2015Released
3:50

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Interesting facts and trivia about Polaroid. By Songfacts®.

This song with a music-box melody was the last track Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds composed for Smoke + Mirrors. It finds him singing about how he's been going too fast all his life like a freight train. "I wrote that song on Halloween night, when I went trick-or-treating with my little girl, and I had this melody that came into my head," Reynolds told The Illinois Entertainer. "And I was singing it to my little girl, and we'd just sing it back and forth because she loves music." "And I was in this place right then, when I was just starting therapy, and that's how I felt – my whole life, I haven't even had a minute to stop. I've just been like a freight train, just blazing through things," he added. "And I've gotten to this point now where I just can't do it anymore. I had to change something, because mentally, I'm just falling apart – I know everything about what Imagine Dragons is, but I have no idea who the hell I am. So that's kind of what that song is."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Polaroid.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
155BPM

Album

The album Polaroid is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Polaroid.
Kid Ina Korner / Interscope
© 2015 KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
℗ 2015 KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records

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