If I Lose Myself

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"If I Lose Myself"
If I Lose Myself cover.png
Single by OneRepublic
from the album Native
ReleasedJanuary 8, 2013
Recorded2012
Length4:01
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Ryan Tedder
  • Benny Blanco
  • Brent Kutzle
OneRepublic singles chronology
"Feel Again"
(2012)
"If I Lose Myself"
(2013)
"Counting Stars"
(2013)

"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".

Contents

Writing and inspiration

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]

Composition

"If I Lose Myself" runs for 4:01 minutes and has a tempo of 140 beats per minute. [3] [4] [5]

Live performances

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.

Music video

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 ].

Track listing

  1. "If I Lose Myself" – 4:01
  1. "If I Lose Myself" (OneRepublic vs Alesso) – 3:34
  1. "If I Lose Myself" (Album version) – 4:01
  2. "If I Lose Myself" (Love Thy Brother remix) – 4:03

Credits and personnel

Recording [12]

Personnel [12]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "If I Lose Myself"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [44] 3× Platinum210,000
Austria (IFPI Austria) [45] Gold15,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [46] Gold40,000*
Germany (BVMI) [47] 3× Gold450,000
Italy (FIMI) [48] Platinum50,000
New Zealand (RMNZ) [49] Gold7,500*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [50] Gold15,000
Streaming
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [51] Gold900,000

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "If I Lose Myself"
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
ItalyFebruary 8, 2013 Radio impact Universal [52]
GermanyFebruary 28, 2013 CD single [53]

Alesso vs. OneRepublic version

"If I Lose Myself"
OneRepublic Vs Alesso.jpg
Single by Alesso vs. OneRepublic
from the album Forever
ReleasedMarch 30, 2013
Genre Progressive house
Length
  • 3:34 (album version)
  • 5:54 (original Alesso remix)
  • 6:52 (extended Alesso remix)
Label
  • Mosley
  • Interscope
Songwriter(s)
  • Ryan Tedder
  • Brent Kutzle
  • Zach Filkins
  • Benny Blanco
Producer(s) Alesso
Alesso singles chronology
"Years"
(2013)
"If I Lose Myself"
(2013)
"City of Dreams"
(2013)

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]

Track listing

  1. "If I Lose Myself" (OneRepublic vs. Alesso) – 3:34
  1. "If I Lose Myself" (OneRepublic vs. Alesso) (extended remix) – 7:08

Charts

Chart (2013–2014)Peak
position
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [59] 89
Ireland (IRMA) [60] 14
Scotland (OCC) [61] 6
UK Dance (OCC) [62] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [63] 8

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Sweden (GLF) [64] 4× Platinum160,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [65] Platinum600,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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