So Muse is back with ‘Survival’, and it sucks really bad! I don’t even know why I bother, I knew it would be awful before listening to it, but what else could be expected if the song was chosen to be the official theme song for the London Olympics?
'Survival' debuted on Zane Lowe’s BBC 1 show this week, and it will apparently be featured on Muse’s sixth LP ‘The 2nd Law’, available September 2012, but let me warn you about the song, it is super pompous with an extra level of pompousness rarely reached in music.
The strings slime their sticky syrup all over the place, the army choirs audition for some Hollywood super-production about gladiators or Cleopatra and Matthew Bellamy thinks he is playing Freddie Mercury in some bad biopic,… oh and there are some mean rocking guitars and bombastic drumming just to remind us that, after all, they are still a rock band, but the song is soooo over the top and so awful that I had to pull my hair to force myself to listen till the end.
According to the Antiquiet, Bellamy declared that the track was ‘about total conviction and pure determination to win’, yes I got this from the lyrics, thanks, no explanation necessary, but why do I have visions of Christians eaten by lions in Roman arenas?
I mean if someone had wanted to write a parody of a Muse song, the result wouldn’t have been worst. The band explained that ‘the song will be played throughout the Games including when athletes enter the stadium, in the lead up to the medal ceremony and also as the theme for all international TV coverage’. And it is a good thing I am not watching the Olympic Games this summer.