Promoted with a memorably Gothic, Tim Burton-esque video, the album’s second single, “Natural,” also peaked inside the Top 20 of the Hot 100, while its third, “Bad Liar,” went on to become a substantial European hit.

10 on the Billboard Hot 100 prior to Origins’ release. “Zero”’s lyrics also spoke volumes to Imagine Dragons’ burgeoning fanbase, with the song climbing to No. “Ralph’s internal struggle for self-acceptance really resonated with us, and this song speaks to that.” “It’s a pretty timely movie in a lot of ways in that it addresses some of the issues of identity and loneliness unique to this internet generation,” Reynolds said at the time of the film’s release, in November 2018.

To his credit, Reynolds also continued to address deeply personal issues like depression and mental health on songs such as “Bad Liar” and “Zero.” Though allied to the most straight-ahead, radio-friendly rock track on Origins, the latter song – which also featured in Disney’s animated film Ralph Breaks The Internet – included some of Reynolds’ most poignant lyrics yet (“Let me show you what it’s like to never feel/Like I’m not good enough for anything that’s real”), delivered with an unstinting passion. With their stomping, stadium-friendly choruses, “Natural” and the defiant “Machine” (“I’ve been wondering when you’re gonna see I’m not for sale”) quickly marked their territory out as potential standalone singles, though elsewhere the tracklist zig-zagged wildly from the explosive, drum’n’bass-tinged “Digital” to the bucolic, mandolin-flecked folk-pop of “West Coast” and the poignant, neo-hymnal ballad “Love.” “It identifies some of the issues unique to this generation” Reynolds and his team emerged with a feverishly eclectic bunch of material.

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