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Skill issue

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girls when their favourite jacket is no longer seasonally weather appropriate to wear

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Can we bring back hey I like your shoelaces?

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Every episode of bojack horseman

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A spinner shark shows off its signature feeding strategy

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My thoughts on Imagine Dragons

Right so recently I have been rediscovering the band of Imagine Dragons, mainly cus of my tik tok fyp and the amount of content around The Boys and the song Bones where people recreate the death of Robin

And I have listened to their new albums Mercury Act 1+2 which on there own are pretty good albums although I find Imagine Dragons drum loops repetitive and the fact they say purposefully cryptic lyrics for shits a giggles they do hold up

in this what I presume to be the longest post im putting on tumblr im going to break down two of their songs, their most known song; Enemy. and one of their least known songs; Yesterday

Enemy:

Enemy was made as the theme song for the Netflix league of legends show Arcane, A pretty good show I highly recommend you watch it if you haven't but everyone has at this point.

Enemy starts off with a reverse synth base leading to the same note but the right way round then continues this after a three second gap but this time its down a chord, a progression used for the rest of the song, the second note is then distorted before the song begins, this electronic opening not only conveys that the song is heavily reliant on synthesizers and a lot of production a complete 180 the direction for Yesterday, then for the first verse a repeating drum loop is played and the same 2 synth base notes are played for the whole of the rather short first verse.

And the chorus is no different, CUS ITS THE FUCKING SAME AS THE VERSE BUT WITH AN EXTRA FUCKING HIGH-HAT, this oh yeah lets put in one extra thing now its different is a staple of Imagine Dragons modern works, and there isn't much to talk about other than the only time the song remotely changes is towards the end of JID’s rap section where the music stops to emphasize the speed of his rapping.

And that is really all there is to talk about Enemy no bridge no big moment no fucking change in chords, its just a very boring and uninspired song.

Yesterday:

Yesterday on the other hand is a catchy pop rock song, again in the same vain as Enemy and most imagine dragons song its rather repetitive with the same couple of piano chords used as the hook, but at least the song has some challenge and difference, for example a guitar solo right before the last chorus is somewhat impressive.

But the real difference between these two songs is the way they make use of the natural repetitiveness all Imagine Dragons songs have, Enemy puts the bare minimum having what I counted 3 instruments, where as Yesterday takes full advantage of the band having only the instruments provided for them as apposed to a fucking synthesizer.

Closing notes:

Let me be clear I don't hate Imagine Dragons they make okay music, I think its the formula they have constructed that people come accustomed to, what I think happened is that Imagine Dragons threw shit at the wall to see if it would stick and repetitiveness did, people like electronic drum beats looping over and over again which is fine but for a band that brands themselves as a rock band not so much. Remember this is just my dumb opinion if you disagree with me feel free to explain why but yeah have a nice day and see you later.

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i said what i said

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Holy shit I love konosuba

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I love women so much I turned into one