We don’t really write with specific themes in mind. You’ve had massive success with Night Visions. What are some of the themes that resonate throughout your songs that speak to so many people around the world? Now as the band leaps into their newest project – writing their upcoming second studio album – BMI was there as they reflected on their recent success, creative process and advice to aspiring songwriters. I’m a pretty young guy and I’m still trying to figure out the answer to those questions.” This rawness of their music has earned them respect from the songwriting community and led them to be embraced by music fans around the world. I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life, trying to figure out how seriously to take music. “It seemed like everything was going wrong. “I wrote ‘It’s Time’ during a very transitional period in my life,” Reynolds has said. It is at once very personal and universal.
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Their music thrives on alchemy, extracting from that resistance and creating music that has a redemptive and uplifting message. Their breakthrough single, “It’s Time,” earned the group a groundswell of interest and chart-topper “Radioactive,” off their album Night Visions, solidified their place as the industry’s next big hitmakers, with Rolling Stone proclaiming the song “the biggest rock hit of the year.”Ĭall it modesty or persistence against the odds, the band – frontman Dan Reynolds, recently honored with the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s prestigious Hal David Starlight Award, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel Platzman – has managed to stay true to their ethos of authenticity and emotional struggle. The band recently wrapped the last show of their Into the Night tour and has scored countless awards and recognitions once inconceivable from their humble beginning six years ago in Vegas – a GRAMMY for Best Rock Performance (“Radioactive”), two BMI Pop Awards (“It’s Time” and “Radioactive”), an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist and 14 Billboard Music Award nominations, among others.