“Rx” by Theory of a Deadman

Theory of a Deadman led off Wake Up Call, their sixth studio album, with "Rx (Medicate)" on July 27, 2017, and it finds the Canadian hard rockers folding pop and country into their usual sound. All four members share the lyric credit, and the subject is the prescription drug abuse epidemic across North America. Martin Terefe produced it at his Kensaltown Studios in London, and the pop turn has been tied to singer Tyler Connolly learning piano, which changed how he writes.

Reviews were mixed, praising its social conscience but knocking the music and lyrics, yet it became the band's third Mainstream Rock number one and went 4× platinum in Canada and 3× platinum in the US. The band teamed with the nonprofit Shatterproof, urging fans at shows to seek help and selling lapel pins bearing the title to benefit it.

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