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In a recent interview with KROQ, Matt Bellamy reveals how the band received a phone call from Elton John, requesting a song for the Olympics. KROQ
In the midst of recording The 2nd Law, the band’s 6th studio album, Muse received a phone call that would change the course of their album’s release and deliver an audience of over a billion.
Frontman Matt Bellamy explains his elation when learning that his song was adopted by the London 2012 Olympics. In a chat with KROQ-FM Los Angeles’ Stryker, he describes the amazement the band shares having penned the official Olympics theme. “It’s great to be a part of it. It’s such an exciting time for London. London’s been building up to this for like ten years. Patriotism isn’t really a big thing in England but I think this Olympics has brought it back a little bit.”
More than just part of a montage, “Survival” was chosen as the official theme of the London Olympics. But how and why was the song chosen?
Bellamy describes a surprising phone call from a fellow English artist. “Well actually, believe it or not, Elton John gave us a call and wanted to write a song for the Olympics. At one time Elton John was actually the director of the music for the Olympics. He contacted us and we thought ‘This is far out! We’re going to do a song for the Olympics with Elton John?!’”
“So that’s how the ball started rolling way back over a year ago,” continues Bellamy. “But then he pulled out of the Olympics. He didn’t want to be involved anymore cause he fell out with the organizers so that left us with a half-baked idea. At that point we just let it go and carried on with making the album. And then the Olympics approached us again about the ending ceremony for us to play and that’s when we played them that song ["Survival"] and they said they loved it and wanted to make it an official song of some kind.”
According to officials, the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games “will be titled ‘A Symphony of British Music,’ to celebrate the fact that music has been one of Britain’s strongest cultural exports over the last 50 years. The worldwide broadcast of the Ceremony will start Sunday, August 12th at 9PM GMT (check local listings) and feature more than 4,100 performers, including 3,500 adult volunteers and 380 schoolchildren from the six east London Host Boroughs.”
Source : http://kroq.cbslocal.com
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pima_bells :
He didn’t want to be involved anymore cause he fell out with the organizers so that left us with a half-baked idea.
If anything sums up the song, it's that.
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Hah exactly.
In other breaking new, Muse have collaborated with The Streets.
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ayla
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In a recent German interview (on viva.tv, I think) Matt said he had already written the song (including its lyrics) and when it was picked for the Olympics they just added more different sections to it. So Survival (including its lyrics) was always going to be a serious album track, Olympics or not. Which is.. surprising.
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They're just making up excuses now
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pima_bells :
He didn’t want to be involved anymore cause he fell out with the organizers so that left us with a half-baked idea.
If anything sums up the song, it's that.
Shutttt up! So many exhausting comments on this stupid fucking site
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Survival confuses me. Did they feel it should be in the album at all, or was it just an afterthought dumped into it? Like if they were to have put Neutron Star Collision on the album.
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ayla :
In a recent German interview (on viva.tv, I think) Matt said he had already written the song (including its lyrics) and when it was picked for the Olympics they just added more different sections to it. So Survival (including its lyrics) was always going to be a serious album track, Olympics or not. Which is.. surprising.
It makes me wonder what sections and lyrics were there from the start. I definitely know what I'd want them to be (and doesn't take a genius to guess what they are), as it could be a cue of what the album might be like, and that Survival was just a hiccup. Unfortunately, judging from the kind of things they were doing on The Resistance already, and that Survival is a four-minute bundle of everything I hated about The Resistance, that won't be the case.
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pima_bells :
He didn’t want to be involved anymore cause he fell out with the organizers so that left us with a half-baked idea.
If anything sums up the song, it's that.
Shutttt up! So many exhausting comments on this stupid fucking site
I love a reasoned argument.
There are two parts to a song (in simple terms): music and lyrics.
The music is good, I have no problem with that.
The lyrics are terrible (probably because they were forced to fit the music).
One out of two is half. Half baked.
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liamhead89 :
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pima_bells :
He didn’t want to be involved anymore cause he fell out with the organizers so that left us with a half-baked idea.
If anything sums up the song, it's that.
Shutttt up! So many exhausting comments on this stupid fucking site
I love a reasoned argument.
There are two parts to a song (in simple terms): music and lyrics.
The music is good, I have no problem with that.
The lyrics are terrible (probably because they were forced to fit the music).
One out of two is half. Half baked.
However, the music should be counted as more than one part, as there are vocals, guitar, bass, drums, piano. However, that would also mean that, as there are 36 vocalists on the song, all singing lyrics, then the lyrics should be counted for each person that sings them, but only the part that the person sings.
Given that, it is more than half, because there are the musical aspects of the choir too, and if we were to say that all of the music was good and all of the lyrics were bad, there are more components to the music.
However, it gets far more complex when we take into account that the lyrics were not completely terrible, just very much so, and the fact that possibly some musical aspects were not good.
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What a horrid Franken-Queen song this is.
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