One Republic, Live Park Rishon Lezion, November 8, 2022 (Hai Shalom, PR)
The summer of 2022 of the shows abroad in Israel opened somewhere six months ago with the pair of Maroon 5 concerts in Yarkon Park and closed last night with an hour and a half of "One Republic" in Live Park Rishon Lezion. In a world where alternative rock like the Pixies is a genre that is disappearing From the mainstream, the range between "Maroon" and "Republic", is what remains and what works: mainstream pop-rock, sometimes bathed in electronics, many hits, some of them mediocre, intended for parades and sales, and performances that provide entertainment disguised as rock and gimmicks, for the young crowd thirsty for thrills. And that's okay. It's normal. Maybe it's always been that way.
"One Republic" landed here seven years after the last time ("there was Corona, we couldn't come"), for a show they defined as "the greatest hits" and it turned out to be about 90 minutes quite basic.
About 14 thousand people came to Live Park last night to cheer them on, in traffic jams, in the cold, to the sandy parking lots that turned into mud puddles.
The complex conditions in "Live Park" are known to everyone, and despite this, it has become the national concert hall in the summer months, due to its content.
The rain that fell the morning before the show posed another challenge for everyone.
Lead singer Ryan Tedder prayed that the sky chimneys would stay closed and told fans that the stage was wet and that he was afraid of slipping on it.
"If I slip, I did it on purpose," he said with characteristic humor.
The show is bigger than the songs.
Live Park Rashlatz, yesterday (Photo: Orit Panini)
It is impossible not to like Teder, an excellent performer, a good singer and a proven songwriter.
Despite a series of reservations, it is hard not to be infected by his bursting enthusiasm, which breaks down barriers of cynicism.
Tedder activates the audience (singing in public in four voices), flatters him ("we love you" and "thank you" in Hebrew several times), amuses him, brags about his artistic achievements, sings, plays the guitar, runs on stage, plays the piano, leads the band With him and Nathan Show, "One Republic" is above the standards of its songs and musicians.
In fact, the music of "One Republic" is plain rock, and in the end quite boring.
It's true that Tedder knows how to write hits, but none of their songs are really great.
None of their songs burn under the skin or make someone tattoo words from it on their arm.
"Stop counting dollars and start counting stars"?
come on.
Most of their songs sound like music for advertisements, wallpapers for Galgaltz, or as a background for clips of surfers on the beaches of sunny California, as the opening clip of the show showed on the screens.
To paraphrase Yosef Al-Drour ("Sex in American movies doesn't make you want to have sex, it makes you want to drink Coca-Cola"), the "One Republic" show didn't make me want to plow through them for a month on Spotify, but to go to McDonald's and order Strawberry vanilla milkshake.
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Enthusiasm erupts.
Live Park Rashlatz, yesterday (Photo: Orit Panini)
Ryan Tedder is so enthusiastic about himself, the songs, the audience (he put the word "Israel" in the lyrics of "Good Life") that in the episodes he looks like the over-trying son of Chris Martin and Adam Levine.
He has the tattoos, he has the charisma, he has the papers, he doesn't have the added value that makes a pop star disguised as a rocker, the real thing.
He succeeded in a big way thanks to determination, perseverance and talent, and he wrote his best songs for others.
In the middle of the show he sits down at the piano and blasts with "Halo" which he wrote for Beyoncé, "Bleeding Love" which he wrote for Leona Lewis, "Burn" which he wrote for Ellie Goulding and "Lose Somebody" which he wrote for Kygo.
These are the best moments in the show.
Pure musical talent.
without the surrounding nonsense.
And Tedder, like Tedder, is of course careful to tell under what circumstances each song was written, and that in fact the hit for Beyoncé was written as a love song from her to Jay-Z.
Straight to TMZ.
Do you like gimmicks?
Just before "I Ain't Worried" from the "Love in the Sky: Maverick" soundtrack, a video of Tom Cruise appears on the screens, telling how he asked Teder to write a song for the film and got it ready in record time.
Is it an international rock show or "life like that"?
Ryan, what does the next voice say to you?
Good time, despite everything.
Live Park Rashlatz, yesterday (Photo: Orit Panini)
A lot of electronic sound flows in their rock.
Like Martin and Coldplay, Tedder and his band have learned that in this day and age the charts demand EDM.
It works and the audience enjoys it, and "One Republic", who are not a bad band, know how to perform well and indulge in hits and take the fans out to the mud puddles in the parking lot and the traffic jams on the way home with a sense of good time.
Maybe one day they will grow up, and be "Maroon 5".
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