The journey is long, and the roads are rough.
“I remember a teammate shared that doc with me, but I can’t find it anywhere!”Ĭreating a decent filing system in Google Docs might feel like you’re on a trek. “Ugh, where is that document I opened a second ago?” Here are three reasons why Google Docs isn’t the most comprehensive knowledge base solution: A. Difficult to use as a knowledge base system These are essential if you want to monitor project performance and give life to that space vision. It lacks advanced collaboration features like progress tracking, time tracking, custom task statuses, and more. However, if you want to document a large project, this Google app won’t cut it. You can even create calendars in Google Docs. Google Docs has a few basic content collaboration features like real-time editing, document sharing, and cloud storage. To that end, Marroquin refers to the blend of musical threads found throughout the song as “almost the beginning of genre-less music” - an opinion that holds weight more than ever at the close of the decade, when artists often leap from radio format to radio format without as many of the barriers that might have previously stood in their way.Google Docs also lets you add images to your Google document using the built-in Google search engine and even use other Google apps like Google Slides alongside your work.Īnd while all that sounds cool, the Google Docs app does have a few glaring limitations: 1. Threads of “Radioactive” can still be heard in a weekly perusal of Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist, represented in songs that are just enough this genre while also being a little that genre to appeal to as wide a demographic as possible. By the end of its radio run, it appeared on a wide array of different formats, from Mainstream Rock Songs to Rhythmic Songs. “Radioactive” instead blended these sounds more deftly, creating something palatable to alternative and pop fans alike. Meanwhile, a predecessor, Alex Clare’s “Too Close,” was practically two different songs: plaintive singer-songwriter on the verses, club banger on the chorus. At the time of its initial reign, it displaced a fellow early adopter of the 2010s-flavored alternative/electronic fusion, Muse’s “Madness,” a song that truly leaned into its dubstep influences and turned the wubs up to 11. “Radioactive” proceeded to rule Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart for 13 straight weeks from March 2013 to the end of May. Imagine Dragons: The Billboard Cover Story Marroquin also says that he and producer Alex da Kid, both of whom had worked extensively on multiple hip-hop and R&B tracks prior to pairing for “Radioactive,” wanted to incorporate hip-hop elements to the point that a certain then-fledgling rapper might seamlessly hop on the song’s remix. “I remember when hit,, ‘This is the moment where it’s gotta really slap.’” “The key was to make the low end and the sub really, really jump out,” Marroquin says. A then-still-guitar-heavy alternative format was faced not so much with Wayne Sermon’s six-string riffs as it was room-vibrating percussion and distorted electronic stabs that recalled pop radio’s flavor of the week, dubstep.Ĭredit Manny Marroquin, the song’s mixing engineer, not only for helping create that sound but also implementing the dynamics that made the song stand out to begin with. Then roared in “Radioactive,” with a bass-shaking thunderclap that didn’t just dwarf “It’s Time” – it also sounded unlike anything of its time. Toward the end of summer 2012, the Dan Reynolds-led Las Vegas rockers had one hit to their name, a quirky, affirming, mandolin-forward single called “It’s Time” that became a major alternative hit, and crossed over to the Hot 100 as well, peaking at No. That’s not to say Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” isn’t in the same boat, but let’s say it had one foot out of it.