Ryan Tedder is well over an hour into a high-voltage OneRepublic set at Paris' Le Trianon - the third of three sold-out nights at the venue - and he's just been told something most bands rarely get to hear: "You have 30 more minutes left."
The band jumps at the opportunity to improvise in a set that includes many custom video installations, laser projections and one momentous confetti drop. Tedder takes to a piano illuminated in neon pink and begins to vamp on Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman," having the young French crowd repeat each line ("She gives me money! When I'm in neeeeed!"). But when the time comes for a mashup with Kanye West's "Gold Digger," guitarist Zach Filkins audibly fumbles with the loop pedal, replaying Tedder's vocal off the beat as if it were a broken record.