"Monday" is a song by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. The song was released through Kidinakorner and Interscope on September 24, 2021, as the third and final single from their fifth studio album, Mercury â Act 1. The song was first played live a week before the album's release at the Walmart Live Homecoming.
"Monday" was written by band members Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman as well as former band member Andrew Tolman. It was produced by the band and Goldwiing. The song is upbeat and synth-pop with lyrics written for Reynolds' wife Aja Volkman designed to be tongue-in-cheek and danceable for them both. Reynolds uses the reverse metaphor of Monday, usually the worst day of the week, to highlight Reynolds' affection. He described the creation of the song in an interview with Clash:
The music video for "Monday" premiered on September 24, 2021 and was directed by Matt Eastin. The video follows all four band members relaxing, performing, and hanging out in their summer paradise bunker. The video shows them playing on a putting green, in a swimming pool, and badminton. The video shows TV broadcasts of global catastrophe scenarios that doom and end the world like wars, meteors, UFO invasions, and earthquakes. A rumbling occurs at the end of the second verse, but they continue performing. At the end of the video, Dan Reynolds travels up an elevator and outside into the fallout with a gas mask to receive a newspaper of the world's end. He quickly reenters the bunker before a meteor strikes in front.
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