![]() ![]() But let me take you stole the airwaves, but the air belongs to us.īELLAMY: Yeah. SIMON: The song "Liberation" - I could ask you about each and every one of these lines, I think. You stole the airwaves, but the air belongs to us. On top of that, we had the whole Trump situation, which led to the Capitol riots and so on - quite unusual, living through a period of time where a lot of the dystopian stuff seemed to be playing out in real time. And then, seeing that kind of coming to a kind of head in the last or few years, I think that was definitely one influence. I mean, I remember, like, people started to feel kind of this feeling of mistrust for, let's say, the powers that be, you know, I also call it (ph), like, this populism that was kind of, you know, growing throughout the Western world in particular. SIMON: Well, talk about that, about how what you saw in the world informs, inspires, steers some of the music you have here.īELLAMY: Yeah, I mean - but it goes back a long way really, in terms of the internet becoming a major thing in the early 2000s. And so we actually started making a record influenced by, obviously, the big shift we saw in the world around that time. So the desire to create and the sort of inspiration to make a record - it kind of brought that forward a little bit. ![]() And we all know what happened in 2020 as well. What brought you forward to do it now?īELLAMY: Well, in 2019, we finished quite a exhausting, long world tour that we did, and we decided to take a break 'cause I was having a baby in 2020. SIMON: It's been four years since you released your last album. Matthew Bellamy is frontman of Muse and joins us now from Los Angeles. It's called "Will Of The People," and it's an unblinking look at our world through shades of glam rock, electro pop and industrial metal. SIMON: The Grammy Award-winning band just released their ninth studio album. The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the - will of the - don't need a gun. ![]() MUSE: (Singing) Let's push the emperors into the ocean. Muse is speaking out, calling for a revolution. MUSE: (Singing) The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the - will of the - the will of the people. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WILL OF THE PEOPLE") ![]()
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