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They were crazy for putting these songs like this. The whiplash. The range.
#absolution xx anniversary#hysteria muse#absolution#muse#muse music#muse band#musers#matt bellamy#dominic howard#chris wolstenholme#origin of symmetry#showbiz#hullabaloo#black holes and revelations#the resistance#the 2nd law#drones#simulation theory#will of the people
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my babies so far
The OOS album CD arrived today, so I put all my collection together. Next month The Resistance is going to be add on my collection <3 Little by little I'll have all of them. Even the live CDs aaaaaaa
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sorry can't go to your party i'm too busy listening to isolated system on repeat
#muse#song#isolated system#the 2nd law: isolated system#the 2nd law#the 2nd law isolated system#because i am very bad at remembering my tags and need to tag every possible variation or I'll never find it if i look for it#me
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They have muse guitar picks… I need them so bad
#matt bellamy#chris wolstenholme#dominic howard#muse#muse band#music#guitar#I love muse#will of the people#black holes and revelations#the residence#the 2nd law#drones#showbiz#origin of symmetry#absolution
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#muse#Muse Band#matt bellamy#nova rock festival#nova rock festival 2022#madness#the 2nd law#circle of death#mosh pit#i have one more set in the works for tomorrow but bedtime for meeeee
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Muse to start work on new album without Matt Bellamy
June 1, 2011 8:53
Bassist Chris Wolstenholme says he's 'nervous' to be following his singer's efforts
Muse’s Chris Wolstenholme has revealed that the band will start working on their new album without the help of singer Matt Bellamy.
With Bellamy currently taking a break from the band as he prepares for the birth of his first child with his fiancée, actress Kate Hudson, bassist Wolstenholme told The Sun that he would be writing new material for the LP on his own. "Matt's raised the bar quite high in terms of songwriting,” he said. "I'm a bit nervous because I don't want to write a song and it be responsible for the demise of the band."
Earlier this month, Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard revealed they were planning on releasing the potentially 'softer' follow-up to 2009’s ‘The Resistance’ in 2012. Howard said: "Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it's up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby! But I'm sure it will move forward in some way."
Muse have also suggested that they will play their 2001 album 'Origin Of Symmetry' in full at the Reading And Leeds Festivals.
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[The next morning...]
Muse dismiss reports that they are set to start work on new LP without Matt Bellamy
June 2, 2011 11:37
Bassist Chris Wolstenholme says report is 'a load of bollocks'
Muse have dismissed reports that they are beginning work on their new album without singer Matt Bellamy.
It was reported yesterday (June 1) that the band would be starting work on the follow-up to their 2009 fifth album 'The Resistance' without Bellamy, but bassist Chris Wolstenholme has now said this isn't true.
Responding on his Twitter page Twitter.com/ctwolstenholme, the bassist said of the article's original source, a report in The Sun, "So to clear things up amongst any readers of The Sun out there, it's all a load of bollocks."
Earlier this month, Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard told NME that they were planning on releasing a 'softer' new album in 2012. Howard said: "Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it's up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby! But I'm sure it will move forward in some way."
Muse headline Reading And Leeds Festival this summer.
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In the NME.
Bonus:
"Buy Muse (at Reading Festival) Tickets from £5" can you imagine. This was Reading 2011, where Muse played Origin of Symmetry in full to mark its 10 year anniversary.
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(And for anyone with burning curiosity, Chris said nothing about Matt not writing, just that he would be writing for the next Muse album (The 2nd Law), for the first time (Save Me and Liquid State)
Chris: “Matt's raised the bar quite high in terms of songwriting. I'm a bit nervous because I don't want to write a song and it be responsible for the demise of the band.”)
#press trash as promised#muse band#muse#matt bellamy#chris wolstenholme#The 2nd Law#Resistance era#NME.com#NME#muse press#muse interviews#as if Musers read the Sun tbf
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my unhinged rant about how Save Me by Muse is the perfect silver & dad!lance song
okay hi lemme preface with i haven’t played any of the johto games so, all of this is 2nd hand knowledge + headcanons so feel free to correct me!! my evidence will be taken almost entirely from pokemas lol
!! this is abt game silver and not the pokespe iteration !!
also for my sake i will be referring to silver with she/her pronouns bc it genuinely feels wrong for me to refer to her by anything else. you can criticize any other part of this mini-analysis/rant but if you criticize a headcanon i hold very, very dear to me i will not hesitate to block you :>
okay right off the bat “save me from my superstitions, now i’m free from this old condition” is 100% about silver’s abandonment issues. my poor girl she’s been through so much
“hold me cause i’m sure i’m hated, promises they are overrated” do i even have to say it. it’s explicitly stated in pokemas that she sees herself as an inherently bad person due to her heritage and her previous actions (stealing + mistreating her pokémon). as such, she doesn’t trust ANYONE, including her closest friends, as she worries they’re going to leave if they find the ‘real’ her (the one who is supposedly malicious and cruel and just like her father).
(the scene when lance is trying to convince her to go find ho-oh with the MC + the gang / johto villain arc when she’s asked to not face giovanni alone). the analysis writes itself.
“wait just a while, while i’m drowning in denial”. i really love this lyric in relation to silver and her father - just a quiet ‘wait’. she’s getting there. she’s not a good person yet, she’s trying so hard, she’s not there yet. she doesn’t know if she CAN be a good person, hence drowning in denial. but once again it’s lance that picks up his daughter and says that she’s drowning in DENIAL; silver is a good person, she’s just having a hard time seeing it.
(a day with SS silver if i remember right, discussing the actions of team rocket back in johto and how she sees herself in relation to those actions / once again, lance convincing silver that she should go to find ho-oh)
“watch me, cause i’m on a mission”do i even have to say anything??? team rocket radio tower. lance’s original dialogue in GSC about being worried for silver. her never-ending quest to be the strongest also factors in here.
(johto arc again, saying how she’s going to take on team rocket alone, much to the dismay of the johtrio)
“hold me back, so i’m forced to listen” can be taken a few different ways. i like to see it as she needs to be held back by her friends/family from throwing herself headfirst into both team rocket headquarters and self-doubt spirals. we know she has a vitriol for TR, so i 100% see her trying to enact her own justice by taking them down on her own (much like her pokespe counterpart). HOWEVER i do think it can be taken more metaphorically, with her having to be forced to listen to the facts; people love her and she’s not going to be abandoned for perceived weakness.
(lance convincing silver / johto arc / i forgot where this was whoops 💀 i think it’s paulo related, anyways she lost to lance and he said “great battle! you almost had us.” she responds with this, which highlights what she needs to be held back from: her self-deprecation when she’s a formidable trainer in her own right.)
“don’t let me go, ‘cause i’m nothing without you” does NOT feel like a silver line in the slightest lmao. she’s proven herself to be very independent. however i do think you can read this as her taking to her pokémon here. even with her threats of leaving them behind, she never does. her SS story is explicit in stating that she is developing herself for the sake of her pokémon.
(a day with SS silver)
ITS CHORUS TIME BABY!!!!
“turn me into someone like you” just SCREAMS silver and lance. sure, she hates him initially, but it’s ultimately out of envy. how is HE so powerful? how is HE able to talk to her about strength when HE doesn’t know half of the things she’s done to survive? doesn’t know the lingering, taunting pain that is being beaten at every turn and still refusing to make the same mistakes your father did by never abandoning a pokémon? sure, she parrots it a lot, but when does silver’s team change? when do we ever see her straight-up abandon a pokémon? she desperately craves his strength, yes, but in the end what she also really wants to be is a trainer people can be proud of. she wants to stop hiding in her hole of self-loathing and worries that she’ll only be a repeat of giovanni and just wants to have a legacy she can be proud of. (does anyone have that line of lance saying the cape is almost like a dragon master uniform? cus that’s what i mean to put here.) she wants a background she can be part of, something to embrace, not to be ashamed of.
admittedly, “find a place that we can go to, run away and take me with you” are less strong when it comes to silver herself. she very much does NOT want to run away, she knows the pain of abandonment all too well. i do think, though, that she would want pure privacy in moments of vulnerability, so when saying something along the lines of the previous lyric (‘turn me into someone like you’) and explaining the reasoning behind her actions (it’s trauma), she’d much rather do it with nobody else around. we all know how she feels about weakness, after all.
(chase the northern wind (eusine + shiny suicune event), her reminiscing on how she used to see jasmine + her ampharos /
a day with silver and ho-oh(?), talking about how much she can still grow)
“don’t let go, i need your rescue” is just. can we please appreciate how good this song is? okay cool, back to business. this is definitely a post-arc silver, where she’s less afraid to express her need for safety. even without her arc, it’s once again a callback to one of her most traumatizing moments: being left by giovanni. she’s never really gotten over that fear of being left behind, and all she really is, is a scared little girl desperately calling out to her father. she’s terrified. but to be terrified is to be weak and weakness will get you left behind, so she covers it up with a rude exterior. finally letting those walls down is her ultimate show of strength, revealing how clingy she can be just to feel safe and reassured. and to share that with her father, to have lance be the dad she always needed, it just warms my heart :)
YOU MADE IT TO THE END!!! CONGRATS!!! :D k hope this was an accurate analysis and you guys enjoyed :>
#long post#character analysis#save me#rival silver#trainer silver#champion lance#okay i got the alt text#if anyone has recommendations for an alternate way to write the alt text please let me know!!#muse band#the 2nd law#transfem hc#transgirl silver is real and you are all cowards for not seeing it (JOKING)
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I keep thinking back to Muse playing Survival at the closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, and I keep saying that one of these days I'm just gonna spew all my feelings about how it's not just one of my all-time favorite Muse moments, but also a hilarious, if perhaps unintentional, moment of social commentary.
I still remember our postgrad professor showing those same closing ceremonies in class, explaining the not-so-subtle propagandistic purpose the entire spectacle served on the global stage. (For those who don't know, the 2012 Olympics closing ceremonies were essentially a three-hour star-studded tribute to UK music and pop culture.)
Picture this: you just sat through about two hours of the UK's various national exports - One Direction, the Spice Girls, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, Ed Sheeran, Annie Lennox, erm, Russell Brand. You've just seen live performances of Bohemian Rhapsody, Imagine, Wonderwall, and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, alongside tributes to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. And you still have Queen, Take That and The Who to go after this.
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Interestingly, that class glossed over what an afterthought the Muse performance felt like by comparison. You could argue a lot of extenuating circumstances: the controversial reception of Survival as the official London Olympics theme song, the infamous NBC debacle where it inadvertently got cut from the US broadcast of the ceremonies, or the simple fact that this far into the festivities, a fairly straightforward stage performance* by a band with slightly less name recognition than Coldplay was pretty underwhelming.
* Not sure if this is common knowledge, but apparently this performance was mostly playback with the exception of Matt's vocals. Which also makes this an underappreciated entry in the annals of Muse miming shenanigans.
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But something becomes very apparent once you actually reach this part of the show: Survival is fucking bananas. I'll never forget that one internet commenter calling it the world's most epic villain song that doesn't know it's a villain song. I mean, just look at the lyrics:
Life's a race / and I am gonna win
And I'll light the fuse / and I'll never lose
And I choose to survive / whatever it takes
You won't pull ahead / I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength / to the whole human race
This is how the song starts! You can sort of see the logic behind making it the Olympics theme song. And then it gets weirder from there:
Yes, I am prepared / to stay alive
I won't forgive / the vengeance is mine
And I won't give in / because I choose to thrive
Yeah, I'm gonna wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin
Good grief. No wonder it's called "Survival". The song makes slightly more sense in the thematic context of The 2nd Law, the album it was released on. But on its own it's just.... yeah.
And this performance ramps up the insanity even more by just taking the piss. Between Matt Bellamy peacocking in a sparkly suit and Union Jack t-shirt, the batshit guitar solo, the pyro, the backing choir, and the fact that everything onstage (including the grand piano) is pretty much just for show (and wobbling like mad), Survival feels cheesy and irreverent in a way that makes you suddenly hyper-conscious of how tightly orchestrated everything else you just saw (including the Monty Python and Mr. Bean stuff) was. Remember that this was all broadcast to an international audience of millions.
Pairing the sheer pageantry of the ceremonies thus far with the actual lyrics of Survival kinda puts everything in an uncomfortable new light. Then it dawns on you that you pretty much just watched an accidental three-hour love letter to British imperialism. (Okay maybe that's overselling it a bit but it's still pretty funny.)
#muse#muse band#survival#the 2nd law#matt bellamy#olympics#P.S. I can't help but wonder how Dom and Chris feel being accomplices to all this
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Muse Lyrics<3
#plssss add some more#muse#musers#muse music#muse band#matt bellamy#dom howard#dominic howard#chris wolstenholme#showbiz#origin of symmetry#hullabaloo#absolution#the resistance#the 2nd law#drones#simulation theory#will of the people#music
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Can't get over the absolution xx remasters, I feel like I'm falling in love with these songs all over again
#muse#muse band#matt bellamy#origin of symmetry#black holes and revelations#showbiz#drones#the 2nd law#will of the people#simulation theory#absolution#the resistance
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I love the concept of going to a Muse concert as a casual fan. Imagine going with a friend because you liked Supermassive Black Hole when you saw Twilight and all of a sudden they whip out the World War Z Theme.
#y’all don’t roast me I know it’s isolated system#I worshipped that album for three years#muse band#isolated system#world war z#the second law#the 2nd law#supermassive black hole#wotp tour#twilight#Matt Bellamy has his grimy little hands everywhere and I am HERE for it
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Couldn’t find the source for this image but this is what I image the twentieth anniversary edition of The Second Law would look like:
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love by muse
#muse#showbiz#origin of symmetry#absolution#black holes and revelations#the resistance#the 2nd law#drones#web weaving#lyrics#strings queue
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HI GUYS I haven’t posted in AGES this is so strange I’m so sorry i randomly disappeared I was just struggling with content 😓 but hopefully I can post more again soon<3
#matt bellamy#chris wolstenholme#dominic howard#muse#muse band#music#will of the people#i love muse#the 2nd law#absolution#bbc ghosts#kitty bbc ghosts#pat bbc ghosts#the captain bbc ghosts#thomas bbc ghosts#julian bbc ghosts#bbc ghosts mary#mary bbc ghosts#bbc ghosts fanny#bbc ghosts Robin
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All natural and technological processes
Proceed in such a way that the availability
Of the remaining energy decreases
In all energy exchanges, if no energy
Enters or leaves an isolated system
The entropy of that system increases
Energy continuously flows from being
Concentrated to becoming dispersed
Spread out, wasted and useless
New energy cannot be created and high grade
Energy is being destroyed
An economy based on endless growth is
(Unsustainable)
The fundamental laws of thermodynamics will
Place fixed limits on technological innovation
And human advancement
In an isolated system, the entropy
Can only increase
A species set on endless growth is
(Unsustainable)
#music#spotify#just gonna leave this here#muse#unsustainable#the 2nd law#rock#matt bellamy#space rock#breaking down my walls#thermodynamics#physics#science#music meets science#parallels#isolated system#entropy
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