A prison where the sun never dies
Ashes and dust, a life full of that, is all that the American rock band Imagine Dragons narrated in their track 'Radioactive'. This track came out in 2012 as the only single from the albums titled 'Continued Silence' and 'Night Visions'. It is needless to say that the song has some interesting lyrics that obviously welcome you to the new age, a different world.
Radioactive is stated to be a hybrid of alternative and electronic rock with an essence of dub step, hence the music has a very curious beat containing a mixture of emotions- both negative and positive.
The first stanza talks about the experience you have when you get into a world full of ash and dust. The skin crammed with rust gets sweat and breathing in the chemicals feel like dwelling in a destroyed world or you can say in a prison bus. It’s because the environment that has been portrayed by the lyrics, it certainly makes you feel like a prisoner.
And this is what the second stanza gives you such view of how you feel living in a world. But even in such devastated condition, you break in and shape up newly. The Imagine Dragons termed the state as apocalypse.
The music of the song gives you the vibe of being radioactive where you are being welcomed to the new age, a world filled with apocalypse, but you being a radioactive, do not leave your optimism.
To state the most intrigued quote of the song, it would be the fourth stanza saying “All systems go, sun hasn’t died”, that refers to being hopeful in the state of deterioration and destruction. So no matter how much of your systems go off, the sun hasn’t died, the hope hasn’t died.
However, the track is stated to be one of the most electronically influenced songs of the album. You feel a mixture of dark and day with despair and dream. Even after waking up in the world full of apocalypse, the sun in you does not die. Regarding the track, the lead vocalist Dan Reynolds quoted,
“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."
The track was meant to be the greatest hit, and it did become one. Radioactive started with its lower rank position on the chart of Billboard but later in 2013, it soon grabbed its speed to make it to number 7 then to number 4 and then reached at number 2 as the summer song in Billboard chart.
Besides, Radioactive also dominated the chart by being on it for 87 weeks that broke the all-time chart longevity record. This is how Radioactive has broken in and shaped up.
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