He's said it on his website. Has a page dedicated to that. So chill out and quit hating on him.
Also, why the hell would MUSE (yes, the international rock sensation that is shaking the foundations of music and re-defining the word rock, with millions of fans around the globe) need to do a couple songs for a crappy pop-culture, teeny-bopper romance/horror film? Trust me, a band this amazing would not need to lean on something like Twilight, let alone the fact that they're GOOD GUYS AND THEY WOULDN'T.
So now, to address the "ugh, I don't like NSC because it's so soft and typical and wah, I'm just going to whine because Muse is going all soft and lovey-dovey and public". Give me a freaking break, people. Did you use your ears to listen to the Resistance, or was your head too far up your butt? I mean, really, MK Ultra? Hello, they're sticking with their roots.
Matt Bellamy recently went through a break-up with a girlfriend that he'd been in a long-term relationship with. Like, 8 years long-ish. That's a long time. I think that this song is just a summation about how he feels about having to end that, combined with a bit of that Twilight-love-story. This is a song purely about how love can feel for people. That feeling that you can shake the world, can do anything, you're more powerful than anyone because you have love. Bellamy has stated in interviews that he often uses celestial terms or the idea of space to convey ideas as big as love or power (just listen to Black Holes and Revelations) the same way that poets use the ocean as a similar kind of metaphor. So I think that this song is just his sort of release of his emotions regarding love. It's quite simple, really.
I keep having to say this: They make the music for themselves, not us. It's not selfish, it's just the way it is.
For me, this song is kind of a sort of mash-up of all of their work. Like, this is the kind of song that people will use as an example to roughly give people an idea of their music. I'm not saying it's their best work, because music is just feelings. And you can't have "best feelings". It just doesn't work.
I think you all could seriously benefit from wiping all that "Muse is going mainstream" crap from your mind and just letting them take you on a freaking journey. You can't tell them how to do their work. Their work is their mind, and you can't tell them to change their mind. They are individual and beautiful. Get over it.
I totally agree with everything you said there, and I laughed at where you did an accurate impression of most of the other comments on this thread. I mean, not every song any band writes is good, and there happens to be one muse song that I don't like coughhoodoocough and that's just because I don't like it. So don't hate the song because it is 'soft' or 'mainstream' because it isn't
I totally agree with everything you said there, and I laughed at where you did an accurate impression of most of the other comments on this thread. I mean, not every song any band writes is good, and there happens to be one muse song that I don't like coughhoodoocough and that's just because I don't like it. So don't hate the song because it is 'soft' or 'mainstream' because it isn't
Yeah, this isn't my favorite song, either. Although, the clips in the video where Matt is all slowed down and his arm moves really slow and his eyes are shut in a very sensual way and he thrusts out his hips somehow warmed me to the song...
Yeah, this isn't my favorite song, either. Although, the clips in the video where Matt is all slowed down and his arm moves really slow and his eyes are shut in a very sensual way and he thrusts out his hips somehow warmed me to the song...
One thing I've got to tell all of you who are under the delusion that Muse is doing songs like this for money and publicity:
MATT. BELLAMY. GENUINELY. LIKES. THE. TWILIGHT. SERIES.
He's said it on his website. Has a page dedicated to that. So chill out and quit hating on him.
Also, why the hell would MUSE (yes, the international rock sensation that is shaking the foundations of music and re-defining the word rock, with millions of fans around the globe) need to do a couple songs for a crappy pop-culture, teeny-bopper romance/horror film? Trust me, a band this amazing would not need to lean on something like Twilight, let alone the fact that they're GOOD GUYS AND THEY WOULDN'T.
So now, to address the "ugh, I don't like NSC because it's so soft and typical and wah, I'm just going to whine because Muse is going all soft and lovey-dovey and public". Give me a freaking break, people. Did you use your ears to listen to the Resistance, or was your head too far up your butt? I mean, really, MK Ultra? Hello, they're sticking with their roots.
Matt Bellamy recently went through a break-up with a girlfriend that he'd been in a long-term relationship with. Like, 8 years long-ish. That's a long time. I think that this song is just a summation about how he feels about having to end that, combined with a bit of that Twilight-love-story. This is a song purely about how love can feel for people. That feeling that you can shake the world, can do anything, you're more powerful than anyone because you have love. Bellamy has stated in interviews that he often uses celestial terms or the idea of space to convey ideas as big as love or power (just listen to Black Holes and Revelations) the same way that poets use the ocean as a similar kind of metaphor. So I think that this song is just his sort of release of his emotions regarding love. It's quite simple, really.
I keep having to say this: They make the music for themselves, not us. It's not selfish, it's just the way it is.
For me, this song is kind of a sort of mash-up of all of their work. Like, this is the kind of song that people will use as an example to roughly give people an idea of their music. I'm not saying it's their best work, because music is just feelings. And you can't have "best feelings". It just doesn't work.
I think you all could seriously benefit from wiping all that "Muse is going mainstream" crap from your mind and just letting them take you on a freaking journey. You can't tell them how to do their work. Their work is their mind, and you can't tell them to change their mind. They are individual and beautiful. Get over it.
I totally agree with everything you said there, and I laughed at where you did an accurate impression of most of the other comments on this thread. I mean, not every song any band writes is good, and there happens to be one muse song that I don't like coughhoodoocough and that's just because I don't like it. So don't hate the song because it is 'soft' or 'mainstream' because it isn't
I totally agree with everything you said there, and I laughed at where you did an accurate impression of most of the other comments on this thread. I mean, not every song any band writes is good, and there happens to be one muse song that I don't like coughhoodoocough and that's just because I don't like it. So don't hate the song because it is 'soft' or 'mainstream' because it isn't
Yeah, this isn't my favorite song, either. Although, the clips in the video where Matt is all slowed down and his arm moves really slow and his eyes are shut in a very sensual way and he thrusts out his hips somehow warmed me to the song...
Yeah, this isn't my favorite song, either. Although, the clips in the video where Matt is all slowed down and his arm moves really slow and his eyes are shut in a very sensual way and he thrusts out his hips somehow warmed me to the song...