The death of rock ’n’ roll? Imagine Dragons are everywhere, and they shouldn’t be
- Imagine Dragons play music with ‘no sex, no humour and no chest hair’
- Wherever you are you will no doubt be hearing the music that ‘feels like it’s watching you’
As our fellow citizens of dystopia walk these cold 21st-century streets with tiny speakers plugged into their head-holes, we can only wonder: what are they listening to? Probably some podcast.
Or maybe the situation is even worse. Maybe they’re trying to block out the sound of Imagine Dragons.
Has humanity ever listened to so much music against its volition? Imagine Dragons in the gym. Imagine Dragons at the mall. Imagine Dragons in three out of five film trailers before the feature presentation, which also features a song by Imagine Dragons.
Imagine Dragons at every public sporting event held inside every arena or arena-shaped thing. Imagine Dragons in television commercials for computers and video games and cars.
When the devil met Imagine Dragons at the crossroads back in 2012, he found a way to take all of our souls. He promised to play Radioactive in every Uber.
The only way to explain the band’s smothering omnipresence is that it performs a public function we once expected rock ’n’ roll to perform.