Web Feature: I just don't get Muse

[Strangeseas]

Originally Posted by Kueller917

The idea of Muse taking from their influences but never being as strong was a bit of an issue for TR and maybe some of T2L, at least for me. He never called them direct copycats though.

He implied that Muse cannot write songs without some extend of copycating

Originally Posted by Kueller917

If I want to get into things I thought he did wrong
1. It's so snobbish it hurts, same with the comments agreeing with him entirely
2. Says most things as fact, even the opinions are loaded with implications of the former
3. His taste is the reason Muse are shit
4. Bands need complex chords, odd time signatures, and deep lyrics to be good

I still think it was an elaborate troll

See the Radiohead wankfest in the middle...

[Bells]

Originally Posted by sade

True. Which is weird, because obviously Matt is a very talented song writer, so it's odd that he and Dom and Chris choose to copy other bands' sounds so carefully. The songs as compositions would be as good without the copycat execution. As for lyrics, never gave a fuck about them one way or another.

That being said, these types of articles are annoying when they almost always seem to work on the premise that the writer is some special snowflake, who, unlike stupid people around him, realize a fault in something and therefore is a shining beacon of taste. No, Muse as a band is very divisive and has a LOT of people hating them.

This so hard.

[Kueller917]

Originally Posted by Strangeseas

I still think it was a elaborate troll

See the Radiohead wankfest in the middle...

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. There's a lot of people who act like that.

[Strangeseas]

Originally Posted by Kueller917

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. There's a lot of people who act like that.

But that would mean he's just snobbish and stupid

Originally Posted by Kueller917

5. Muse should be compared to prog-rock

I agree. That was his biggest argumentative fail.
Then again I wouldn't call Radiohead classic Prog Rock.

[henners]

It's like a pretentious, wanky A-level essay which would probably get an A* effortlessly. But then, if The Smiths are his favourite band by the sounds of it, there's no wonder his article has an incredibly predictable and smarmy ring to it.

[Travis III]

A legitimate article with some perfectly valid points.
I disagree with it overall, of course, but he's entitled to his opinion. No need to get butthurt over it.

[ChrisirhC]

Musers calling someone pretentious and uneducated.

Well that's rich.

[Strangeseas]

Originally Posted by ChrisirhC

Musers calling someone pretentious and uneducated.

Well that's rich.

Are you the author?

[You.Make.Me.Sick]

Originally Posted by Travis III

No need to get butthurt over it.

Tell that to the author. It's his opinion stop ranting about it like it's fact.

[Gareeh]

Originally Posted by ChrisirhC

Musers calling someone pretentious and uneducated.

Well that's rich.

You just branded all Muse fans pretentious and uneducated.

Well that's naive.

[Discoprincess32]

Originally Posted by ChrisirhC

Musers calling someone pretentious and uneducated.

Well that's rich.

I've read all the comments and no one called him pretentious and uneducated that I could read, but the douche that wrote this is a hipster, and the whole Radiohead thing just proves to me how little he knows/therefore shouldn't even be thinking about Muse. Simple as, he wrote this piece so that he could inflate his ego while others like him (hipsters) fully agree with his hatred (of possibly jeolousy) of Muse and their popularity.

Muse built this from the ground up. Some of Matts lyrics are right on his sleeve and others are very thought provoking. Muse have never said they are prog rock. That is what they are labeled as. They could fall under any genre, that is why so many different people love them, because their musicality is so diverse.

He doesn't get it and doesn't want to. End of, move along, rant over.

[OriginOfAbso]

The worst comment is the one that says, "I admit to quite liking 'Plug In Baby', but just get the impression that every song Muse have recorded since is a slight variation of it."

The stupidity of this comment was so strong, I had to comment myself.

[Mc Queen]

Basically, what discoprincess said. Plus, I'm wondering if some people (mostly guys, no offense to the male muse fans) just can't get comfortable with Bellamy's voice - that's the only reason I ever hear from those very few people I know that don't like Muse.

I wouldn't change it for anything Just saying that maybe the voice makes people feel endangered or something?

[Cyndris]

Originally Posted by OriginOfAbso

The worst comment is the one that says, "I admit to quite liking 'Plug In Baby', but just get the impression that every song Muse have recorded since is a slight variation of it."

The stupidity of this comment was so strong, I had to comment myself.

I feel the pain. Every time someone brings something like that up I feel the incredible urge to slap them.

[Louhi]

What really bugged me was this sentence in the comments:

They are a rock band for girls and immature boys who cannot appreciate real rock (or prog rock)

What does it imply? That girls have a bad taste in music? Or that all girls are so immature that you don't even have to mention it? Either way it really brings out the feminist in me. Never mind about hating Muse, people can hate Muse as much as they want, but I just hate to see sentences like that thrown around in the year 2012