Crushed (Imagine Dragons song)
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| "Crushed" | ||||
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| Single by Imagine Dragons | ||||
| from the album Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 | ||||
| Released | May 10, 2023 | |||
| Length | 3:09 | |||
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| Producer | Imagine Dragons | |||
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| "Crushed" on YouTube | ||||
"Crushed" is a song by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. The song was released through Kidinakorner and Interscope on May 10, 2023, as the fifth and final single from the band's fifth studio album, Mercury – Acts 1 & 2. The song was released as a single in promotion of United24 and support for Ukraine in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2][3] The song was also nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Social Message at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.
"Crushed" was written by band members Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman as well as produced by the band. The song's lyrics describe someone who is always crushed or trapped by the expectations of others into being someone she is not. The song uses this theme to reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" with the lyrics "Don't you know / That you don't have a say? / And the scarlet "A" on your neck / So pretty in red". The song's deep and low guitar is similar to early Radiohead songs.[4] It originally began in Platzman's dome studio and evolved from there with Reynolds' deeply personal lyrics.[4]
