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Imagine dragons & me - Love at first song

So as I mentioned in the previous chapter my favourite band is imagine dragons. So I decided to tell you how my love *cough lowkey obsession cough* with them blossomed. The first time I heard of them was when I listened to believer. I must have been 10-11 at the time. I'm not sure tho I could be younger by a year or two. It is probably one of their most famous songs and a few years ago it was really popular. Back then, I was influenced by other people and I actually tried listening to what everyone else would listen to be "in" (okay nobody uses "in" anymore I feel old but I'm not sure how else to describe it💀). Anyway, I liked the song and I added it to my playlist. It was actually my favourite.

A few months passed and I still liked believer, i just started expanding my music library and adding songs I randomly found on the radio or my recommended. I stopped listening to what everyone else did since I no longer liked the "popular" music and I started developing my own music taste. Then, G introduced me to Thunder (thanks for helping me find them G i own you one once again). I liked it, not as much as believer so I didn't add it to my playlist but i liked it. 

I think the next one of their songs that I listened to was demons. Either that or it's time. I'm pretty sure it was demons. I liked it and added it to my playlist. Then I listened to it's time and i liked it as well but not much so It took a while before i listened to it again.

After that, Ralph breaks the internet came out. Zero was the song that played during the credits in the end. I watched it with K at the cinema. I didn't like it that much at first because i was more into pop songs (ah sweet old little Sophie good times). 

I think just about a month or two later I listened to it's time again and I really liked it this time so I added it to my playlist. Same thing happened with Zero. At the time I was going through a phase where whenever I found a song I liked I listened to many songs from the same artist to see whether they were as good. So I did that. I listened to a few more songs but I think I wasn't super excited about them.

A year or so later, the animated video of birds came out and I listened to the song. I liked it a lot so I went through many imagine dragons songs and I surprisingly liked them a lot besides not being too much into rock at the time. (yes ik they are not exactly rock but they are not exacly pop either and i was STILL into the pop phase 🙄) Anyway so I downloaded a bunch of their songs and I started listening to them a lot. So they became my favourite band.

Now, a few years later, I still love them just as much, actually probably even more, and around 42% of my music library is consisted by their songs. I learnt many more of their songs and I know almost every single one of their songs' lyrics by heart. Okay that is an exasperation but i know the lyrics from most of them. My fave song is no longer believer, heck I have listened to so many of their songs it is hard to pick. Next to me is probably one of my favourites and so is radioactive, natural, bad liar, not today etc. 

There are so many things I love about their music. I love how it is not always the same type of music, sometimes being rock, sometimes having a pop touch, sometimes their songs are ballads and sometimes less melodical. They make songs of a wide range of music genres.

 I almost always love their melodies as well. They rarely fail to amaze me and always get me either in the mood to dance or calm me down and help me relax (depending on the type of the melody). 

The emotion the singer, Dan Reynolds, puts into the song is surreal. He manages to pour all the emotion the lyrics show into the way he sings and the tone/pitch of his voice. I can't even describe the way the song makes me feel. I get goosebumps every. single. time. I listen to their songs. Heck, I almost cry sometimes.

I love how their lyrics are seldom about love (romantic love at least) or heart break and instead they concentrate in more important and at the same time personal things in life such as problems in society, wars, the change you go through as you grow up, how it is being a misfit and more. Many of their songs talk about love but the main theme of the song is not love, it does not focus on it. They also talk about more realistic things and not the perfect relationship. Yes, they do have some strictly love songs because love is a part of out every day lives but not every single song is about it and most of their songs have a deeper meaning or a lot of allegories and metaphors or even double meanings at times. They talk about the monster that is called society and its problems so many times. I sometimes am speechless about the truth behind their words. I just love them.