We've reached the point where hit movie musicals sound like Imagine Dragons. "The Greatest Show," the opening number on The Greatest Showman's soundtrack album, initiates with an onslaught of harshly wailed "whoa-oh"s from an army of intense voices. If not those earnest Vegas boys behind "Thunder" and "Believer," maybe you'll hear echoes of radio's other accessibly abrasive maximalists. Fall Out Boy? Thirty Seconds To Mars? (Gulp) AWOLNATION? You know the sound -- Arcade Fire with a titanium exoskeleton, gladiatorial post-EDM pop-rock hellbent on securing syncs on ESPN. Here are the opening lyrics as transcribed by Genius:
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