Having shifted the recording of ‘Black Holes And Revelations’ from Chateau Miraval in rural France to clubland Manhattan, Muse caught the disco bug in time to make ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ sound like Prince joining Crystal Castles.Ī between-album single recorded live on 2002’s ‘Hullabaloo Souundtrack’ album, ‘Dead Star’ is Muse in full-on metal mode, Chris and Dom pounding out a virtual Download while Matt does his best impression of a pitchfork-wielding devil imp auditioning for Joseph… Perhaps the true meaning of the song is being strangely comfortable with the dissonance between hope and despair.An early chunk of Muse funk metal, Chris channels the maniac spirit of Flea, Matt comes over all Hendrix and, somewhere in the flurry of furious fret-mangling, some poor bugger gets dumped: “ I don’t want you and I never did…” It’s still a awesome song though and the crowd that flood to see Muse feel that profound connection with the band in the now. Thankfully, this ultimate revelation is Billions of years away and all stars on the universal star registry will shine brightly for millions of years to come. The coming of the end times and the Heat Death of the universe would certainly be an apocalypse of sorts. It is both of revelation of connection forged by enlightenment, but also revelation in the biblical sense. The revelations the song speaks of is a double meaning. The stars will go dark and all that will remain are dead planets and black holes. A time far into the future when the energy of the universe has been used up. He finds the starlight, but with the knowledge that it just can’t last forever.įor a long time now, Scientists have been aware of the heat death of the universe. But Bellamy takes a darker twist toward the end. In our own way, we’re all chasing starlight – looking for inspiration. That’s a sentiment everyone can really get behind. The goal of the writer is to know the star, to feel enriched, empowered and connected by said awakening. He may be on a quest of naming a star, though not in a literal sense.
At the end of starlight, the source of it, is the star itself. He is reaching and chasing the starlight – a metaphor for hope and the future. Though it’s clear the singer is reaching for a profound connection with said recipient. The meaning of the lyrics isn’t clearly defined we never find out who it is that the singer is speaking to. Taking a look at the lyrics, it makes sense as they seem to evolve as a stream of consciousness of Bellamy’s state of mind at the time.Īll the souls that would die just to feel alive_ Starlight’s conception began at sea, when Bellamy was on a boat which was caught up in bad weather. Propelled forward by their lead singer Matt Bellamy with his wide tenor vocal range and thrilling stage performances marking the band out as something particularly special. Released in 2006, Starlight came in at a part of Muse’s career when they were beginning to gain very serious clout as one of the better rock bands of the 2000’s. One song that achieves a similar feeling of wonder and dread is the Muse song, Starlight. Even some of the brightest stars in the night sky can be nothing more than a little twinkle in the never ending ether. When you look toward the stars in the sky, possibly thinking to dedicate a star to someone, or get a star named after you, you’ll perhaps be overwhelmed at the idea of a burning ball of gas burning for billions of years yet perhaps slightly sad that the only thing you’ll ever see of it is the tiny slither of starlight, glimmering gently in the night sky. Some things can cause a strange feeling of dissonance.
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