As you've surely heard by now, Muse's infamously dubstep-infused new song "The 2nd Law – Unsustainable" made its way online late last night via an extended music video version of the 2nd Law album teaser that first began infuriating cerebral cortexes earlier this summer. As promised, the song features a wub-wubby breakdown section a la noted influence Skrillex, performed on very non-dubstep-friendly analogue gear… namely, guitars and effects pedals. It's all very technical, but try to follow along.
If you've seen the teaser trailer, you've more or less heard the whole song, but help me explore my hypothesis by checking "Unsustainable" out below.
Okay, so here's what I'm thinking… Muse has embedded some sort of sub-frequency sound element into "The 2nd Law – Unsustainable" that, quite literally, drivers listeners insane. Mental. Mushy-brained... cuckoo for Coca Puffs. What else might explain the intense, incensed response to a four-minute piece of music that, objectively speaking, sounds like a sloppy cut and paste job of unused John Williams film music and Tom Morello sound checks? I've heard admitted non-Muse fans rail at end about how awful this is. Does that make any sense? Why, if you don't even like a band, would you waste time and energy talking shit about them? Is that a real thing that happens? It's unprecedented! Take a look through the YouTube video's comments section, for instance. "I am pretending this album does not exist… just like I did to Coldplay's newest album," writes one viewer. "In my opinion, dubstep doesn't really count as music," opines another. Have you ever seen such mindless drivel… in a YouTube comments section… those intellectual havens where the enlightened spiritual heirs of Aristotle, Plato and Socrates exile themselves to ponder the greater truths of life and meaning… of all places?
The only reasonable explanation is that Muse has cleverly implanted a hidden sonic trigger inside the song. Clearly. It's why we all lost our shit when the album teaser video dropped and why we're all still talking about it now. Four minutes of music. Robots. Entropy. Tom Morello. Why on earth would we all possibly care this much?? Shame on you, Muse. Shame!
Anyone else experiencing other debilitating side effects of Muse's new song? Please report immediately to your family doctor… after telling us all about it in the comments section below.
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