"Bones" is a song by American

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band

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. The song was released through

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and

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on March 11, 2022, as the lead single from the band's sixth studio album, ''

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''. It was written by

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, and its producers

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Background and release

On March 9, 2022, the band posted to their social media, asking fans to head over to their official Discord server at 3:00PST for a surprise. The band's manager and frontman Dan Reynolds' brother, Mac, sent a

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file containing the first 13 seconds of "Bones". The next day, the band announced on

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that the song would be released on March 11. The day afterward, the song was featured in the teaser for the third season of the

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series, ''

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''. Upon the song's release, Reynolds stated to ''

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'', "'Bones' is a reflection of my constant obsession with the finality and fragility of life. I'm always in search of some evidence that will convince me that there is more to come—that life is truly eternal in some sense. Having yet to find that, I try to at least dream of what conquering death would feel like in a song."

Music video

On April 6, 2022, the band released an official music video for the song, directed by Jason Koenig. The video draws influences from '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video. The video stars frontman Dan Reynolds as an egoistic

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, while the other band members star as coworkers. However, all the workers suddenly turn into dancing zombies, who chase Reynolds around the office. Reynolds is then hypnotized into joining the zombies' dance performance, before the spell breaks, he gets caught, and is decapitated.

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References

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