Ryan Tedder on BTS, Beyoncé, Rosalía, and OneRepublic’s New Music
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Tedder — frontman of OneRepublic and songwriter of countless hits for others — returns to the couch for the first time since 2020. New OneRepublic music is incoming, but we spend most of the interview discussing the state and evolution of the industry, plus we get the inside track on the artists he’s written songs with and for recently — BTS, Rosalía, Tate McRae — and some of the more historical hits he’s had a hand in (Beyoncé, U2, Lil Nas X, to name a few). Names are dropped, anecdotes are shared and if you’re fan of any of the above, plus Diplo, Avicii, Sombr, Christian music, and Timabland, you won’t wanna miss this.
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| 0:00.0 | By the way, hi, beautiful human. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Zach that's in. |
| 0:07.3 | We welcome to the studio for a third time here. |
| 0:09.9 | Say I had to Ryan Tatter. |
| 0:10.9 | Oh, hey, hey, hey. |
| 0:12.9 | Sit down, sit down, sit down. |
| 0:14.9 | This is, okay, we have a lot to get into and there's a lot to cover because obviously |
| 0:19.6 | we have a whole new era of one Republic. Yeah. And when we first hung out in person in 2016 yeah you made it |
| 0:28.7 | very clear that you guys were not done and there was a lot more ground to cover yeah and you had |
| 0:34.1 | this term calling it like an evergreen yeah band yeah is this second wave essentially a part of that |
| 0:41.8 | it feels like i think i think that you know the evergreen thing you don't know until you're |
| 0:48.8 | old enough or deep enough in your career to know if what you did or what you are what you created |
| 0:53.9 | is evergreen or has |
| 0:55.8 | legs, right? That's always the goal. The goal was, it's a sad thought to think of the day |
| 1:04.1 | with any artist when culture or the world just kind of goes, that was good, we're done, thank you. |
| 1:12.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:12.8 | You don't ever want that to happen. |
| 1:15.2 | I wanted to go out on my terms. |
| 1:17.0 | And so I think that the true testament to that was post-COVID. |
| 1:23.4 | It was kind of like, I feel like for a lot of artists, it's like, we're either going to have a second wind here and have to regain a bunch of momentum or we're not. |
| 1:33.8 | But you also didn't need it. |
| 1:35.4 | Like, let's call it what it is, because the reality of the situation was you were also going back to 2016 from that moment on. |
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