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How Imagine Dragons’ Smash Hit “Believer” Was Born in a Moment of Adversity · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Imagine Dragons have had
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Speaker 1: multiple chart topping smashes, but their biggest hit to date
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Speaker 1: is the driving, motivational track Believer, from Dan Reynolds wrote
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Speaker 1: alongside Justin Trentter, who's had a hand in writing several
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Speaker 1: of the biggest songs of the past Decape, working with
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Speaker 1: Selena Gomez, and many more. But Justin tells American Songwriter
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Speaker 1: that session with Dan when they wrote Believer is his
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Speaker 1: favorite moment of his career because it began with so
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Speaker 1: much tension and adversity. Justin says, we just met when
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Speaker 1: someone working in the studios said awful, homophobic, racist, and
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Speaker 1: misogynistic things a string of it. It definitely got heated.
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Speaker 1: Dan told him to leave right then We wrote Believer's
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Speaker 1: imagine Dragon's biggest song and my biggest song. Most people
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Speaker 1: think he's singing, Hey, you made me a believer, but
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Speaker 1: the line is actually pain you made me a believer.
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Speaker 1: It birthed this amazing relationship between us, and it came
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Speaker 1: from a moment of both of us trying to be
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Speaker 1: better people. Imagine Dragon's latest out, Mercury Acts one and two,
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Speaker 1: is out now. That's direct from Hollywood,