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This Outsider Convinced Imagine Dragons To Take The Biggest Creative Risks Of Their Career On Their New Album · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Ryan Seacrest. Imagine Dragons are back with two
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Speaker 1: new songs off their upcoming album, one called Follow You
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Speaker 1: In the other Cutthroat. It's aggressive, in brash, and it
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Speaker 1: exists in part thanks to one of the most influential
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Speaker 1: producers in music history, Rick Rubin. Rick, if You Are
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Speaker 1: to Wear, has his fingers all over music. He's produced Run, dmc,
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Speaker 1: l L Cool, J, Redhout, Chili Peppers, Ed Shearon, Kanye Eminem,
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Speaker 1: and on and on. He's the kind of producer who
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Speaker 1: minds the best out of each artist and convinces them
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Speaker 1: to take risks from man. Dan Reynolds tells Rolling Stone,
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Speaker 1: I feel like one of our biggest flaws as a
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Speaker 1: band is comfort with Cutthroat. He embraced the parts of
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Speaker 1: Imagined Dragons that were a little uncomfortable for me that
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Speaker 1: usually I would kind of hide. I would never put
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Speaker 1: that song out, fearing it's too strange for Imagined Dragons,
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Speaker 1: but he helped me embrace that and love that about myself.
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Speaker 1: That helped the process. Rick has his hands all over
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Speaker 1: the upcoming album, which Dan says is done, and these
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Speaker 1: two new songs are a hint of what it's gonna be.
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Speaker 1: Like cutthroat and follow you out. Now, that's direct from Hollywood.