Muse - The Resistance

ok I'm goin' in

o Muse

their first few songs to get on the radio in the U.S. seemed okay to me and "Knights Of Cydonia" was kind of awesome but yeah this and the singles off the last album were just horrible

Knights Of Cydonia was awesome sure but it should have heralded a change of direction - they could go no further that way. But they did. Urrrgh.

This album is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I mean, yes, they rip off just about everything under the sun, but somehow they assemble all these stolen bits into a kind of supercharged, bombastic, lyrically-daft fun ride that doesn't leave you time to get bored.

I've been coming back to this album recently, thinking I underrated it the first time around. Somehow, despite one of the songs being titled "United States of Eurasia", it only just clicked that much of this seems to be based on or reference 1984, which gives more context to the title track especially but the doomed-lovers songs more generally.

I love Muse, but the lyrics... are.... sometimes... hmmmmm....

Alternative lyrics to "Uprising" may go as forward:

New World Order is in bloom the fake news mainstream media will resume
They drop chemtrails to disturb our minds so that we will never see the truth around
Another vaccine full of 5G another packed lie to meet the zionists' greed
All the Bilderberger meetings drug our minds with endless blue pills to keep the truth confined.

It's true that if you completely rewrote the lyrics, they could express deeply problematic messages.

it is sort of relieving that bellamy didn't go full-on conspiracy brain for real over covid

On the contrary, it seems:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/muse-matt-bellamy-interview-coronavirus-quarantine-999208/

https://www.spin.com/2020/03/muses-matt-bellamy-honors-doctor-cousin-battling-coronavirus/

I am actually getting the impression he is generally less of a conspiracy theorists these days than he used to be a few years ago, and that is good.

Haha I didn't know about this:

In an interview to be published in the Observer on Sunday, singer Matt Bellamy discusses Fox News presenter Glenn Beck's embrace of their 2009 album The Resistance and the use of their hit single Uprising in rightwing conspiracy videos on YouTube.

"In the US the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism," Bellamy said. Defining himself as "a left-leaning libertarian – more in the realm of Noam Chomsky," he added: "Uprising was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies and we turned them down on a regular basis."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/28/muse-rightwing-conspiracy-theorists-music