Can Songland do for Ryan Tedder and OneRepublic what The Voice has for Adam Levine and Maroon 5? Tuesday morning on the Today show, Tedder plugged the new songwriting competition series, where he's a judge and coach. He compares watching songwriters compete to watching chefs create food, which at one time would have been considered uninteresting, but which has turned into an obsession for many people over the past decade.