![]() The soundscape of pop-music was not rock - the songs we remember from that time are Avici’s wake me up, Zed’s Clarity, anything Macklemore did. Impressive pop-rock had been done before, don’t get me wrong, for the majority of rock’s history there has been pop-rock which was good, but this was 2013. Imagine Dragons were making music which was reminiscent of hard rock, which took the thumping, loud, visceral sound of rock and seamlessly molded it with new technology and made a 2013 pop hit. When Imagine Dragons dropped radioactive and it went nuclear, it went everywhere, everyone loved it. The Beginning: It Was Nuclear And Everyone Loved It Hopefully that shuts down the idea that critics don’t like them because they are popular.Īlright… this is going to be a long one, so let’s get into this. This is especially true of pop-music critics, who are usually people that don’t just love music, but love pop music. While lots of critics out there are searching for cutting-edge records they also understand that the average listener isn’t looking for that, and so while they may not always be impressed by solid pop music they certainly aren’t going to be heavily against it because its not ‘artsy’ or ‘complex’ or ‘ground-breaking’ enough. “Critics don’t like it because it’s not artsy enough”/ “Critics don’t like it because its too mainstream” etc. Let’s first note and refute one very simple thing that people say/are going to say. I do, however, keep a pretty close eye on the music scene, and have enough of a background in music (play a couple of instruments, have decent enough understanding of theory, know a decent amount of the history of modern music) to try and explain why there seems to be such a disconnect - where almost anyone you talk to likes Imagine Dragons, yet music critics seem to hate them.
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