Stuffed Animals in Music Videos

This music video is strange. There is almost no other way to describe it. I am not saying Radioactive by Imagine Dragons is bad, but it is definitely strange. A fight club where stuffed animals go to die at the hands of a bigger stuffed animal is not the normal scene for a music video. This atmosphere helps make the song look more dramatic and mysterious. Also, being out of the ordinary is pretty popular and Imagine Dragons is pretty good at being out of the ordinary. One of the reasons I enjoy how the music video portrays the song is that the band is actually performing in the dungeon below the fight club, with dusty guitars and drums in a dark room.

The song has an angry mood to it because the lead singer is aggressively beating the large drum as dust flies everywhere, and he sings about revolution and fitting in and being "radioactive." The song also favors the underdog. The girl who seems like she isn't dangerous at all comes into the building full of rowdy gamblers and her stuffed animal is a pink teddy bear. When it seems like she's going to lose and the gangster guy is going to drop the bear into the dungeon, it uses some magical power to punch the beast in the face. Then it vaporizes some thugs and tosses the bad guy in the dungeon. The song reaches out to all the people who feel like they can't and are unable to win. It shows that Imagine Dragons understands how the underdogs feel and vocalize it in their music.

I can not explain why the stuffed animals are used in the video but it is still pretty cool. Again, the music is very catchy and I enjoy it but it is also out of the ordinary, and gives the band more attention, enabling them to stand out more.