WELCOME
new age new age
iMY feel it in BONES I’ve never had a very strong relationship with music. Growing up, and even through high school, all the music I listened to came directly from what my family listened to, and there wasn’t a lot of music I didn’t like. From P!NK to Daughtry to Dave Matthews Band, I was completely influenced by the music listened to those around me. Whenever the topic of music would come up, I avoided questions, feeling like I didn’t really know anything about music. I didn’t know artist names or song titles. I didn’t particularly understand the separation between certain genres. So I avoided conversations like the plague.
blow.
enough to make my systems
dont its get dark inside too That s' w demons here my hide...
night visions Radioactive Tiptoe It’s Time Demons
On Top Of The World Amsterdam Hear Me Every Night
Bleeding Out Underdog Nothing Left To Say Cha-Ching
THEN I
SHOT Shot SHOT
A HOLE THROUGH EVERYTHING I LOVE
every single thing that I love
smoke +mirrors Shots Gold Smoke and Mirrors I’m So Sorry
I Bet My Life Polaroid Friction It Comes Back To You
Dream Trouble Summer Hopeless Opus The Fall
NO TOMORROW WITHOUT A HERE’S TO MY FUTURE GOODBYE TO
YES TER DAY
I was very much a casual music listener, often preferring silence, or listening to someone else’s playlist. But the first band I truly liked for my own reasons was Imagine Dragons. When their song Radioactive exploded in popularity, and shot them into fame, of course everyone was hearing them on the radio. But while I still thought Radioactive was a good song, I played their entire album on repeat for months until I knew all of the words to all of the songs. It was the first album I’d ever listened to in which there was not a single song I didn’t like. And so began my (casual) love for Imagine Dragons. I find their music to be extremely inspirational and motivational, and can help me to get myself out of tough ruts at times. I think, personally, the rawness of emotion in their songs really resonated with me. I was a fairly quiet person, keeping to myself most of the time, but their expression of deeply emotional themes gave words to feelings I had never been able to express.
Imagine Dragons
is a great band for anyone who has a dream
Since the band’s conception, it has always been about live performance for them, wanting to be on stage, wanting to play around the globe. And yet, they are very humble about their fame, and express how important their fans are to them. They don’t take it for granted. Their first two albums are filled with dark themes, masked by heavy drums and catchy, almost pop-y, melodies. But their third album brings a dramatic shift to much simpler tracks, and lighter themes, even just by song name. Even the title Evolve suggests that a major change happened. Singer Dan Reynolds talks in interviews about his depression that brought about a necessary one year break from music between the two albums, and when he returned, the changes were evident. Reynolds says the album art for Evolve “means coming out of a place of darkness and arriving at a place of color, almost being healed and rejuvenated. … I came home, did a lot of work on myself and got to a place where the world was bright and colorful and beautiful and every day was exciting.”
DON'T
YOU TELL ME
WHAT
YOU THINK THAT I CAN BE
I’M THE ONE
AT THE SAIL
I’M THE MASTER OF MY SEA
evolve I Don’t Know Why Whatever It Takes Believer Walking The Wire
Rise Up I’ll Make It Up To You Yesterday Mouth Of The River
Thunder Start Over Dancing In The Dark
WELCOME
TO THE THE N TO
NEW AGE NEWAGE
YOU MADE ME A YOU MADE ME A BELIEVER
BELIEVER
YOU BREAK ME DOWN YOU BUILD ME UP BELIEVER
BELIEVER