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Ryan Tedder Talks OneRepublic Album, Working With Tate McRae & Why Taylor Swift Could ‘Sweep’ the Presidential Election

The OneRepublic frontman talks to Billboard News about working with Tate McRae, the band's new album and writing the official Paris Olympics song.

And while, for a time, he thought that would be the extent of his music career, that experience is what made him the perfect choice to write and produce the official Paris Olympics song in partnership with the Coca-Cola Company. “It was the perfect combination of fun and challenging,” he says of crafting the song titled “Hello World” and performed by Gwen Stefani and Anderson .Paak. Watch the full interview — in which Tedder also discusses his publishing company Runner and which OneRepublic era is his favorite — above.

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