Apocalyptic Themes In 'Radioactive By Imagine Cloud'

For many years now people have feared the idea of an apocalypse happening and leaving the world in ruins. Although nobody knows for sure how this great disaster may occur, it is a very controversial topic among society as of today. In fact, today 's culture shows many controversial apocalyptic ideas to attract their viewers, leaving them devastated on the fact that something like this really could happen to the world and there could be an end to all life. Whether this may be as a result of a nuclear war outburst, or a deadly disease that spreads across the nation its hard to predict how this may come to happen if it even does. In one of the 2012 hit rock songs Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, I believe that the song is trying to use apocalyptic …show more content…
I believe that he is trying to show how he woke up to a world where everything was destroyed because he says “I’m waking up to ash and dust” (Imagine Dragons) meaning that he has awakened to some mass destruction along with breathing in the evilness of the world, therefore, he realizes that an apocalypse has happened and that this is how the world is going to be unless he tries to change it, so, therefore, he is trying to start a revolution to create a new era. In the lyrics “I’m breaking up, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus” (Imagine Dragons), I think that the composer is trying to convey to the public that he is trying to break free from this world of disaster that he is currently stuck in. As Dan Reynolds stated “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 new way” (Radioactive (Imagine Dragons song). I think this quote describes this song really well because the motive of this song is conveying of him breaking free and starting a revolution along with welcoming the new …show more content…
I think that this song has a simple meaning to it but it could also have numerous hidden meanings behind that simple meaning too. Such as in this song, I think that the writer uses certain lyrics to maybe explain some of the struggles that he is going through within his life whether that may be some kind of a drug addiction or just and addiction in general. Whatever it is that the composer is trying to convey within his lyrics which could be multiple things that he is going through in his life, we know that it had to be something that created a lot of struggles and pain in his life because he uses such strong lyrics to clarify what he is going through. Later on, in the lyrics he said “I’m checking out of the prison bus” (Imagine Dragons), I think that this means that we wanted to check him self out from the destruction that he had in his life that led to his own apocalypse. I think this song compares a lot to drug addictions because you are having fun for a certain period of time, then one day you wake up and realize that all the harm you did to yourself wasn’t good. All these addictions you’ve done have now led to pure evilness that’s taken over your life and will affect those amidst you too. In order for the composer to get out of this apocalypse/ destructed world he must break free from it by changing his old ways and creating a new revolution