Analysis Of Imagine Dragons

Music is the Only Way Out A roaring cheer from a large crowd grows faint as a blue light illuminates the stage of the concert hall and Dan Reynolds, lead vocalist of Imagine Dragons, sobers the mood with the first verse of “Demons”- “When the days are cold/And the cards all fold.” In this music video, Imagine Dragons uses rhetoric through their performance onstage and the narratives they reveal from different people’s perspectives to show the audience that everyone has a story and demons they deal with. The video begins with an audience waving their arms back and forth to the heavy mid-tempo song being performed by the band as it cuts in and out of the performance to five different stories of people struggling with everyday problems in society

They’re highly relatable because even if the viewers haven’t gone through any one of the represented problems in the video, they’ve still gone through something which makes them look at the scenarios through a sympathetic, understanding lens. And how each person dealing with these problems found a way to be at a concert and actually enjoy it even further proves the power in music to get the audience through troubling times (Imagine Dragons - Demons

It is said in the article that music helps you express your emotions and pushes you to let go of suppressed feelings. The article even mentions how in 1997, DMC aka Darrell McDaniels, of Run DMC contemplated suicide in a hotel room because of the downward spiral his life was beginning to take. As he thought about actually doing it, Sarah McLachlan’s song “Angel” came on the radio and ended his suicidal thoughts and prompted him to direct his energy into more therapeutic things like promoting adoption to help foster kids find homes. This evidence in how one song can change your whole perception of reality shows the astonishing affect it has on