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Jon Ossoff s love of Imagine Dragons became a Twitter punchline. Welcome to politics as a millennial.
Travis M. Andrews, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
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Dan Reynolds, from left, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman and Daniel Wayne Sermon, of Imagine Dragons, arrive at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena on Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Let s get this out of the way: It s not abnormal to like Imagine Dragons.
Two of the band s albums have gone double platinum, while the other two went platinum and gold, respectively. The Grammy-winning Las Vegas rockers tend to be a punchline to music critics, but it s impossible to deny that awful lot of people enjoy their music - including, it would seem, Jon Ossoff.
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A tweet posted by Ossoff in September 2012 is now doing the rounds, in which he replied to a tweet from
Pitchfork – which wasn’t about Imagine Dragons – with the words: “Looking forward to your writeup of the new @ImagineDragons album.”
@pitchforkmedia Looking forward to your writeup of the new @imaginedragons album
Twitter users have been sharing their delighted reaction to Ossoff’s seemingly innocent tweet resurfacing this week. However,
The Appeal President Josie Duffy Rice has since clarified that Ossoff’s tweet may have actually been motivated by his friendship with Imagine Dragons’ drummer Daniel Platzman, who he went to high school with.