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Released | January 8, 2013 | |||
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"If I Lose Myself" is a song recorded by American pop rock band OneRepublic for their third studio album, Native (2013). It was released as the album's first official single on January 8, 2013. [1] The song was written by Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Brent Kutzle and Zach Filkins. It was produced by Tedder and Blanco while Kutzle served as the co-producer. The song peaked at number 74 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 on the Media Control Charts in Germany. In early 2014, the single was re-released in the UK after the huge success of "Counting Stars".
OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder told Billboard about the song's lyrics: "It's actually about my buried, latent fear of flying and going down in an airplane, having that moment of sheer panic, looking out the window, seeing your life pass before you and somehow finding comfort in the fact that the person next to you is experiencing the same traumatic event." [2]
"If I Lose Myself" runs for 4:01 minutes and has a tempo of 140 beats per minute. [3] [4] [5]
On March 28, 2013, OneRepublic performed "If I Lose Myself" on American Idol with former Idol contestant and NBC Smash star Katharine McPhee. [6] They also performed on Good Morning America , The Ellen Degeneres Show and Rachael Ray , as well as several other concerts and festivals.
In an interview with fuse.tv, Tedder said, "The original concept [for the video] was borrowing from the opening scene of Garden State —the plane's going down and all the oxygen masks drop out and everyone's going crazy... We chased that for a minute but realized... It's one thing to watch that kind of video once, but you don't wanna sit there and hit repeat on watching a plane crash." [7]
The music video was released on January 24, 2013. [8] In the video, a group of people are sent a text from Ryan Tedder, of a picture of a wolf and the numbers 11.11.11 at the bottom. The camera follows the group around the city chasing clues that are spray painted on fire hydrants and street signs around the town that will help them guide their way to a secret concert that OneRepublic is holding. The video cuts to scenes of the band performing the song in a dark, smokey room with colored lights surrounding the room with a bunch of fans dancing. There are pictures of owls and foxes being projected around the room which are allusions to the album cover for Native. At the end of the video, there is a fox being projected on Tedder's face. The video was inspired by the movies 12 Monkeys and The Matrix .
The video has over 90 million views as of January 2021. It is one of the top ten most viewed OneRepublic music videos[ citation needed ].
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Australia (ARIA) [44] | 3× Platinum | 210,000‡ |
Austria (IFPI Austria) [45] | Gold | 15,000* |
Canada (Music Canada) [46] | Gold | 40,000* |
Germany (BVMI) [47] | 3× Gold | 450,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI) [48] | Platinum | 50,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [49] | Gold | 7,500* |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [50] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [51] | Gold | 900,000† |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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Italy | February 8, 2013 | Radio impact | Universal | [52] |
Germany | February 28, 2013 | CD single | [53] |
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Single by Alesso vs. OneRepublic | ||||
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Released | March 30, 2013 | |||
Genre | Progressive house | |||
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Producer(s) | Alesso | |||
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A progressive house version of the song remixed by Swedish producer Alesso was played for the first time at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida on March 24, 2013, and was released in certain countries on March 30, notably Netherlands and Sweden, charting with a version credited to OneRepublic vs. Alesso. [54] "If I Lose Myself" was promoted and released in the United Kingdom and Australia in February 2014. [55] This remix was later featured on both the UK and US reissue of the group's album, Native, as well as Alesso's debut album, Forever (2015).
The remix was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. [56] Alesso explained:
I haven’t been this happy about a remix I’ve done since "Pressure". I feel like I’ve got everything I want in this record, all what I could wish for musically. I do like the original and I wanted a kick that would preserve the ‘live’ feeling energy you get when you listen to it. I worked on it for like a month, going to the studio everyday, wondering what I was going to do, going backward, forward, trying different beats and drums and basslines, everything. I had an idea but didn’t really know how to make it sound the way I wanted. Then I thought, I’m not going to mess around for ages, I want to give it to them straight away. Sometimes people give just a preview, and you never know when it's coming out. This time I wanted to hear their thoughts immediately because I felt so excited by the record. [57]
Chart (2013–2014) | Peak position |
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Netherlands (Single Top 100) [59] | 89 |
Ireland (IRMA) [60] | 14 |
Scotland (OCC) [61] | 6 |
UK Dance (OCC) [62] | 4 |
UK Singles (OCC) [63] | 8 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Sweden (GLF) [64] | 4× Platinum | 160,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [65] | Platinum | 600,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
American pop rock band OneRepublic has released five studio albums, one live album, six extended plays, 32 singles, 10 promotional singles, and 28 music videos. Formed in 2002, OneRepublic first found commercial recognition when their song "Apologize" was released onto Myspace in 2006 and they subsequently became the biggest act on that site. It was remixed by American record producer Timbaland, appearing on his album Shock Value. Released as a single in 2007, the song topped the charts in multiple countries, including Australia and Canada, while also reaching the top three in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has since sold over 3.6 million digital downloads in the United States. The band's debut studio album, Dreaming Out Loud, was released in November 2007. It hit the top ten on the albums charts of countries such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. It also peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard 200, earning a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's second single, "Stop and Stare", peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 while also reaching the top five in Austria and the United Kingdom. The album spawned three more singles: "Say ", "Mercy", and "Come Home".
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