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Take a look at the “Compliance” music video, which is about a world in which people are forced to … wear masks. Now that the song is out, the band is only complicating things further. “Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability,” the band wrote, going on to decry “misleading untruths” from those entities, which want “obedience” to a “narrow worldview.” With the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing and public-health compliance waning, some took that to be an anti-vaxx message. Muse released a new single, “Compliance,” which the band had previously teased with a lengthy, head-turning message on social media. Remember the bop “Uprising” from 2009, which included lines such as, “Rise up and take the power back / It’s time the fat cats had a heart attack”? This time, the boys may have taken things a step too far. This album is a personal navigation through those fears and preparation for what comes next.”Īlthough the previous album was heavier on electronics and lighter on guitar than some of the group’s other work, the official announcement from Warner, while saying “there is NO bowing to any singular genre,” offer hints of a heavier sound threading between the continued electronic base heard in “Compliance.” The title track is described as “a dystopian glam-rocker,” “Kill or Be Killed” is said to be “industrial-tinged” with “granite-heavy riffs” and the climactic number is characterized as a “frenetic finale.” A continuation of the previous album may be in store, meanwhile, on “Verona,” which is said to have “innocence and a purity” in its “nostalgic electronic textures.The rock band Muse has never exactly hid its politics. “A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests and 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. Of the album as a whole, Bellamy said, “‘Will of the People’ was created in Los Angeles and London and is influenced by the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world,” the frontman said in a statement.
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We are not just coerced, we are herded, frightened and corralled to produce a daily ‘two minutes of hate’ against an out-group of their choosing and to turn a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason and compassion. They sell us comforting myths, telling us only they can explain reality while simultaneously diminishing our freedom, autonomy and independent thought. “Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms and religions seduce us during times of vulnerability, creating arbitrary rules and distorted ideas for us to comply with. “‘ Compliance’ is about submission to authoritarian rules and reassuring untruths to be accepted to an in-group,” Bellamy said in a statement. But Bellamy is rarely so clear in his positions, and his explanation of the single, contained in a press release, presents a predictably broader, less-easily-pinned-down view of what he considers to be the new album’s themes. When a snippet of “Compliance” was released earlier, there was some discussion on social media, and alarm among some, that in the wake of recent events, the sarcastically pro-authoritarian lyrics appeared to constitute an anti-vax anthem.