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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Imagine Dragons have had

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Speaker 1: multiple chart topping smashes, but their biggest hit to date

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Speaker 1: is the driving, motivational track Believer, from Dan Reynolds wrote

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Speaker 1: alongside Justin Trentter, who's had a hand in writing several

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Speaker 1: of the biggest songs of the past Decape, working with

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Speaker 1: Selena Gomez, and many more. But Justin tells American Songwriter

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Speaker 1: that session with Dan when they wrote Believer is his

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Speaker 1: favorite moment of his career because it began with so

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Speaker 1: much tension and adversity. Justin says, we just met when

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Speaker 1: someone working in the studios said awful, homophobic, racist, and

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Speaker 1: misogynistic things a string of it. It definitely got heated.

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Speaker 1: Dan told him to leave right then We wrote Believer's

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Speaker 1: imagine Dragon's biggest song and my biggest song. Most people

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Speaker 1: think he's singing, Hey, you made me a believer, but

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Speaker 1: the line is actually pain you made me a believer.

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Speaker 1: It birthed this amazing relationship between us, and it came

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Speaker 1: from a moment of both of us trying to be

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Speaker 1: better people. Imagine Dragon's latest out, Mercury Acts one and two,

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Speaker 1: is out now. That's direct from Hollywood,