Imagine Dragons: Follow You/Cutthroat Single Review
Thank goodness Imagine Dragons’ two singles are short – I can barely stand them as they are. I didn’t think anything could get worse, but lo and behold, we have “Follow You / Cutthroat.”
I didn’t think Imagine Dragons could get any worse. I really didn’t.
I was literally just thinking about why people hate Imagine Dragons so much. I was kind of sick of them after liking their first three albums – yes, you heard that right: I honestly didn’t Evolve was that bad. I wouldn’t call it good, but I can’t say I necessarily hate the album. Origins was pretty terrible, but there was nothing that matched the hate that I feel towards these two new singles.
Thank goodness the two songs are short. I can barely take them as they are, much less if they were four-minute tracks. Remember “Every Night” from Night Visions? Remember wanting to pull your hair out with how cheesy the lyrics and the repetitive chorus were? “Follow You” is like the love child of “Every Night” and the Evolve album. Frontman Dan Reynolds thinks the pauses and staccatos are cool and make the song sound better, but isn’t that exactly what we hated so much from the Evolve album? The vocals sound cut off and while the overall dynamics are clean enough, they sometimes start with a burst as if it was a song created by cutting apart lines from a completely different song. Reynolds can barely even hit the low note in the bridge, and the gibberish “doos” or “hmms” or “nns” – whatever that sound was – what the heck was that?
Cutthroat is slightly better; it starts out fine, but after the beginning, it’s just a screaming fest. It’s almost as if the band wants to be a metal band. Those comparisons to Imagine Dragons being the new Nickelback are only making more and more sense the longer they keep going. And again with the record-looping vocals. It is so strange to me that an aspect of music that depletes its value (scratched, warped, or looping vinyl records) are being used purposely in the music. I don’t know about you guys, but when a record I enjoy starts looping, it really starts to drive me insane. And purposeful skips and loops have that same effect.
I swear, I come back to reviewing songs for the first time in a month, and this is what I get? It’s songs like this that make me question if there is any point in reviewing mainstream pop.
Rating: 0.5/5
