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My next choice for "The Soundtrack of Your Life"  is another track off the Imagine Dragons 2024 album Loom. Deal with it  Wake Up is a favorite of mine, complete with a perfectly zany music video which I highly recommend. Fans have identified about a hundred different ID Easter eggs (references to previous works) hidden in the video's scenes. (Nerdy me identifies a scene which taps into The Phantom Tollbooth and the "senses taker"… see if you can spot it!) The song is exaggerated, weird, even freaky; basically, the Dragons at their best… or worst! Sound: Wake Up features wildly ominous synths, computer drums, electronically modified backing vocals, hip-hop delivery with nonsensical scatting ("spin-in-in-in-in!")... In other words, pretty much anything people might detest about ID. Most of this edgy production style can be attributed to the unconventional approach of Swedish producers Mattman and Robin, as I mentioned previously. My reaction on listening to this song for the first time: "WTH?!" Seriously, I didn't think there was any way I could possibly appreciate it. It took several listens before I got past the initial shock and began to enjoy it. By the time the music video dropped about a week later, I was in a position to greet it with delight; indeed, the music video came on a day when I was miserably sick, and watching it helped me feel better. Theme: At first glance, the lyrics are almost preposterous; in my journal last summer, I described Wake Up as "Taylor Swift meets zombie apocalypse." The idea behind the video-game-esque language is one of overwhelming anxiety, as Dan Reynolds has explained. He tells us he was always a people pleaser who worried and fretted about being nice and getting along. On the Amazon Music Songline show, guitarist Wayne Sermon described watching Dan compose these lyrics on the fly in one sitting when presented with the soundtrack. Speaking of which, Dan shared how all the lyrics to Loom were written in the studio, in real time, as the album was being put together. Usually the Dragons bring a pile of demos with them to present to the producers they work with, but this time they started from scratch. Dan utilized a sort of stream of consciousness approach, letting loose with whatever was on his mind that day and trying not to fuss over it too much later. I identify with his writing process, especially in regards to poetry. I dislike fiddling with a poem after I've made it, preferring to free-flow as much as possible and capture the ideas in my head as they appear, even if I haven't set out with a clear concept of what I want to write about. Significance: Wake Up is one of the cornerstones of my collection, a song I'll watch or listen to in whatever high-quality version I can find. I even tried looking for string/orchestral covers, such as Simply Three or Lindsey Stirling, but there aren't any. It's the kind of song I'll bring with me if I have to walk alone in a scary place… (long story behind that!) It even played an occasional role in my WdC escapades. The same day I sat down to analyze Wake Up for the first time, I read and reviewed a newbie who was attempting to create an astonishingly zany novella with complex, compelling characters. It isn't every day you listen to a song with the word "chainsaw" in it and then read a story about a villain with chainsaw arms. I featured it here, with Wake Up embedded as a sort of theme song "Note: Just popping in to share a zany story/song duo..." Unfortunately, the author later closed their account and disappeared without completing the story  Last Christmas, my good friend Adherennium - Maybe Writing?  hosted a Merit Badge giveaway, as he likes to do. That evening after all was said and done, the totally random thought popped into my head of sending him a Rock Star Dragon MB with a quote from Wake Up. I shook my head and said to myself "no, why would I want to do that? It might startle him."The very next morning, Adherennium facetiously announced his intentions of dispensing with comedy and becoming a paranoid grumpy brute who thinks everyone's out to get him, and I'm like "good grief, I read your mind!" Like, "everybody's coming for ya, wake up!" You can see the perfectly appropriate MB I then sent him in my "sent badges" page for December 26th, 2024. He loved it I'll include the music video as well as the AZ Songline performance, where Dan explains the concepts behind the song. Have fun  Words: 797. |
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