First time I listened to it I watched the lyrics video, and just thought "well, if that lyrically repetitive chorus with the few space synths they added in is everything they accomplished, I get why people are trashing the album".
After a few listens though I feel like I'm absolutely obsessed with it, especially with the acoustic version.
Don't think I would be if the track was sung by anyone else than Matt – the chant just adds so much to it, it's incredible. I feel if Muse was spearheaded by Chester Bennington or Chris Martin even, they would just be called an average band.
They're wrong, they're wrong... They're wrong...
LOVE the Void acoustic, same with the acoustic for Dig Down—I think it's better than the regular version.
I feel "Break it to me" was even fixed by the acoustic version. It sounded surprisingly good without these odd synths that felt like a robot on low battery power lol.
Dig Down obviously sounds good since it is effectively a gospel, just made to sound futuristic.
Matt clearly wants to produce orchestral music, it's pretty much obvious ever since Absolution or The Resistance with the Exo-Genesis Symphony. Wouldn't rule it out that we'll be getting acoustic versions to entire albums at some point...
I love Break It To Me just the way it is!
Break It to Me Acoustic Version? Where was that released?
Or are you talking about the remix. I’d say that goes even further from acoustic than the original
Dig Down regular is one of the worst songs they've ever put out.
Dig Down acoustic is one of the best things they've ever done.
I'd pretty much agree. I tried to slog through the original several times and then just gave up, then I found the acoustic version later and it was like dumb and dumber, you totally redeemed yourself 😂
The void is fantastic, never understood the hate for that track. It has depth, layers, quite good lyrics and meaning. The ending is dope.
It, like many other tracks from the last 10/15 years, promises the sort of prog a lot of older fans wants, but then typically ends abruptly after 4 minutes.
I'll concede here though that the expectations are off. They did some prog occasionally in the first 8/10 years, but they are not a prog band, and the constant demand from a minority, which muse themselves seem open too, want them to be some spacey prog band.
I don't get it. They were never a prog band. Almost all the tracks on OOS, Absolution & BHAR follow the same structure.
No they weren't, but they had strong prog influences and even som prog tracks, space dementia and citizen erased are the obvious examples from OoS. other stuff that is clearly influenced by prog even though not really prog, tracks like B&H, RBS, knights or Cydonia, take a bow, etc etc.
Muse is not a prog band as much as they are poprock, metal etc. They have heavy influences from certain music genres and prog is just one of them.
They do play a lot with timings and tempo,.especially their early tracks. In WSD they go from 4/4 to 5/4 once in a while etc. So they still play around with it.
Won’t Stand Down is entirely in 4/4.
After the first chorus the riff is 17 beats long. 4/4 times 3 and a 5/4. Tap along (or better, Metronome along) and you find that the snare drum is one beat later after in the 2nd verse if you only count in 4/4.
So either there is a 5/4 or they play around with syncopation, which both circles back to my original statement. Just like many other genres, Muse isnt really prog but they play around with it a bit at times.
There’s one of those popular vocal coach reaction channels that also mistakenly hears a bar of 5/4 so maybe it’s a common auditory illusion, but it really is entirely 4/4 and I wouldn’t say all that complex. The bass wubs in the verses are on 4 and 1, which is exactly when they occur after the post-chorus riff (ie, beats 16 - completing four bars of 4/4 - and 17, beat 1 of the incoming verse).
Do people hate this track ?
I get why one would find the lyrics to be a turn off especially the "babe" which is disconnected from the mood of the song, but it's not THAT bad either. Like that's an average late stage Muse song.
And it's great when you're tripping on XTC tbh.
Severely underrated
I absolutely love The Void. It did take me a few listens, but when it clicked, it clicked hard. It’s so dark and moody, and it makes me feel like floating away in Outer Space (in a good way). I love both versions, the dark synths in the original are amazing, but Matt’s delivery of ‘a Staaaaaaaaaaaar’ in the acoustic version is something else. It makes my hairs actually stand up everytime he hits the final part of that note. So good. The song really works just as well on piano.
The Void is a top 20 muse track for me for sure. Def top 3 from the album. The end sends shivers down my spine. Solid lyrics too
I love The Void. It’s quintessential Muse to end an album with a sombre and dramatic track, and this one gave me the chills I remembered having when I first heard Ruled by Secrecy at the end of Absolution.
The Void is so good! The acoustic version is pure heaven. Matt's deep notes are just chef's kiss
Footage from one of the two times they played it live is great as well, with the delayed guitar break that is simple yet effective
They only played it live two times??
Yeah I think that it was in rotation with Algorithm during the ST tour. Don't know if they ever played it after
The void acoustic is one of muse’s best songs.
Stripping down the track in the final verse is what gets me every listen. Sends chill down my spine.
The song is too short, but other than that it's a highlight of the album. It has that classic dark vibe that everyone loved about Muse.
also you can like that song even more if you decide to create your own headcannon in which the void is a hidden 4th part to exogenesis
Yep, I saw that comparison when it first came out and it feels right to me.
the ending always makes me feel melancholic. Like, it never got resolved whatever it was lol
It does?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/1pmmbnz/comment/nupw9hj/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Or at least that's my take, inspired from someone else here on Reddit.
Alternative way of interpreting the lyrics is that the song is about people that have been alienated from society, perhaps on purpose due to racial or ethical prejudice, and that these are told to realize these group dynamics are "wrong".
Think of the way women are oppressed in Iran or in less recent news the Uyghurs in China.
not lyrically. Musically. Musically it feels unresolved. I think whatever they are doing with the synth adds to that.
I love it, but I prefer the alternate version with the piano.
It took me a while to connect with that song until I had it on repeat all day haha.
It really is a great song; they definitely should have played it more during the ST tour. The live percussion on ST Film from Dom made it sound even better.
Yes it is.
And I fucking love it.
I love the void!
Is actually the only track from ST that i genuinely like
I love this song. It always reminds me of the final episode of the Netflix series another life.
I love the wub wubs at the end so much
the void acoustic <3