Meisver Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 It's just ok. Seems like they were trying to make an uprising 2.0 that can be played in movies, TV, and sports promotions. Trying to repeat a past success. I do miss that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 It does make me wonder how the CW connection came about, and if it was written with it in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zomuse Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Whenever I think about the song it eventually transitions into Lady Gaga's You and I the chord progression is one chord off and they have similar tempos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9YMU0WeBwU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meisver Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 The new album is like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Er... I have a feeling you might like NKOK more. You know the times you were criticising Revolt for inciting to rise up in a silly way considering the band's background? Well, there's also a phrase in Dig Down that goes like this: "With a gun to your head / You must find a way". Reading the Dig Down lyrics, I think the two songs are different in a significant way. Dig Down, as clumsy as it still is, is saying that you have to try and find hope no matter how bad the situation is. You can't just give up. And as much as I suck at that, I do agree with it. Revolt on the other hand states that the answer to all life's problems is being positive, by thinking differently one can shape the world around them. It pretty much paints people who face hardship as bringing it on themselves, or at least allowing themselves to be victims, through not having the right mentality. When this is a very real political position, it becomes a little frightening (and reprehensible,) when applied to even just the topics the song brings up. Dig Down doesn't really seem to present "finding faith" as an answer to the ills of the world, but rather a necessity to avoid giving in to depression, and at least implies that it's not as simple as Revolt would have you believe. That said, the big reason Revolt's childish chorus lyrics irk me (other than the lame Tea Party mentality) is simply because I think the song sounds really good, and they're a black stain on something I want to really enjoy. The song would have worked a hell of a lot better in the original "reversed" Drones story where someone was optimistically naïve about changing the world, or being above it, and then ends up being crushed under the weight of the problem. I really like the idea of Revolt/Defector into Mercy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meisver Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 The song would have worked a hell of a lot better in the original "reversed" Drones story where someone was optimistically naïve about changing the world, or being above it, and then ends up being crushed under the weight of the problem. I really like the idea of Revolt/Defector into Mercy. Dig down just didn't make it into Drones. Now on to something completely different please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meisver Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Whenever I think about the song it eventually transitions into Lady Gaga's You and I the chord progression is one chord off and they have similar tempos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Dig down just didn't make it into Drones. Now on to something completely different please. Except Matt wrote Dig Down just a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Except Matt wrote Dig Down just a few weeks ago. ? On Twitter, he said they finished it 7 or 8 weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel_Tufnel Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 5 seconds into Dig Down, I thought "Madness" 10 seconds into Dig Down, I thought about this forum's inevitable reaction. Uh oh. Can't really say that i want to keep listening to the track after the 2nd or 3rd time. Pretty dull song unfortunately. B-side material. If they plan to play sets this summer with Dig Down, Madness, Dead Inside and (God forbid) Undisclosed Desires, it's going to be quite the monotonous affair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian-Cygnus-Running-Out Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 ? On Twitter, he said they finished it 7 or 8 weeks ago. Hm, thought he said in an interview he wrote it just like 6 weeks ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmyneutron Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Seriously am I the only person hearing freedom by George Michael? No - first thing I thought when I heard it this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) Hm, thought he said in an interview he wrote it just like 6 weeks ago...The interview was live. Edited May 19, 2017 by Tjet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen_Eraser Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Long gone are the days where a Muse song didn't have all it's influences smack you in the face with a hammer. We get it Matt, Prince and George Michael both died last year so you wrote a glaringly obvious tribute to their style and threw in some anti Trump stuff. Good job. Same as you've done with U2 and Queen 100 times over in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I'm not sure those days existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Little Animal Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I still demand an explanation for the botched grammar in the opening line of the song. Am I really the only one bothered by that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I still demand an explanation for the botched grammar in the opening line of the song. Am I really the only one bothered by that? Stop being so negative, jeez real Muse fans shouldn't care about grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemsy Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Woke up singing freedom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemsy Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I still demand an explanation for the botched grammar in the opening line of the song. Am I really the only one bothered by that?Lets hope you don't find out about USoE's lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Little Animal Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Lets hope you don't find out about USoE's lyrics. That's a much more common mistake though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturefan Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Botched grammar is okay by me; botched music is not okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Ferris Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Heard it. Not sure what they were thinking. Ho hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 'Face a firing squad against all the odds'. How the sweet Jesus did I miss this abomination first time . Remember when Muse wrote good electronic crossovers? Like Endlessly. Actually, that's a bit unfair as Dead Inside is by their best distillation of all their electronic influences. But this is horseshit. It STILL sounds like fucking Queen. And those synths at the end are borrowed straight from The Final Countdown. And those 'whoawoaagrhgrhghhhh wowghwghwhhhs' are straight from U2 (again). It's just shite. All of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim59 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Madness and Dead Inside were two of the better songs from the last two albums, so I'm not too upset. It's quite nice. The bass is quite pleasant and I dig the tempo, and the Queen harmonisations work nicely imo. I'm glad it's just a single, and I'm not holding onto the hope that they will ever make music of the standard we got on the first four albums, so I'm pretty satisfied. Or maybe I'm just happy that I'm not really missing out on exciting gigs and that I don't have to be jealous of northern hemisphere/ aus/ nz/ south american Muse fans anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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