Mirage (OneRepublic song)
OneRepublic and Mishaal Tamer's promotional single for Assassin's Creed Mirage.
OneRepublic teamed up with Saudi vocalist Mishaal Tamer for "Mirage," a track released on September 22, 2023, to support Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage. It appears as the fifth single on the band's 2024 album Artificial Paradise.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- OneRepublic featuring Mishaal Tamer
- Album
- Artificial Paradise
- Released
- September 22, 2023
- Genre
- Worldbeat, Arabic pop
- Length
- 2:13
- Label
- Mosley; Interscope
- Writer
- Ryan Tedder
- Mishaal Tamer
- Brendan Angelides
- Grant Boutin
- Will Jay
- Coleton Rubin
- Producer
- Boutin; Tedder
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The music video was directed by Tomás Whitmore and shot in Malta inside a tunnel where soldiers would march before going to battle.
- The video was filmed close in time to the band's set at Isle of MTV.
Background and composition
The song was written by Ryan Tedder, Mishaal Tamer, Brendan Angelides, and Grant Boutin, and produced by Tedder and Boutin. It was composed and produced in Bangkok and Tokyo over four days, immediately after the request for the song was received. Tamer was added as a vocalist because the band wanted a Middle Eastern artist on the track; he was touring with OneRepublic on the Artificial Paradise Tour at the time. The lyrics parallel the story of the Assassins in Assassin's Creed, carrying a self-determined theme. Tamer's bridge is in Arabic and, per the official video's translation, describes persevering when others falter.
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