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I had a bit of an obsessive personality when I was younger (though it's mellowed out progressively since I was about 12). I got into Muse when I was 15 and at the time, I could go for weeks without listening to any other band. Not purposely - everything else just seemed a bit weak by comparison.
I wound up making mix CDs for just about every classmate with whom I was on speaking terms. There were only three or four people in my year who had even heard of them, only one of whom particularly liked them. 'Muse, chocolate and random facts' became my tag in my circle of friends.
That has been exactly the same for me, although I got into Muse at 13 and the things I talk about are just Muse, Kingdom Hearts and Family Guy.
But yeah I always try and get people interested, usually it all happens in about a week, when I go round telling everyone that I recommend that they buy something.
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Well, here in America, Muse is like unknown. I hate that very few people have the same interest of music as me. People here are all into MCR, Underoath, Senses Fail, Taking Back Sunday, or bands of the such that just bang on drums and yell into microphones. Teenagers here dont find there music attractive. I think this shows that the vast majority of teenagers in America have a lower standard for the arts/music. Europe beats America in what is music and what isn't. And American teenagers just dont accept that their "music" is why us Americans are laughed at for our stupidity. I know it sounds weird to blame it on the music. But if one were to think about it, music affects the way us teenagers act. Music with little talent equals a teenager with little taste for arts and sometimes, education in a way. Call me an over-exaggerater, but this is the truth.
Actually it's Americans' almost total ignorance of the world beyond its borders that makes the rest of the world think you're all stupid.
Correlating culture with education puts you on dangerous ground: are you more knowledgeable or intelligent than a peer because you prefer European music to American music? Is A more educated than B because A likes classical and B likes hip-hop, or is it the other way round, or neither? Dangerous ground.
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None of my friends liked Muse.
So, one year i just bought all of them Absolution for christmas 
At first, they got mad, because "i knew they did not like that kind of music"
but now, a lot of them are very much into Muse!
And Muse are pretty big at my school at this time.. when they played in Copenhagen, ALOT of people went... Even though it is 3 hours in train.
So that is great 
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None of my friends liked Muse.
So, one year i just bought all of them Absolution for christmas
At first, they got mad, because "i knew they did not like that kind of music"
but now, a lot of them are very much into Muse!
And Muse are pretty big at my school at this time.. when they played in Copenhagen, ALOT of people went... Even though it is 3 hours in train.
So that is great
LOL! if i bought my friends muse CDs, they'd go..."OOOH thank you! what's muse?"
i don't usually reveal to others what i like though, i like to keep my own interests and likes to myself, partly because i don't like people liking something because i introduced it to them. i was told it was a selfish act, but i just don't feel i can go "hey you guys! i love muse, go listen to them!"
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my friends dont like muse, and they cant get over the fact that i do. they will just have to deal with my obesssiveness tbh 
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Oh, I was present when one of my class mates turned Supermassive Black Hole on (it was accidentally on his phone). He rocked off to the riff, but at the start of the vocals part, he was just like "Mmeh, gay".
So what? I know he wants to sex Matt! Why would SMBH (!) "accidentally" be on his phone?! 
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Actually it's Americans' almost total ignorance of the world beyond its borders that makes the rest of the world think you're all stupid.
Correlating culture with education puts you on dangerous ground: are you more knowledgeable or intelligent than a peer because you prefer European music to American music? Is A more educated than B because A likes classical and B likes hip-hop, or is it the other way round, or neither? Dangerous ground.
To answer that question wether A is smarter than B because A listens to European music while B listens to hip-hop, lets look at the majority. I can tell you for a fact that around 90% of teenagers who's music of choice is hip-hop, is not as educated/smart as the person who likes European music or maybe even classical music. I believe that is a true fact.
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Thank you, Colin, I agree with your point. I think it's biologically proved, because those heavy beats damage or even destroy brain cells... Moreover, classical music is far too complicated to be understood by people not as educated as those with healthy brain cells.
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im 16! and i love muse. kind of wierd how not alot of people my age dont know them.
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im 15 and i really like muse. but i guess not a lot ppl of my age over here likes them. my friends are more mainstream and none of muse songs are (besides starlight and SMBH). but its ok im getting the gd stuff
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I'm 15 and absolutely obsessed with Muse. None of my friends knew who they were until I started talking about them all the time. I think I'm the only actual Muse fan at my school. Which is kind of cool, but stinks cause I have no one to talk about their music with. Anyway, all the people that have heard of Muse only know them because of Knights of Cydonia on Guitar Hero which everyone is totally obsessed with. Some people have heard Starlight or Supermassive Black Hole on the radio or TV but they didn't know the song was by Muse. Everyone only listens to My Chemical Romance or other more mainstream stuff like Fall Out Boy. I'm kind of mad that such an awesome band like Muse isn't nearly as recognized as some sucky popular bands around where I live.
But I would rather Muse be not so popular than a band with tons of annoying fan girls screaming "Oh my God! Matt is so sexy, I want to marry him!"and all that annoying stuff. I don't ever want to hear that.
Muse should have true fans, not people that listen to them because everyone else does. And if that means I'm a lone Muse fan in my school, I am so okay with it. 
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I got the piss taken out of me when i was 13/14 for liking Muse. After my friends were 15/16 or so they came round. They were into the nu metal shit at the time. Muse was out of their league
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Muse are big at my school. Over 50 people from my school went to the gig in Oslo...
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nearly 16
anyway i dont know how many people like muse but a load of them saw them when they played here last year.
Nobody had even heard of them before Black holes so i had was tring to convince people that they were good and they all disagreed. Then Black Holes came out and everyone then agreed with me.
I win however nobody is like obsessed with them
just casual listeners
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im 16, not many people my age like them, as they are all in love with arctic monkeys and other bands like them. it dusnt bother me that i get the piss taken out of me for it, its better to be different than the same as everyone else.
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None of my close friends like Muse, it is after all, Rock for Clever People..:P
But seriously, out of the bunch of people that have heard of them, most of them just pretend to like them, or class 'liking Plug In Baby' as being a Muse fan..
Like my friends, I love all the 'Indie' that's around the music scene right now, but none of them reach any further. Nobody seems to have any influences, any roots.
It's hard to express my love for my two favourite bands (Muse & The Libertines) with my mates, cause they just cant relate. In fact, they probably don't know who Matthew Bellamy is (yes, it breaks my heart). And that is why I love EVERYONE on muselive.
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To be honest , i think id hate it if my friends liked Muse.
It would take away the personalnesssss.
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My case of friends liking muse is pretty much the same as GGs
Most of my mates listen to Indie and or american stuff but its up to them what they listen too at the end of the day..
There are a few that like Muse and go to gigs and what not but their like of them isn't "obsessive" as mine is
My friends that though muse were crap ive tryed converting and im getting there slowly my mate ben thinks KoC is " an alright song" and even asked if i could send it too him.
Its a curse and blessing being a fan.. not many people to talk about them too, but it feels like their "my" band but not in the weird possesivness just like an induviduality thing.. if that makes any sence 
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Me: "Oh! Wait up! Moment of bliss: Starlight and coffee..."
One of the most popular guys in my class: "Muse's???"
Me: "Ya, sure. You know that song?"
Him: "Sure, I'm not from behind of the Mars!"
Me: "I thought I am from Mars because I am listening to that."
Him: "No, this song was quite popular in the commercial way..."
Me: "Well, Knights Of Cydonia too, but it doesn't make it a worse song."
Him: "Isn't oit that nice song with a cowboy music video??"
Me: "Exactly!"
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When i was in year 11 a "popular" person asked me if it was "The muse that sing that super big song or something?"
so i sead Supermassive black hole.. yeh thats by muse..
her last comments where "Ahh its right heavy and emo"
Not all 'populars' are nice.. However most of the popular boys listen to indie now so yeh the world is getting better..
seriously the muse? emo.. some people =l
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Emo? Fuck det. I don't think my classmates think they're emo. They know Supermassive Black Hole, they think it is funky and I say that this is obviously a joke like Knights Of Cydonia, so they know that I know that all, and Muse can't be emo if thewy make jokes, can they?
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MusE3usM :
To answer that question wether A is smarter than B because A listens to European music while B listens to hip-hop, lets look at the majority. I can tell you for a fact that around 90% of teenagers who's music of choice is hip-hop, is not as educated/smart as the person who likes European music or maybe even classical music. I believe that is a true fact.
For a fact? Prove it.
Sure, it takes a certain amount of effort to find non-mainstream music - indie, foreign, classical, etc, but that doesn't make you smarter or better for putting in the effort. Most people are perfectly happy with what's on the radio, and that's nice for them. Different is different, it's neither inferior nor superior - you can't go around claiming to be better or more intelligent than other people just because you like different music.
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Thank you, Colin, I agree with your point. I think it's biologically proved, because those heavy beats damage or even destroy brain cells... Moreover, classical music is far too complicated to be understood by people not as educated as those with healthy brain cells.
Classical music is only seen as inaccessible because a single piece lasts much longer than a pop song. To get the benefit of classical music, you have to listen to the whole piece or suite so that you can hear the motifs evolving and the larger themes coming through. Patience ≠ education or intelligence, though there could well be a correlation.
As for music harming the brain, I think you've got it confused - headbanging does destroy brain cells (not 'heavy beats', which are found in all kinds of music) but you would need to do an AWFUL lot of it to become noticeably less intelligent than average!
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When I was year 10-11 I always sang Muse and everyone didn't know what it was, eventually I just ended up converting 80% of my friends to the way that is Muse
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As for music harming the brain, I think you've got it confused - headbanging does destroy brain cells (not 'heavy beats', which are found in all kinds of music) but you would need to do an AWFUL lot of it to become noticeably less intelligent than average!
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Oh, Laura, I didn't mean that THAT way. Classical music isn't only seen inaccessible because of the length of each piece. No, the most proving point is, that classical music is complex, like Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 2, there are many melodical lines, AND melodical themes... It's hard to explain. Matt said that classical music (and vocal-less music in general) really is the healthiest for your imagination... And rap is simply talking...
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