It's a political album, and this is a political song- but I always got the vibe that Muse doesn't address particular administrations, but rather critiques the human political system as a whole. The world over, governments tend to share fundamental flaws- corruption, the power to manipulate, etcetera. This is what I feel Muse is attacking and bringing to attention- not US politics or UK politics specifically. I always get a much more profound feeling from their works, as opposed to Green Day's American Idiot, which is a great political album, but works on a smaller scale.
It's a political album, and this is a political song- but I always got the vibe that Muse doesn't address particular administrations, but rather critiques the human political system as a whole. The world over, governments tend to share fundamental flaws- corruption, the power to manipulate, etcetera. This is what I feel Muse is attacking and bringing to attention- not US politics or UK politics specifically. I always get a much more profound feeling from their works, as opposed to Green Day's American Idiot, which is a great political album, but works on a smaller scale.