Rapper Logic received Song Of The Year and Best Music Video nominations for "1-800-273-8255" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards earlier this year, enlisting the help of Alessia Cara and Khalid to deliver the song's powerful suicide helpline message. On July 26 he released "One Day" featuring Ryan Tedder to fight feeling down from a different point of view.
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Logic testifies from his hard upbringing: "I made it out and if I can, you can, no doubt." The song plays with the tension between his pleasure and relief of getting paid millions and the one-to-one connection he tries to establish with the listener, whose struggles he relates to. Skip "the lights and cameras, right now it's just you and me," is his posture, insisting on a close-up. Taking the chorus, Ryan Tedder packs Logic's argument into the song title's two words, never trivializing how much the trip to tomorrow can take out of us today.
A GRAMMY nominee along with his band, OneRepublic, Tedder's three GRAMMY wins are from his work as producer/songwriter for other artists — all wins for Album Of The Year, including for his work with Adele on her sophomore album 21 at the 54th GRAMMY Awards and her follow-up 25 at the 59th GRAMMYs. Tedder also earned a win alongside Taylor Swift for 1989 at the 58th GRAMMY Awards. The man has some good luck with numbers!
These are trying times, and while catching a musical break doesn't meet everything needed, Logic and Tedder are ardent and persuasive. They just might convince people to keep on keeping on, not because it's the only thing they can do but because better days are ahead.
