Imagine Dragons have been churning out hits since the release of their 2012 debut “Night Visions.” Their anthems have flooded the airwaves, while five of their albums have become Top 10 hits on the…
have been churning out hits since the release of their 2012 debut “Night Visions.” Their anthems have flooded the airwaves, while five of their albums have become Top 10 hits on the Billboard 200.
“Enemy,” which climbed the Billboard Mainstream and reached No. 1 on Top 40, is just one example of those aforementioned songs. “Some songs seem to write themselves and this was one of those cases,” Reynolds says of the track, recorded for the Netflix series “Arcane.” Still, he adds, “it’s hard to know what makes a hit — melodic and lyrical reliability, timing, production, special X-factor to it, luck, right time and right place.” A feature by rapper J.I.
Working with Rubin helped shift the way Reynolds approached storytelling. “Rick really pushed me to evolve as a lyricist,” he explains. “I’m a really private person, and have a hard time being vulnerable.” While he’s well aware there’s an intimacy to the profession he’s chosen, Reynolds found himself shrouding his work with symbolism. “That was one of my greatest weaknesses. As the years would go by, I’d see that I was kind of hiding behind a wall of metaphors.
For Reynolds, that meant grappling with the complexities that come with grief. With the sparse “They Don’t Know You Like I Do,” he details the pain of losing one of his closest friends to suicide, and on the heart-wrenching “Wrecked,” he confronts the loss of his sister-in-law to cancer. “Going through something like that makes you want to be more vulnerable. It makes you take every song more seriously, be more raw and authentic, in case it can give any value to someone else who’s grieving.
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