ryan tedder is my least favorite songwriter and i wish he would stop writing music

i reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally dislike this guy. he's a hack with one trick and it's not even a good trick. he's like the staind of american pop. all of his melodies are so obvious and his sentiments & lyrics so elementary, and all his sappy, gloopy, loping ballads make me want to stop listening to the radio. "apologize" was one of the worst songs, or so i thought, but then he released others. they were all the worst, too. i can recall the melodies of his songs like i can recall the melody to "ring around the rosey", and often his songs, like "love like this" - one of the tiresome and irritating songs ever - are just as childish. i used to like jordin sparks as a radio artist but then she released "battlefield", written by tedder. it is loud and boisterous but cripplingly empty, and it asks the singer to not so much sing but yell, except that what is being yelled is such a paper thin view of emotion and feeling that it's patently ridiculous. also it's a direct rip off of a much better and more famous song. as a fan of pop i almost find it offensive. as if he needed to prove that he was even more idealess than we thought, he also sold kelly clarkson and beyonce the same song. it's like he's trying to become the human embodiment of a cookie cutter. neither are good. none of his productions have ever been interesting and in fact they are becoming exponentially more bland. his songs are weighing down pop radio and i wish he would stop working with r&b artists so he can stop so there will be at least some tedder-free stations on the radio.

i like "bleeding love" a lot but in the context of tedder's career i'm willing to chalk up its greatness to uh.... jesse mccartney! \(o_O)/

anyway thx yall. this has been building inside me. i really dislike ryan tedder and i hope i find some sympathizers http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headz.gif

destroy the indefensible

I still like "Apologize" and "Bleeding Love" but everything else you list is a bag of sick.

"Halo" is alright

Not really!

i like "love like this"! nothing much to it, but it's sweet enough, and i have a lingering affection for natasha bedingfield. the rest of it, tho, ehhhhh

I like bleeding love but it's not like loads of other people couldn't have written that one, total grilled cheese sandwich of a song you know

so basically since all of his songs are the same, everybody picks one to like and the rest is garbage

The thing that makes "Bleeding Love" stand out is the lyrics, which Jesse McCartney wrote. So basically dude can suck it.

halo's the best song of his bunch, but damn that's not saying much

I heard "Apologize" on the bus this morning and remembered that it's the best Enrique Iglesias song he never recorded.

hahahahahahahahahahaha omg I'm listening to "Already Gone" right now and no wonder Kelly Clarkson is pissed off

basically there is a line, and the dude from the fray is on the "yes okay i can dig this piano ballad" side and ryan tedder is on the "there is no justice that you have eyeballs but stevie wonder is still blind" side, and on top of it all, the fray guy is the one confined to his own band's songs. (not like i'm itching to hear what the guy from the fray would write for beyonce, im just saying)

this is unbelievable hahahahahahahahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_j35L5bHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z082xUBdzrM

ryan tedder is on the "there is no justice that you have eyeballs but stevie wonder is still blind" side

FTW

long day, dan?

yeah, I'm still at work

if you play the two songs simultaneous it sounds like one song, not kidding

i mean i know that's the point, but it's still uncanny

Why didn't he also sell it to Pink and Rihanna, is what I want to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIi5oJ53Gyw

^^ he actually has done something uptempo and clubby, but it's also one of the most horrifyingly awful songs I've ever heard and is way worse than his predictable ballads

battlefield kind of makes my stomach turn (the lyrics). and halo just stinks.

Why does love always feel like a battlefield
A battlefield, battlefield
Why does love always feel like a battlefield
A battlefield, battlefield

...

omg i remember seeing that ashley tisdale video once and hating it viciously, no thanks for reminding me :(

Why does love always feel like a battlefield
A battlefield, battlefield
Why does love always feel like a battlefield
A battlefield, battlefield

...

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, July 27, 2009 7:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

I'm no lyricist or anything, but if you threw $20K my way I could come up with a whole album of stuff better than "Battlefield." Maybe even the music too... I'll throw that in for free.

Ryan Tedder is the worst of the worst.

It's too late to apologize.

u cut me open dawg

guess you better go and get yr armor

hard to say w/r/t that ashley tisdale song because that is a dreadful performance by her.

for a while i've been trying to figure out what's so wrong about halo. it just feels sooo sappy. it really makes me feel a little sick.

me too

also it sounds very pious

Angry Tedder is angry.

I love you, Kelly.

that second kristinia debarge single that's a direct rip off of "one step at a time" is a tedder joint, and i like it a lot, aside from the fact that the lyrics are predictably elementary. i like it aesthetically at least.

i like this thread. listening to the kelly c single last night was when i realised i actually hated tedder, having given him a bit of a free pass due to working with artists i like. i always knew nothing good could come of the timbaland/onerepublic hook-up (tho).

the weird thing about 'bleeding love' vis-à-vis the rest of tedder's catalogue is that it's quite a restrained song - when i first heard it i was surprised at how restrained leona was, actually. none of the YELLING that characterises so many of his efforts.

hey I think 'Halo' is great, but hearing 'Already Gone' (which is fine itself) I see that's all down to Beyoncé (and her crazy range) and the synthy bit, which I'm going to assume wasn't Ryan Tedder, so yeah fuck that guy.

Really like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t4FGuCvGmY&feature=player_embedded

OneRepublic has the #2 song in the country. it is their SIXTH multi-platinum single in America. christ.

Of their singles it's their least offensive. His coldbloodedness about following chart trends produced a listenable "folk"/Arcade Fire hybrid with a good chorus. Clear Channel radio could be suckering me too: I've heard it more often than any song the last six weeks.

"Feel Again" (one of the singles that stalled out at only 1 million in sales) was my favorite.

when i started hearing this on the hot ac station several months ago all i thought was "weeeeell at least it'll remain only on this station" but alas now it's everywhere :(

fuck this guy afaic

"apologize" still so sick though

Halo is great, Is This All? is great, Counting Stars is kind of great. I'm confident that one of the 50+ songs he'll be responsible for over the next two years will be good too.

his recent crimes include "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" and the Demi Lovato single that starts with the line "be still my heart 'cause it's freaking out." he's done some good ones lately too though (Beyonce's "XO," Maroon 5's "Maps," Colbie Caillat's "Hold On").

https://31.media.tumblr.com/51c5ab5be3af8d8f0b483a37d9ee9339/tumblr_mvcicweBhV1swo9cuo1_250.gif

hate "maps" (and all maroon 5 singles from post "misery" except "one more night")

-from

what u don't like "give a little more"

http://33.media.tumblr.com/6e891b446ab2deaa6b5dd5e0f2ce1024/tumblr_nce7ie1mOJ1tcxpeio1_500.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1PsqBmbvM

song has nothing to do with tedder but i'm pretty sure it's the best maroon 5 single

do you think Levine and Tedder dress each other

absolutely

forgot "give a little more." "give a little more" is pretty good. "give a little more" is certainly not "this love," "sunday morning," "misery," "harder to breathe," or even "one more night," though. "give a little more" is also not "makes me wonder."

"give a little more" is levine's decent prince impression. "until you're over me" is his best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJWVPt_XwEg&list=PL37150FEE1478748C

(tfw you realize maroon 5 is the type of band to have ace outtakes)

damn why is that a b-side

Halo is pretty great until you scrutinize the lyrics, where, as OP points out, you'll find... nothing

maroon 5 fascinates me because they're the epitome of a very good pop band that struggled for years with their own celebrity (and the vapidity that implies/entails) before finally capitulating to the dark side. up through their third album they were vehement about being a "real band" and writing all their songs themselves with maybe the occasional help from a (not-hired-gun) friend (i think someone from phantom planet helped with "misery" or something??). and then when that tanked they had a cold introspective few months before returning, scarcely a year later, with a dance album full of benny benassi tunes etc. they ultimately chose mindless commerce, though for a long time they were a band capable of bringing pretty great craft to the uber-mainstream time and again.

anyway, point being, the outtakes from their (pretty crappy) second album are a symptom of that gradual exchange at work. all 6 or 7 of those songs were much stronger than the whole record they failed to make (except "little of your time," which fucking hauls ass in a very concise 2 minutes), and clearly at some point during the process they decided fuck it, we just need to load this thing up with potential hits. "until you're over me" is my favorite of the bunch but there's like 6 or 7 of them and they're all at least very respectable.

back on topic: tedder is so awful (i will happily blame him for "burn," that garbage ellie goulding song) but really both versions of "apologize" stand up as very nice hits from maybe the last period of time american radio had a pretty good batting average.

hard for me to hear "apologize" as anything other than garbage

they were always about mindless commerce -- they just decided to stop being autonomous about it.

Also: "Maroon 5" at this point matter as much to Adam Levine as "10,000 Maniacs" did to Natalie Merchant in 1992.

songs like "this love," "harder to breathe" and "sunday morning" aren't mindless. they're not high art and they're not even necessarily "personal songs" but they're super well written, performed, produced. up through album 3, maroon 5's greatest hits album would've been their critical redemption.

"animals," on the other hand, is fucking mindless.

but yes they've always wanted to be the huge group that they are, i just found their identity issue to be very interesting, esp. given that it produced some improbably great pop songs. and now i'm even more interested in them as a total shitshow sellout act that caved to changing/narrowing market tastes, even though i detest the music now.

I admire the early stuff from a distance but only love "Makes Me Wonder." I can't get past what a mosquito-sized voice Levine's got and how unsuited it is for balladry.

Tedder played himself on an episode of Smash and there was a hilariously awkward scene where Katharine McPhee tried unsuccessfully to say something like 'omg Ryan Tedder, i am the BIGGEST OneRepublic fan' with conviction.

have we talked about the fact that RT is occasionally credited as Ryan "Ryghteous" Tedder? RYGHTEOUS!

Poor Ryghteous Tedders

lol

I will be greatly amused if the thread title is original and was not changed at some point.

Yep, this checks out.

http://i.imgur.com/bOd9DZF.png

A moving tribute.

this guy's singing is a joke.

i have never heard of this person

"lately i've been, i've been losing breath" -- ryan tedder performing on that one awards show, singing the first line