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Hello I thought would share another example of what I just got off Twitter because I read some few nasty replies from a compliment I made on one of the characters from one of the shows I watch I'm not going to go into detail because it'll only make me mad. But I big thanks to Muse on their points of view towards social media and comments on those sites effect others
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Hello I'm calling all fans of Muse in the U.S to help support them whenever they start their next tour here and make them feel more welcomed. Because I think over the past few years they've been getting less American fans . And I would love to see Muse on tour here again.
Fan of Muse Alana Maclauchlan
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Hello
Earlier this month I watched Muse's iHeart radio concert in NYC back in 2018 live on YouTube and as always I thoroughly enjoyed it but I couldn't help but notice that audience during concert the didn't seem very enthused at all so much so that I noticed Matt started to cry during the song Madness. And he also tried real hard not to get frustrated with the crowd but I certainly don't blame him. But to make matters worse I saw some pretty nasty and insensitive comments on YouTube from viewers. So my question to you is that. Do you think it was fair for Muse to get negative comments during that concert on YouTube?
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Hello I'm to talk about something I'm noticing more and more on social media and that is I notice when people comment on any platform almost everyone says the same things. Like for example when someone posts a positive comment then pretty much everyone else does the same thing which is a good thing when it's positive. When it's a negative it's pretty much the same scenario except some of the negative comments are so nasty and rude. Like for another example when Muse posted information about downloading their remix album Origin of Symmetry I saw some messages where people were complaining to Muse that they're having trouble downloading their new album and I'm like "you know it's not Muse's fault their just providing info to their fans". So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that not many people seem to have a mind of their own on social media.
Thank you
Alana Maclauchlan
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On 11/7/2018 at 10:17 AM, muse samuse said:
El Mundo Interview with Matt:
https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/musica/2018/11/07/5be1f10ee5fdea06138b45ca.html
Influenced by virtual reality, 'Blade Runner' and science fiction, Muse launches its eighth album this Friday
Muse will perform on July 26, 2019 in the Wanda Metropolitano de Madrid
Accustomed to seeing him jumping, screaming and endless guitar drums, Matt Bellamy hardly seems like him in the offices of the Warner record company in London. Slowly, with a calm voice and an affable smile, the singer and leader of the band Muse is only recognized by the strident red leather jacket that you saw. It seems incredible that within its seventy meters it can contain an energy so big that it can shake the bodies of tens of thousands of people.
"Since I've had my son, we have not toured as hard as we did when we were twenty-somethings. Then we spliced 10 consecutive weeks without stopping, but in the last two years we have only given 13 or 14 concerts, so I never really left my home for more than two weeks, "he explains. "As you get older, it will be easier to find that balance. When you are young you only want to work and work ».
But this Friday his group will release the eighth album, Simulation Theory, and Matt must return to a life on the road that took him last week to burst San Mamés [performing for 30,000 fans who paid 5 euros each to attend the MTV World Stage concert] and try to repeat success on July 26 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid.
"With this album we wanted to do something different from the previous ones, something that was less instrumental and more vocal, a more colorful and more diverse album in the sounds and how they mix with each other," he explains.
«I have had periods of my life in which I have been truly anguished for what may happen to the world in the future. Songs like The dark side serve me to reflect what it feels like when fear comes to you and you just want to escape to see things from a better perspective, "he analyzes. "We all have those moments, during life or even during the week, when we lose faith in everything. That's when I try to investigate my feelings to capture what is what motivates you to want to turn the situation around. "
On this occasion, political criticism is hidden under much less explicit metaphors than those that were seen in his latest album, Drones (2015), but Muse continues to bet on the reflection that every individual should do about their own role in a changing society and increasingly dominated by technology. "In this case we get a bit into science fiction to explain the idea that we live in a simulated reality from which we try to escape. It is an analogy of that strange real life that we all want to run away from and in which we sometimes feel trapped as if it were a videogame, "adds the Cambridge composer.
"We have had influences from 1980s films such as Blade Runner with regard to the idea of asking ourselves, what is reality for each one of us and why do we get the pleasure of escaping from it?"
And is that Bellamy, who after several hours of interviews confesses to being "a little bored of talking so much about music", has found the inspiration to compose the new album in two moments that allowed him to escape from everything. "One of them was when I bought a virtual reality kit and, although I enjoyed it, I realized that when you return, this reality seems much less real to you. The human conscience has a great ability to adapt, and it is something you realize when you are forced to abandon the daily life of your friends, your family, your home ... It is very simple, "he reasons after 20 years of career.
"The Burning Man festival also changed the way I look at things. There is no technology, everyone is equal, and when you come back, you see the world in a different, healthier way, in which you take everything less seriously. When you're there, no one is interested in talking about Trump, for example. "
But Matt, who sees "refreshing" to be allowed to "talk about politics from time to time," finds it hard to "distance himself from the debate, even if it's good once in a while because it allows us to realize how well they can connect with each other in the world we have now ». Therefore, now that the United Kingdom is facing a key month in terms of the negotiations that will lead the country to leave the European Union on March 29, the 40-year-old composer does not want to remain silent.
"The truth is that I do not think that anything that has happened in England during the last two years has been a good idea. Before the referendum, the United Kingdom, like other countries, felt that the European Union needed reform, as an elected commission or a presidential system reflecting its composition more democratically" explains Bellamy.
In fact for him, when asked if he is for or against Brexit, the referendum was "too binary", because he wants to "remain in the EU, but in a different EU". "I love that people can move freely across borders, but I think we Britons have a special passion for democratic processes and that's what we're running into here," he reasons.
I agree with everything thing that Matt said including his meaning behind Simulation Theory
On 11/7/2018 at 10:17 AM, muse samuse said:El Mundo Interview with Matt:
https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/musica/2018/11/07/5be1f10ee5fdea06138b45ca.html
Influenced by virtual reality, 'Blade Runner' and science fiction, Muse launches its eighth album this Friday
Muse will perform on July 26, 2019 in the Wanda Metropolitano de Madrid
Accustomed to seeing him jumping, screaming and endless guitar drums, Matt Bellamy hardly seems like him in the offices of the Warner record company in London. Slowly, with a calm voice and an affable smile, the singer and leader of the band Muse is only recognized by the strident red leather jacket that you saw. It seems incredible that within its seventy meters it can contain an energy so big that it can shake the bodies of tens of thousands of people.
"Since I've had my son, we have not toured as hard as we did when we were twenty-somethings. Then we spliced 10 consecutive weeks without stopping, but in the last two years we have only given 13 or 14 concerts, so I never really left my home for more than two weeks, "he explains. "As you get older, it will be easier to find that balance. When you are young you only want to work and work ».
But this Friday his group will release the eighth album, Simulation Theory, and Matt must return to a life on the road that took him last week to burst San Mamés [performing for 30,000 fans who paid 5 euros each to attend the MTV World Stage concert] and try to repeat success on July 26 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid.
"With this album we wanted to do something different from the previous ones, something that was less instrumental and more vocal, a more colorful and more diverse album in the sounds and how they mix with each other," he explains.
«I have had periods of my life in which I have been truly anguished for what may happen to the world in the future. Songs like The dark side serve me to reflect what it feels like when fear comes to you and you just want to escape to see things from a better perspective, "he analyzes. "We all have those moments, during life or even during the week, when we lose faith in everything. That's when I try to investigate my feelings to capture what is what motivates you to want to turn the situation around. "
On this occasion, political criticism is hidden under much less explicit metaphors than those that were seen in his latest album, Drones (2015), but Muse continues to bet on the reflection that every individual should do about their own role in a changing society and increasingly dominated by technology. "In this case we get a bit into science fiction to explain the idea that we live in a simulated reality from which we try to escape. It is an analogy of that strange real life that we all want to run away from and in which we sometimes feel trapped as if it were a videogame, "adds the Cambridge composer.
"We have had influences from 1980s films such as Blade Runner with regard to the idea of asking ourselves, what is reality for each one of us and why do we get the pleasure of escaping from it?"
And is that Bellamy, who after several hours of interviews confesses to being "a little bored of talking so much about music", has found the inspiration to compose the new album in two moments that allowed him to escape from everything. "One of them was when I bought a virtual reality kit and, although I enjoyed it, I realized that when you return, this reality seems much less real to you. The human conscience has a great ability to adapt, and it is something you realize when you are forced to abandon the daily life of your friends, your family, your home ... It is very simple, "he reasons after 20 years of career.
"The Burning Man festival also changed the way I look at things. There is no technology, everyone is equal, and when you come back, you see the world in a different, healthier way, in which you take everything less seriously. When you're there, no one is interested in talking about Trump, for example. "
But Matt, who sees "refreshing" to be allowed to "talk about politics from time to time," finds it hard to "distance himself from the debate, even if it's good once in a while because it allows us to realize how well they can connect with each other in the world we have now ». Therefore, now that the United Kingdom is facing a key month in terms of the negotiations that will lead the country to leave the European Union on March 29, the 40-year-old composer does not want to remain silent.
"The truth is that I do not think that anything that has happened in England during the last two years has been a good idea. Before the referendum, the United Kingdom, like other countries, felt that the European Union needed reform, as an elected commission or a presidential system reflecting its composition more democratically" explains Bellamy.
In fact for him, when asked if he is for or against Brexit, the referendum was "too binary", because he wants to "remain in the EU, but in a different EU". "I love that people can move freely across borders, but I think we Britons have a special passion for democratic processes and that's what we're running into here," he reasons.
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The first song I ever was Supermassive Blackhole from the first Twilight movie but at that time I didn't realize it was them until a few years ago but hearing their songs I Belong to You from New Moon and Neutron Star Collison from Eclipse I said to myself I got to check this band out. Now I'm absolutely in love with this band not only is their music amazing but from what I've seen on YouTube videos they're very nice to their fans. It would make one of my dreams come true to meet Muse.
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Hello my name is Alana Maclauchlan like other members on this site I love the band Muse and I'm always glad to see good comments and videos about them. However, I also see quite a bit of negative comments and criticism towards them in social media. I'm starting to understand Muse's points of view towards social media especially Matt's and Dom's and while they don't mind the minor negatives I think they do mind they the more major hurtful ones. So I want anyone to help me put a stop to the more hurtful negative comments and criticism not just to them but to anyone who has gotten hurt by social media including me a few times.
Thank you
Alana Maclauchlan
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My favorite is "let's face all our fears and come out of the shade" from Something Human and the song comes from the Simulation Theory album.
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On 11/7/2018 at 9:21 AM, muse samuse said:
Forbes Interview with Matt:
Muse Frontman Matt Bellamy On A.I. Politics And '80s Movies
Muse will release their eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, this Friday, November 9. The U.K. trio of Matt Bellamy (lead vocals, keyboards, guitars), Chris Wolstenholme (bass) and Dominic Howard (drums) have delivered another stellar collection, one that is quintessential Muse -- cerebral and musically progressive, but still very human and emotional.
That dichotomy of marrying humanity and technology, the logical and the emotional is at the heart of much of Muse's music as Bellamy explains. On a recent weekday afternoon I went to the Burbank, California offices of the band's longtime label, Warner Bros. and spoke with Bellamy and Howard in very different, but equally compelling conversations.
The conversation with Howard will run tomorrow. Here first is my wide-ranging talk with Bellamy on automation, AI, Rage Against The Machine, Sia, Back To The Future and why Bellamy believes strongly in local government.
Steve Baltin: By nature these days it's almost hard to write music that doesn't at least have political subtext because it is so prevalent everywhere. Did you find that?
Matt Bellamy: Yeah, I think where artists start getting into dangerous ground is when you start getting too partisan in any way. I'm fundamentally against the whole concept of party politics. To me the concept of a party is just a hijack of democracy. The American system I think is better in many ways than the U.K. system. The structure, maybe that's the better word. In the U.K. our Lords, which is equivalent of your Senate, they're not even elected. As bad as you think things are you are, in some ways, structurally probably quite far ahead of the rest of the world. And I think it's good for America to always be aware of that. As a political structure it's pretty solid. It's something to be admired and work towards. But of course within that there's unbelievable corruption and unbelievable people taking advantage of that.
Baltin: When it works it's great, but people figured out a way to corrupt it.
Bellamy: As bad as Trump is I still think the idea that any person can become president is generally historically has been pretty admirable I think. The rest of the world you have to be very much part of the political class, very much you have to have obviously financial backing, all that sort of stuff. Or you have to be affiliated with a certain party. Obviously not a Trump fan. It's more about his personality than anything else. It's really odd with politicians, normally they always say only judge people on what they do, not what they say. In his case it's hard not to do that because the things he says are just so offensive at times and so divisive. He's one of those people, something about his personality and his way of words is a big major turnoff to a large amount of the world's population.
Baltin: Talk about how all of this infuses the music.
Bellamy: I'm not partisan at all, I don't support any particular party. So, for me, I tend to try and speak about what it feels like for me and some of the emotional things I see going on around and how it feels. And bizarrely, songs like "Uprising" we've had in the past, they could be perceived as being on the side of what is now a populist movement. But really one of the driving forces for me is that I am on the side of wanting to bring more power to the people individually. I think the people individually in their communities want to feel like they have more say and more power in what goes on. That is a bit of a theme that goes through a lot of our songs.
Baltin: Are there themes that emerged in the writing that surprised you?
Bellamy: There are some discoveries I had on making this album that are some themes across a lot of Muse albums. One of them is talking about the emergence of artificial intelligence, robotic automation and it taking away people's jobs and so on. That has been an underlying feeling that I've had for a while. The reason why is the music industry itself was probably one of the first industries to experience automation. I'm talking about musicians. For example, a lot of musicians in the whole twentieth century and beyond spent a long time training to learn to play instruments and put a lot of time and effort into that skill set. Suddenly this century starts, you're going to festivals and there are people turning up with laptops, hitting play and headlining festivals. That's automation right there. Someone is switching on a laptop and they are literally putting about 30 people out of a job in terms of musicians. It didn't really occur to me until making this album the song "Algorithms" specifically, that has been one of the themes in a lot of these albums, this complicated relationship of mistrust, but also the desire to embrace the emerging new technologies and how they affect our lives. Bear in mind what we do is very musician based. All of us play. If you go to the pop world or a lot of the music world in general musicianship has been pretty much automated. So our industry was hit with this early on. And I think it's a reason why a lot of our songs, an album like Drones or this album, Simulation Theory and a song like "Algorithms" specifically are talking about algorithms evolve and render us obsolete and all this kind of stuff. You can say that's political, but it's also of our times.
Baltin: But any good song can take on different meanings depending on what the listener wants to hear.
Bellamy: That's my intention with lyrical editing. Sometimes I'll make sure the songs stay in a way, even thought the emotional intention is clear, the specific with what it translates to in terms of a point in time is wider. For example, the song "Algorithm" or this album, sometimes, to me, links to the dystopian vision of the early '80s. In the early '80s we see these films that talk about a future where robots would take over the world. Now we live in the reality of it and it's not as fantastical and amazing as in a film like Terminator 2, but it is actually happening in a way that's more invisible. So, to me, this album has this double correlation where it's meaningful in my childhood vision in terms of what I thought the future was gonna be, a dystopian vision of the future. But then also living in, how it's quite clinical and it's happening invisibly all around us. So the album is trying to connect these two dots together in some way as well.
Baltin: What '80s film would you want to live in?
Bellamy: Well, Back To The Future was one we referenced in a couple videos and that just looked like a lot of fun, getting in a DeLorean and going to the future. Back To The Future Part II is amazing. It has a bit where he goes back to the future and it's like now, 2020 or 2010 or something. And Biff is the president, Biff Tannen, who's like the bully and bizarrely he looks a bit like Trump. He ends up becoming the president in the future. He's like some greedy casino guy, he lives on top of this casino and the world's all gone to s**t. Some of these films are so prophetic in weird ways.
Baltin: Are there songs that are prophetic for you?
Bellamy: We already mentioned it, but the song "Uprising" has been an unusual song because at the time of writing it, it didn't seem like a predictable hit in any way. It's turned out to be our biggest song, it streams the most still and also the time I wrote it with a sort of feeling of distrust for the political establishment. That's what it felt at the time. In the late 2000s it felt like we were being lied to and manipulated. Wrote that song and what's freaky about it now is 10 years later is that song can be interpreted in so many different ways. But, to me, it hit the nail on the head about what was to come in this decade, which was the rise of populism. So I think that song kind of freaked me out in that way. It kind of foretold what was about to happen in terms of people's complete mistrust to the point where something crazy might happen and it did.
Baltin: What songs from this album are you most excited to play live?
Bellamy: I'm looking forward to playing "Algorithm" because it's very different for us, it's very electronic at the beginning, very synthetic sounding, it's influenced by '80s horror film soundtracks, John Carpenter, computer games music as well. But the way the song starts synthetic and then evolves into a full-scale rock song. I like that and we're also gonna use hopefully a cast of people. Going back to the idea of moving away from automation. The last few tours we did we had a lot of technology -- big screens, lot of lights, all the drones flying around and everything. I really want to try my best to make the next show feature human beings, not just us, but a cast of people choreographing certain formations or movements and so on. So for that song I'm hoping to do something cool where they all come out with glowing swords and take on some kind of robots (laughs). It'll be fun whatever it is.
Baltin: Is there one live show you aspire to?
Bellamy: It used to be Rage Against The Machine in terms of energy at certain points in our show. But also U2 in terms of their ability to make large spaces intimate and emotional for the people in the back. I'm not really sure where to look now. Recently things that stood out would be David Byrne's show that he did and also Sia who I think is very good with making the stage look very minimal, stripped down.
Very good interview I will read more of it later.
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This message is for Matt Bellamy I want thank him for being an inspiration to me and his fans.I also want thank him for kindness and of course his wonderful music.
Fan of Muse Alana Maclauchlan
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On 5/2/2021 at 5:38 PM, alana-mac@hotmail.com said:
This topic is for anyone that been inspired by Muse to do something new like for instance they inspire me to ignore minor negative comments.
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This might be long shot but they would probably do a great job doing some Christmas carols like Jingle Bell Rock or Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.
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The first time I heard one of Muse's songs was when the Twilight movie came out
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This topic is for anyone that been inspired by Muse to something new like for instance they inspire me to ignore minor negative comments.
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This question is for lead singer Matt Bellamy what's your secret to looking and sounding so young. I just find him amazing I might add