Imagine Dragons, in case you don’t keep up with such things, is about as corporate as rock bands get these days, selling out arenas with a generic sound that has earned them as much scorn today as Nickelback and Creed did in theirs. So I don’t know whether it’s a surprise or not that they’ve released a new song with a video shot near the front lines of the war in Ukraine.
It’s not battle footage, just a hand-held camera following a 14-year-old boy through what remains of his village, recently reclaimed after months of Russian occupation. It concludes with an appeal for donations. The music itself is about as generic as you’d expect, but the video is worth a gander.
