Muse's Will of the People is NOT GOOD
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MUSE - WILL OF THE PEOPLE / 2022 / WARNER / THE WORST MUSE ALBUM IMAGINABLE
NOT GOOD/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
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I feel bad because my stepdad loves Muse so much and i have to pretend to like this album so I don’t break his heart. But I do it, for love, for the will of the People
Stay strong, brother. You are doing the good thing.
I am so sorry
Based Stepdad
Ummm, NOOOO, you don't. If YOU think Muse sucks be honest with yourself FIRST AND FOREMOST.
My dad shaped my music taste a lot- grew up on stuff like talking heads, hendrix, miles davis, lots of fusion, etc. But people become dads and they start to miss. One day he was like "yo check out this band, they're called the lumineers!" 😔
How will this affect Lebron’s legacy?
Finally someone asked, LeBron James such an underrated basketball player who is not talked about enough. Every time i turn on the TV or read up online to catch up on basketball they never talk about him
Legacy points deducted
so funny and original
@@JDelvaMusic neither of those words apply to what i said lmao
I happened to bump into Matt Bellamy in London Zoo a few months back and he was such a nice guy. It's a shame when something you used to love isn't doing it for you anymore. At least meeting him showed how nice of a guy he was. Good thing about music is the good albums still exist
Good music comes from assholes and bands who hate each other. Muse is the opposite of that.
@@imconfused6955 but they’ve released great music…
@@antonioscalcione7921 yeah ik. Not on this record imo (except kobk). I was mostly making a joke in poor taste. I just find it funny how some of the biggest bands ever (Radiohead, Pink Floyd) don't always get along all that well
He's just a guy paying the bills 🤷♂
@@imconfused6955 Radiohead never fight each other, bro. Pink Floyd on the other hand? lol
Sad to think this is the same band that had the lyrics "I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am...and missed the opportunity to be a better man"
My favourite Muse lyric of all time
@@heyylittleworld2314 Up there with "I've played in every toilet but you still want to spoil it"
(joke btw)
Hoodoo is probably the most underrated track on BHAR imo
That’s actually a solid-ass lyric. What happened?
That's my favorite Muse song
Muse is stuck in that phase that early 2010's teens went through where they had this sentiment of being rebellious and "against the system" without ever really having any idea what it was they meant by that. It reminds me of the energy that Hot Topic cultivated during their transition from 00's emo and scene to the anime and brand merch they sell today.
I think you precisely described what I enjoy abt this album lmao
@@viledestroyerx8441 It's exactly what I hate about Muse lol it's the performance of rebellion and solidarity without actually rebelling or showing solidarity.
Yes, they are literally self satirizing, they literally snuck in a "will of the sheeple" In their title song for those who paid attention. The entire reason why the song is so tacky is meant to satirize the exact same culture of sanitized mainstream mindless rebellion against cultural norms you see everywhere. Whether or not that makes for a good song is up to you, i dont like it either, but you gotta realize what they were going for lmao.
The thing is, I don't have an issue with this kind of lyricism in theory, but the problem is they haven't gotten better musically since Resistance/2nd Law. Was hoping Drones was a one off dud, but they seemed to have gotten criticism and taken the exact wrong message from that and gotten more generic to try and self-correct. It's unfortunate.
@@limeangelo6019 No, it's really not self satirizing, because in order to self satirize, you need to be self aware. Muse actually thinks they're being cool and edgy and rebellious here. They're not making a joke with themselves.
“If this is the future of rock music, then maybe rock music deserves to die”
SHEEEEESH
Fantano came in with the clutch
Rock music is fucking fucked type beat
Lol
There have been plenty of great rock albums so far this decade, but I feel like Fantano only gives reviews to the ones he can give NOT GOOD ratings to. Or at best, 5/10 like the last Foo Fighters album.
Show of hands: how many of you knew that Halestorm released a new album this year? Or that Chevelle released a new album last year?
you've lost all credibility as a critic😔😔😔😔
Everything I've heard about the lyrics and theming of Will of the People is a band wanting to make music About Important Things but also Not Offending Everyone by actually making a statement.
Yeah, it's so easy to write music about "we are good guys, we will stand up to bad guys, bad guys will stop doing bad things" but I just wish maybe once or twice they'd get a tad more specific, beyond some scattershot Orwell reference or something.
They do the same lyrics since 2009, it’s not a new thing. They just don’t take seriously lyrics anymore
@@monsty26 Yeah, once Uprising took off, "vague important message against those in power" became their whole M.O.
@@monsty26 "I swear their lyrics are meant to be shit hurr durr"
@@jimboc669 why are you stalking me in this comment section? 💀
When they said "The will of the people" I literally cried, one of the moments of music ever
Man people are still doing this huh?
@@shemshate Yes! Think outside the box, break the chains of oppression!
Moenisbus
@@Slasgo become ungovernable
Omg it’s Kid A.
This is the first Muse album that came out completely unnoticed by me, which is odd because I have historically been a longtime muse fan. I haven't seen a single bit of advertisement for it or heard a word about it until after it came out
It breaks my heart that Melon said this about my favorite band, but it breaks my heart more because i AGREE with him. This album is straight corny, i can't defend it at all. They know how to make good music and they chose not to, they chose disingenuous vapid lyrics and sonically uninteresting back music. They used to be magical and i loved their genre bending sound, it had levels and texture but this... this is flat. I dont even think it will grow on me like Simulation Theory did. I know all this sounds dramatic but I'm truly disappointed.
They KNEW how to make good music. If feel like they lost that spark a long time ago. Have you heard Bellamy's solo stuff? I think he just loves pop these days. He's over rock music and that's why he can't get his sh!t together to write a decent song anymore.
I went to the same school as Muse, not that it is relevant very much.
You're the one with a The Resistance profile picture though, which arguably is their single most corny album from start to finish.
But I love this album
Just like will of the people
Yep, completely non-descript politically charged lyrics have been my biggest issue with Muse for years (even as a fairly big fan of everyrhing up to and including some of Simulation Theory). I recall seeing a video of an interviewer asking Matt Bellamy multiple times who "they" were in reference to the chorus of Uprising lol
They write the same type of lyrics since The Resistance, they do it for purpose
If your "political" lyrics can be projected on by anyone, they're not really political 🤔
They went from pretty unique and introspective commentary at points to consistently releasing Billy Idol tier "rebellion" rock
@@kundatrix Depends on how vague the platform is, I have to say I quite align with the "Air is a good thing to breathe" party.
Jews
Wow an album about a dystopian future, haven't heard that concept from just about every modern rock band today
And this totally isn't like the third or fourth time we've heard it from Muse
Including Muse, like 10 years ago.
It's more about a dystopian present but I understand your sentiment xD
Maybe they’ll start discussing cancel culture next. Nobody is doing that!
@@arsonne because its fake
Good on Muse for consistently progressing and changing their sound up from album to album, but honesty I haven’t really enjoyed a Muse album since The Resistance. Pretty much everything they’ve released in the 2010s has ranged from bad to decent, and if this album is a showcase as to what we’re going to be hearing from Muse in the next decade, it really doesn’t make me excited at all.
If you told me during that era that I would never like one of their albums again I would’ve laughed in your face. I couldn’t imagine how far they would fall off
This album was a showcase of what they already have done in the past. Not of what we are going to hear next
Their last album was actually enjoyable. This one is actually repulsive.
The 2nd Law was honestly their last great effort.
Same here
After interviews where Bellamy said they were getting pushed to put out a greatest hits album, it feels like this whole album was just kinda thrown together to satisfy the record label. I *hope* this is the case cause it’d be nice to get some of their older sounds back someday.
it's stilll gr8 album but no instant thrill thisalbum needs time
Wont stand down and Kill or be killed definitely remind me of old Muse
Its not mostly about the sound, but about the nerve and feeling that's pretty much gone after 4 albums.
Besides hearing Hysteria a few years ago, this was my first exposure to muse. Hated it. I cannot overstate how pleasant of a surprise it was to hear Origin of Symmetry a few days later and learn Muse actually had GOOD music
Citizen erased, bro or newborn. Heavy, dark and weird muse is best muse.
I see you watch Brad Taste In Music
@@bassistwithadeathwish7277 I do!!! I’ve watched his whole demondice discography video twice now lmao
Showbiz, origin of symmetry (2021 remake especially) , Absolution and dozens of b sides around that time are great and make Muse my favorite band despite being a metalhead.
Every album since has 1 or 3 good tracks at best but hey.
hysteria is a banger though
I’ve been waiting for the JID record for the past two days and every time Melon uploaded I’ve had a spike of emotions
1/10 calling it
Same here I’m dying for him to drop that review
Waiting too, regardless of what he gives it'll continue to be my #1 aoty. Last year SIMBI was my fav so I wouldn't be surprised if Forever Story is a Strong 8.
@@untilco im only happy with 8+
@@untilco He said on Twitter that it has no bad songs, has to be a strong 8/10 at least
Oh and anyway, the score is the least important part of the review
First Muse album I wasn't excited for, and there's no real way I can say they're my favorite band anymore. I used to love this band, and spent cumulative hours each day for years jamming to their discography. The 2nd Law was underrated but still a downgrade from previous works, Drones felt lifeless and not something I saw myself coming back to, Simulation Theory's 80s theme just seemed so different from how I pictured Muse, and now this is just nails on a chalkboard to me. I like and still replay Kill Or Be Killed but besides that, I'm not really defending this album or the choices made on it. The band has had decades of experience and listening time and knows what good music sounds like, how this was released in its current state I do not know. Some fans are somehow still defending it-- my guess is they recently discovered Muse and equate their old discography with their new. It's up to Muse to win fans back after this album
right? they are surely losing fans, i'm afraid. last time i saw the fans genuinely excited was with few tracks on Drones, since then nothing has been loved too much
@@lovelyy6491 no, you're just suffering from the Fantano Hivemind. Every single Muse fan was excited for this album
Meh, the first five albums are still there to listen to whenever you want. The most frustrating thing for me is that I’ve never had a chance to see them in concert and at this point if I do the set list is going to be watered down with a decade of mediocrity.
I feel 100% exactly like u mate :(
I think Muse fans have this idea that if you’re a big fan of the band, then you have to say that nothing they release is bad. I’ve noticed a LOT of “Musers” on social media use the excuse that Muse’s sound isn’t defined by one sound-that it always evolves-which I have to give it to them. Their sound has definitely gone through change over the years, but the themes of revolution and taking back what’s yours and fighting for what you believe in has been recycled over and over and OVER again since after The Resistance.
It’s hysterically frustrating to me because the people saying “if Muse made the same sound from their earlier works again, they would have been boring” are completely ignoring the fact that this other “evolving sound” (if you can call it that) they’ve created has been going on for even longer than their original sound did.
For me Kill or Be Killed and Won’t Stand Down are the only songs (*barely*) holding the album together (I personally disagree with Fantano’s review that WSD sounds like a heavy Imagine Dragons tune, but that’s just me). With that being said, I can’t even tell you how much You Make Feel Like it’s Halloween makes me cringe. I thought Revolt or Get Up and Fight was bad…
I still have some hope that Muse will be back with better material, but I completely understand why people have given up.
Agree with almost everything Melon said but You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween is so ridiculously camp that it's hard for me to not enjoy it
Yes! Embrace your lack of sense of ridicule! Halloween is almost undone by having too meaningful lyrics (domestic abuse!), but then the 80s guitar solo comes to the rescue.
As a horror fan, it's such a guilty pleasure for me. I know it's not great, but god damn it I love it!
@@dimitrisgel9640 it’s a good song imho
Yeah, it's the single song I'd ever go back to from this album. The camp actually feels like camp rather than taking orwell too seriously like every other song. Also the only actual idea in the entire album.
Longtime fan of Muse here. This album was actually quite a step up for Muse from recent albums, and I believe the goofiness actually comes from more of a place of self-awareness rather than poor songwriting. I do agree that they are aging and looking for ways to hold on to the fun of being a rock band, but I think this type of album is exactly the way to breathe some life back into their sound. I genuinely don’t think this is a “bad” record, even if some of its corniness is initially off-putting
Exactly what I was thinking; best album since the Resistance, probably better than that.
Kill or be Killed, Won't Stand Down and Euphoria fit right in with Absolution/Black Holes era. And the album as a whole is far better than 2nd law, drones, simulation theory.
@@AndrewMai I have nothing to add - this is the take that I completely agree with.
When they said that they were going "back to their roots" I thought they ment their good stuff like origin of symmetry and showbiz not their terrible pop bullshit. As a long time muse fan I have to say this album is complete garbage and it's pretty safe to say bellamy can't write a good song to save his life anymore. Also I do absolutely love the old muse stuff and I look up to bellamy as a guitar player and singer but he's really lost the plot at the moment.
@@AndrewMai Resistance was terrible anyway besides like two songs.
Considering what you said about aging, I cant help but think that the best way for them to feel that kind of fun would be to kinda roll back the years and just make a badass album like Origin of Symmetry?
Nothing beats their first 4 albums, it’s so sad to see where they’ve gone form that
5*
@@phantommagnolia true hullabaloo was great
Their first 4 albums plus the 2nd Law 😎
@@CynicalScorpio How could you do The Resistance so dirty? I love that album, from how it sounds and the design/theme to it all.
Funnily enough, I enjoy this album, but I think this review really helped me articulate why and what changed. I would say I'm a fan of Muse, and have listened to their entire (expansive) discography, and the enjoyment I get now is a complete perversion of what I get from their earlier work. I listen to this and Simulation Theory for goofy, camp, overblown rock albums with some fun rifts and novel genre inspirations. I just went back and listened to "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" and "Map of the Problematique" and realized that I enjoy these songs as legitimately sonically unique tight tracks that dealt with clear personal struggles, and IMO thoughtful commentary on vast religious, political, and ideological concepts, even if they were never subtle about it. The gravitas is gone.
I think the fact that I no longer listen to them to hear good art that I can resonate with, and more as lighter and cheaper entertainment is probably way more damning than if I just stopped liking them entirely.
Showbiz is my favorite album from them. That shit is crazy from start to finish 🕺🏿🕺🏿
Primm u listen to muse??
Have you heard the remake of origin of symmetry?
Showbiz, oos and absolution are my faves
Probably showbiz being close 3rd
Once upon a time Muse was one of my favorite bands, like top 3. But as I got older I felt their stance against "the man" was just so stale. Specially if you're as left leaning as I am, it feels like a very bland and kinda afraid way to get your message across. They want to rage against the machine but barely have the guts to name the system supporting this oppression. They talk about revolution in the more Kendall* Jenner Pepsi ad way. A shame this album is just more of the same.
It just seems so fucking lib.
It's not even that for me. It's just that the way they write music is so comically overblown. I love overblown stuff, and I think it's a great quality to have when the songs are there. Butterflies and Hurricanes sounds super melodramatic and overblown, but it's a GREAT song. Citizen Erased is really long and drawn out, but again, GREAT song. This record doesn't have the songs at all.
@@Ergoperidot
Are you from the US?
You guys have adopted a very weird understanding of what "liberal" means.
@@Minecraftrok999 That's like saying we've adopted a weird accent
It's just different. It's a different concept using the same word. Learn what the different word means to us and communicate and stop being confused.
But have you consider “The will of the people the willa willa!”
What I would give for an album as tasteful, musically and lyrically satisfying as OoS, Absolution or BH&R. These were the times when they had a clear idea on how to use their over the topness in a way that’s extremaly captivating and entertaining. But at least the new LP makes me appreciate their early work way more, those records are truely one of modern rock most creative outputs.
Honestly really enjoying this album, probably because of nostalgia for the band. It helps when I accept this as a "comfort food" album rather than anything too serious.
I read a comment that already kinda said this, but I feel like this album was Muse looking to appease to fans without taking themselves that seriously. We are Fucking Fucked is the perfect example of this. I personally thought it was a fun album if you don't take i that seriously. I agree the whole "the world sucks we must rebel" message is something we have indeed heard Muse sing about TOO much and I would also love for them to move towards different themes, but honestly Im just happy to hear Muse sound like Muse for the first time since The Ressistance
This is exactly how I interpreted the album. I don't see it as a legendary album, but there are some fun moments in the album, for sure.
The album is fun and instrumentally some of the best shit they've done in years. Anthony took this album WAY too seriously. They're literally fucking around quite a bit. Clearly a lot of it is ironic.
Yeah this album feels like it's specifically made for the die hard fans with its callbacks, etc.
Yeees the album is SUPPOSED to be cringe and mixed horribly, people just don't get it
This new Drak… Muse album is purposely, ironically lazy and badly produced to the point it is unlistenable, right
muse breaks my heart over and over again
The genre is literally “the worst muse album imaginable” in the description. That’s cold
💀
FAX tho
It’s staggering how great an album Origin of Symmetry was and how far we’ve come since then
The last three records convinced me that Matt forgot how to write good and interesting lyrics. Every song and every line in Will of the People is simple and surface level, and is another iteration of what's been done by the band before but better.
In the previous two he at least tried to include some metaphors and themes (drones, simulation theory), now there's nothing. No thoughts, head empty.
Somehow "We are f...ing f...ed" is the most enjoyable in terms of lyrics to me, because it's supposed to be pure anxiety at 3AM in the song form. The goofiness, I think, was intended, and it kind of suits it.
I still love Muse (Origin of Symmetry is my favorite album), but they have progressively gotten worse it’s kind of impressive.
Is that why people call them prog-rock?
@@wwild progressively worse lmao... fuck that's sad man ;-;
@@wwild that's funny but i wish it wasn't
@@viegodalencio bruh fr 🤣
This album is much better than their previous album “Simulation Theory”
I am a MASSIVE Muse fan. Seen them 15+ times, first tattoo was a big collage of all their album art of their first 4 albums. I've found great individual songs in their last 4 albums(though barely any touching the greatness of their first 4) and I can't believe some of the justification for giving this album a pass I'm seeing for other fans. Kill Or Be Killed is great -- in my opinion, it's up there in terms of hits over the last 10 years. Everything else is truly the worse, cheasiest writing and clean-but-sloppy production. It's genuinely boring and not interesting in any way and it's shocking how this album is suppose to be an homage to all their previous work, because basically every other song seems to only be referencing the last few, no-great albums with light hints of their old sound. We Are Fucking Fucked when imagined as an old B-side isn't awful, but contextually here, it's laughable. It is a clear homage to their track "agitated" which served the same closer back in the day, but with was too clean instrumentals for the type of song it's trying to be. Really, I mean-- I think Muse is better than this even still and I hope this is a fucking wakeup call, or at least a burnout for them trying to hold onto these cheesy 80's sounds. I love The Resistance with it's strong classical influence -- Muse should trying going Jazz or something, I don't know. Literally anything would be better than this rock-pop sound. I feel like they've been adapting to their stardom as the years went on and their venues got bigger and bigger and I hate to be one of these fans, but I wish they just plateaued with the same level of fame and same sound as 10 years ago. Real shame(a Crying Shame), but I still believe I'll get at least one good new Muse album before they're done. Hopefully this being as far as possible from that starts something at least different.
Never seen a comment I agree more with.
Yeah I know, they haven’t made a fully brilliant album since In Rainbows.
Brilliant comment. I was a massive fan since age 13. Their last few records were so bad I even started to rethink if I actually liked the 2001-2006 Muse all that much or if it was just nostalgia. I listened to OOS the other day and thankfully still enjoyed it.
They used to have good taste, I don't know what happened. Anyway, I haven't lost hope. Look at Weezer, the white album came out of nowhere and is my 3rd favourite Weezer record now.
@@C.P.O.B no kidding! I've felt this before, but I love the first 4 albums, b-sides included and I wish they'd remaster Showbiz so bad. I gotta say I have a newfound appreciation for everything before this record now. Even Simulation Theory, with it's doubling-down on a genre-shift, still sounds like Muse albeit with a lot of filtering on top.
@@seanster9735 bazinga!! their singing might be similar sometimes. But musically they took a different route ages ago
I actually enjoy this album. It was a grower for me. It's far from perfect but it entertains my ears on a car journey.
To me , I understand stand that people don’t have to like this.. but for me muse will always be more interesting the all the modern “popular bands” so yeah I like this album… but I’m bias cause I like all muse song
@@dinotech3416 indeed I just love songs like WOTP, WSD or WAFF ;)
Up through Black Holes I was convinced Muse were going to become a kind of modern Queen. Origin of Symmetry, Absolution and Hullabaloo were all killer. I really don't understand why they've gotten SO much worse. It's almost like they're intentionally bad now as some kind of mock irony.
Man! Even though I’m a massive fan of Muse there’s something about someone completely trashing an album in a review that’s just as satisfying as a 5 star review. Melon did great with this one - gave me a good belly laugh! 🤣
Yep
L
i unsubscribed from you after the muse review, but all of a sudden i feel a sudden urge to resubscribe... /s
"The most embarrassing rock album in recent memory" is a BOLD statement considering the shit getting released now lol
He says this with “Father of All…” only a couple of years ago
I think the significance is that its coming from Muse, not like Imagine Dragons and what not
His recent memory is just very, VERY short.
for real considering mgk dropped this year
@@francoaranda6499 hahaha
I find this comment section kind of hilarious. I get it, people have different music tastes and that's OK. But a lot of these Muse haters are being ridiculous. Muse has been accused of being too over-the-top, sounding like a parody of themselves, not being thoughtful enough with their words, etc. But ironically, I think all of those characteristics apply to this review. It's like an uncharitable sketch parody someone who hates Fantano would make of what they think his opinions on this new Muse album would be... "The most embarrassing rock album in recent memory"? Now that is truly an embarrassing thing for someone who supposedly takes music criticism seriously to say when stuff like Kid Rock exists. I give this review a GROSS out of 10.
Both can be bad
Always coming back to this channel to watch Fantano roast my favorite artists when they release new material. I keep enjoying the new stuff of Muse, but you roast it with such great arguments. I disagree with a lot of the things you say about this new album but it's such a great review to listen to.
This is certainly an album of our times
Has there ever been a good dystopia album besides Deltron 3030 and Year Zero?
Operation Mindcrime
Deltron 3030 is so fire 🔥
Aren't most industrial albums dystopian?
Kid A
Megadeth? They have an album called Dystopia, and it's not bad.
Who predicted Muse would get a Not Good?
God Did
thx walter
Ayyyy.
@@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067 say my name.
Come ride with me through this comment section... I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job.
The only thing this album successfully achieved was giving Green Day competition for the worst rock album of the 2020s
At least Green Day were just trying to make some mindlessly fun and catchy rock n roll songs. It didn't work, but at least they weren't trying so hard to be so cool and edgy and artsy like Muse has been for the past decade.
@@philly_sports1558 “100% pure uncut rock”
@@chikinonfrydai Never thought Green Day would try to pull "no fun, no mosh, no core, no trends"
@@philly_sports1558 it’s totally the opposite lmao
Green Day tried so hard to publicize their album as “pure rock”, while Muse are just having fun and not taking themself too seriously
@@monsty26 so Muse aren't taking themselves seriously in their past 5 albums? Maybe they are exaggerating a little bit.
Honestly, the slam in Kill or Be Killed is awesome. Muse bringing slam to the radio is quite something
so true
I've been a hardcore Muse stan since 2007. I have all of their records, including an absolution vinil (wich is extremelly hard to find and also expensive here in Brazil) and even though I love the band with all my heart, I can't disagree with a single word on this video.
I think there are two possible reasons why Muse has become a mere shadow of the amazing band they once were. Of course that their live concerts still are amazing, but for the same band that once wrote songs like "fury", "glorious" (or even more pop driven tunes like "time is running out") to release a mediocre tune like most of this album is really disapointing.
So one possibilitiy that crosses my mind is that Muse stoped taking themselves seriously. I know it's sad, but their quality in songwriting has seen a huge downfall since "the 2nd law" and has never recovered. I think they are just having fun by this point and I honestly can't blame them.
The sadder possibilty is that they've become so disconected with the world that surrounds them that they can't even figure out what is going on, so when they decide to go full pollitical they have absolutelly nothing worth to be said besides common-sense. Like melon wisely said: they sound so bland that qanon members can identify with their new lyrics.
I rather believe that the band nowadays doesn't take themselves seriously and I've decided for the sake of my love for them to stop taking them seriously as well.
You're many years late my man! IMO the Halloween song and We Are Fucking Fucked are pretty fun if you don't take them seriously. And those two will probably sound great live.
idk if just not taking them seriously anymore is enough because at the end of the day i will want to enjoy what i'm listening. i didn't take Panic Station seriously but it's pretty damn catchy and fun, so it's nice to listen to
@@lovelyy6491 exactly.
I thought you were my former roommate for a second
volta pra comunidade Muse Brasil do Orkut então 🤣🤣🤣
They haven't had a good album in over a decade, but their live shows are still 🔥
Exactly. Best rock group still performing, IMO. Not saying the same for this album LOL
What bands that killed it in the 90s/00s had a good album since the 2010s began? Not many. Something happened in 2010.
Chevelle, Soundgarden did until Chris Cornell died.
@@TheClickParade Radiohead
@@TheClickParade The Strokes
When people in the comments realize people can enjoy what music they want to and have their own opinions on it😱
Oh my god I was trying to remember a bar I wrote referencing Marilyn Manson and this review made me remember it so this video gets a 10/10 from me
Edit for those who asked: it was
thought I couldn't top myself, but i'm Marilyn Manson
Lets hear it
Lets hear it
Lets hear it
A bar indeed
wonder how many people miss the reference and will think that Marilyn Manson kept getting better
To be honest i was really scared, but in the end, i don’t hate it. It’s clear that they are exploring something very new with every album lately and i can respect that. I definitely don’t think it’s their best, but i quite enjoy it for the most part. It’s not something that would make me cringe or disappoint me deeply
same here, every day I like it more
Good troll
All singles were hot garbage. I wasn't expecting album to have anything better. The only vibeable song is Kill Or Be Killed, with some nice shredding, but overall it sounds like a Rob Zombie ripoff. At this point Muse and Coldplay competing on who will sell the worst album to the masses.
Finally someone else heard the Rob Zombie sound!! No one else has said it but I've been saying it since it dropped. I think the song bangs though
😂😂 muse and coldplay
yes, except for the fact that Muse was once good. Coldplay have always been shite imo.
KOBK is cool but not memorable , the "YAYAYAYAYAYA" part is ridiculous though.
I INSTANTLY switched to Dragula to compare
ive been a muse fan since i was little and ive loved almost everything they’ve released up until the 2nd law/drones, but this album i can honestly say is the most underwhelming piece of music muse have ever made. the singles are ok but dont seem to go anywhere, and the album tracks feel like literal interludes with no meat or bone to them. the only actual song i like from the album is ‘you make me feel like its halloween’ because the surface level lyrics arent trying to be stupidly political, the last true album i liked from start to finish by muse was BH&R. such a shame.
I feel so sorry for muse. Not disappointed. Why did they end up doing this horrible & horribly kitsch album?? How can I not burst into huge laughters with lyrics being "we are fucking fucked"? I used to consider myself a muse fan for the sake of "old Times", but man, not anymore.
Shut up
It's called irony lol
After Simulation Theory I vowed to not listen to anything they release afterwards. I can't take this toxic relationship
This album is just hilarious. We have to laugh or else we'll cry.
I stopped taking Muse seriously around the time The 2nd Law was released. I still think they're super fun though.
Muse has so much potential. Each member is good at what they do, and the early records from them are actually pretty good (i.e. origin of symmetry, absolution). It makes me sad to see that with every album they get progressively worse. They've lost what made them good in the first place.
This is their best album since Resistance.
@@eaglesandowls musically maybe, but lyrically definitely not
@@damjanp7920 people still care about Muse lyrics in 2022? The music is the most important thing
I really enjoyed the album overall, I think that a lot of that tacky, over the top, and pretty simplistic elememts were what made it all work for me. It's so bizarre that I can't help but enjoy it
I don't like how they started with the title song and compliance was a bit too tacky but then it got a lot better imo
Fantano immediately disregards music that is anti-establishment.
To each their own. I think the album is a lot of fun, and showcases their instrumental proficiency and versatility. I remember an interview they had before opening for My Chemical Romance many years ago in California - now that concept deserves mockery but I digress - and the interviewer asked what MCR fans can expect from a Muse open, and Bellamy replied, “Well hopefully we’ll take them to a higher level.” That’s the bottom line, all things said, their live performances and skill set are hard to match.
Both MCR and Muse are top 5’s for me. Crazy to think they’ve played together, and Muse was the OPENER. That would be an insane act to follow lol. Their live shows are legit god-tier. Muse in a live setting is just phenomenal and I always say they’re someone everybody should see at least once to truly understand the genius that is Muse.
itgrew on me too, won´t stand dow is so great and still tifferent from songs like: starlight or hysteria
Yep. It hurts, Muse is one of my favorite bands, but it's already a fact that they lost their way. Their creativity and musical ideas are on the decline and it's sad to see that almost half of their discography is pretty mediocre (The Resistance the last good album imo). I still think Simulation Theory is the worst album, but this is proof that the band has no idea what to do with their music anymore. Sad. They're still top tier live tho.
No one but them can say if they "lost their way" (although that's a conundrum, because if they did, they might not know)... what you can say is that their way and yours diverged at some point. This idea can be challenging to reconcile.
I wouldn't say their creativity (ideas are, in this context, under the umbrella of creativity) has waned. It's just that you don't like what they're presently producing.
"The band has no idea what to do with their music". Huh? It's their music. They're doing exactly what they want to do with it. You just don't like it.
Wow. Everything you say. It's all the same groove and, well, it's not them, it's you. Take a breath, think, consider, and try to communicate what it is you really mean.
All this typed, I get it. I loved Muse once upon a day. I don't care for much of what they've produced for the past decade. It can be tough to reconcile with. I've dealt with this with many artists - whether it's a band, writer, director, TH-cam content creator, etc. and people in general.
@@RobVespa The band has said that this album is a representation of their career, a type of "The Best of". How can a band, which has managed to keep its members for years, have such a wrong perception of its own music, thinking that this album has the best of what Muse represents?
That's what I meant when I said "The band has no idea what to do with their music". There is nothing on this album that is equal to or better than what I can hear on OoS, Absolution or BH&R. Ballads, hard rock, synths, etc. Yes, everything Muse has done over the years, but worse. Not saying anything new, not sounding refreshing. For someone who (listening to what they've done in the past) knows the potential they can deliver, this record isn't the best they can produce. Simple.
I am breathing. I do not care much. For the last 4 albums I just take the songs that I like and move on. It's not that big of a deal, just an opinion.
Totally agree 100% (original comment)
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Tbh, I agree with what the band said. Each song on it's own is very much a reflection (maybe better worded as, perhaps an emulation) of their best hits. That's not the issue in my book.
This is looking past their 16+ year old albums. Muse has meant many things: their symphonic arrangements, technological effects and sound, their complex well layered neoclassical-tinged guitar playing, operatic vocals. It's what in sound makes them iconic. They span everything from softer rock on Showbiz, energetic, spacey on Origins of Symmetry, well arranged symphonic on Absolution, to poppier on BH&R. Their foray into electronics in Simulation Theory and 2nd Law frankly feels very natural to that aspect and very Muse-like as it did when they went into The Resistance. I can appreciate them in that respect, since I have to respectfully disagree and say they are always saying something new (maybe not in lyrical meaning but thats a separate topic-basicaly the world feels different)-its because of that it is generally harder for old fans to like (though imo, not wholly). Because despite these being aspects of Muse, all how they kept together the band image and theme, what really made Muse click is this larger than itself, where the whole is better than the sum of the parts. This idea of some immersive vision into some kind of world or sound and going all in.
The issue with this is it feels basically like trying to emulate a best hits compilation in which they succeed. It is weird since in some sense it is 'one of the best' but then in another 'one of the worst'. What they forget than is that was never the emphasis of the sound-they had hits, but it was the holistic layer, the larger than life feeling. That dramaticism, epicness. The immersion. It feels wildly uncohesive, there is no more than that 'larger than itself' appeal. From the album cover to the songs, I am wildly confused about what concept, what vision was behind it. It makes it fleeting and make it hard to want to come back to, where I could say that about mostly everything else.
That is to me, what is the most CONCERNING since that is the core appeal of Muse and so you suspect if they lost their vision. I'm just going to chalk it up to COVID for now-every band can try their best hits act, whatever. I don't think I can be so pessimistic about the future quite yet, since in the end, I do like the songs when I do decide to listen (maybe it's not fully there and so close to an approximation, idk) it's just, I wish there was more cohesion and felt vision.
So yeah, I'm very torn. Even I'm unsure of the essay I wrote covering my thoughts.
Muse really are the definition of "They fell off"
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Was just thinking that
Coldplay
It's so sad to me, bruh. When I was kid their stuff off Black Holes and Origin of Symmetry legit blew my mind (still hold up btw) and were probably really foundational for my taste in music
Most seem to disagree with you.
Okay Anthony show me on the doll where Muse hurt you
Can’t say I quite understand this take, been a fan of muse since Origin and I’ve always loved their over the top qualities and feel like Drones and Will of the People were kind of taking the shackles off. Giddy and wildly over the top is perfect for me personally, especially when so much media takes itself way too seriously. Just my opinion.
"Fence-sitting bumpersticker crap" is such an accurate description of Muse's lyrics.
This video reminds me of the time when I was younger and I wandered the creaking corridors of my childhood home. Though home was not the word I used to describe it, memories haunt me like ghostly whispers in my ears reminding me of the horrors I was exposed to, the greatest horror of them all was when I walked in on my Dad being ravaged by a mysterious silhouetted figure, his arsehole torn apart, screaming a great and powerful scream like Mephistopheles rising from its pit, who, or what that creature was, I thought I'd never know, but after watching this video, how could I not of recognised that bald figure for anything else, it was Anthony Fantano, raw dogging my Father.
Every street corner, every skyscraper, I wandered and wondered what horror lay just beyond my sight, but it was never unknown to me, cause I had seen it, I had seen it all...alas, I would not stand down, I would not comply to these ideas of alienation and Cheshire smiles, this was my retribution, at least I hoped, today I would fight for my right, or at least what I thought was right, there was something behind the veil, the mask, Anthony Fantano, though why, that I didn't quite understand, but those eyes. those eyes, always watching, judging, counting til the moment he pulls the executioners switch and all is over for whomever he chooses, I guess I always new what the face of evil was, right before my eyes, but I denied it, I didn't want to accept it, but now I do, now I understand, in one breath of euphoria I understand now, why everyone calls Muse a dad band.
Muse peaked when "Supermassive Black Hole" was featured in the first Twilight movie.
Since that album came out sometimes I just walk around my house saying "Supermassive black hoooooooole" like the background vocals in that track. It's fun.
that was actually the turning point.
That album was just past their peak, it was the "twilight" of their peak.
I'm pretty sure You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween is about an abusive relationship. Which makes the fact that it's a fun Halloween song even more weird.
Yeah the cognitive dissonance is strong. Fortunately the 80s guitar solo comes in at the right moment to lobotomize the listener into having fun. I'm sure that song will work great live.
How's it a fun Halloween song?
euphoria really makes me mad. because it starts with this great back and forth between this stale standard rock verse and the tension building start of a bridge that just goes back into it. And i feel theme wise it would have been so great to just keep doing that over and over for 5 minutes. Or resolve it with ANYTHING but that cheap 90s soundtrack chorus. On the other hand it could also be a conceptual masterpiece showing us how our yearning for euphooooriaaaaa will always end in disappointment and disillusionment since our deep desires cant be fulfilled within a completely commodified cultural landscape
That's how their entire last album felt. Moments of songs that seemed like "oh shit here we go" and then it transitions to the next part like "aaaand.... ruined."
Euphoria is literally Time Is Running Out faster
All this guy is saying for 7minutes is This track is like imagine dragon's~~~, this track is like manson's ~~, this song is like blabla~~~. I've never seen this kind of goofy criticism before lol.
Mhh. The mix on the halloween song is fine.
Im thinking this: the songs are above average but not from muse. They would have been seen as great if someone else wrote them.
Give halloween to MGMT
Ghost to Lewis Capaldi
Will of the people to Coldplay
Verona to Joji
Wont stand Down to Imagine Dragons
We are fucking fucked to Weird Al
god you have awful taste in music lol
guess this album wasn't the will of the people
That JID review must be 20+ minutes long if your covering Muse and DJ Khaled first😅
Ww haven't even gotten to Nav either
@@KingThrillgore NAV is the GOAT, he doesn't need a review. We all know it's a 10.
Muse abandoned its indie rock roots in the 2000s to become more palatable, as Coldplay did it. The problem is that they are not good at making pop songs and they don't accept it. I feel like they are not doing authentic songs with authentic feelings, something like the many Weezer's crap albums. When I listen to Origin of Symmetry or Absolution, I can feel real feelings. But the lastest Muse albums are just below the expectations. It is sad because Bellamy is a very good musician, with skills to be envied.
Muse are my favourite indie band
Muse aren’t and never have been indie my friend
@@tomdawe3513, I've mentioned that Muse lost their "indie roots" from the first two albums. If you know them you know about their indie influences, like Radiohead and Jeff Buckley. I'm referring to the early 90's alternative rock, not indie in the post Strokes and garage rock revival. Anyway, I think Muse is not a good pop rock band. I prefer the more guitar-driven music from their early carrier to that mixture of synthesizer and metal riffs from their last albums.
@@viniciusapolinario5980 I think I get what you mean, but I wouldn't call them losing their "indie roots". I would just call it "they lost their souls and passion". Because there's a lot of passion put into OoS and Absolution
so true. they're always holding on to the rock comfort zone and some of their quirks, which aren't inherently bad but they're just completely tasteless within the context of the new poppier songs they're trying to create. I guess they also changed from angsty teens into cringy dads, so that paints a picture of what's the best we can hope for in terms of real emotions lol. But even cringy dads could be tasteful if executed well.
Being a Muse fan is so frustrating, every time they release an album there’s a 50% chance they’ll do something daring & experimental (them at their best), 50% chance they play it safe & put out a generic stripped-back rock album. It really hurts because I’ve been a fan since I was a kid & their music has had a massive impact on me. I know they have it in them to make an album at least as good as The Resistance but they opt instead for a painfully underwhelming record
See you're on the other end of the totem pole. Hated 2nd law and Simulation Theory, love everything else.
Muse fans be like:
“GUYS, WE MADE IT!!!”
Tbh I still think Drones is the worst “gosh! we do live in a Society innit? album. This one is so corny is almost passible.
Even so, the day after this one I re-listened to origin of simmetry: it seems impossible that we are talking about the same band.
look at the Drones album cover, it speaks for itself
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Kinda funny how this album has the best cover art of the last 3 muse albums
Are you kidding me. Give me the JID 9 I deserve dammit!!!!
Personally I've always liked muse, but I do agree that this isn't the best of their work... I don't find the album annoying, the way you put it, but I can relate to most of the points put forth in this video.
To be honest, they peaked with origin of symmetry, but I still like, and listen to all of their albums, including Will Of The People.
I gotta be real. There's no way a critic would like an album like this. If one had to be objective and list out the good and bad of the album, they'd probably give it like a 5 out of 10 if they had to be generous.
But I don't think Muse care. Muse has never been a critical favourite, even during their 2000s peak, and they know this. This album is them being as obnoxious and in-your-face as possible because there isn't a single still-active mainstream band who do over-the-top quite like them. And now that they're in their mid-40s they know that in a few years they probably won't have the energy to play music the way they're famous for and this is them striking the iron while its hot.
Having said that, while i quite enjoyed the album, it's not an album I see myself coming back to much, but good on them for doing their thing inspite of the naysayers.
Agreed
Did he miss the part where "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween" is not only a super-cheesy John Carpenter vamp but a super-cheesy John Carpenter vamp about abusive relationships?
I just want them to release an instrumental album at this point. The dumb savior complex lyrics are always so damn cheesey.
I wish they would make a stonerdoom album. The superheavy riffs they often play live between the songs are awesome and groovy AF.
On the flip side, Origin of Symmetry has aged really well. Just listen to that and pretend it's the new album instead.
@OgiMetalHead to be fair, they remastered and remixed the album last year.
I was not going to listen to the whole album, but I enjoyed 'Won't Stand Down' as a single in some way. It sounded to me like the Absolution era (I used to be a big fan of the first three albums). But then the whole thing is so overcompressed, that it's painful to listen to it (at least in a car or in closed-type headphones). The same thing is happening on the other singles of the album.
I loved older muse records because of the chemistry the band had in exploring maximalist songwriting in a power trio setting. The amount of sounds and textures they could cram into a track without sounding overblown or over the top was always inspiring.
I've always thought their lyricism is their weakest link, but in songs like plug in baby, there is a layer of abstraction that plays well to the mood of the song, so I'm inclined to be forgiving.
I don't think their lyrics have diminished especially in quality like I've heard some say, I think they are about the same. I think Fantano's point about Glen Beck helps highlight that. What's missing at the core is the sonic space they used to occupy. They don't really sound like muse anymore, but Bellamy still belts out easy rhymes and aphorisms like they do. It's gross, and I'm sad.
Compliance makes me sad 😢. Worst track imo, the rhyme scheme is cringe.
bro this comment section is so sad 🧍 I really had a good time listening through this album! it was just a good time and fun!! I think we need to realize that bands change over time lmao. like if you don't like them now, just listen to their old music instead of ragging on their new stuff... it's fairly easy.
I agree with you 100%. You’re not alone. I enjoyed this album a lot and I’ve been a Muse fan for 20 years. Still one of my all time favorite bands. I’ll never understand why people feel like they need to stop enjoying a band because they don’t like they’re new music. Just enjoy the old stuff then.
I think it this case it was execution and theming, muse has done political stuff before but with more detail and the music on this album gives me a lot of tonal whiplash with how not only lyrics but also musical style. It can be heavy at times but then right after it goes very soft and the lyrical themes take a huge shift as well.
Melon is a political zealot, a pro totalitarianism.
When someone criticises a piece of art or entertainment something based on politics and the morale of people disagrees with, that guy's opinion is only good to wipe my ass with.
fair but this is a music critic's youtube channel and the comment section is a space for people to speak on music - a band that was once renowned having a fall from grace this bad is going to be disappointing to muse fans who have stuck with them since the beginning, & they will ~probably have opinions~
i get what you're saying and COMPLETELY agree with the sentiment on how people should enjoy whatever they want. i personally have loads of albums that i think are super fun despite being hated by the majority - but u shouldn't be expecting people to *not* criticise something in the comments section of a music critic, especially when it comes to an album that u personally enjoy. bands are allowed to change over time, and people are allowed to have opinions on said bands changing over time! they can both co-exist :-)
Love Muse, I was actually the top 0.1% of listeners on Spotify one year, but it makes sense why they released the songs like Will of the People, Compliance, Won’t Stand Down, Killed or Be Killed, before the album’s release because the other ones were bad. Also why include a Halloween song on an album??? They should’ve released it as a single, when I heard it I just started laughing because it threw me so off lol. I don’t hate it but it’s definitely not great. Matt isn’t a great lyricist, but this album just makes him look worse. Also the fanbase is getting cringy tbh, just seeing them praise the album like it’s Origin or Absolution is nuts.
“the other ones” were definitely better than the singles, Verona is way better than every one of them
Cringe for dropping that little tidbit that you were 0.1% listeners on spotify.
@@monsty26 When you go from the intensity of Kill or Be Killed to the slowness of Verona, it throws everything off. They’ve definitely done a better job transitioning songs with different tempos in the past.
@@newthrash1221 something I’m not too proud of, but it was mostly me listening to Origin of Symmetry over and over lol
@@Dead_Circuit it has no transitions because it’s almost a compilation album
I think this album is fine ngl it’s fun
Will Of The People (the song) is different from every other song they've done about revolutions, as it's not actually serious about it. Matt Bellamy said it was the antithesis to Uprising, and I think the reason why it sounds so cringe is because it's almost a parody of the old stuff, made from a realist perspective. The rest of the album I unironically loved, especially the second half, which has some of my favourite Muse songs in Halloween, Verona, KOBK, etc. I liked the first half as well, especially Compliance and Ghosts.
Also, you were kinda right about Halloween, it's about domestic violence.
oh god I love this one; not a big fan of the title track but after that it's all over-the-top goofy muse at their best and most ridiculous, lotta fun
Someone who gets it!!
I understand that some of the campiness is intentional, but my thing is... I'm not even sure Muse know how seriously they want to be taken anymore.
I always fond the appeal of muse to be that they were both ridiculous and took themselves completely seriously. So now that there self aware about there silliness it's not fun anymore
Disagree completely.
You mean to tell me the album with songs called "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween" and "We Are Fucking Fucked" is bad?
ngl in a vacuum, "We Are Fucking Fucked" is at least moderately funny in a black comedy sense
@@Number9Robotic well Matt even said it's basically a lost B-side, which makes it a lot more interesting to imagine them playing this 10+ years ago as a closer, like they did with a similar-energy song "Agitated". But back then, the rest of their set could be taken seriously.
Can't believe that's the same band that made Showbiz or Absolution. I wish they would just stop making music for like 5 years or so and then return with something that has meaningful lyrics and more original concept. Also, Matt has great instrumental skills and is classicaly trained, so why isn't he putting his knowledge to good use? Those generic melodies and chord progressions are really disappointing coming from Muse.
it's also because he's a terrible lyricist
I know you'd have rated it at least an 8 if it was titled "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" or "Protracted People's War", Melon. The red flannel just doesn't lie.
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idk how the members of radiohead sleep at night knowing that muse likely wouldn’t exist without them
muse changed my life, they’ve always been my favorite band. this album is seriously making me question this
This album sounds like a bunch of tracks that would've been released by Charlie from Lost's band or Russell Brand's character from Get Him to the Greek/Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Why is the 2nd time I've seen someone say the Russell Brand thing lol
@@MUSE1795 because it fits perfectly
I get that Muse haven’t been good since the Resistance, but my god I never expected them to ever in a million years release an album as awful as this
It seems like people either love it or hate it. It has been getting a lot of positive reviews too.
They weren't good during The Resistance. The 2nd Law was good. But after that I don't know
@@eaglesandowls But the people who i like it are just saying “don’t take it so seriously”, which is bullshit. If you don’t want me to take it seriously maybe don’t base your entire album off of some ambiguous dystopian world and try to intertwine it with garbage like “You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween”
@@garmen- So do you take movies and tv shows that have this same theme seriously? It's supposed to be fun and entertaining.
@@DegraTrip the hell are you talking about, The 2nd Law is their worst album by far
The first time I heard of Muse was when I was watching the EMAs in 2012, starstruck by their performance of Madness. They have become one of my most cherished bands of that time; they captivated me through music to their live performances. I was nine years old at the time, and I’m now nineteen. Almost ten years since.
To my disappointment, this new Muse album is not the finest I’ve heard, perhaps one of their weakest and worst of all time. It’s almost a repetition of themes in politics, to the point where it feels outdated and brings nothing new to the table. It was a trainwreck.
The songwriting felt like a severe downgrade, and the choices of song styles to describe politics are impractical. It felt like they have made a foolish mediocre version of Rage Against The Machine. I've had thoughts of scaring my face into a treacherous bloodbath, all because of how mediocre this album was.
The vinyl of this rough album cost me $60, by the way. It was one of the few reasons that almost spiralled me into a severe downward spiral. I have never felt much angst and bitterness against an album like this. I have always regretted pre-ordering that vinyl since March.
I wish Muse could depart from these political themes and dive into something original, but Muse isn’t going full-on Björk and taking proper risks. Everything sounds too outdated at this stage, and I can’t stand another album with the same god damn theme.
This album was too much for me to handle. I need Lingua Ignota to heal me from this mess.
Thank you!! I’ve been dying to hear a different theme from muse but they just keep hammering home this awful theme
Wait, you almost were put in a downward spiral because of $60…? Damn, can we trade lives? Seems pretty trivial to me
If you're turningn to Lingy to heal you, you're in safe hands :D You might like the new Chat Pile album too, I find it equally cathartic.
@@mxmagpie7037 Chat Pile’s God’s Country? I haven’t gotten around to that album yet, but I’ll check it out soon.
I like it just fine.
I like this album, who doesn't like it, it's up to you! I will continue to listen to this album, I don't care😌
Me too. 🙏😂 Xx
Ok then
I think Muse just likes the aesthetics of rebellion and doesn’t have anything specific to say about it. It’s like their politics are based solely on Star Wars.
thx oogie googie
@@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067 Welcome.
Matt Bellamy was never a great songwriter but early stuff was compensated with some rawness and angst. The lyrics have become progressively more unbearable for years now, and 'goofy' is a great description for Muse these days.
They just don’t take too seriously lyrics anymore
exactly. They have some great lyrics from back in the day, but it's because they're at least being serious about what they're talking about. What's being talked about here is also so on the nose it's eye-rolling
The album being goofy is gold, actually, they had fun making it and you can hear it.
Bellamy is a great songwriter. But in a George Lucas kinda way. He has so many crazy ideas but doesn't know where to stop or how to filter himself. He can legitimately write super catchy, extremely unique songs that mix rock with classical and progressive music, except he loves to smear his shitty beige political takes and jam as many genres as he can in the same album, for some of the worst audio whiplash imaginable.
Having your album be called "Will Of The People" and then closing it with a track called (literally) "We Are Fucking Fucked", it makes it really hard to take it seriously.
You're not supposed to take it seriously. The title track is literally making fun of that "will of the people" mentality that led to events like the capital insurrection
@@filipebarbosa2983 even though the song is ironic, it still takes itself seriously. The whole message is "extremists will believe anything you tell them". which is fucking insane considering the fact Muse held the opposite statement in most of their discography. hypocritical even
I was actually vibing with the album until I hit the 'oh God it sounds like imagine dragons' and I just could not get back to taking it seriously.
Don't insult Imagine Dragons by comparing them to this dreck.
I love Muse and can't wait to see them live next year, but what frustrates me is that they are 100% very talented musicians, yet they can't seem to recapture past magic. I do enjoy this album, it has it's moments of escapist fun which help me massively when I'm feeling anxious/ depressed. I don't listen seriously to them for anything much more than that these days.
Muse was far and away my #1 band of the 2000’s, and I’ll even say The 2nd Law was an par with any of their fantastic 00’s or even 90’s albums. As others have said, they’ve had plenty of solid individual tracks since then, & I’ll insist “Won’t Stand Down” is one of them. Sorry, that song is a banger. But “Compliance” is where they lost me. It’s not so much the message that’s bad here as much as the fact that it’s coming in 2022. It would’ve been so much more poignant if they’d said it in 2020 but I think that would’ve offended a lot of people. Instead they waited 2 years and just ended up offending me. That’s the most outdated political messaging I’ve heard in a song since Portugal. The Man tried to make an Iraq War protest anthem in like 2011 (as a would-be breakthrough single, no less). Painful to see how much this act has sunk in recent years.
That's a kinda weird position because this new album is IMO most similar to The 2nd Law. Same kind of stylistic detours and general goofiness. I enjoyed both albums, for the record.
Oof. Haven't thought of that Portugal. The Man track in a hot minute. Oooofff.