An Imagine Dragons song is almost like a science: a half-rappy verse, a disjunctive Dirty Projectors-ish musical trick or two and an absolutely explosive chorus.
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Unfortunately Imagine Dragons’ actual vision is one that is milquetoast, formulaic, nearly anonymous, free of any real lyrical insight.
“I’ve been wondering/When you gonna see I’m not for sale/I’ve been questioning/When you gonna see I’m not a part of your machine.” They pinball between genres but aren’t really trend-hoppers –save that terrible Kendrick Lamar collab and “Cool Out” which seems like it’s begging for a Marshmello remix. Bravado vocalist Dan Reynolds sings “Fill my cup with endless ambition/And paint this town with my very own vision” in “Machine,” and you could make a very strong case that Imagine Dragons have accomplished ubiquity in an uncompromising way. They’ve managed to thrive in the genre-agnostic, post-everything pop sphere without doing anything too obnoxious like interpolating “Heart and Soul” (Train), sampling The Munsters theme (Fall Out Boy) or unnecessarily cramming in a clashing Cardi B verse (Maroon 5). Dre producer Alex Da Kid), and the majestic stomp of marching band percussion. Their fourth album, Origins, was just released and it already has one song tapped as ESPN’s “college football season anthem” (“Natural”) and another included on Ralph Breaks the Internet (“Zero”).Īs a sound and signifier, Imagine Dragons are laudably, powerfully modern: a mix of the bombast beloved in Canadian indie rock, blasts of contemporary EDM (often courtesy of Eminem/Dr. They’re the signifier of phoenix-rinsing triumph in Hunger Games, Transformers, DC universe and Angry Birds films in commercials for video games, headphones and cars for soccer, football, rugby and Wrestlemania.
Since the explosion of “Radioactive” in 2012, pop-rocktronica band Imagine Dragons has been America’s excitement wallpaper.
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