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Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic
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Though the title track from Nate Ruess’s Grand Romantic was nearly chopped into a series of interludes, it came into its current form thanks to producer Jeff Bhasker’s arrangement
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Nate Ruess – Great Big Storm
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[Intro] / Because we’re holding our own in a great big storm / It’s a great big storm and we’re holding our own / Holding our own in a great big storm / It’s a great big storm and
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Nate Ruess – Nothing Without Love
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Nate Reuss, best known as the frontman of the indie pop band Fun., began his solo career with the release of this first single called “Nothing Without Love“, which debuted after
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Nate Ruess – AhHa
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“AhHa” is the second song released in advance of Nate Ruess' 2015 solo album Grand Romantic, released on June 16 2015.
“AhHa” features the layered production that has
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Nate Ruess – Brightside
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Much of Nate Ruess’s “Brightside” was made up on the spot, inspired by the sound of an old keyboard Jeff Bhasker was playing while in the studio:
One day we were just in the
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Nate Ruess – It Only Gets Much Worse
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The ninth track on fun. frontman’s Nate Ruess solo debut, Grand Romantic, out on June 16th (currently streaming on VH1.com and MTV.com) heavily contrasts with some of the more ‘
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Nate Ruess – Take It Back
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Grand Romantic track “Take It Back” diverted from Nate Ruess’s usual songwriting process, with him writing over music already written by Emile Haynie…and singing while drunk, as he
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Nate Ruess – Harsh Light
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While “Harsh Light” was first performed by Fun. on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon in June 2014, its studio release is a part of Nate Ruess’s solo album, Grand Romantic. Ruess
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Nate Ruess – Moment
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“Moment,” from the album Grand Romantic, is inspired by George Michael’s “One More Try” and has somewhat of a country tinge, as Ruess told to Rolling Stone:
The production is
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Nate Ruess – Thunder Road - Live From Spotify NYC
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[Verse 1] / The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves / Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / [Verse 2] / Hey, that's
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Nate Ruess – You Light My Fire
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I wrote LMF really quickly on my way to the studio cause we were moving fast on recording the songs I’d already written, and I knew Jeff would be upset if I didn’t have anything
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Nate Ruess (Ft. Beck) – What This World Is Coming To
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The 6th track off Nate Ruess' solo debut, featuring Beck. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Ruess has said the following about the song and about working with Beck.
I wanted
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fun. (Ft. Janelle Monáe) – We Are Young
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“We Are Young” was the lead single from Fun’s second album Some Nights. It hit #1 on the Hot 100 for 6 straight weeks (from March 17 to April 21, 2012). Lyrically, the song
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Eminem (Ft. Nate Ruess) – Headlights
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Over a beat based on “Mother” by John Lennon, Eminem issues a public apology to his mom on “Headlights”. Eminem and his mother have never really gotten along, as she has been a
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Young Thug (Ft. Nate Ruess) – Global Access
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[Intro: Nate Ruess] / They will try and lock you up / Drag your name down through the mud / Afraid of all that you'll become / 'Cause that's life here in America / So they will try
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P!nk (Ft. Nate Ruess) – Just Give Me a Reason
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“Just Give Me a Reason” is a pop-rock piano-infused power ballad, released as the third single from P!nk’s album, The Truth About Love.
The song views two different perspectives
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Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic (Intro)
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This short introductory track to Nate Ruess’s solo album Grand Romantic began as a melody sung by a choir, which had originally been planned to be woven throughout the album in a
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Nate Ruess – Simple Sound of Morning
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[Verse 1] / There's something about the simple sound of morning / That let's me know that I'm alive / The way the sun is painting every corner / All of my fears start to subside
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Young Thug (Ft. Gunna, Jeff Bhasker & Nate Ruess) – Love You More
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Young Thug recruits frequent collaborator Gunna, as well as multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bhasker and fun. frontman Nate Ruess, for “Love You More,” the antepenultimate track from
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fun. – Some Nights
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The second single from Fun’s album of the same name. It asks what you’re prepared to sacrifice in order to succeed, whether in the music industry or in love.
Given Nate’s first
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The Roots (Ft. Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz & Nate Ruess) – My Shot (Rise Up Remix)
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A remix of “My Shot” from Hamilton, this track features three completely new verses and a familiar hook.
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Brian Wilson (Ft. Nate Ruess) – Saturday Night
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[Verse 1] / Spending my life looking over my shoulder / Try and imagine how life could have been / You've got me thinking 'bout all of the people / Who helped me come out from
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Nate Ruess – I Wanna Be With You
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[Verse 1] / If we were older / We wouldn't have to be worried tonight / [Chorus] / Baby, oh, I wanna be with you so bad / Oh baby, I wanna be with you / Oh yeah, I wanna be with
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fun. – The Gambler
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Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy / All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes / We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden / I don't
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Panic! at the Disco (Ft. fun.) – C'mon
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[Intro: Brendon Urie] / It's getting late, and I / Cannot seem to find my way home tonight / Feels like I am falling down a rabbit hole / Falling for forever, wonderfully wondering
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fun. – Jumping the Shark
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An unreleased song recorded for their 2009 Aim and Ignite, this first verse was modified and used in Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013, on the song Headlights
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fun. – Carry On
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[Verse 1] / Well, I woke up to the sound of silence / The cars were cutting like knives in a fist fight / And I found you with a bottle of wine / Your head in the curtains / And
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Emile Haynie (Ft. Nate Ruess) – Fool Me Too
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Track #6 on Emile Haynie’s debut
album We Fall featuring Fun. frontman Nate Ruess!
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fun. – Stars
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In this incredibly dynamic and somber track, Nate pours out everything that he’s already spent the entire album clarifying–his unease with growing success and fame and his fears of
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Straylight Run (Ft. Nate Ruess) – It's For the Best
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[Verse 1: John Nolan] / And it takes more time than I've ever had / Drains the life from me / Makes me want to forget / As young as I was, I felt older back then / More disciplined
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The Format – On Your Porch
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This song, as many of Nate’s songs are, is about his father and his health and his fear of losing him. Almost a prelude to fun.’s “the gambler”
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