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Silentgod86

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  1. 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.
  2. But Thought Contagion and Behold The Glove are locked in the setlist .... Sigh ....
  3. 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.
  4. There's another officially released Ghosts cover now... In French. I like the Great Reset more than most but this has to end.....
  5. Feels like I clicked a Muse Reddit link to a bad cover version.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Fuck ticketmaster and their airline style tickets, fuck that shit.
  11. 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.
  12. Might arrive earlier, mine arrived yesterday but I only got the shipping email today so you might not have to wait too long.
  13. Now I know the first line of my fanfic: "Take off your clothes and come in my cave" Cringe has always been intrinsic to the Muse experience.
  14. Just realised leaked version was a vinyl rip (a good one), really nice to hear the new ones. Verona is very dreamy....
  15. What I like about the album is that there seems to be a genuine sincerity to lyrics. There's usually a filter where they seem to moulded into what Muse should sound like, a bit abstract. The song writing on WOTP is a bit more streamlined and a bit clearer what Matt is intending with the lyrics. Still cringey though but that's been there from the start and it wouldn't be a muse without a fair bit of cringe. Not sure where I would rank the album, recentcy bias, maybe 5th or 6th after the first 4 or 5 albums respectively.
  16. One of the good things is that the songs are short and even when bad, don't overstay their welcome.
  17. Really liking Verona which feels like what Simulation Theory should have sounded like: Muse integrating Synthwave into their style rather than apeing what other Synthwave bands had done (Darkside > Algorithm). Euphoria sounds like another go at writing Revolt, quick and poppy in the style of the first Killers Album. Definitely the less offensive track of the Revolt, Get Up and Fight and Euphorbia trilogy.
  18. I think it's a consequence of Matt's persona in the Naughts was all about the conspiracy theories. Back then, you could just attribute them to Matt being a bit weird and cookie. Weird, misguided but ultimately harmless back then (admittedly I do know some who has dramatically for the worse by the same conspiracies). But when you look at it today, you see the alt right use conspiracy to prey on people's fears and to channel it into culture wars and direct physical action against people and institutions, it has becomes dangerous and volatile. It's nice to see Matt admit he was wrong and was a bit of an idiot. We could all do with with humility and reflecting on our past actions from time to time.
  19. Looks like the press tour is starting, Guardian Interview here which effectively confirms that Ghosts was mostly like retitled from the Great Reset. Interesting interview though, nice to see some reconciliation between what Matt used to say and what he believes in these days.
  20. Because they neither exist or serve any purpose, so I think you're alright.
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