When you.īELLAMY: I thought there's not enough songs about Halloween. MUSE: (Singing) When you turn out the lights, you make me feel like it's Halloween. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IT'S HALLOWEEN") SIMON: Let me ask you about some of the musical influences on this spooky techno pop song, "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween." Let's listen. The song, it kind of - it's almost fantasizing about a fictional post-revolution period where, democracy being a bit more accessible, we've reconfigured how to keep power in check. And then, there's these crazy elites with millions and millions of followers who are just dominating the airwaves, dominating the news stories. You know, it's a song, like, for all the people that feel like they just - their point of view can never get heard, that - you know, their frustrations can never be addressed. We thank you for.īELLAMY: And then, also, there are parts of that song that were influenced by seeing some of the Black Lives Matter protests and seeing some of the anger and the frustration of people who feel like they're not being heard.īELLAMY: It's a song for the unheard, I guess. MUSE: (Singing) So I guess we should thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You know, every news story just seemed to be, like, someone tweeted this, someone tweeted - that being kind of controversial things, which are just kind of prodding algorithms to get reactions. So for me, like, what changed in the 2010s, especially the second half of that decade, was we had to tolerate living through this period where social media got to a point where it was just hijacking everything. But let me take you stole the airwaves, but the air belongs to us.īELLAMY: Yeah. SIMON: The song "Liberation" - I could ask you about each and every one of these lines, I think. You stole the airwaves, but the air belongs to us. On top of that, we had the whole Trump situation, which led to the Capitol riots and so on - quite unusual, living through a period of time where a lot of the dystopian stuff seemed to be playing out in real time. And then, seeing that kind of coming to a kind of head in the last or few years, I think that was definitely one influence. I mean, I remember, like, people started to feel kind of this feeling of mistrust for, let's say, the powers that be, you know, I also call it (ph), like, this populism that was kind of, you know, growing throughout the Western world in particular. SIMON: Well, talk about that, about how what you saw in the world informs, inspires, steers some of the music you have here.īELLAMY: Yeah, I mean - but it goes back a long way really, in terms of the internet becoming a major thing in the early 2000s. And so we actually started making a record influenced by, obviously, the big shift we saw in the world around that time. So the desire to create and the sort of inspiration to make a record - it kind of brought that forward a little bit. And we all know what happened in 2020 as well. What brought you forward to do it now?īELLAMY: Well, in 2019, we finished quite a exhausting, long world tour that we did, and we decided to take a break 'cause I was having a baby in 2020. SIMON: It's been four years since you released your last album. Matthew Bellamy is frontman of Muse and joins us now from Los Angeles. It's called "Will Of The People," and it's an unblinking look at our world through shades of glam rock, electro pop and industrial metal. SIMON: The Grammy Award-winning band just released their ninth studio album. The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the - will of the - don't need a gun. MUSE: (Singing) Let's push the emperors into the ocean. Muse is speaking out, calling for a revolution. MUSE: (Singing) The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the - will of the - the will of the people. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WILL OF THE PEOPLE")
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