What makes you run

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22nd May 2021
Tags: Music News OneRepublic Pop Rock

American pop rock band OneRepublic have released their single “Run” on the 5th May, ahead of their upcoming album ‘Human’.

Being released at some point this year the album ‘Human’ will be the fifth studio album in the band’s nineteen-year history, the first being ‘Dreaming Out Loud’ in 2007.

The track “Run” sets an upbeat optimistic tone with the video showing an actor passing through various film sets accompanying lyrics telling to live life to the fullest, because it could stop very soon. “Yeah, one day, well, the sky might fall/ Yеah, one day I could lose it all/ So I run until I hit that wall/ If I learnеd one lesson, count your blessings/ Look to the rising sun and run, run, run”.

Not only did the video get over five hundred thousand views on YouTube in the first 48 hours, already the track is beginning to make traction on TikTok. A sound clip from the chorus is starting to make the rounds with the tag “What makes you #run?”

The band has founded a charity called the Good Life Foundation.

On top of their musical ventures, the band has founded a charity called the Good Life Foundation and their website discusses the aims of this charity. “The OneRepublic good life foundation is a public non-profit organization founded by the members of OneRepublic. The foundation is dedicated to giving those in need of help the chance to live a good life.”

Ryan Tedder, frontman for the band, speaks of how varied and different the charity’s work is. “One day it’s providing clean water, the next it’s medicine or food for kids in need.”

They partner with a variety of other charitable causes.

Alongside this, they partner with a variety of other charitable causes from medical research to humanitarian aid.

OneRepublic’s “Run” is available for download and streaming now, and the album ‘Human’ is available on pre-order, to be released later this year.