When I first heard “Demons,” it sounded enough like “Radioactive” for me to immediately loathe it. Nevertheless, the song was called the most popular rock song of 2013, so somehow I am apparently the only person who feels like someone is yelling incoherently at me every time I heard “Radioactive.”Īfter “Radioactive,” the group released two more singles that became unavoidable this year, “Demons” and “On Top of the World,” both of which are essentially just iterations of their first two singles. I’m pretty sure that the song is supposed to be about change and revolution and the apocalypse or something, but the lyrics are far too ambiguous and repetitive to inspire. This may be a controversial statement, but nothing about a group of people screaming the word “radioactive” paired with superfluous bass-drumming is pleasant or interesting. Just when you think it can’t get any more dramatic, the chorus begins, and the song becomes a whole new kind of bad. When Reynolds finally comes in on the track, we are confronted with his harsh vocals and heavy breathing in the first verse. In fact, it’s like the band knew this when the created the music video for the song, which featured the group’s members dramatically locked in prison paired with some puppet cage-fighting. It sounds like the theme song of some sort of dystopian theme park you would never, ever want to visit. No part of me can find the pulsing, low-register synth and heavy, industrial crash of the percussion enjoyable. No matter how many times I hear the song “Radioactive,” it still completely baffles me as to how it is so popular. Then came “Radioactive,” and everything changed. Sure, the chorus is repeated five times and makes up over half the song, but I went with it. It was catchy, kind of inspirational and though I wasn’t a huge fan of front man Dan Reynolds’ scream-singing, I was okay with hearing the song around every now and then. The first time I heard Imagine Dragons was last year when the group’s breakout hit “It’s Time” came onto everyone’s radar.
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Many of my close friends and beloved family members are huge fans of the four-piece pop-rock group, but I can’t stay quiet any longer: I cannot stand Imagine Dragons. I realize that I am putting my head on the chopping block with this statement. I know I am voicing an extremely unpopular opinion here. It’s the band that undeniably took 2013 by storm – Imagine Dragons. But when I turned to scroll through this year’s chart toppers in music, one band made an appearance over and over again, and I couldn’t help but cringe. As I began to read the critics’ choices, best sellers and highest-grossers, I found myself in agreement with most lists.
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We collectively need to know the best albums, shows and movies that took us by storm in the past 12 months.
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As 2013 comes to a close and we look back on the year, the top-10 lists start rolling in.