rd, 4th or 5th single off an album that song may have been produced 2-3 years ago….and sounds dated.<\/p>\n

“Albums aren’t built to be flexible or get out of their own way. Starting tomorrow we will be dropping new music as often as humanly possible…”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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