Muse - Madness Track Review and a Change in Opinion?

I might do a few of these, i listen to a lot of music and always have a view on it so why not blog more about something someone might actually care to read about! (or as a businessman might say 'add value to the customer').

Ok so here's the first one....

Track:

Madness

Artist:

Muse

Album:

The 2nd Law
Track Released: 20/08/12

I first heard this track on the way to work one day on XFM and i have to say, i immediately thought 'not another modern day Muse track!', i thought it was slow boring and i let my preconception of how Muse have evolved over time get the better of me.

I used to be quite a big Muse fan 'in the day' and i really appreciated what  Matt Bellamy did with the bands' music, however it all went wrong (in my opinion) when they released Black Holes and Revelations in 2006 i thought it was 'un-muse-ish' and a step away from what i liked about them. I'm sure the album was great, i just didn't like it and so from then on i've always not been too bothered with whats been released since.

As it was a band i always used to like, i knew what they were capable of and i knew how much more popular they had become since they became less popular with me so i felt compelled to give this a chance (the old cliche; 'for good times sake' springs to mind haha!), plus i didn't have much choice with such a poor choice of radio stations available on my car radio, XFM seemed to play the occasional track that i didn't mind, so maybe this could be one.

Eventually they played it over and over again and the more i heard it, the more i liked it. It has this epic ominous build up for the majority of the song and i thought it was very 'Queen-like' in style, reminiscent of 'We Will Rock You'/'Under Pressure'/'Bohemian Rhapsody' esq i thought. Not in tune but in structure. Another section which i really liked is the eventual emotion release by Matt, excuted perfectly with a great melody behind as he sings 'I need to love' practically at the top of his singing voice.

This made me want to discover more and interpret the lyrical theme of the song. My own initial interpretation was that it was about drug addiction (yeah cliche'd I know) where the character was singing about his love for the drug thats pushing him to emotional extremes before realising that its not the drug he needs to fill the gap in his life, he needs to love (or 'loooooooooooove' as Matt puts it). Then i thought maybe it was about two friends, but after reading about it, i t is actually (apparently) about Matt's relationship with Kate Hudson.

Either way, a roll-reversal in opinion on this one but now it's a track i like a lot and am currently regularly listening to. Good video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek0SgwWmF9w