Timeaisis

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Oct 25, 2017
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I heard this on the radio yesterday
(again) and goddamn is it awful. Bluntly, Imagine Dragons has always sucked, but this is on a whole other level.

All there songs are just bass drum + rising and falling vocals. "Rock" is dead. Long live rock.
 

Cindres

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Oct 28, 2017
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I'm with you OP. I just find Imagine Dragons really... dull? Everything just seems too overproduced for my liking and I just can't get into any of it.
 

Anth0ny

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Oct 25, 2017
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despacito and mi gente are at least fun to dance to/catchy/decent club songs

thunder has literally no value
 

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One Winged Slayer
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Oct 25, 2017
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Imagine Dragons sucks for the most part, so the expectations from the work coming from them are pretty low. With that said holy fuck that's a awful song.
 

SolidSnakeUS

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Oct 25, 2017
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I think you could easily argue production-wise that this song is better than Thunder.

But holy shit, the melodramatic pettiness of Taylor all throughout the song is embarrassing to the point of being enraging. The title alone is offensive, to say nothing of that interlude.

Basically a rich white girl who's had it so easy in life and everything basically handed to her and she becomes this petty little shit and tries to be edgy about it. It insults everyone along the way and makes her even more of a joke. The music itself helps solidify that too. While I truly hate "Thunder" as a song, production, lyrics and all, it doesn't make me groan or as annoyed as "Look What You Made Me Do." One is harmless and stupid and the other embarrassingly petty.
 

CloudWolf

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Oct 26, 2017
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I'm still a firm believer of the idea that Imagine Dragons doesn't exist and is all an elaborate marketing gag. All their songs sound like they are made for trailers or commercials, there's no emotion or feeling behind any of them. Even their name sounds like it came straight out of an indie band name generator.
 

Sybil

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Oct 27, 2017
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Man, when Joseph Kahn makes good music videos they're fun but other times...wat

and yeah, this song's pretty shit. i've heard worse this year, but i already have pretty low expectations for imagine dragons songs.
 

bgbball31

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Oct 25, 2017
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Thank goodness I'm not the only one. I have never understood the appeal of this song. And I like some of Imagine Dragon's other songs.
 

Ahasverus

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Basically a rich white girl who's had it so easy in life and everything basically handed to her and she becomes this petty little shit and tries to be edgy about it. It insults everyone along the way and makes her even more of a joke. The music itself helps solidify that too. While I truly hate "Thunder" as a song, production, lyrics and all, it doesn't make me groan or as annoyed as "Look What You Made Me Do." One is harmless and stupid and the other embarrassingly petty.
Yeah she's a snake.
 

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I prefer it to "Young & Dumb" and several other current pop songs.

But yeah, dredges of pop music are... yeesh
 

Zubz

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Oct 25, 2017
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no
First time I'm hearing it, but it just sounds like average shitty pop music.

Still better than anything Kanye West ha ever released.

So is your opinion really just that bad? Or did you just go after a Yeezy target?

Don't forget 5.) Drinking.

Oh yes, how could I forget the normalization of alcohol use disorder in this genre. (Although to be fair, I just defended Kanye, a man who boasted about not taking his Lexapro).
 

Lambda Teos

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Nov 24, 2017
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HA! you gotta be kidding me
There's despacito, and a lot of reggaeton, this is pure hyperbole hhahaha

Yes, the song is bad, the worst? ha

Now, if we talking about their genre...yeah, definitely
 

Mikebison

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Oct 25, 2017
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So is your opinion really just that bad? Or did you just go after a Yeezy target?
I just really dislike his music. Is that allowed?

Oh so you're someone who makes sweeping statements definitively but is actually speaking purely from a point of subjectivity. You do you
Opinions and all. I've listened to every record he's put out. Few of the guys at work listen to him, but I can't stand it.
 

Squiggely

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm still a firm believer of the idea that Imagine Dragons doesn't exist and is all an elaborate marketing gag. All their songs sound like they are made for trailers or commercials, there's no emotion or feeling behind any of them. Even their name sounds like it came straight out of an indie band name generator.

Basically anything Black Eyes Peas, X-Factor etc. as well.

Just generic bad pop music, at least the auto-tune is taking a break.
 

4859

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Oct 27, 2017
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In the weak and the wounded


Although this might be cheating. Apparently Rodney left most of the lyrics as placeholders so they could shoot the music video, at which point they would figure out actual lyrics to go with the beat..... but found the song so absolutely absurd they decided to leave as is.
 
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MRYEAH

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Oct 28, 2017
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The hall across the room
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Cardi B
Is worse than anything imagine dragons could even attempt
The fact I saw best of year lists with her on it
Says everything wrong with celebrating this stupid reality TV culture in hip hop now
(Hip Hop braintrust since 1990)
 

Fantastical

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Oct 27, 2017
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It's a terrible song. That said, I get it stuck in my head all the time. :(

I also hate songs that are just like "You thought I was a loser in high school! Now I'm famous!"
 

pulga

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Oct 26, 2017
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Its alright, its catchy and works as shit you put in the background that you don't really listen to.

Not every song is supposed to be Bohemian Rhapsody guys lol
 

Dr. Nothing Loud

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Seriously, what is this? Why is it popular? I love pop music and regularly listen to top 40 stuff but this is just horrible. It's not even so bad that it's funny, it's not interestingly bad it's just devoid of anything good.

1. that high pitched "thunder" is horrible
2. the singers uptalk or however it's called is annoying "not a yes SIR not a followER"
3. it's extremely repetitive, 90% is just "Thunder, feel the thunder, Lightning then the thunder"
4. what the hell is that instrumental part at the 2 minute mark? https://youtu.be/fKopy74weus?t=119 , just horrible
5. the clapping and stomping sounds to simulate thunder are extremely cheesy.
6. a song about lightning and thunder yet it has almost no energy.
7. just to top it off, the video clip is also shit.

i challenge you to post a worse song.


You're absolutely right. I don't even understand how human beings got in a room to waste this much time singing about thunder. What is even the point of this song? This is a blight against humanity.