5.1.12 - New Music - Gym Class Heroes and Ryan Tedder

Gym Class Heroes are promoting their fifth full length ‘The Papercut Chronicles II’ right now, and it seems that this might be one of their most successful albums to date. While it is actually their lowest charting (of the three that have charted on the Billboard 200), it is their best album in terms of singles.

So far, this album has had their #4-peaking “Stereo Hearts”, which featured Adam Levine of Maroon 5. After that, they had “Ass Back Home (ft. Neon Hitch)” (which you all knew about before it became big thanks to Pop! Bang! Boom!). Now they are going for a third hit single with the Ryan Tedder co-written and vocally assisted “The Fighter”.

The song is a good choice for third single. It isn’t nearly as strong as the other two, but we are all now riding on a wave of hearing the GCH a lot over the past few months, so maybe that will propel the song higher than it normally would have gone?

Anyways, I like the song. I’m on a big pop/rap kick, and the Heroes are really doing it for me lately. I’m also a big fan of Ryan Tedder, and while this hook may be a bit too much like his chorus for Far East Movement’s “Rocketeer”, on which he was also featured, it’s still pretty cool.