Current Events > Anyone else absolutely love Imagine Dragons?

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Melodic sensations. Evolve is the landmark rock-pop album of this generation, really.

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Millenial Dave Matthews Band

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They are good in terms of hitting notes and shit but it's all so generic.

There's like no heart or soul or ooomph! behind anything they do.

I mean look at I Want To Break Free by Queen or Smooth Criminal by Micheal Jackson.

Hell look at Bush Was Right by these douchebags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI

Even if the technical quality of the music and the beats and the lyrics are worse. You can just FEEL the passion and the fact they want to sing and express themselves. It's got heart and soul and energy.

Imagine Dragons just feel like a marketing creation doing paint by numbers music to make money

Which is fine but It doesn't do much for me.

I bet if you asked anyone in Imagine Dragons what any one of their songs was about, they would glaze over and go "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrmmmmmmm......... it.. errrrrrrrrrm..... it's like.... life and stuff!"
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I've heard a couple of their more popular songs on the radio and they sound like generic trash.

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I like a couple of their songs, but it's gotten to the point where every new one I hear feels like it was specifically written to be used in a sports commercial.
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There was one song I think I was ok with hearing but generally, they sound like generic shit.

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Another recommendations for fans of excellent contemporary rock n' roll bands: American Authors

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AlleyViper620 posted...

I like a couple of their songs, but it's gotten to the point where every new one I hear feels like it was specifically written to be used in a sports commercial.

LMAO.

UnfairRepresent posted...

They are good in terms of hitting notes and shit but it's all so generic.

There's like no heart or soul or ooomph! behind anything they do.

I mean look at I Want To Break Free by Queen or Smooth Criminal by Micheal Jackson.

Hell look at Bush Was Right by these douchebags:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI

Even if the technical quality of the music and the beats and the lyrics are worse. You can just FEEL the passion and the fact they want to sing and express themselves. It's got heart and soul and energy.

Imagine Dragons just feel like a marketing creation doing paint by numbers music to make money

Which is fine but It doesn't do much for me.

I bet if you asked anyone in Imagine Dragons what any one of their songs was about, they would glaze over and go "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrmmmmmmm......... it.. errrrrrrrrrm..... it's like.... life and stuff!"

Nailed it.
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16-BITTER posted...

Lmao

Gottem

Also no I mean the songs can be catchy sure but pretty boring overall after the first listen you never really need to hear it again

What I'd give to be able to look into the mind of someone who unironically likes Thunder.

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Captain_Qwark posted...

Then imagine dragon deez nuts across your face lolololol

lmaooooo
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Good music but it all sounds too similar and redundant. I have three Imagine Dragons songs on my phone and I feel like that's all I need.
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One of the worst bands to gain popularity in a long time.
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Imagine Dragons is all about that ephemeral pop shit. UR sums it up pretty well, actually.

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The only thing of any quality they've ever put out was that Friction song, and that was only because of the way it was used in the Mission Impossible Fallout trailer.
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I like them well enough, but not one of my top 5 bands
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SailorGoon posted...

What I'd give to be able to look into the mind of someone who unironically likes Thunder.

Hi!

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They trash
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I read that as, "Anyone else imagine loving dragons?"

It's Time is a really good song and I won't hear otherwise
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I like a lot of their songs, but also,
SailorGoon posted...

What I'd give to be able to look into the mind of someone who unironically likes Thunder.

Thunder is awful.

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DaveTheUseless posted...

Another recommendations for fans of excellent contemporary rock n' roll bands: American Authors

Now I know youre trolling
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Imagine Dragons just feel like a marketing creation doing paint by numbers music to make money

GallisOTK posted...

Good music but it all sounds too similar and redundant. I have three Imagine Dragons songs on my phone and I feel like that's all I need.

This basically sums up my thoughts on the band too. Some good, but mostly mediocre and repetitive.

Hambo the Hog posted...

Thunder is awful.

Also this though, fuck that song.
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MaxEffingBemis posted...

Now I know youre trolling

Nuh uh.

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"Best Day of My Life" is one of my personal anthems

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The Nickleback of a generation.

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They get the big ew. Hearing that commercial of Natural without any instruments really made me hate the lead singers voice.
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Really grateful for "Natural". Another sportstime anthem to adjoin the classics that have been in rotation for decades in big playoff moments.

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Mormon rockers who know their way around a life-confirming chorus

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Ive always wondered why TC had such bad taste but with this topic it has become clear to me its always been a gimmick

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I've always been indifferent to them until that fucking Thunder song.

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@TheGoldenEel

You're wrong. Ask people who know me from Music: Rock. I unapologetically love a lot of bands that people hate. My top 20 most listened to artists on last.fm include Linkin Park, Weezer (for their post-Pinkerton work), AC/DC, KISS, and Limp Bizkit. Creed is #24.

ID is #92 but actively rising.

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DaveTheUseless posted...

@TheGoldenEel

You're wrong. Ask people who know me from Music: Rock. I unapologetically love a lot of bands that people hate. My top 20 most listened to artists on last.fm include Linkin Park, Weezer (for their post-Pinkerton work), AC/DC, KISS, and Limp Bizkit. Creed is #24.

ID is #92 but actively rising.

I remember you from my active days on M:R

just shows how committed to the gimmick you really are

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So you're saying I listen to a bunch of music I don't even like?

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pretending DTU isnt genuine about his tastes is always lame

dude likes his big melodies, who can blame him?

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Imagine Dragons have sold 35 million RIAA certified singles in the US and 20 million albums worldwide. They were the most streamed group of 2018 on Spotify and are the first rock act to have two songs, "Believer" and "Thunder" to surpass one billion streams each.

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I also recommend their live EP. Curiously, it ends with an Alanis Morissette cover.

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I feel like if dogshit made noise, it would sound similar.

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Thunder is the worst song ever conceived by man.

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no
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Imagine Dragons just feel like a marketing creation doing paint by numbers music to make money

this, except it doesn't just feel like it, it is

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NP: Imagine Dragons - "Rise Up"

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Thought I just had: is "Whatever It Takes" a Christian rock song, given that it references the story of the prodigal son?

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