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| | [[File:WontStandDown.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] |
| | Name = Micro Cuts
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| | | Name = Won't Stand Down |
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| |[[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]] <small>(7)</small>
| | | Length = 3:29 |
| |[[Hullabaloo Soundtrack (live)|Hullabaloo Soundtrack]] <small>(12)</small> | | | AltTitles = WON'T STAND DOWN |
| |[[Hullabaloo (live)|Hullabaloo]] <small>(3)</small> | | | Recorded = 2020/2021 |
| |[[H.A.A.R.P. (live)|H.A.A.R.P.]] <small>CD (12)</small> | |
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| | Length = 3:38 | |
| | AltTitles = Bass Trem | |
| | First = [[Adelaide Governor Hindmarsh 2000 (gig)|19{{supo|th}} October 2000]] | |
| | Latest = [[Montreux Auditorium Stravinski 2016 (gig)|2{{supo|nd}} July 2016]] <small>(full)</small> [[Brighton_Dome_2015_(gig)|23{{supo|rd}} March 2015]] <small>(outro riff)</small>
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| | Recorded = [[Real World Studios|Real World Studio Wiltshire]], 2001
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| | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]] | | | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]] |
| | Producer = [[John Leckie]] | | | Producer = Muse, [[Aleks Von Korff]] |
| | Chart position = - | | | Art = |
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| | | Publisher = [[Warner Music Group | Warner Music UK]] <ref>https://wontstanddown.muse.mu</ref> |
| <flashmp3>http://www.musewiki.org/images/MicroCuts.mp3|rightbg=0xDDEEFF|leftbg=0xDDEEFF|bg=0xFFFFFF</flashmp3> | | | Format = Digital |
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| | | Release = 13<sup>th</sup> January 2022 |
| | Previous = [[Citizen Erased (song) | Citizen Erased]] | | | Album = [[Will of the People (album) | Will of the People]] |
| | Current = Micro Cuts | | | Type = single |
| | Next = [[Screenager (song) | Screenager]] | | | Previous = Pressure |
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| | | PreviousLink = Pressure (single) |
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| | | Next = Compliance |
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| | | NextLink = Compliance (single) |
| | Previous = [[Showbiz (album) | Showbiz ''(1999)'']] | | | CatNumber = |
| | Current = [[Origin of Symmetry (album) | Origin of Symmetry ''(2001)'']] | | | Chart = 56 |
| | Next = [[Hullabaloo (album) | Hullabaloo ''(2002)'']] | |
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| ==Description==
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| A blend of baroque melody, high pitched vocals and metal. [[Matthew Bellamy]] uses falsetto vocals peaking at G5 during the chorus and Ab5 in descending vocals towards the end.
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| Matt said that the song was inspired by a dream he had in which he was in a desert and there were giant blades swinging from the sky, matt said: "I was having these strange hallucinations of this triangular blade, really silver metallic, razor sharp. I was in this landscape, arid, grey, dead with an endless horizon and I was trying to dodge these blades that were flying about everywhere. They'd go into my head and I could feel them cutting into my brain... Then I went to the doctor and he told me to drink more water and that was that." <ref>NME - Vengeance is ours! [November 2001] </ref>
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| "Micro Cuts" has been speculated to have been inspired by Prelude N°3 in D minor (BWV999) by Johann-Sebastian Bach.
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| ==Matthew Bellamy definition of Micro Cuts==
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| "This stems from hallucinations I had of triangular blades cutting into the back of my head. It's a feeling that information is being infiltrated into your brain. I'd seen a TV programme about psychological warfare and how the government could be controlling us using a type of radiation, sending pulses to our brains. So micro cuts are cuts into your being that you can't see or avoid"<ref>Rock Sound - 2001</ref>
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| ==Composition==
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| Micro Cuts is a metal song, with elements of baroque music. It's written in D minor, and moves at a very fast tempo of 160 bpm. The time signature frequently shifts between 4/4 and 6/4.
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| Bellamy's vocal range spans from D4 to A♭5, and shares his highest recorded note with [[Showbiz (song)|Showbiz]] and [[Survival (song)|Survival]]. Similar to [[Supermassive Black Hole (song)|Supermassive Black Hole]], Bellamy never uses the modal register, even on lower notes where falsetto is difficult to maintain. His tone is very different in both songs, defying the common belief that the falsetto register is limited in tonal variation.
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| ==Live==
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| Live favourite on the 2001 and 2002 tours. It was performed at just two known gigs in 2000, where it was only known as "New 2" or "the heavy song" by fans. The first time Micro Cuts was played live in 2001, it featured different lyrics in place of "Micro waves me insane, A blade cuts in your brain" and the chorus. Early live versions featured an extended outro that featured parts of the song "[[Execution Commentary (song)|Execution Commentary]]", as well as extra lyrics.
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| The descending vocals towards the end of the song have been played intermittently through time. During early 2001 it wasn't sung at all, and post 2002 it wasn't usually sung, although one example of the descending vocals post-2002 was at [[Nashville Mercy Lounge 2004 (gig)|The Mercy Lounge in 2004]]. In the latter half of the 2005 tour, the post-final-chorus section was used as an outro to "[[Stockholm Syndrome (song)|Stockholm Syndrome]]" on at least two occasions.
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| "Micro Cuts" made a return to set lists during the 2007 European tour. The first performance of 2007 featured a largely clean guitar (without effects), while further performances feature a "new effect", which mimics the layering on the album recording. The descending vocals have not returned, while vocals have been clean so far. After the final chorus and before the final decent, Bellamy has used the Kaoss pad to create a sound similar to the [[Kaoss Pad|Kaoss pad]] solo and outro used with live "[[Supermassive Black Hole (song)|Supermassive Black Hole]]" performances.
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| Played occasionally during the ''[[Absolution]]'' and the ''[[Black Holes and Revelations]]'' tours. A live version of "Micro Cuts" appears on the live albums ''[[Hullabaloo Soundtrack (live)|Hullabaloo Soundtrack]]'' and ''[[H.A.A.R.P. (live)|H.A.A.R.P.]]''.
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| During ''[[The Resistance]]'' tour, the outro is played in place of the outro to "[[Dead Star (song)|Dead Star]]" and on ''[[The 2nd Law (album)|The 2nd Law]]'' tour, the song was played after the roulette wheel landed on green on the April 24th gig at Montreal. It was the first time that the song had been played since the [[Reading Little John's Farm 2011 (gig)|Reading]] & [[Leeds Bramham Park 2011 (gig)|Leeds]] festivals in 2011. The song was finally played during [[Tokyo Zepp 2013 (gig)|Tokyo Zepp gig]], before it mades its return in 2015 for the [[Leicestershire Donington Park 2015 (gig)|Download Festival]].
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| ==Lyrics==
| | The first single off of [[Will of the People (album) | Will of the People]], 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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| |Hands are red with your blame | |
| Megaphone screaming my name
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| Whimpers someone I should've loved
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| Souls weeping above
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| I've seen
| | 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> |
| What you’re doing to me
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| Destroying puppet strings
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| To our souls
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| Micro waves me insane
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| A blade cuts in your brain
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| Sounds like forks on a plate
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| Blackboard scratched with hate
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| | The creator of the cover art is still unknown, but the aesthetic is very reminiscent of English alternative metal band Sleep Token. The album monogram, "WOTP", made it's first appearance on this artwork. The monogram logo also makes subtle appearances throughout the [[Won't Stand Down (video)|music video]] itself, being on costumes and appearing as a car emblem, and also makes appearances throughout the entire album release process, including the [[Compliance (single)|Compliance]] promotional photos and the presumed album artwork. |
| What you’re doing to me
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| Destroying puppet strings
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| To our souls
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| ===Early live version===
| | 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> |
| Early versions included an extra vocal piece towards the end - though the wording is not known - and included sections of the riff from [[Execution Commentary (song)|Execution Commentary]].
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| *[[Origin of Symmetry media use|Commercial use in media]]
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Information
The first single off of Will of the People, 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 album monogram, "WOTP", made it's first appearance on this artwork. The monogram logo also makes subtle appearances throughout the music video itself, being on costumes and appearing as a car emblem, and also makes appearances throughout the entire album release process, including the Compliance promotional photos and the presumed album artwork.
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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