"All The Right Moves" by "OneRepublic." I love the song and the video. So, I decided to post the music video, together with the song meaning and lyrics. The beautiful element of the video is the masquerade ball performance.

SONG MEANING

According to OneRepublic, they intentionally made the music video to be abstract so that the song will be open for interpretation. So, it's difficult to give an accurate interpretation by combining both the lyrics and the video. Somehow, I have an interpretation based on the lyrics.

This song can be about OneRepublic themselves, having goal in competitive industry and they feel not good enough to reach above or higher than the top musicians. Even if they become the best, someone better will appear to bring them to the lower spot. So yeah, this song is rather negative than positive, LOL. Anyway, if you love music, you will surely want to sing along with this song. :)

This song is not limited only to music industry, it can be applied to other fields especially politics. If your competitor knows the right people, then you will go down. Besides that, even if everything seems to be turning well, sooner or later your competitor or enemy will turn you back down before you reach your goal.

The second verse is self questioning. The writer ask himself, if the band is good enough to make it to the spotlight or if the band will just remain normal, like the most bands out there. As I said, this song is negative, it says hard times can be possible and success can be possible too; however, success is far from reach.

As the song reaches the end, the writer says that although they are not the best, they will remain to be unique and will not change their style in making music.

It's kind of a self deprecating anthem and it's about how we've felt as a band at certain times. When OneRepublic came out, because of the other writing and producing I'd done, and because Timbaland was associated with our first single, we got completely discarded by the critics. Even if OneRepublic made the coolest art record ever, we'd never be able to erase the memory of how we broke. This song's aimed at all the cool bands that we'll never be. - Ryan Tedder

LYRICS

All the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down

Let's paint the picture of the perfect place
They've got it better then when anyone's told you
They'll be the King of Hearts and you're the Queen of Spades
Then we'll fight for you like we were your soldiers
I know we've got it good, but they've got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up, but soon they'll take us down
Before anybody's knowing our name

They've got all the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down

Do you think I'm special? Do you think I'm nice?
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?
Between the noise you hear and the sounds you like
Are we just sinking the ocean of faces?
It can't be possible, the rain can fall
Only when it's over our heads.
The sun is shining everyday, but it's far away
Over the world that's dead.

[CHORUS]

It don't matter what you see
I know I could never be
Someone that'll look like you.
It don't matter what you say
I know I could never face
Someone that could sound like you.