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27.8.22

Matt Bellamy _26 August 2022 - Interview - Los Angeles Times

 


Matt Bellamy - Interview- By Mikael Wood


What are those so-called worst parts of Muse?

Probably a tendency to veer off and experiment in areas that we’re not very experienced in. Most of [2012’s] “The 2nd Law,” for instance — classical dubstep, weird clarinet solos, whatever else is on that album. I think we felt we’d achieved so much with [the 2009 hit] “Uprising” that we could do no wrong. Obviously, we could.


You produced “Will of the People” yourself after collaborating with the producer Shellback on “Simulation Theory” and with Mutt Lange on 2015’s “Drones.”

With people like that who are so successful, I think sometimes we’ve gone in the studio and been a little bit like, “OK, we’ll do just whatever you say.” In hindsight, I wish I’d been more involved and put more of our stamp on it. So we’ve kind of gone back to our safe space on this album. If we’re in complete control, it may not be the most cutting-edge or the most modern-sounding thing, but it’s the only way to guarantee that we’re gonna love it.


Did recording during COVID speed up the process or slow it down?

It made us move quicker. We’d finished our last tour at the end of 2019, then I had a baby [with wife Elle Evans] in June 2020. So the plan was to take all of 2020 off, enjoy our families, then come back together in 2021 for some festivals and use that to get back into shape to make an album in 2022. But the pandemic — especially for me and Dom, because we were here in L.A. — it made us want to just get on and do something.


June 2020 was a heck of a time to bring a baby into the world.

I came to America in 2010 as a single person looking to experience L.A. for a bit — and, boy, have I had an experience. Ended up with a Hollywood actress [Kate Hudson], had a baby together and the whole cliché scenario of the ups and downs of celebrity life. Then married a Texan [model Elle Evans] and had another baby. Been evacuated from my house during wildfires. Then the pandemic and the full January 6 Trump meltdown. It’s just been an unbelievable period to be here.


“Will of the People” suggests it hasn’t left you terribly optimistic about the future.

It depends what your definition of optimism is. To me there’s a fighting spirit in the music, which is a form of optimism. It’s like the moment in “Rocky” when Adrian tells Rocky to win.


Do you think it’s clear to listeners who you’re fighting? In the new song “Compliance,” you’re singing sarcastically about people falling into line and doing as they’re told. It could be interpreted as an anti-woke anthem.

I never thought about it that way. I thought about it in terms of the rising authoritarianism that we’re now seeing is a real thing — Trump in this country, but also Putin and the China situation. These ideologies, I feel like we kind of tested the waters in the 20th century and realized that fascism and communism are both just absolute disasters and that we don’t need to go near that stuff ever again. And yet it’s emerging.


What’s your reaction to that?

I have an anti-authoritarian nature. My parents say that when I was a young child I was never very good at being told what to do. I don’t like the idea of vast centralized power that’s very far away from where I live. I come from Devon in England, which is a couple hundred miles from London. But when I went to see where my wife’s from in Paris, Texas, it’s like, Holy s—! It’s thousands of miles from the places of power in America. So the resistance to someone deciding how I should live who has no idea what my day-to-day life is — I can understand it, even though there’s a risk of it being hijacked by more extremist factions that have gone down roads I don’t agree with.


Have you considered becoming a U.S. citizen?

I have. Overall, I actually think the United States’ structure is really amazing, with all the different ways to make laws at the local level. It seems like every month my wife is voting on some sort of proposition. I’m looking at that going, Wow, England is so behind on that front. We don’t ever get to vote on policy.

The oddest thing about that late-2020 period where things in America and California seemed so chaotic and crazy was that I felt my connection deepening. There’s something going on here that is critical to what’s happening in the entire world. America has become a kind of center point for this idea that there’s an empire on the verge of collapse, and how do we save it? Or how do we know which parts to save and which parts to let fall away?

For some people — Dom, to some extent — it made them want to get out. But for me it had the opposite effect. It’s everything I’m interested in, and it’s massively creatively inspiring.


Has becoming wealthy shaped your political views?

I don’t think so. I remember all my feelings of what it was to be from a poor rural background with no opportunities and all the disadvantages. And I still have some views that would be considered pretty socialist by some. Universal health care is an obvious one; I can’t even believe there’s not universal healthcare here. I’ve also come to the view that maybe land shouldn’t be privately owned.


Can you relate to music that’s unambiguously joyful? Coldplay, let’s say.

Absolutely. Chris [Martin] is a friend of mine. I love what they do. I wish I could write more songs that enter the love sphere. But I think it might be against the nature of the sounds our band makes. When the three of us are jamming, it’s like Rage Against the Machine riffs are coming out all the time. I can’t imagine hearing those riffs with Chris Martin singing about peace and love on top.


What’s the happiest Muse song?

“Starlight” is pretty positive. I think “Verona” on the new album is pretty nice — little bit of “Romeo and Juliet” in there.


Do you think rock music is in good hands with the generation behind yours?

My 11-year-old son likes Slipknot and Metallica. My stepson Ryder from a previous situation [with Hudson], he’s 18 and he’s really into rock. He turned me on to Willow Smith.


Can you envision touring in your 60s and 70s like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones?

Yeah, but Metallica is the one that’s really made me think we could do it. The Stones and McCartney, they have universally uplifting music. But Metallica — I’m not sure how old they are, but they’re up there — that’s really heavy music and they’re still out there. The great thing about rock is that, even though the genre is largely irrelevant in the mainstream, you can actually grow old with it. You can make a real life career.



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Matt Bellamy _26 August 2022 - Interview - CBS Mornings

 



Matt Bellamy  - Interview - By Anthony Mason

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Matt Bellamy _26 August 2022 - Interview - Audacy Check In, Audacy Music

 

Matt Bellamy - Interview - By Brad Steiner

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WILL OF THE PEOPLE_Official Videos/DEEZER audio

TRACKS

Will of the People 

Compliance 

Liberation 

Won't Stand Down 

Ghosts (How Can I Move On) 

You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween 

Kill or Be Killed 

Verona 

Euphoria 

We Are Fucking Fucked 

https://musewiki.org/Will_of_the_People_(album)

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MUSE Festivals/Theatres/WOTP tour 2022



   original  http://abelgaloismuse.blogspot.com
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26.8.22

Matt Bellamy _25 August 2022 - Interview - Apple Music


 
Matt Bellamy - Interview - By Zane Lowe

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WILL OF THE PEOPLE_Official Videos/DEEZER audio

 


Writer/composer:

Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme

Album 9 WILL OF THE PEOPLE _26 August 2022 

Matt Bellamy: 
"Will of the People is fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought ‘fuck this."

 

Matt Bellamy:
“Will Of The People was created in Los Angeles and London and is influenced by the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world.  A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests & riots, an attempted insurrection, Western democracy wavering, rising authoritarianism, wildfires and natural disasters and the destabilization of the global order all informed Will Of The People.  It has been a worrying and scary time for all of us as the Western empire and the natural world, which have cradled us for so long are genuinely threatened. This album is a personal navigation through those fears and preparation for what comes next.”

https://musewiki.org/Will_of_the_People_(album)

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WE ARE FUCKING FUCKED (WOTP Album 9) [Official Performance Video]

 

WE ARE FUCKING FUCKED

Directed & Edited: Ben Lowe & Jack Lowe

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(Dom)We playing together?

You

Really believe

We can survive all of this

The black vacuum of universe

It was designed

To swallow us whole

It's a losing game

We're at death's door

Another world war

Wildfires and earthquakes I foresaw

A life in crisis

A deadly virus

Tsunamis of hate are gonna find us

A-a-a-a-ah

We are fucking fucked

A-a-a-a-ah

We are fucking fucked

We're at death's door

Another world war

Wildfires and earthquakes I foresaw

A life in crisis

Mutated virus

Tsunamis of hate are gonna drown us

A-a-a-a-ah

We are fucking fucked

A-a-a-a-ah

We are fucking fucked

True

Just when you think

You're safe and secure

You'll forget what you need to remember

Living in peace but you're living a lie

The game is rigged

We're at death's door

Another world war

Wildfires and earthquakes I foresaw

A life in crisis

Mutated virus

Tsunamis of hate are gonna drown us

A-a-a-a-ah                              

We are fucking fucked

A-a-a-a-ah                              

We are fucking fucked

Hold up

Stockpile

Hold up

We are getting fucking fucked

A-a-a-a-ah

We are getting fucked

O-o-o-o-oh

We are getting fucked

Hey hey hey

Fuck off

Hey hey hey

Stockpile

Hey hey hey

Fuck off

Hey hey hey

We are getting fucking fucked

https://musewiki.org/We_Are_Fucking_Fucked_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9

https://musewiki.org/We_Are_Fucking_Fucked_(song)

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VERONA (WOTP Album 9) [Official Lyric Video]

 

VERONA

Director LOST http://www.lost.org

Choreographer James Cousins 

Dancers Tania Dimbelolo and Tia May Hockey 

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Can we kiss

With poison on our lips

Well I'm not scared

Can we touch and taste forbidden bliss

They can't stop us now, I won't let you be alone

I am coming for you

Keep us apart, it's too much to ask

We're running away

Take off your clothes and take off your mask

It's not over now, I won't leave you in the dark

Because I need you so

Can we kiss, contagion on our lips

Well I don't care

We can touch and feel forbidden bliss

They can't stop us now, I won't let you feel alone

Because I need you so

You and me

Throw caution to the wind

And I will risk everything just to feel the warmth and voltage from your skin

If this is my last day on earth, I just want to be with you

You are all that's true

We will kiss, with poison on our lips

Well I'm not scared

We will touch and reach forbidden bliss

They can't stop us now, I won't let you die alone

Because I love you so

https://musewiki.org/Verona_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9

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GHOSTS (HOW CAN I MOVE ON) (WOTP Album 9) [Official Music Video]

 

GHOSTS (HOW CAN I MOVE ON)

Director LOST http://www.lost.org

Choreographer James Cousins 

Dancers Tania Dimbelolo and Tia May Hockey 

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Now and then

My mind drifts to a place where I find you

Lost in my head

There are unsolved feelings that haunt me

It's too late to heal

I'll lay them to rest

How can I move on

When everyone I see still talks about you

How can I move on

When all the best things I have we made together

Here's to letting go

But I am lost in a void

With your ghost and our memories

Lest we forget

The great reset

If I could bring you back

There are truths and confessions I'd tell you

I'd set things straight

And I believe that you would love and forgive me 

I know it's too late

I need to let go

How can I move on

When everyone I see still talks about you

How can I move on

When all the best things I have we built together

Here's to letting go

But I am trapped in a void with your ghost and our memories

Lest we forget

The great reset

How can I sleep with this coldness beside me

How can I sleep with this coldness inside me

I can't bring back your love

How can I move on

When everyone I see still talks about you

How can I move on

When all the best things I have we made together

Here's to letting go

But I am lost in a void with your ghost and our memories

Lest we forget

The great reset

https://musewiki.org/Ghosts_(How_Can_I_Move_On)_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9


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LIBERATION (WOTP Album 9) [Official Performance Video]

 

LIBERATION

Directed & Edited: Ben Lowe & Jack Lowe

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Silenced

You'll make us feel silenced

You stole the airwaves, but the air belongs to us

And violence, you'll make us turn to violence

You've left us choice-less

Our backs against the wall no more, and


We have plans to take you down

We intend to erase your place in history

Soon (soon) you'll be left with nothing

So I guess we should thank you (thank you) 

Thank you (thank you) 

Thank you (thank you)

We've had enough

We thank you for playing your part in our liberation


And losing, the world can see you're losing

You'll send the army to trample on our prayers

And silenced, we'll be no longer silenced

You'll hear our voices

They'll rise even though we're under siege, and


We have plans to take you down (forced abdication)

We intend to erase your place in history (regime revocation)

Soon (soon) you'll be left with nothing

So I guess we should thank you (thank you) 

Thank you (thank you) 

Thank you (thank you)

We've had enough

Thank you for playing your part in our liberation, liberation

Liberation...

Liberation...

https://musewiki.org/Liberation_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9


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EUPHORIA (WOTP Album 9) [Official Performance Video]

 

EUPHORIA

Directed & Edited: Ben Lowe & Jack Lowe

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Shut down

We are growing spiritless

If no one cares, then who is gonna save us?

Give us euphoria

Worn out

Everything will fall apart

So shine a light and warm up this heavy heart

Give us euphoria

Brooding

I need renewing

I want satisfaction

A gut reaction

Give us euphoria

Give us euphoria

It's been all work and no play

Give us euphoria

Give us euphoria

I need to numb all the pain

Wake up

We're becoming restless

Our last hope and only you can save us

Give us euphoria

Sealed off to numb all the pain

We are running out of air

So start a fire and spice up this love affair

Give us euphoria

Brooding

I need renewing

I need satisfaction

A gut reaction

Give us euphoria

Give us euphoria

It's been all work and no play

Give us euphoria

Give us euphoria

I need to numb all the pain

Euphoria

Give us euphoria

It's been all work and no play

Give me euphoria

I need euphoria

I need to numb all the pain...

https://musewiki.org/Euphoria_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9


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YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IT'S HALLOWEEN (WOTP Album 9) [Official Music Video]

 

YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IT'S HALLOWEEN  [Official Music Video]

Director: Tom Teller

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You got me checking my mirror

You make me feel like I'm on the run

Where'd you hide the gun?

The kitchen knife in your hand

Are you the poison, are you the cure?

I'm not so sure

I'm shackled, there is no way out

I can't escape

When you turn out the lights

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

When you skulk 'round the house

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

You cut me off from my friends

You cut me off from my family

I'm in misery (I'm your number one fan)

Each day I fall to my knees

I see the writing is on the wall

Now I'm in withdrawal

I'm shackled, there is no way out

(There's is nothing I can do to escape)

I can't escape

When you turn out the lights

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

The way you skulk 'round the house

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

Ahhh

When you turn out the lights

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

When you skulk 'round the house

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

I see your eye in the keyhole

I feel like it's Halloween

It's Halloween

Won't reset until I'm possessed

You make me feel like it's Halloween, it's Halloween

https://musewiki.org/You_Make_Me_Feel_Like_It%27s_Halloween_(song)

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(WOTP Album 9


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