Muse - The Resistance

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