This is a summary of an article from the Mexican newspaper "El Pais" called "The Muse Mystery: If Almost No One Likes Them, Who’s Filling Their Concerts?" The article talks about the British rock band Muse and the contradiction around them. For more than 20 years they have been filling stadiums and writing some of the biggest rock anthems of the 21st century, but they have never gotten real critical prestige. The piece says that admitting you like Muse feels like an uncomfortable confession because the bigger the band got, the easier it was to make fun of them. It points out that the problem is not the singer Matt Bellamy, people do not dislike him. What bothers people is the band itself because Muse never tried to lower their ambition to look more respectable. Their songs are heroic, theatrical and exaggerated and they sing about surveillance, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and the apocalypse with a seriousness that feels old fashioned today while most rock bands moved away from that kind of grandiosity. Still, that has not hurt them. Almost 30 years after their first album Showbiz, Muse keeps selling out shows, headlining festivals and putting albums in the top of the UK charts. Their recent album The Wow Signal shows their ability to draw crowds is still intact. The article says every new Muse record starts the same debate. For some they are one of the most unique bands in modern rock. For others they just repeat the same excesses. The mystery is that their huge public success has never come with critical agreement.
>>131086912it's almost as if critics (jews) have no power in the real world
IMO their "downfall" in terms of music nerds opinions, is that they made a sing for Twilight.Comically, if Twilight had songs by wpop sluts or some rapper, ot wouldn't be a problem and these music nerds would call them "brave" for defying audiences or whatever but if it's a rock band like Muse, it's a big hit.Funnily enough the album that have the Twilight songs is also one of their most celebrated despite everything
>aaaaaa help me!! i'm scared of Matt Bellamy!
>>131086979another one for the near perfect record of if Liam dislikes something, that's how you know it's good.
>>131086912Anon 45 year olds normalfags like em
Muse are too sincere in their lyrics.They need to be ironic.Also lol talking about conspiracy? Surveilance? Pffft, schizo alert: the band!Stop listening to rock music already.
>>131086912A lot of people like them tho. Their first albums are great
>>131087020Bury?? What le hecc are you doing the the /mu/ board lole
lol what a retarded out of touch takethere are tons of bands with bad or even terrible critical reputation that are still widely successful the secret? whether you like it or not normalfags are still the majority (duh) of the market and normlafags have bad taste
>>131087591>pseud modern music 'critics' have good taste
