What even is “color of boom?” I don’t frickin’ know. It’s a typical millennial mindset – “I suck! Everything sucks! But at least I’m alive! Yay!”
“Polaroid” is simply a happy little ditty about being a screw-up. A Polaroid takes time to develop and starts out dark and undiscernible – a void, if you will. Reynolds uses the unique image of a Polaroid – not just any sort of photograph, but that specifically. I’ll admit, being in a relationship makes a lot of things better – life is fun when you’re compatible and communicate well, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Once I finally got a boyfriend, I realized that there’s a lot of bad stuff too. But that’s because you see the good stuff. Couples always look like they’re having fun and everything’s fine. That obviously is not the case, but it’s the whole “outside looking in” thing. But it never is.īefore I’d ever dated anyone, I honestly thought that being with someone would make everything instantly perfect. It’s not always a selfless pursuit (okay, it never is.) We want to “start over,” to rebrand so that we look cool or perfect or effortless. Sometimes I’m hoping to attract certain people, sometimes I just do it for the likes, man.
#Poladroid imagine dragons update
How much do you think I update my Instagram account with the hope that I look cool to the outside world? I’ll give you a hint: it’s a lot. On those days when we feel like we don’t measure up, we can sing along to this verse.Īll my life I’ve been livin’ in the fast laneĬan’t slow down, I’m a rollin’ freight trane It seems he either feels too much or too little. Reynolds is labeling himself with not-too-flattering descriptors. We all have those days when we feel less than. The playful tune, however, doesn’t subtract what Reynolds is singing about. The instrumentation is almost puerile, with hand-clapping and a toy piano. The shows he puts on every night are just that – a show.įrom their sophomore album “Smoke + Mirrors,” “Polaroid” is a jaunty tune that sings absent-mindedly about our hero’s shortcomings. He’s lived most of his life with an autoimmune disease that can cause some pretty serious pain. But even though he’s a pretty well known pop star, he has his own struggles. No one’s ever is.ĭay Twenty-Eight: Polaroid – Imagine Dragonsĭan Reynolds looks like he has it together (I mean, have you SEEN him?) He’s got a great band that’s been in the mainstream for the last six years or so, and they fill arenas on every tour. And when they tell me I have my life together, I’m flabbergasted, because it’s simply not true. I could argue, however, that people might look at my life and see that too. I don’t exactly remember what it was, but it was something along the lines of “you can’t see the whole picture.” Even after that, I was jealous. “You have such a cool life,” I said, with the cry emoji. After a particularly stunning photoshoot, I replied to her Instagram story. Everyone wanted to hear what she had to say.īut I didn’t know everything. Her life seemed so good. Everyone wanted to be her friend.
You bet your biscuits I got extremely jealous. She was always announcing exciting things on Facebook, sharing gorgeous photoshoots on Instagram, and seemed to have five times more influence at our university than I did. But I didn’t know her well enough to be the judge of that. I used to have a friend who seemed to live a charmed life. It’s not glamorous at all.īut we like to make it look glamorous. The stress of paying bills on time, of getting to work on time, maintaining friendships, relationships, trying to remember what you need to buy at the grocery store. But people don’t always know what goes on behind all that. On the outside, I might look like I have it together. I haven’t had my life together since 2006. I looked at them like, seriously? I was not the person who had their life together. Not that long ago, a friend of mine asked how I had my life together so well. Sometimes people take selfies to feel popular.
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