Imagine Dragons Newest Album Shows Different Meanings in Music

Schuyler Kropp, Staff Writer

Music is everywhere. We listen to it for many reasons, including focusing or calming our minds. By listening to music, you allow rhythms to flow into your ears while jamming out. Songs and albums are meant to have hidden meanings and messages. Anyone can listen to the lyrics of a song and process them in many ways. Songwriters try to have a hidden message in their songs or albums by saying what they truly mean in a more creative way. It is common that these messages get jumbled up causing misinterpretation. Trying to coax out information or meanings is hard to do, but it allows your brain to understand other ways to look at things. This also helps you find what songs are your jam. The band Imagine Dragons is a good example of putting meanings into their music. Imagine Dragons is an American rock band formed in 2008, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is headed by lead singer, Dan Reynolds. The band has mostly upbeat and some mild to slow songs, often changing their pace in many different ways. They write songs that grab people’s attention. If the song is short and mournful, then people might feel sad singing along to the song. But, if the song is long and cheerful, people might feel happy and exuberated. 

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The Rush of A Concert

Juliet Buckley, Staff Writer and Social Media Contributor

As an eighteen-year-old girl when I look back and reflect on my life, I find music in every single area and memory. I believe that  I have adored music since I came out of the womb. There have been so many times where I cannot recall a memory until I hear a song that I liked around the time of the memory. Because of this, I have made it my mission to attend as many concerts as possible. 

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You Lose Your Mind

Rose Cordova, Staff Writer and Social Media Contributor 

It’s winter again, your happiest seasons have passed. The snow piles up on your window and everything has frozen over. You lose your mind and sit there scrolling. Reeling in who you think you should be, but you don’t know. Hell, you don’t think you ever will. Are you capable of looking outside yourself, outside of the battle in your skull? 

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A Last Letter from the Editor

By Morgan Jacobus, Editor in Chief

I have had the privilege of serving as Editor in Chief of this publication for the past three years. I was fortunate to have been given the opportunity at the end of my freshman year by my prior editor, Catie. Just as she took a chance on me, I did the same by passing my title on to freshman staff writer, Austin Price. She will be supported by Madelynn Loring and Sandra Vo, who have been dedicated members of my team for the past two years.

In reflection on my time, I have had highs and lows of things I wish I had done while being proud of what I was able to accomplish on my own. It has just been me supporting this publication for the past few years, and I hope that I was able to build a steady enough foundation for my colleagues to carry it on without me.

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Are You Living Busy or Busy Living?

By Vivian Pham, Staff Writer

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There’s a famous line in one of Bob Dylan’s song in the 1965 album Bringing It All Back, It’s Alright, Ma, that said: “That he not busy being born is busy dying.” This indicates that if you have a busy life, you’re living the right life. Yet have you realized the paradox of modern life? The more we throw ourselves into countless nights preparing for a project, working overtime on the weekends, etc., the more we lose control over our life. 

A catchphrase from people who chose to focus on their work and put aside entertaining as well as life experience is “sorry, I’m busy.” We live in a time where busyness is becoming the scale of success. A businessman spending 2-3 extra hours meeting with clients to help finding new business partners, an office worker working overtime everyday trying to be honored “employee of the year” in order to get a promotion, or a freelancer having 2-3 jobs at the same time to pay the bills, all these examples are no doubt hard works and efforts, but are they really meaningful?

A study of Harvard Business Review showed that most workers spend 80% of their day on activities that seem to make them busy but actually don’t, and they fail to justify whether that activity boosts productivity or not. They admit the purpose of getting busy is simply to fill up those 24 hours. 

Luckily, the fastest way to get out of that vicious busying cycle is to ask ourselves: does our busyness satisfy our needs? As long as you feel productive and be able to control your busy schedule, then you’re busy living and enjoying that busyness. But on the contrary, if you just pretend to be busy for others and to make you feel like being productive, then you’re fantasizing yourself and maybe you should reorganize your “busy” schedule.