I'm sure I can guess how you feel about Imagine Dragons and especially Believer, but bear with me here.
I've taught this song to beginner students since it came out, because they ALL know it, and the main bass drum/low tom part is easy to pick up even if you aren't musical. Probably played it 2k times, but I never really listened deeply to it, so I decided to sit down and transcribe the whole thing, as accurately as I can.
The layers that get brought in gradually through the sections of the song build up so well and support each other so neatly, it ties the whole song together. It's worth your time to take a look at this transcription and listen to the more complicated sections of the song, it will probably be more interesting than you expect:
https://ajsmusictutoring.com/s/Believer-Imagine-Dragons-ajsmusictutoringcom.pdf
So, yeah. I dislike this song as much as a lot of people, but its important to recognize that more thought and arrangement goes into this music than you'd expect.
Also, nobody online has actually transcribed this song quite correctly (part of my motivation for making this). I'm pretty sure this is 100% correct, but let me know if you spot any obvious errors :)
Hey, Recently i decided to make sillhuettes of people that inspire me for a wall design. And i wanted to include the band so i started with Daniel Platzman: http://imgur.com/yi5n6va
The text is there for it not be stolen on imgur if you want to use it feel free to
Download link: http://www.filedropper.com/danielplatz-silluetafinal-ish_1
More band members comming +soon+
EDIT1: Noticed a black bar at his head so i fixed it.
EDIT2: In laste edit i posted the same picture, coz i am stupeed. :D
EDIT3: Well, you can guess what happend, i fixed the picture again like 20 times.
If a movie was to be made about ID like the one about Queen, βBohemian Rhapsodyβ. Who would cast each member of the group?
Hey, all! It's Saturday, November 20th and our (much less exciting) Song of the Day is Gold!
https://preview.redd.it/qqg9ggdgnt081.png?width=220&format=png&auto=webp&s=3adc3f6b4f33d326240a2684ca8612ea13fe5129
Album: Smoke + Mirrors
Written By: Alexander Grant, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Alex Da Kid
Length: 3:36
Latest Survivor Rank: 10th/17 songs (Smoke + Mirrors Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This song appears as the second track on the band's second album, Smoke + Mirrors.
- The song was also released as the second single from the album. It peaked at #12 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
- The song starts off with the word "Ψ°ΩΨ¨", which is Arabic, and translates to the word "gold" in English.
- The song references Greek mythology, nodding towards the story of King Midas, who turned everything he touched to gold.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Boots" / Next Song of the Day: "Look How Far We've Come"
Hi, all! After a day off, I'm back with our Song of the Day for Thursday, November 25th which just so happens to be Wrecked!
https://preview.redd.it/ful31upsbu181.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c2de743ce1010d8d6ab7036835697ba3720a6c4
Album: Mercury - Act 1
Written By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Imagine Dragons
Length: 4:04
Latest Survivor Rank: 1st/13 songs (Mercury - Act 1 Survivor)
Interesting Facts
- The song was released on July 2nd, 2021 as the third single from the band's fifth album, Mercury - Act 1.
- The song peaked at #11 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
- The song is about Dan's sister-in-law, Alisha Reynolds, who passed away in 2019 due to cancer.
- The song is the longest on Mercury - Act 1, and also the only one to be over four minutes.
- The guitars in the chorus, are not, in fact, guitars, but are actually Dan's voice.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Clouds (2010)" / Next Song of the Day: "Wings"
Hi, all! It's Monday, November 22nd and our Song of the Day is one of the band's biggest songs to date, Believer!
https://preview.redd.it/xm5xwahqz7181.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=03af7bb5614c5e6edd6e5885ab84013095df3e51
Album: Evolve
Written By: Justin Tranter, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Mattias Larsson, Robin Fredriksson & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Mattman & Robin
Length: 3:24
Latest Survivor Rank: 5th/12 songs (Evolve Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- The song originally appeared as the third track on Evolve, before being pushed to track four after the addition of Next to Me.
- This song was the lead single from the album, released February 1st, 2017. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's third song at the time to do so, after Radioactive and Demons. The song also hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, and peaked at #3 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart.
- It was featured heavily in advertisements, most notably the Nintendo Switch Super Bowl LI ad.
- The song is now one of the best-selling singles of all time.
- In January 2019, a remix was released featuring rapper Lil Wayne.
- The music video for the song is the 22nd most-liked video on YouTube of all time, sandwiched in between two BTS songs.
- It's also the 12th most-streamed song of all time on Spotify, with over 1.89 billion streams, sandwiched in between two Ed Sheeran songs. (Imagine Dragons x BTS x Ed Sheeran song confirmed???)
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Look How Far We've Come" / Next Song of the Day: "Clouds (2010)"
Let's see... where did I leave this thing? Oh, right. Sorry everybody for not doing this as often as I wanted it, but I'll try to keep it up fairly consistently starting now. Anyways, it's been a very exciting day, as we finally got the release of the EPs on streaming, as well as three brand-new old songs. Personally, I'm just happy I can listen to Leave Me without it breaking my eardrums. It's Friday, October 15th and our Song of the Day is Next to Me!
https://preview.redd.it/u6oao7qi7ot71.png?width=220&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a63ded84871f26123cb56bae21f746650f446c6
Album: Evolve
Written By: Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman & Alexander Grant
Produced By: Alex da Kid
Length: 3:50
Latest Survivor Rank: 8th/12 songs (Evolve Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This song was not originally included on Evolve, but was rather released on February 21, 2018, nearly eight months after Evolve's release. The day of its release, however, it was added to Evolve as the first track.
- The song peaked at #7 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
- The music video is a little strange, ending with Dan Reynolds being executed... I swear I'm not kidding.
- Yeba Smith's vocals in the song now are completely different compared to the vocals when the song was first released, as she wanted to do a different take after its release. To this day, you will get memed on hard in this sub if you point out this fact unironically.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Hi, everyone! I have much more free time this week, so I'll try to fall into a rhythm with these posts. Anyways, our Song of the Day for today, Monday, September 27, is Hopeless Opus!
https://preview.redd.it/7nyptg94v3q71.png?width=220&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1f77b7989e5fb9b4e84ea784e6480fe5a981a61
Album: Smoke + Mirrors
Latest Survivor Rank: 8th/17 songs (Smoke + Mirrors Survivor II)
Written By: Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Imagine Dragons
Length: 4:01
Interesting Facts
- This song appears as the second-last and twelfth track on the standard version of Smoke + Mirrors.
- A "Magnum Opus" is Latin, and directly translates to "great work". In the context of this song, it means that Dan's opus, or best work is "hopeless".
- Reversed, the line "There is an anagram" can be heard in the bridge. This was later used as a clue for #MercuryAscending (but more on that another time).
- Wayne's guitar solo here is greatly accepted as one of his best, among other solos such as the ones in "Clouds", "Machine", "I'll Make It Up to You" and others.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
[Korean Updates in the bottom]
When Bang Chan said, "Stray Kids World Domination", he wasn't kidding aye?
With everything that has happened (and will probably continue for how long the saga will last), I thought it'd be a great idea to summarize everything and put it in an unofficial thread. In case you wanna reminisce the week Stray Kids was dominating the world, you can just check this post. Don't worry, I tried writing everything in order.
It all started with Stray Kids' God's DDU-DU DDU-DU deadpool-inspired performance on Kingdom last Thursday (May 20).
05/20/21
- IU posted an Instagram Story about Mayfly's Vocal Unit with Stray Kids' Seungmin.
- Ryan Reynolds (@.VancityReynolds) noticed Stray Kids' deadpool-inspired performance on twitter. He replied under a video edit a stay made:
>first reply: Oh hello @/stray_kids
>
>second reply: (sword emoji)
- Bang Chan updated his bubble status to "From now on I am Chris Reynolds"
- Stray Kids' replied to Ryan Reynold' tweet
- Stray Kids had an interview with YTN. Chan said "I love Ryan Reynolds", and explained that they chose Deadpool because it fits the character of Stray Kids very well.
- Multiple articles were released. (Naver, ScreenRant, NME, ET Canada, Hype Malaysia, CNN Indonesia, Republika, La Republica)
- Ayaka Miyoshi, a Japanese actress who took part in 'Alice in Borderland', posted a story about Stray Kids.
05/21/21
- Access Hollywood posted a youtube video about Stray Kids' Kingdom performance and their interaction with Ryan Reynolds.
- Daniel Platzman, Imagine Dragons' drummer, noticed Felix. They liked a tweet from a stay talking about Felix.
- Zedd noticed Stray Kids. He liked a tweet from a stay talking about Stray Kids.
- Sam Fischer quote retweeted a tweet remembering a moment with Hyunin and Stray Kids.
- Jurrassic World (@.JurassicWorld) replied to a stay's tweet about Jeongin's fake dinosaur tattoo saying, "We love this"
- China McClain tweeted about Stray Kids.
05/22/21
- Chan changed his bubble name to "Chris Reynolds" and his bubble s
-
what is your favorite album? (only 1)
-
who is your favorite band member?
-
what is your favorite song from them
-
what is your favorite lyric from them?
-
what is your favorite music video of them?
-
what was the song you felt deeply touched (a)
well, it got really small because I couldn't think of other things. but anyway i hope you like it
My answers:
-
Night visions
-
Daniel platzman (my inspiration)
-
Hear me, west coast, the river
-
Believer
-
Wrecked
-
Hear me (no with the liryc but with the melody cried so much because remember me the afternoon of 2014......)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV_HDl6l6T0
Performed by Van Derand, Turbo Knight, Ryan Ward.
Written by Justin Tranter, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Destin Route, Mattias Larsson, Robin Fredriksson, Wayne Sermon.
Vocals by Ryan Ward. Produced by Van Derand, Turbo Knight.Mastered by Van Derand.
All copyright belongs to their respective owners. Original Track by Imagine Dragons.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The nurse asked the rabbit, βwhat is your blood type?β
βI am probably a type Oβ said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Mentos
(I will see myself out)
Hi, all! It's Saturday, November 27th and our Song of the Day is Wings!
https://preview.redd.it/vh7uf1qj87281.png?width=265&format=png&auto=webp&s=020a30daf1c4e28f4d7d12acb68fb3f3c9b9184a
Album: NBA 2K17 Soundtrack
Written By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: 40, Grimes & Imagine Dragons
Length: 2:12
Latest Survivor Rank: 11th/13 songs (Soundtrack Songs Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This is the band's only completely instrumental song.
- This song has never had an official release, and can only be found while playing the NBA 2K17 game.
- Friction and Gold (Jorgen Odegard Remix) were also included on the game's soundtrack.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Wrecked" / Next Song of the Day: "Curtain Call"
Hey, all! I know these posts have been pretty sporadic (my last SotD post was 27 days ago... yikes!) but I hope to get back into a rhythm. Anyways, our Song of the Day is Smoke and Mirrors!
https://preview.redd.it/xrskpgv5ilz71.png?width=299&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e3be82e65c08db1444eebb10a4bb90f62a5b014
Album: Smoke + Mirrors
Written By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Imagine Dragons
Length: 4:20
Latest Survivor Rank: 3rd/17 songs (Smoke + Mirrors Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This is the third track on the band's second album, Smoke + Mirrors.
- This is only one of two title tracks that the band's made (with the other one being It's Time and the It's Time EP. You could count Hear Me, but...)
- The song peaked at #32 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "My Life" / Next Song of the Day: "Who We Are"
Hey, all! It's Tuesday, November 23rd and our Song of the Day is Clouds (2010 Version)!
https://preview.redd.it/06y3xrfv5f181.png?width=225&format=png&auto=webp&s=9cae2aec8b470c1f5273fe98c8f62d40447209a2
Haha Lol the Song Itself is a Live Version
Album: N/A
Written By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman & Wayne Sermon
Length: Varies. Vegas In Tune version is 6:22
Latest Survivor Rank: 4th/13 songs (Misc. Songs Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This song actually originally appeared in the 2008 Demos, but went through many major changes, until the final 2010 version.
- A version from 2009 also exists, which contains elements from both the 2008 version and the 2010 version.
- This song is one of the band's longest, second only to Nothing Left to Say.
- This song cannot be found on Spotify, due to the fact that it's only been played live and was never given a studio recording that's available to us. However, in a recent AMA, the band said that they do plan on releasing Clouds eventually.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Believer" / Next Song of the Day: "Wrecked"
Hey, all! Yesterday was Monday (snuck two puns in there!), and today, it's Tuesday, November 16th and our Song of the Day is Yesterday!
https://preview.redd.it/r9d94yh6c2081.png?width=305&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac2fe748177a53e3a84baf6d28d86718c03a3e85
Album: Evolve
Written By: Alexander Grant, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Jayson DeZuzio & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Alex Da Kid & Jayson DeZuzio
Length: 3:25
Latest Survivor Rank: 9th/12 songs (Evolve Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This song appeared as the seventh track on the band's third album, Evolve, before being pushed to the eighth track when Next to Me was added.
- The song peaked at #31 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
- In Evolve's vinyl, this song has a different mix and different vocal takes. This is due to the fact that the band wanted to make a last minute change to the song, but the vinyl was already pressed. So now, every first edition vinyl has a different version of Yesterday on it.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Who We Are" / Next Song of the Day: "Leave Me"
Hey, all! It's Monday, October 18th and our Song of the Day is My Life!
Album: Mercury - Act 1
Written By: Robin Fredriksson, Mattias Larsson, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon and Justin Tranter
Produced By: Mattman & Robin and Brandon Darner
Length: 3:44
Latest Survivor Rank: Top 4/13 songs (Mercury - Act 1 Survivor)
Interesting Facts
- This song serves as the opening for the band's fifth and newest album, Mercury - Act 1.
- The song peaked at #29 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, making it the most successful non-single on the chart.
- Before the album was released, a snippet of the song was posted on a Facebook account called "Desert Breath", as part of #MercuryAscending, a pre-album challenge.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Hi, all! It's (albeit late) Thursday, November 18th and our Song of the Day is Levitate!
https://preview.redd.it/ox9byc4p5g081.png?width=297&format=png&auto=webp&s=c5fa36947deb1e7f72f1bc4987638f486a5b0afd
Album: Evolve (Japanese Edition)
Written By: Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Timothy Randolph Edgar & Wayne Sermon
Produced By: Tim Randolph
Length: 3:18
Latest Survivor Rank: 8th/13 songs (Soundtrack Songs Survivor II)
Interesting Facts
- This song was written for the movie Passengers. The song is written from Jim Preston's (the main character; played by Chris Pratt) perspective at the end of the movie.
- The song doesn't belong to any album, but was included on the Japanese deluxe version of Evolve.
- The song peaked at #19 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
Previous Song of the Day: "Leave Me" / Next Song of the Day: "Boots"
Hi, everyone! It's Thursday, September 30th and our Song of the Day today is Boomerang!
https://preview.redd.it/59rdxxzznpq71.png?width=310&format=png&auto=webp&s=b146f5ff7d747f1a1a6ba2d733a71fa0d6210d36
Album: Origins
Latest Survivor Rank: 11th/15 songs (Origins Survivor II)
Written By: Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman & Jorgen Odegard
Produced By: Jorgen Odegard
Length: 3:07
Interesting Facts
- This song is the second track from the band's fourth album, Origins.
- The song peaked at #27 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart the week of Origins' release. It spent one more week on the chart before leaving.
- The song (along with the first track, "Natural") presents the vibe of the album very well, being the first Origins non-single on the album.
- The song is about Dan Reynolds and Aja Volkman's relationship, and how it's very similar to a boomerang, always coming back.
Hit me with your opinions and any interesting facts you have on the song below!
