![]() ![]() Then we'll kind of look at themes and try to understand, “What was the theme during those years? What was I lyrically writing about? What did it mean? How do we tell that story correctly, and what songs do it the best?” Then we just get together and talk, and talk, and bring them into a studio, and then we pull them apart, put them back together, rewrite, and write. Then when it comes time to make the record, everybody will already know whhhh ones stuck with them the best and grew on them, or ones they got tired of quicker, or ones that impacted them the most. It's nice because we'll have initial feedback on the first listen, and then over the years, everybody will kind of just listen as they want on their own. ![]() Everybody will listen to it and send their initial feedback. Every time I complete a song, I'll email it to the guys, so the guys will get an email all the time that just says, “new song” or “new demo,” the name of the song. Then, when it comes time to actually put the album together. That'll go on for a few years, typically between albums. Or I'll create something from scratch on my own. What are some of the factors that dictate whether they become Imagine Dragons songs that the public hears or not?ĭan Reynolds: The process has really always been the same for about 15 years now, which is during our off-cycle time, when we're not on the road – and sometimes even on the road, to be honest – I'm writing, or the guys will send me music that they've been working on, and I'll write off that. When we're composing, we're picturing those bigger stages now, and we're also able to match the music, the largeness of the music with production value too.ĭan, I know you write thousands of songs. ![]() ![]() But, I think that as we've progressed and written more music, and been able to have more albums, we've been able to take that sort of mentality into the studio. Even when we were playing in little bars in Las Vegas, we were always envisioning, we were bringing the energy of an arena show onto the small stages in Vegas back then. Ben McKee: I think we've always been playing for venues beyond the size that we were in. ![]()
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