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1997: "I'm Afraid of Americans" by David Bowie.

Written during Bowie's electronic period, this song was co-written with Brian Eno. Lyrically, the song finds Bowie in the grips of paranoia about a guy named Jonny who's obsession for material possessions and frightens the singer. In reality, Jonny was meant to be a representation of a stereotypical American obsessed with capitalist culture. "It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say Born In The U.S.A!: it's merely sardonic," Bowie explained in a press release. "I was traveling in Java [Indonesia] when its first McDonald's went up: it was like, 'for f—k's sake! The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."

When released as a single (the V1 Mix) features additional vocals from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who also contributed guitar, bass, and drums. Renor, one of Bowie's touring mates, also starred in the music video as Jonny, stalking a terrified Bowie around New York City. According to Renor he has a complicated relationship with the song. He was in the middle of a drug addiction and Bowie, who had kicked his own habit, was trying to help him see the light. Reznor recalled to Rolling Stone after Bowie's death: "Once I got clean, I felt a tremendous amount of shame, of my actions and missed opportunities and the damage that l've caused in the past. And I thought back to the time when [Bowie and ll were together a lot, and I wonder what that could have been like if I was at 100 percent. 'I'm Afraid of Americans' falls into that category of me at my worst - out of my mind and ashamed of who I was at that time.

So when I see that, I have mixed feelings - grateful to be involved, and flattered to be a part of it, but disgusted at myself, at who I was at that time, and wishing I had been 100 percent me. And it nagged me."

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"So can I hide under your angel wings?

'Cause I'm so high

Just keep me alive

On top of the earth"

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“I've always liked [the electronic] sound, I used to listen to Skrillex and Nero a lot. I listened to Nero's albums in particular every day when I worked out at the gym. Dubstep is the perfect music to listen to at times like that. It's the high-energy music I need when I want to get pumped up.

Around September or October 2011, when we started recording [The 2nd Law], I invited everyone to go and see Skrillex and Nero live a couple of times, and since then, Matt and Chris have both awoken to the joy of dubstep, or rather, we've started to reevaluate the heavy, loud, violent aggression that is unique to that kind of sound.”

—Dom Howard, on getting the band into dubstep on The 2nd Law

“[W]e were all into [dubstep] when we were making the album. The three of us used to go to shows together and we'd all find interesting music and play it for each other. The song structures of dubstep artists are completely different from those of guitar bands, and the beats and sound approaches that are completely out of the conventional song categories are really extreme and interesting. We were inspired to try and experiment with these new sensations by playing our own instruments in this song.”

—Chris on Muse going dubstep on The 2nd Law

Dom and Chris talking about the hardcore dubstep sounds present on The 2nd Law. When I first heard the album, I was struck by how hardcore some of those electronic sounds on songs like Isolated System were, how Muse seemed to have completely understood how you could make a really heavy hard rock song by using guitars the way EDM used synths, all the while sounding unlike most other music of its time (and perhaps even still).

Here Dom talks about recognising how well electronic sounds worked as workout music (similar to fast heavy hard rock or metal), and revealed that in fact, he was the one that got Matt and Chris into the idea of incorporating those heavier, electronic sounds into The 2nd Law.

It's made me realise how much Dom was the one spearheaded the musical direction of the album, and had given it the most thought, as he talked about keeping rock music fresh with a fine balance of electronic and acoustic drumkit parts in this interview with Drum! Magazine in 2013.

Quotes taken from @cherrylng's incredible scans of Rockin' On Magazine's interviews with Dom and Chris.