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You could literally just google "Muse 1984" to find sources. Good luck with your project...
thank you! and yeah, i know, i've been heavily relying on the muse wiki. i've been doing that as well as looking at musical influences.
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I've actually found quite a lot! I'll try to insert a "read more" link so that I don't have a super long post here. This is what I have so far:
As of recent, the music world has been booming with synthesizers, modified bass, autotune, and songs about parties, drugs, and relationships. Few musical artists manage to get in-depth with modern crisis, and an even smaller number can create natural, raw, and unique sound. However, this is not the case with Muse. Formerly called the “Rocket Baby Dolls,” “Gothic Plague,” and “Fixed Penalty,” Muse is a three-piece band, made up of Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, lead vocals), and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion). The group formed in 1994 when the three were in secondary school, living in Devon, England. Fifteen years later, The Resistance was released in Europe on September 14, 2009. This was the group’s fifth studio album, and was the first album actually produced by the band itself. The album, much like the other six, has genre influences from a myriad of classifications, including glam rock, R&B, disco, and classical. Quoting Bellamy on the album, it has “an emphasis on rhythm and contemporary R&B at the start. Then it gets epic and strange, then it becomes contemporary classical music.”
The Resistance spans fifty-four minutes and thirteen seconds, and includes eleven tracks, with six singles. Below are the track names, lengths, and the singles are indicated by a “***.”
***Uprising - 5:02
***Resistance - 5:46
***Undisclosed Desires - 3:56
***United States of Eurasia / Collateral Damage (Excerpt from Nocturne in E-Flat, Op. 9 No. 2) - 5:47
Guiding Light - 4:13
Unnatural Selection - 6:54
***MK Ultra - 4:06
I Belong to You / Mon Cœr S’ouvre à Ta Voix) - 5:38
***Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1 (Overture) - 4:18
***Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 2 (Cross-pollination) - 3:56
***Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 3 (Redemption) - 4:36
There have been various rumors about the driving force behind this album, two of which being the French Revolution and the 1984, the novel by George Orwell. However, I interpret this piece as a more general piece, with a similar theme to their latest album (Drones, 2015). Several of the songs tap into the idea of conspiracies (MK Ultra), a corrupt ruler (United States of Eurasia), and a riot against the higher power (Uprising). I believe that The Resistance is about finding one’s self, learning to not take things at face value, and that despite the advertised glamor and benefits of government, there is always room for corruption and tyranny.
Muse’s frontman, Bellamy, described the album before release in an interview as “a more progressive album with a lot of longer, piano based songs, with similarities to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.” Matthew also drew influences for this album from the paranormal; he stated that when he was younger, he used to play with an Ouija board regularly, even claiming that the board had predicted the Gulf War a year before it happened. At the time of the album’s creation, Bellamy was living in a villa located in Como, Italy, which had formerly belonged to the opera composer Vincenzo Bellinii, and admitted in an interview to staying up late at night playing the composer’s pieces on piano, hoping to make content (although he was unsuccessful). He also decided that in lyrics, he would include ideas from personal issues, which was very different from his thoughts on the matter in previous albums.
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well, blunt maybe, but not savage.
Several people gave you helpful advice on your other thread and posted links for you to follow.
It's time now for you to do some independent research of your own. When you've got something perhaps you can share it here and I'm sure people will be interested.
out of curiosity, hope you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
I definitely plan on using some of the information shared on my original post, and on tumblr, one of my followers made a great suggestion: relate TR to war propaganda, such as "join or die" posters and whatnot. I have also heard a lot of things about TR, claiming that it was inspired by the French Revolution, 1984, etc. (but I'm not believing that without solid evidence).
And to answer your question, I am sixteen, finishing up my sophomore year of high school!
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Hi! It's me again. I was going to post this as a reply to my initial Art History Project thread, but I decided that creating a new thread entirely would allow me to make this topic more specific and less jumbled. In essence, for those that do not know about my project, here are the requirements:
- Give a formal analysis, contextual analysis, and full description of a particular work of art
- How does the artist define art? Who is the audience? Can you connect it to past art? Is there a precedent in the artworld for this piece?
- Why did you select this artist as your topic; your personal feelings about the art The paper should be accompanied by a slide presentation you will give to the class.
- The paper should be accompanied by a slide presentation you will give to the class.
My art history teacher said that I should choose one album in order to make the paper more specific and in-depth. Because I had trouble deciding which album would be the most contextually-dense, I polled my twitter followers (the options I gave were OoS, Absolution, The Resistance, and Drones), with The Resistance receiving the most votes.
So, In conclusion of this droning thread, what are your thoughts on TR? Is there anything that you can lend me that could satisfy any of the above requirements?
I really appreciate any help you could offer. Thank you!
- Give a formal analysis, contextual analysis, and full description of a particular work of art
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Origin or Absolution, obviously.
That's what I was thinking. I was leaning more toward Abso because I feel as if it has more influences that I can draw from, but also, Origin has a lot of great themes. This is a really hard choice. Might poll my twitter followers.
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First off, thank you all so much for your comments so far!! I really appreciate it more than I can put into words.
Anyhow, my art history teacher told me that I should really be limiting my project to one album so as to be more specific and so that I can get more in depth. Now, this is difficult for me, because I love all of their albums. As far as music goes, and in relation to past music by other composers (along with ideas expressed in the albums), which album should I choose?
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Alright! So my final project this year in art history is to write an essay about a contemporary artist, in any medium. Naturally, I would like to write my paper on Muse. If anyone would like to help me, here are the requirements:
- Give a formal analysis, contextual analysis, and full description of a particular work of art
- How does the artist define art?
- Who is the audience?
- Can you connect it to past art? Is there a precedent in the artworld for this piece?
- Why did you select this artist as your topic; your personal feelings about the art
- The paper should be accompanied by a slide presentation you will give to the class.
My teacher suggests that if possible, we get in contact with the artist and ask them more questions, but knowing how popular Muse is, I think that it's very unlikely that I'll be able to do so. Anyhow, if anybody has any suggestions or tips, I would really appreciate it!
- Give a formal analysis, contextual analysis, and full description of a particular work of art
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Lolla 2016?
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Anybody have any idea as to whether or not Muse might be playing at Lollapalooza this year in Chicago?
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okay I am very proud of this and the song just works so perfectly with it and you cannot tell me otherwise:
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the only two nightmares that I have had where I wake up crying are:
1) I failed a test
2) Muse was playing everywhere except for Chicago (where I live)
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Shine(acoustic).
yes yes yes yes I have been listening to Shine so much hh
it is honestly beautiful I don't know where to start
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so for a while, maybe a year or two ago, KoC was my favorite song. then I started listening more to everything else, however KoC has once again gotten stuck in my head (not that i'm complaining).
the music video is bomb af like??? idek what's going on but i love it. plus, the song is just perfection. the eerie beginning, the firey chorus, and do I even need to mention the dilemma between listeners when you can't figure out if it's matt singing or his guitar?????????????
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okay but real talk
drones is a masterpiece
much like all of their previous albums
the globalist is a beautiful song and the beginning as well as end are great contrasts to the gritty feel of reapers and the handler. i also think that the "format" of the song drones is really unique. i wasn't too fond of it at first, however it really grew on me.
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I was watching Criminal Minds and at the end of one episode, they were playing Madness!!
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Also! possibly a better question to ask: before becoming huge rockstars, maybe at the time of the Rocket Baby Dolls, what did they want to become when they were older?
(I know that a similar question was asked at another interview, however it was more along the lines of "[currently] what would you want to do if you weren't in Muse?")
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Ask them the real story behind Plug In Baby....
so far I have heard that they were high on mushrooms, that it's a jumble of different feelings and events, Matt forgot the meaning, emotion into something that has no soul, and other things.
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Yo!! So I understand that not all U.S. tour dates have been posted yet, but that doesn't alleviate my anxiety...
Where is everyone hoping they stop? I, personally, would give up my soul, entire college fund, legs, and arms if it meant that they played in Chicago in the Drones tour. That may seem like an exaggeration, and I wish that it was.
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Hello! So on Muse's twitter, I have been seeing lots of retweets of people finding autographed vinyls of Drones. I am trying to use the website (separate) for locating the nearest "Hidden Lever," however it is just stuck at "Finding Location."
I am using it on my mobile, as is directed, however I am still having the same problem.
Is anyone else having issues with this?
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I am absolutely freaking out over this. What is it supposed to be?? I am thinking maybe some kind of discount in the online store? Usually that's what "special" indicates, especially in this sense. Although maybe they'll pull some random shit on us like releasing Tokyou Zepp gig or who knows what.