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Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds Says THIS Forced Him to Be a Better Writer · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Imagine Dragons once again
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Speaker 1: teamed up with legendary producer Rick Rubin on their new
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Speaker 1: Mercury React Too. And Rick has worked with everybody from
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Speaker 1: jay Z to the Chili Peppers that Dixie Chicks. He's
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Speaker 1: also famous for extracting the very best out of artist.
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Speaker 1: Imagine Dragons front man Dan Reynolds agrees that Rick did
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Speaker 1: exactly that with them, but the process wasn't always easy,
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Speaker 1: particularly when Rick made him examine his writing. Dan tells Forbes,
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Speaker 1: it was really arduous for me to sit down with
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Speaker 1: Rick and go over every lyric of every song. I
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Speaker 1: hated doing that, and he insisted on it. He'd say,
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Speaker 1: I can't hear what you're saying on that line, or
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Speaker 1: what does that mean? But it was probably the best
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Speaker 1: thing to have happened to me because it forced me
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Speaker 1: to look everything in the eye and decide if it
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Speaker 1: was worth saying. It was a harder skill for me
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Speaker 1: to learn to be suddler and more restrained, and Rick
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Speaker 1: pushed me to do that. Imagine Dragons, Dow, Mercury React
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