Muse: Starlight

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Aug 25, 2006
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So you’ve cornered the intergalactic stadium-prog market, proved you can bash out falsetto sex-funk hits at the drop of a hat and sold enough records to buy yourself a new jet-pack. Where can you possibly go from here? Well, if you’re Matt Bellamy, you decide to get really adventurous and go for the Keane fans. Oh sure, Muse might dress ‘Starlight’ up with all manner of crunching guitars and wibbly-wobbly synth arpeggios, but deep down this is a tune so chart-hungry it’s virtually dry-humping JK And Joel’s legs. Cascading major-chord piano, tender lyrics and a vocal line with a tendency to leap the diameter of Jupiter: it’s globe-straddling AOR for Muse this time, then, but at least its AOR dressed in a shiney space-suit and determined to visit the 17th dimension.

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Nov 14, 2007

This song is so radio/MTV-friendly it strikes me it hasn't been played more, though I take that would be the death of this fantastically composed song. The lyrics are a bit out there and confusing, some of it is about longing for a place you've been chasing your entire life, one part is about wanting someone real bad and the rest is just "Our hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations". If it weren't for Matt's heart-imploding singing and the catchy tune on the piano I'd dismiss this song in a heartbeat, but then again, it's Muse, I'd never dismiss anything by them. Ever.