Music Spotlight: “Ordinary Human” by OneRepublic

OneRepublic performed their original single “Ordinary Human” at the premiere of The Weinstein Company’s The Giver starring Brenton Thwaites and Jeff Bridges, and opening in theaters on August 15, 2014. OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder said the band has a connection to The Giver and were proud to be involved as part of the film’s soundtrack. “The Giver is a favorite book of ours and we’re all incredibly thrilled to see it brought to the big screen. It’s a huge honor to contribute our music to a movie that’s not only an amazing story, but also has a cast of actors that we admire so much, like Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep. We hope our fans are just as excited about it as we are,” said Tedder.

Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Capital Cities, Jake Bugg, Bruno Major, and Rixton.

The Plot:

The haunting story of The Giver centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined – a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all – a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.

OneRepublic Performs Ordinary Human at The Giver premiere


-By Rebecca Murray

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