Light It Up (song)

Light it Up is a song recorded by American band OneRepublic for their third studio album Native (2013). It serves as the sixth track on the 2013 standard edition and seventh of the 2014 re-release. It was written and produced by Ryan Tedder and Brent Kutzle, and is in the key of E major, with a key change to C major. Light It Up was released as a promotional single on March 25, 2013, to coincide with the release of the album.

Release
A 01:32 snippet of "Light It Up" was unveiled on the OneRepublicVEVO YouTube channel on March 6, 2013. The full song was released with the album Native on March 22, 2013.

OneRepublic shared on their YouTube channel two student videos of the song on April 30, 2015.

Background
A video explaining the story behind Light It Up was posted on OneRepublicVEVO's YouTube channel on March 25, 2013. In the video Tedder explains how Light It Up is the most rock-like song to be written for the album Native. The band regard it as a great track to open shows with and that it makes them feel 'cool' to play. Tedder drew comparison to Everybody Loves Me from the previous album It is one of the band's favourites from the record. It starts in the key of E major, but changes to C major after the second chorus.

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Native Table