Imagine Dragons And Obtain McElhenney Are Shirtless Pros In ‘Be aware You’ Video
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Being in a band is tricky. In case you birth out, you have to per chance presumably well be ready to’t take your self too seriously or you have to now not be versatile ample to accommodate the inevitable challenges. And when you happen to realize receive huge — which nearly never happens — you choose to pray to be taken seriously, however in the occasion you are too serious, you risk alienating folk. That’s why Imagine Dragons‘s goofy as hell original video for “Be aware You” is such a feat. It be relentlessly self-ribbing, however it furthermore showcases the band doing what they attain at the tip of their game.
It furthermore has primary support from two extremely comic folk: Obtain McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson from It be Constantly Sunny in Philadelphia. That alone is ample to puncture the veneer of a Serious Rock Band, however Imagine Dragons crawl extra, with band chief Dan Reynolds stripping off his shirt and making an fool of himself on about a occasions. Nicely performed, Dan!
McElhenney, who’s aware of a thing or two about performing shirtless dances onstage, commits to this video in a trend you have to per chance relish, however Olson could presumably well presumably be the genuine MVP for how she will be able to get to sit abet and witness it all (rather than one transient, fabulous moment that’s effectively an Easter egg). If that wasn’t ample, the band dunks on itself by invoking their fellow Las Vegas arena champs The Killers in a if truth be told comic bit at the tip of the clip.
“Be aware You” — and its extremely effectively-performed video from Matt Eastin — comes sooner than Imagine Dragons’s drawing near fifth studio album, furthermore space to consist of “Cutthroat,” a tune that came out of Reynolds’s experiences with ayahuasca. “Be aware You” is the delicate aspect of “Cutthroat”‘s fury, and Reynolds recently suggested Rolling Stone or now not it is one of many few love songs the band has, inspired by him reuniting along with his considerable other, Aja.
“‘Be aware You’ is set loyalty,” he suggested the magazine. “It be inspired by the Seaside Boys, which I grew up on, and it used to be an extraordinarily sportive, relaxing tune.”
As some distance as husband-and-considerable other reunions crawl, the “Be aware You” video furthermore enables McElhenney and Olson, who’ve been married for 13 years, to own a night out collectively and witness some are living song. What a dream. Detect it above.