The Lucky Ones Tracklist
Pentatonix’s second original album The Lucky Ones was released on February 12th, 2021 and features 11 new original songs.
It marks the group’s first full-length original album in six years. It veers more to mainstream, radio-friendly pop than their self-titled debut album. It shows a maturing sound independent of Christmas music and popular covers of such songs as “Jolene”
and “Imagine”.
“The Lucky Ones” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the meaning of the album?
I think it’s just about life experience. We’ve been a band for 10 years now, so we have dealt with some sad situations, but equally a plethora of very exciting and happy situations. It’s kind of analyzing that and addressing it, taking the highs with the lows, and there are songs about love, loss, and gratefulness. I really do feel like we told our stories in this album.
– Scott Hoying, Atwood Magazine
In a way it is about how we evolved. I like to describe it as a “very present” record. If you compare the new record to the two original records that we have created prior, you can really sense this great maturity. You can really feel that we are dealing with all these really human issues, love, self-awareness, doubt, pain, and loneliness. It’s our emotional journey into adulthood.
– Mitch Grassi, Atwood Magazine
We wanted to be as vulnerable and honest as possible and tell our story of the past 10 years.
– Scott Hoying, USA Today
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What have the artists said about the writing process?
We created this record actually right before COVID hit the world. We finished it right up just as the pandemic was happening. I don’t fully remember how it initially began. Basically, we started working with these two guys, called Matt Koma and Dan Book. They are amazingly talented people. As much as we have inspired each other within the band, it was really nice and creatively refreshing to get a new perspective coming in for this record. They helped us to think about songwriting in a completely new way. We became a little more personal with our songwriting and storytelling.
– Mitch Grassi, Atwood Magazine
The second we started writing with Matt Koma, there was new energy for this record. As Mitch just said, Matt Koma had such a fresh perspective of what Pentatonix could be. That really inspired us. So we ended up writing a bunch of the album with him. The creative collaboration was really natural and profound.
– Scott Hoying, Atwood Magazine
