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joshiii318

Snow globe

joshiii318

when the aliens mistake your new red-and-black suits for cow print

mattmurdocksstarlight

Another Muse photo that has meme potential…

#holy shit

four-stars-out-of-five

Sunburn

doinhutrotan

Careful or u will make him cry

mattmurdocksstarlight

I feel like this photo has meme potential…

panicintheair

I feel like anywhere I go that's not tumblr I see muse slander that's just. objectively wrong. wdym tw!s sounds copy and pasted like t2l? NEITHER ARE LIKE THAT. HUH???? "I bet the new album was written in a day" ok how about you write it. that statement doesn't even make sense because I feel the past few albums have had some lyrics that are um... a little cringy/weird sounding but tw!s has none of those. go to the genius page and read it or some shit instead of listening to it once and blasting it with your brain bazooka

look me dead in the eye and tell me that the album has a single song that isn't memorable. I struggle to get into other music because it takes me an absurd amount of listens through an album to remember what each song sounds like but for some reason that hasn't really happened with muse (it could just be because I spam listen to them but er let's ignore that)

I genuinely don't understand people that give tw!s shit and dismiss it. it's not generic at all? they take elements from a bunch of different genres and use them. they got a whole entire orchestra. matt got the 8 string guitar. they made some songs heavier sounding which is what a lot of people begged for.

and even as a chronic muse defender there's still some of their albums that I just could not get into even after trying to force myself to (looking at you wotp). even so there's still good elements in there, but tw!s is just a MAJOR improvement from wotp in my opinion (again my personal preference, I understand why other people would like it, I just feel like it lacks the structure/storytelling of all the other albums)

I don't even know what I'm trying to say I just get pretty annoyed by all the instagram comments or reddit posts of people regurgitating that muse has gone to shit or something when they literally haven't. I feel like people just read the reviews of critics that don't like muse and they either don't actually listen to anything or listen to 0.2 seconds before automatically deeming it as "slop"

earlymusearchives

MATTHEW: How are you? Q: I'm fine thanks. That's normally my opening line. But thanks for sorting that out. Um…is he all right? (CHRISTOPHER is not at the interview, so a huge blue board has been substituted for him and put in the chair) MATTHEW: Yeah, he's all right, you know. He's a bit quiet today. DOMINIC: Yeah, he's just a little bit…cold blue.

#WHAT IS THIS LMAO #i love whatever is wrong with them.

ateaforshowbiz

I seriously wanna be useful in this fandom

ateaforshowbiz

Btw I don't mind if you printed this out as a poster, I'd appreciate it :D

just lmk okay!!

sunburnacoustic

The trouble with listening to Muse's discography front to back again is you gain new hindsight, and suddenly you're looking back at songs like Escape and being punched in the gut.

Before there was The Wow! Signal, there was Drones, Matt's heartbreak and separation album. Before Drones, there was The 2nd Law, the love and life falling apart album. And before there were those, there was Escape.

Escape. The original song written from the point of view of the child of divorce (Matt has talked about it in the past). The forgotten child in the middle, finding himself as the 'unlovable' collateral damage of the relationship that couldn't be saved. Raging against having the ideal childhood snatched away from him: his family broken up and his own personal guilt around it, being sent away to Teignmouth, not having enough money, not seeing his parents; being teenaged and scared and raging against his parents and wishing he could reverse this and put his life back together: "why can't you just love her?/Why be such a monster?" Ultimately, he concludes that him and his dad are the same, and that he shares the blame ("But I'll still take all the blame/Because you and me are both one and the same/And it's driving me mad").

And it brings me forward in time to 2012-13, about Kate Hudson sharing in a 2021 interview that Matt said to her that he wanted their son to feel like he was gaining rather than losing family from their split. Matt knew what it like being a child of divorce, feeling the love, care and attention of a parent slip away, of feeling neglected and lost and not wanting to put his own children through that.

And it brings me to 2026 and The Wow! Signal: Matt is now on the other side of Escape. Matt could well be the dad character of Escape. And somehow, the feelings that remain are eerily similar to his childhood. Divorce still tore his family apart - everything he'd built his life around, everything he'd dreamed of, gone. Just like young Matt. He reached out, and his life was torn apart; how could he start again? On the other side of the fence too, Matt finds, "love can drift away". It's as devastating in his forties as at fourteen.

And even through the hurt, he has the cognisance of the teenager that saw and feared this happening: "I carry half the blame". And then I just have to turn the album off and go stare at the stars and get really emotional for a bit. The themes running through this man's whole life...