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| | [[File:WontStandDown.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] |
| | Name = Hysteria
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| | Album = {{drop
| | | Name = Won't Stand Down |
| |[[Absolution (album)|Absolution]] <small>(8)</small>, [[Hysteria (single)|Hysteria]] <small>CD (1), vinyl (1), DVD (1, 2)</small>
| | | Tracks = 1 |
| |[[Absolution (album)|Absolution Sampler]] <small>(3)</small>, | | | Length = 3:29 |
| |[[Sing for Absolution (single)|Sing for Absolution]] <small>Dutch CD/DVD2 (3)</small> | | | AltTitles = WON'T STAND DOWN |
| |[[Live 8 Paris DVD (compilation)|Live 8 Paris DVD]] <small>(5)</small> | | | Recorded = 2020/2021 |
| |[[Absolution Tour (DVD)|Absolution Tour]] <small>(1)</small> | |
| |[[H.A.A.R.P. (live)|H.A.A.R.P.]] <small>CD, DVD (3)</small>
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| | Length = 3:47 | |
| | AltTitles = Hysteria (I Want It Now), I Want You Now, New One | |
| | First = [[Athens Rodon Club 2002 (gig)|5{{supo|th}} April 2002]]
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| | Latest = [[Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 2015 (gig)|16{{supo|th}} May 2015]]
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| | Recorded = [[Grouse Lodge Residential Recording Studios|Grouse Lodge]], 2002-2003 | |
| | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]] | | | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]] |
| | Producer = [[Rich Costey]] | | | Producer = Muse, [[Aleks Von Korff]] |
| | Chart position = 17 | | | Art = |
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| | | Publisher = [[Warner Music Group | Warner Music UK]] <ref>https://wontstanddown.muse.mu</ref> |
| | | | Format = Digital |
| <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/Hysteria.mp3|rightbg=0xDEF|leftbg=0xDEF|bg=0xFFF</flashmp3> | | | Release = 13<sup>th</sup> January 2022 |
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| | | Album = [[Will of the People (album) | Will of the People]] |
| | Previous = [[Interlude (song) | Interlude]] | | | Type = single |
| | Current = Hysteria | | | Previous = Pressure |
| | Next = [[Blackout (song) | Blackout]] | | | PreviousLink = Pressure (single) |
| | | Next = Compliance |
| | | NextLink = Compliance (single) |
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| | | Chart = 56 |
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| ==Description==
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| [[Matthew Bellamy]]: ''Hysteria is a kinda fat bassline with a groovy straight beat on it. Its one of the tracks that has quite a heavy groove goin' on straight down the middle.''
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| According to Matt and Chris, they wanted to wanted to try out mix electronic stuff on bass: "We did not really change our way of composing, but rather to record the songs"<ref name="RockMagSeptember2003">
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| title="Apocalypse Now" September 2003 | desc=French interview about Absolution | date=2003-09 | auth=Rock Mag | pub=Rock Mag| doc="Apocalypse Now"| type=int
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| ==Information and meaning of Hysteria== | |
| The song is about wanting something or someone that's out of reach so badly that this frustrates you till no end. It becomes an addiction.
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| Matt said: The song "hysteria" it's just about desire something you can't have and ahm, depicts some kind of narrative that's about... something like that, you know, personal, you know, the obssession of have something they can't have, whoever may be [...] so frustrates [...] stalking across a shield or something like that or [...] ahm kind of being in love with something can't actually get yourself, you know...<ref>{{cite/Kerrang 2005}}</ref>
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| The bass part started out as the lead part in a sound check on the Origin of Symmetry tour,<ref name="riu20071203">{{cite/ripitup20071203}}</ref>either in 2001 or very early 2002. At first, the band played around the part as a lead guitar part,<ref name="riu20071203"/> sometime later the band thought that it would sound good on the bass guitar and subsequently moved it to the bass, leaving the lead guitar for a more melodic part.<ref name="riu20071203"/> When the band felt that the song was ready to perform,<ref name="riu20071203"/> they did so at the Rockefeller Music hall in April 2002. At that stage, what is now the mid section was at the end and the parts either side of said section were not separate. On the 2002 tour, Bellamy played the bass part on his guitar at the start of the song, instead of slowly moving down the fretboard as on the album recording. He occasionally still does this.
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| According to what Matt said in a tweet, [[Futurism (song)|Futurism]] led to the idea for Hysteria bassline.<ref name="tweet2011/03/31">
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| title=Twitter / Matt Bellamy: @purpleasuretard interesti ... | date=2011-03-31 | fetch=2011-04-02 | desc=tweet concerning Futurism | auth=Matthew Bellamy | pub=Twitter | url=https://twitter.com/Bellamy_Matt/status/53535370654126080 | dom=twitter.com | type=ext
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| In 2003, Hysteria was used as the intro music for the NHL hockey team Washington Capitals.
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| ====Live====
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| Hysteria was first played live in April 2002. From then on, it was usually played intermittently with Apocalypse Please and The Small Print, the latter two being played during other concerts. On the Absolution tour, Hysteria was usually played toward the beginning of the setlist and either Hysteria or Apocalypse Please was usually the first song. Later, Hysteria was played during most Black Holes and Revelations concerts. During The Resistance Tour, it is often preceded by [[Interlude (song)|Interlude]], as on the album. During the 2002 [[Origin of Symmetry]] tour, the lyric "Last chance to lose control" was instead "Give me complete control". Matt also copied the bass riff instead of sliding the plectrum through the strings at the beginning of the song.
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| ====Trivia====
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| At 1:34, a scratching can be heard. When the guitar track is isolated, it is clear that the sound was produced by Matt playing the bassline on guitar, but instead of playing the strings, simply scratching along the strings with a plectrum.
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| The artwork for the 7" cover was chosen by competition, and the winner was Adam Falkus. The runner-up images are included in the DVD version of the single.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria_(Muse_song) Wikipedia article]</ref>
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| ===Hysteria===
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| Hysteria was originally a now-defunct psychoanalytical diagnosis particularly afflicted to females, akin to sexual frustration. The treatment consisted of a massage of the genitals leading to "hysterical paroxysm", or what is now known as the female orgasm. It later came to mean overwhelming fear, panic or emotional excess, or alternatively, a mental disorder that is without an organic cause.<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hysteria thefreedictionary.com definition of hysteria]</ref>
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| Hysteria is sometimes referred to as "the slyest reference to a female orgasm in a rock song"<ref>[http://www.musebootlegs.com/blog/?p=337 Muse Bootlegs; cover of Mark Beaumont's book which contains the quote]</ref>
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| Hysteria is still used, along with many remnants of the Freudian psychoanalytical line of thought, in day to day language and descriptions.
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| Hysteria is part of the European/PAL Territory release of the videogame Rock Band but will also be released as a download on the American version.
| | Announced on January 7th, 2022, on Muse's social media<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbuFCOKPfv/</ref>, after being streamed by Bellamy on Muse's Instagram on December 25th, 2021. The single was released on January 13th, at 3PM, GMT, on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer, iTunes), together with it's [[Won't Stand Down (video)|music video]].<ref>https://www.muse.mu/news/wont-stand-down-322501</ref> This is the first single from the [[Ninth album|upcoming album]]. |
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| ==Lyrics==
| | The song reached number 1 at the Official Charts Company's rock and metal charts, 13 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay charts, and it reached the peak position of number 56 on the Official Charts Company's general singles charts.<ref>https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/won't-stand-down/</ref> |
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| |It's bugging me, grating me
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| And twisting me around
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| Yeah I'm endlessly caving in
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| And turning inside out
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| 'cause I want it now
| | == Cover Art == |
| I want it now
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| Give me your heart and your soul
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| And I'm breaking out
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| I'm breaking out
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| Last chance to lose control
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| It's holding me, morphing me
| | The creator of the cover art is still unknown, but the aesthetic is very reminiscent of English alternative metal band Sleep Token. The art contains, what appears to be, a mysterious monogram, speculated to be linked to the album name. The monogram logo also makes subtle appearances throughout the [[Won't Stand Down (video)|music video]], being on costumes and appearing as a car emblem. |
| And forcing me to strive
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| To be endlessly cold within
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| And dreaming I'm alive
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| 'cause I want it now
| | Similar to the blacked-out eyes during the Drones promotional being turned into a filter for Snapchat, the mask of the cult leader, which appears on the cover has been made into an Instagram filter, released on January 9th.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/rzos32/30_second_audio_of_wont_stand_down_if_you_try_out/</ref> |
| I want it now
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| Give me your heart and your soul
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| I'm not breaking down
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| I'm breaking out
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| Last chance to lose control
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| And I want you now
| | == Track List == |
| I want you now
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| I'll feel my heart implode
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| I'm breaking out
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| Escaping now
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| Feeling my faith erode
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Information
Announced on January 7th, 2022, on Muse's social media[2], after being streamed by Bellamy on Muse's Instagram on December 25th, 2021. The single was released on January 13th, at 3PM, GMT, on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer, iTunes), together with it's music video.[3] This is the first single from the upcoming album.
The song reached number 1 at the Official Charts Company's rock and metal charts, 13 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay charts, and it reached the peak position of number 56 on the Official Charts Company's general singles charts.[4]
Cover Art
The creator of the cover art is still unknown, but the aesthetic is very reminiscent of English alternative metal band Sleep Token. The art contains, what appears to be, a mysterious monogram, speculated to be linked to the album name. The monogram logo also makes subtle appearances throughout the music video, being on costumes and appearing as a car emblem.
Similar to the blacked-out eyes during the Drones promotional being turned into a filter for Snapchat, the mask of the cult leader, which appears on the cover has been made into an Instagram filter, released on January 9th.[5]
Track List
Download
References
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