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<\/div>\n“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":"
Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic says he was “on the verge of a mental breakdown” after spending 200 days on the road last year. In a long Facebook post, Ryan writes about his health and the band’s recent hiatus. The singer-songwriter says he’s spent the last four months writing songs and recovering. OneRepublic are releasing new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[403,137],"tags":[3,6671],"yoast_head":"\n