Are we done?

Looking forward to Sharky losing their shit again!

Definitely a no from me. If they're not going to put stuff from the DVD I got with the album 20 years ago, they're not getting £120 from me.

But Thought Contagion and Behold The Glove are locked in the setlist .... Sigh ....

Hate to be an ass but there were no Christmas presents from Muse.mu (was it .net back then?) between 1998 and 2004. The earliest I can remember was 2007/2008 with a live video of Fury if I remember correctly.

There's another officially released Ghosts cover now... In French. I like the Great Reset more than most but this has to end.....

Feels like I clicked a Muse Reddit link to a bad cover version.

The best way to get marketing's attention is through Twitter. Everyone can see it and they'll act quickly to avoid bad press. Going onto a dead forum and insulting the fan base and admins (who don't work for WB) wont get things done.

That was a nice Google search with copy and paste. Suppose you can't delete this thread, so I'll repeat what I posted yesterday. Apparently Liberation is about BLM however the lyrics talk about owning the air and wanting to commit violence. Considering BLM spawned from a black man being suffocated to death, the systematic suppression of Black people in America and innocent black people being brutally murdered by police on a regular basis, it's utterly tone deaf. Liberation's lyrics conjure up in non-ambiguous terms, imagery of protestors violently bringing down power structures which in 2022 is going to remind people of the January 6th attacks more than BLM, because black people are the victims of political violence more than they are the perpetrators. Am I saying Matt Bellamy should be cancelled? No. Do I think he meant harm by the lyric? No. Do I think as a rich English white person, he may not understand the nuances of the situation faced by black people in this US and possibly is not in the best position to write a lyric that captures a moment of which he is not part of? Totally. Does it make me less of a Muse fan to treat Matt's lyrics as a work of artistic expression worthy of serious and honest analysis and criticism? No.

I don't think music critics should be blamed if the lyrics are ambiguous. If Matt has to repeatedly clarify his personal stances in response to criticism of lyrics he's written, perhaps that's on him for using right wing lexicon. If someone like Zane Lowe, someone who's followed their career from the beginning and his interviews are part of every album's release cycle, thinks the lyrics are pretty bloody ambiguous and can be easily co-opted by right wing groups, it's hard to argue that it's down to a lack of research or pre-existing hostility towards the band. Matt writes sloppy lyrics, this is nothing new but seeing mental gymnastics like "well you'd understand if you read this article and watched these five interviews" really just emphasises how ambiguous they really are. Great art speaks for itself.

My friend got his in Ireland yesterday so I expect it should arrived on the mainland within the next few days probably with a customs charge.

Fuck ticketmaster and their airline style tickets, fuck that shit.

It's alright. Ain't no Mr Brightside...

Interesting interview this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMvtyphl9rA Nice to see Zane ask the questions we've been discussing in this thread (raising these issues does not mean you hate the band). Matt comes off a bit naïve and optimistic perhaps, hoping for both sides to come together without outrightly denouncing them. It's a balancing act, not quite sure if Muse is the band to bridge the political divide.

Might arrive earlier, mine arrived yesterday but I only got the shipping email today so you might not have to wait too long.