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Ryan Tedder and chums follow up the amazing success of Apologize with their latest track, Stop And Stare.

After the phenomenal success of their collaboration with Timbaland, this is our chance to see what OneRepublic can deliver. Most pundits have been waiting to see what a big hit songwriter like Tedder can deliver.

The result? A big-sounding mid tempo rock anthem with the kind of hook you’d expect from someone like Tedder.

There’s a ‘but’, though. Stop And Stare is very by-the-numbers rock. Coming from the brains behind Leona’s Bleeding Love, I would have expected to hear something much less safe. But according to this interview with a Canadian magazine, Tedder isn’t taking chances with this album.

I’m sort of reluctant to write off the efforts of OneRepublic just yet. I can guarantee that Stop And Stare has all the ingredients for it to be just as massive as Apologize was, and that it’ll be as overplayed on the radio as its predecessor was. It just won’t be the genre re-defining music I was hoping for.