#IMAGINE DRAGONS ALBUM WITH RADIOACTIVE FREE#

So yeah, you're totally right, sometimes it's a year, sometimes it's five years, sometimes you think you know in a year, and then 10 years later it changes and you were saying, 'Oh, you know what. There are songs that I look back on our first record, Night Visions, that I never knew what they were about, and now I do. And the truth is, it is sometimes 10 years later, for sure. I think I'm probably too scared to confront it sometimes.Д«altin: So are there specific songs you look back on now and the meaning has totally changed for you? Then I'm in a healthier place that I actually can confront it. And I really don't, until time passes and I look back. And I'll listen and I'll say, 'Wow, I never realized that, but I was actually writing that about dealing with a feeling of drug addiction.' Or whatever it is that in those moments you would think I would know. I don't know how other people write, I just know for me, I sit down, and the words come out, and a lot of times I don't know, thematically, why I'm saying these things, or what it even means until a year later. What's the story here that I wanna tell? Well, I wanna say love is hard.' Never, I just don't write that way. I've never written a song where I'm thinking, 'I wanna write a song about love.

#IMAGINE DRAGONS ALBUM WITH RADIOACTIVE FREE#

It's like you're writing free hand on a piece of paper, and you're not thinking. The most eye-opening part of my entire career is when I'm writing a song, I'm never conscious fully of what I'm singing about, I'm just saying the words as they come out. Reynolds: So, so true, what you're saying right there. Live Concert Tonight On CBS, Paramount+ Will Celebrate вЂBroadwayвЂ™s BackвЂ™ So, are there moments then on the new album that surprised you as a writer? They're pages in a journal for me.Д«altin: Taking that to Mercury - Act 1, as a writer, I'm a big believer in writing being subconscious, and it leads you.

I've written hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of these songs that are just journal entries. That's been part of my story since I was 12. Even if the band had never gone anywhere, I would have written all these songs, because I need to. It was really all about those core concepts, and it was a cathartic thing for me. And that was the birth of Imagine Dragons. But when you put it into a song it almost feels like you're talking to someone about it, and it was very healing and cathartic for me. And those were not things I was comfortable to talk with anyone else about. And it was my journal, it was a place that felt like a safe zone that I could sing about my feelings, and express how I was feeling. The reason I turned to art was because I was in a spiritual crisis in middle school, and I was really depressed. I definitely think that in my youth Mormonism, my loss of faith in religion, spiritual crisis, dealing with mental health issues, those are all the crux of everything I do with art. вЂњMy FaultвЂќ closes on a ballad where Reynolds sings self-scrutinizing lyrics.Dan Reynolds: Yeah. вЂњOn Top of the WorldвЂќ tones down the rhythmic explosions for a skittering beat built on handclaps and finger snaps, over which Imagine Dragons play an uplifting tune infused with world-beat accoutrements. It starts with Reynolds singing over delicate keyboard parts before the bombastic beats return alongside self-accompanying vocal tracks and subtly trippy electric guitar effects. The following song, вЂњDemonsвЂќ, takes on darker characteristics that have more in common with Coldplay. ItвЂ™s the grappling melody that stands out here-especially in the songвЂ™s chorus, where Dan ReynoldsвЂ™ vocal parts are overlapped to sound like heвЂ™s singing with himself.

Over a contemporary folk-rock foundation on par with the band Train, Alex da Kid layer a huge rumbling bass and equally gigantic beats. вЂњRadioactiveвЂќ opens their Continued Silence EP with an impressive arsenal of bells and whistles. Las Vegas quartet Imagine DragonsвЂ™ first major-label recording finds them working with English hip-hop producer and songwriter Alex da Kid.

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