"I Was King" tells the band's ambition to reach some bigger dreams. "Hard To Love" and "Always Coming Back" are more personal tracks in Ambitions, Taka wrote those songs dedicated to his father. "We Are" and "Jaded", are encouraging tracks for the people who lost their hopes and symbolizes empowerment for achieving their goals. Their second track, "Bombs Away" tells about fighting the inner demons or "you versus yourself". It focuses mostly about achieving dreams, life, family, and struggles of depression. Most of the album themes are more personal topics compared to their previous album 35xxxv. By singing strongly in unison about hope, we wish to reinforce the importance of not giving up." Themes In another interview, Taka said, "We wanted to make an album where we can all sing along together. The overall themes of the album are: "Ambition", the title, yellow is the hope, and the songs are anthemic in quality especially in the choruses. The album artwork is yellow, which is the colour of hope. It was the ambition that was inside of them that pushed them to try new things and to be successful, which became a prevailing theme on the record. He said that the band were at a point in their career where they were trying to break a new market and go worldwide. In an interview with UK rock magazine Kerrang! issue number 1649 dated December 10, 2016, One Ok Rock vocalist Taka explained the three themes on this album: Hope, ambition, and singing together. The Japanese Limited edition album features bonus tracks and a DVD of studio acoustic sessions, while the Ambitions international version CD came with a T-shirt bundle. Sold in both Limited and Regular editions, the album was available for pre-order on iTunes starting November 18, 2016. On January 9, 2017, they released their single "We Are". The song "I was King" was released on December 15, 2016. ![]() After signing with Fueled by Ramen on September 11, 2016, they released the lead single "Taking Off" on Septemthat was used as a theme song for the Japanese movie "Museum", which starred Shun Oguri, and the second single "Bedroom Warfare" on November 18, 2016. The song "Always Coming Back" was featured in NTT Docomo's phone commercial series, "Kanjou no Subete / Nakama". It was released on Janu for the Japanese version album under the Japanese label A-Sketch and on Janufor the international version under the American label Fueled by Ramen. ONE OK ROCK EYE OF THE STORM ASIA TOUR 2020 延期.Ambitions is the eighth studio album by Japanese rock band One Ok Rock. Note that this is the English International version of the album, for the Japanese version, please refer to this page. It also peaked at 1 on the Oricon Albums Chart. Having spawned the singles Taking Off, Bedroom Warfare, I Was King, We Are, and American Girls, the album sold 232,710 copies in its first week, the best performance by any ONE OK ROCK album till date. The yellow in the cover art symbolizes hope. Ambitions is ONE OK ROCKs first album under the international label Fueled By Ramen, which according to Taka was only made possible due to the bands perseverance. After signing with Fueled by Ramen on September 11, 2016, they released their lead single Taking Off on September 16. ![]() The song Always Coming Back was featured in NTT Docomo's phone commercial series, Kanjou no Subete, Nakama. It was released on Janufor the Japanese version album under a Japanese label A-Sketch and on Janufor the English version album under the American label Fueled by Ramen. Ambitions is the eighth full-length album by the Japanese band, ONE OK ROCK. After signing with Fueled by Ramen on September 11, 2016, they released the lead single Taking Off on September 16, 2016. It was released on Janufor the Japanese version album under the Japanese label A-Sketch and on Janufor the international version under the American label Fueled by Ramen. Ambitions is the eighth studio album by Japanese rock band One Ok Rock.
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