Imagine Dragons might very well be the last big rockband. Did they kill the genre or did they just manage to push a dying genre into the mainstream one last time?
Imagine Dragons might very well be the last big rockband...
rock
they are the worst thing in music ever
Most of their fans are children under 10 and the parents forced to listen to them. I don’t think they have any adult fans.
someone must be listening to them, their songs have more listens than every other rockband on Spotify.
Fans look like adults to me.
You can't be a rock band once you devolve into trashy electronica. That disqualifies them and Coldplay. Paramore is probably the biggest rock band from the 21st century yet to go full electronicaslop.
Most of their fans are the most soulless frat trash you'll ever meet. Dealing with the losers who come here just to sperg out about Nu Metal and Creed is a pleasantry after being around people talk up a band as pathetic as ID.
I refuse to believe real people could possibly be fans of Imagine Dragons. It's just noise.
arctic monkeys
this is the actual answer
so Radiohead or the Smashing Pumpkins aren't rock bands?
most of their songs aren't considered rock by Spotify actually, "rock" songs in their yearly top 50s:
2024
2 Die With A Smile - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
4 Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
9 Too Sweet - Hozier
30 Slow It Down - Benson Boone
39 Scared To Start - Michael Marcagi
2023
nothing
2022
nothing
2021
3 Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
7 Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish
32 I Wanna Be Your Slave - Måneskin
33 ABCDEFU - Gayle
2020
35 Angels Like You - Miley Cyrus
2019
28 Sucker - Jonas Brothers
2018
6 Shallow - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
19 Youngblood - 5 Seconds Of Summer
37 Always Remember Us This Way - Lady Gaga
2017
2 Believer - Imagine Dragons
22 Beggin' - Måneskin
30 Sign Of The Times - Harry Styles
43 Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons
45 Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran
2016
nothing
2015
36 Way Down We Go - Kaleo
2014
11 Shut Up and Dance - Walk The Moon
28 Centuries - Fall Out Boy
30 Let It Go - James Bay
34 Electric Love - Børns
2013
2 Take Me To Church - Hozier
7 Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
8 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? - Arctic Monkeys
19 Freaks - Surf Curse
22 All I Want - Kodaline
25 R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys
41 Still Into You - Paramore
2012
1 Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
4 Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
37 Drive By - Train
46 It's Time - Imagine Dragons
2011
17 We Are Young - fun. ft. Janelle Monáe
31 Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
2010
24 What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club
No one has ever talked up Imagine Dragons
The current top 40 is shit I can't believe people actually listen to. I'd gladly listen to Imagine Dragons over any of that shit.
Devolve? That was album 1 mate
And however you define electronically, Paramore became pop and their latest album has hardly reintroduced any rock elements. But no there are plenty bigger.
You'll be surprised to learn there's actually chords, melody and beats too. First time finding out people have downright puzzling taste? Well I like a fair few ID songs myself and it even puzzles me sometimes. Even some of their bad songs are still enjoyable. But you shouldn't be surprised by anything after realizing one fact: that alot of people enjoy 100 gecs.
I could see a case for calling Hozier rock, but I'd sooner call it rockabilly-adjacent or sime brand of RnB. Beautiful Things passes the bar for rock, and it's an OK track I only find half annoying. None of these afaik even come close to hard rock aka Real Rock. Women aka top charts whores can't into good old rock and roll. Shut Up and Dance is the most laughable inclusion.
People still listen to Not like us for the millionth time for a year? I never hear this shit. I hear 70s songs like "live or let die" more than any of this
i don't think imagine dragons is rock music
Imagine that it is rock music.
I can only see that stupid fucking song as meme music even though it's not funny. But currently I can only assume people actually like it.
why do we need to discuss imagine dragons? it's the worst thing ever. nobody who likes that is into music in any way. thunder is the worst song of all time.
Not true. I liked them when I was younger and still like a couple songs and yet I care about music. Same with my younger brother though I keep having to unlike shitty songs like Whatever it Takes and Believer.
Thunder is pretty ridiculous,but it has redeeming qualities. The sax-sounding solo genuinely sounds ethereal and awesome in the way I think they intended, and then the outro to the song kinda surprises you with how much emotional payoff it can draw from a bad buildup. Kinda like Wreck it Ralph 2
You're trying to analyze the most bottom barrel slop imaginable as if it's high """art""". Sincerely, kill yourself and don't come back.
damn i wouldn't even consider most of those rock, arctic monkeys was the last big rock band
They didn't kill the genre in the mainstream, rock was already on its way out. Imagine Dragons just took some rock ideas (and presented themselves as a rock group), but combined it with some ideas from pop. Similar to modern-day Maroon 5, which is just Adam Levine plus a few others tagging along for the ride.
Firstly, you're starting with the conclusion (it's bottom of the barrel slop) and then using that prescriptive as a scatter against analysis which you could be better off basing your thoughts on.
Secondly, that was hardly the indepth analysis that you would say should only belong to high art. That was Fantano tier description of what I felt about what I felt. And if you think that is the appropriate level of analysis for even high art, then maybe it's you who doesn't care about music
no there's nothing to discuss about them. AI tier fl studio popslop of the highest order. Impossible to listen to for anyone with a soul
Imagine Dragons is rock as Sleep Token is to metal.
Well looks like we'll have to leave it to the thread to prove one or the other right. I think they're pretty poor on the whole with more misses than hits, but there's plenty you can talk about in terms of why it works or doesn't, or even just analyzing the choices made. You'd be kidding yourself to deny the creative expression in their music atleast.
not music. stop the bait
Holy fucking REDDITSPEAK. Your analysis is beyond vain of what you understand about the substance of music. Rock music is supposed to ground in the essence of hardcore texture that is coupled with basslines, riffs, unusual structures that isn't just 4/4, a punky attitude, and a true possessed groove. Sure you can add atmosphere and shit tons of technicality to impress the söyest of fags. You can't tell me Imagine Dragons represents memorability and a sense of human imperfection. Please, listen to Feedtime.
Head Automatica did it best, and they actually rock.
It's an attempt at speaking academically clearly. Not unlike a Redditor who wants to be seen as an authority. But I have a purpose, trying to walk someone who is clearly coming from a headspace which doesn't work on multiple levels, to a better way of seeing things.
I already said itt Imagine Dragons isn't rock, which you couldn't know but there's really no point trying to disqualify them as rock when the argument is whether they're worth talking about or not.
Not to mention your definitions suck. Structures that aren't 4/4, punk attitude? Has nothing to do with the inception and large swaths of rock history.
tell me Imagine Dragons represents memorability
They are. I believe I'll remember the tunes to Radioactive and On Top of the World 50 years from now, as well as plenty of other songs.
sense of human imperfection
Not as far as I'm aware, irrelevant.
I don't find their music particularly good, their place in music history is just interesting. Rock is disappearing from the mainstream, bands are disappearing from the mainstream. Yet here you have Imagine Dragons being both and they're still massively popular, they might be the last ones to do it.
they aren't rock lol. they are no different from other industry plants. I doubt they ever wrote music themselves.
interesting observation. i am not married to rock buit something new should pop up. wonder what sort of "dialectical" pushback or overcoming should happen for rock to make something happen in the mainstream. mainstream need to change, maybe: all those light escapist bullshit nothingsongs are alienating: maybe we need music that face reality a bit more, political, economic, global...
This is AI generated.
I refuse to believe real people could possibly be fans of Imagine Dragons. It's just noise.
Coldplay has more
Imagine Dragons is very good live. I saw them at Hollywood Bowl last year and they put on quite a show. Dan the singer ran all the way from the stage to the top of the bowl during a song he brought the mic and at the top he was winded but kept right on singing the song it was awesome 5/5 show.
music is not your thing sorry
You fucking wish hayley
Lol
major record label slop isn't rock