Multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning rock band Imagine Dragons have released a fantastic, cinematic music video for their new single I Bet My Life. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Jodeb, the video features American actor Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and was filmed at Arizona’s Roosevelt Dam in October. The awesome and intense visuals mirror the emotional scope of the song.
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“As the first video on our new album, it was especially important that we capture the emotion of the song,” frontman Dan Reynolds said of the video. “Although it was written about my sometimes strained relationship with my parents, our director Jodeb had a powerful vision for how the feeling of the story could be portrayed. We were also lucky to have such amazing talent to work with in our lead actorDane DeHaan.”
In a recent interview with Billboard Magazine Reynolds expands on the meaning and inspiration for the song.
This song is about your relationship with your parents?
Like many teenagers, I really hit heads with my parents at times growing up. My mom and dad are from a really conservative background, so when I told them I wanted to be a musician, that obviously wasn’t a thing that they particularly wanted to hear. But my entire life I’ve been the black sheep in my family and been in and out of trouble. So the song’s about my relationship with my parents, but still celebrating through it all everything that we’ve been through. We try to see past our differences and celebrate the relationship that we have and that we still share today.
Have they heard the song? Have you guys talked about it?
Right before we were gonna release the single, I sat down with my mom and my dad and I played it for them. It’s kind of why I started music as a teenager, to say things that I couldn’t necessarily say. I played [“I Bet My Life”] for my parents and I think they kind of knew, and when I hinted at it, it was a little bit of emotional moment.
Read the full interview here.
I Bet My Life was written and produced by Imagine Dragons and is the first single to be released from their upcoming second album, expected to be released in early 2015 via KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records.
