Starting my Muse journey as a Gen Z fan
I’m a fan who is unfortunately too young to have witnessed the band’s rise firsthand, but I want to share with you how I experienced the Muse-universe so far.
I know about Muse since a few years now, it started of course with Twilight and SBMH. But the first time it really clicked was in January this year, when Apple Music suddenly played Compliance while I was at work (yes sue me that I fell for this one).
I started to listen to their entire discography and was blown away by Plug in Baby, Supremacy and Hysteria. From that on, I’ve entered the rabbit hole. It’s almost cringe to admit but I’ve primarily downloaded Reddit just because I wanted to be part of this community. I’ve binge watched YouTube videos of their live shows and interviews, spend hours scrolling through Musewiki, even frickin started to play electric guitar so that I can learn all the songs.
During my time in this subreddit, I also encountered all the negativity surrounding their recent albums. Personally I can understand some parts of the rant, but I think it’s just natural that people change over the years and so does their work. I’m really glad that they still produce music and that I’ll likely be able to even see them performing live, I can’t wait for them to announce the UK/EU tour.
Sadly almost none of my friends really know them, and I kinda blame my parents for their missed opportunity of following the band right from the beginning :’)
I really look forward to the new album, maybe I was a little bit influenced by all the hype around here as well (I love all of the new singles anyway), so I assume that TW!S will be absolutely epic. Muse is the first band of which I truly consider myself a genuine fan, so this whole album-release-thing is quite new for me.
Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.