American indie rock band Imagine Dragons has released the wonderfully and bizarrely entertaining new video for their intense single, "Radioactive," the opening track and latest single from their debut album, "Night Visions," the title was inspired by the twilight hours, the band's favorite time since a lot of lyrics they have written have come from dreams and of course nightmares after dark.
The Las Vegas rockers open their debut album, "Night Visions," with this track on the subject of embracing change. The frontman Dan Reynolds sings about the realization that the world is becoming different and breaking free by doing something new. Reynolds explained the song's meaning to MTV News: "'Radioactive,' to me, it's very masculine, powerful-sounding song, and the lyrics behind it, there's a lot of personal story behind it, but generally speaking, it's a song about having an awakening; kind of waking up one day and deciding to do something new, and see life in a fresh way."
"A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally," he said. Though the lyrics suggest dark and broken world, the band has decidedly taken a different route with their Syndrome-directed video, which features features plenty of puppet-on-puppet violence and actors Lou Diamond Phillips and Alexandra Daddario. The clip revolves around a mysterious female drifter who is on a mission to save her Imagine Dragons friends from the perils of a sinister, underground puppet-fighting ring.
"We read through a ton of scripts from really talented directors, and we came across one that stood out to us in particular, because it put into visuals the general theme of the song, which is kind of an empowering song about an awakening, but it did it in a way that was very different," Reynolds told MTV News. "A lot of people probably see a post-apocalyptic world when they hear 'Radioactive,' understandably, but we wanted to deliver something that was maybe a little different from that, a lot different from that."
The Las Vegas rockers open their debut album, "Night Visions," with this track on the subject of embracing change. The frontman Dan Reynolds sings about the realization that the world is becoming different and breaking free by doing something new. Reynolds explained the song's meaning to MTV News: "'Radioactive,' to me, it's very masculine, powerful-sounding song, and the lyrics behind it, there's a lot of personal story behind it, but generally speaking, it's a song about having an awakening; kind of waking up one day and deciding to do something new, and see life in a fresh way."
"A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally," he said. Though the lyrics suggest dark and broken world, the band has decidedly taken a different route with their Syndrome-directed video, which features features plenty of puppet-on-puppet violence and actors Lou Diamond Phillips and Alexandra Daddario. The clip revolves around a mysterious female drifter who is on a mission to save her Imagine Dragons friends from the perils of a sinister, underground puppet-fighting ring.
"We read through a ton of scripts from really talented directors, and we came across one that stood out to us in particular, because it put into visuals the general theme of the song, which is kind of an empowering song about an awakening, but it did it in a way that was very different," Reynolds told MTV News. "A lot of people probably see a post-apocalyptic world when they hear 'Radioactive,' understandably, but we wanted to deliver something that was maybe a little different from that, a lot different from that."
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