Even if they are a band of former boys, Los Angeles-via-Colorado Springs pop rockers don’t care if you think they’re a boy band.
Because, well, first off, they’re not. Despite the similarity of the group’s name to One Direction and Ryan Tedder’s perfume-advertisement aesthetic, OneRepublic is closer to something like America’s than the second coming of The Backstreet Boys.
Second, as they lay out in “Kids,” a single off their upcoming fourth album, “Oh My My” (out Oct. 7 via Interscope), they ain’t kids no more. And that’s a good thing.
“I refuse to look back thinking things were better just because they’re younger days,” Tedder sings on the track a promise of the kind of swelling, synth-laden anthems to come on “Oh My My.”
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Today, the band released an appropriately modern video to go along with the single’s embrace of The Now.
The 360-degree video casts you as an orb floating between the rooms of two young lovebirds. Separated by an alley, they do push-ups, argue with parents, sketch each other and are generally angsty with teen emotion as the alley fills up with dancers, fans and, naturally, a OneRepublic concert.
The music video features 100 actors and was shot in one continuous take. Let’s see One Direction do that.
Check out the video for “Kids” below.
