If you expect me to get on here and bash one of my new favorite musical obsessions, go away because I’m not going to do it.
Far from it in fact. I’ve read the comments out there and I know that a lot of fans – at least the ones that are speaking up – don’t like/hate the new Muse single “Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)” but I cannot disagree more. This song is effing awesome and shame on you Muse fans that can’t hear that.
This song is exaggerated, cheesy, bombastic and extreme to the point of almost being stalkerishly scary – the line “If we die, we die together” comes to mind here – and it is everything that I love about Muse and their music. Unabashedly over the top and, frankly, insane with a good riff and some pretty piano thrown in, a galloping hard beat and wild vocals. Does Muse have a song that characterizes them more than this one?
Nevermind that it is the first single on the new Twilight movie. While I’m a fan of that series, that’s not a reason to love or hate this song. Matt Bellamy revealed on the radio when the song debuted on Monday that he wrote this after his breakup with his girlfriend of many years last fall. If you listen to it in this context, the song is heartbreaking and the cheese factor, which Bellamy openly admits to, is completely justified. If you can’t be honest in a song, when can you be?
I don’t understand why fans are so quick to hate this one. Give it a few more listens, it’s an awesome song and very fitting with the latest album in tone, style, and composition. I may be new to this band, but I’m an up and up fan who knows every song by heart at this point. “Neutron Star Collision” has skyrocketed to be one of my favorites of the bunch.
