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[[File:MUSE 2022 2000-696x442.jpg|thumb|right|Won't Stand Down/album promo band pic]]
{{Songbox
{{Discobox
| Name = Screenager
| Name = ''LP9''
| Album = {{drop
| Tracks = TBA
|[[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]] <small>(8)</small>
| Length = TBA
|[[Bliss (single)|Bliss]] <small>CD1 (3), FR CD1 (2)</small>
| Recorded = 2020–2021
|[[Hullabaloo (live)|Hullabaloo]] <small>(9)</small>
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]], [[Dominic Howard]], [[Christopher Wolstenholme]]
|[[Hullabaloo Soundtrack (live)|Hullabaloo Soundtrack]] <small>CD2, Cassette 2 (7), JP CD2, JP Cassette 2 (8)</small>
| Producer = Muse, [[Aleks Von Korff]]
|[[Origin_of_Muse_(box_set)#CD_7_.28Origin_of_Symmetry_Remastered.2 |Origin of Muse]] <small>CD6 (7), CD7, Vinyl (Remaster), CD9 (8)</small>
| Art = TBA
|[[Origin_of_Symmetry_(album)#Origin_of_Symmetry%3A_XX_Anniversary_RemiXX|Origin of Symmetry (XX Anniversary RemiXX)]] <small>(8)</small>
| Publisher = TBA
|Format = TBA
|CatNumber = TBA
| Release = 2022 / TBA
| Chart = N/A
| Previous = Simulation Theory
| PreviousLink = Simulation Theory (album)
| Next =
| NextLink =
| single1 = Won't Stand Down | image1 = WontStandDown.jpg
| Type = album
}}
}}
| Length = 4:19, 4:21 <small>(XX Anniversary RemiXX)</small>
| AltTitles = {{drop
|Razor Blades <ref>[http://www.microcuts.net/gallery/photo-muse-misc-2-setlists%2C-autographs...-19-elysee-montmartre-paris---1999-1163.html  Setlist - Elysée Montmartre Paris 2000]</ref>
|Razor Blades and Glossy Magazines <ref>[http://www.microcuts.net/gallery/photo-muse-misc-2-setlists%2C-autographs...-19-setlist-214.html  Setlist - ''Razor Blades + Glossy Magazines'']</ref>
|Glossy Magazines
|Razor Optics
|Host No Thrills <ref>[http://www.microcuts.net/gallery/photo-muse-misc-2-setlists%2C-autographs...-19-setlist-218.html Setlist - London Astoria 2000]</ref>
}}
| First = [[Amsterdam Paradiso 2000 (gig)|6th January 2000]]
| Latest = [[Reading Little John's Farm 2011 (gig)|28th August 2011]]
| Recorded = [[Real World Studios|Real World Studio Wiltshire]], 2001
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
| Producer = [[John Leckie]]
| Chart position = -
}}
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| Previous = [[Micro Cuts (song) | Micro Cuts]]
| Current = Screenager
| Next = [[Darkshines (song) | Darkshines]]
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| Previous = [[Showbiz (album) | Showbiz ''(1999)'']]
| Current = [[Origin of Symmetry (album) | Origin of Symmetry ''(2001)'']]
| Next = [[Hullabaloo (album) | Hullabaloo ''(2002)'']]
}}
'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Xrv5NTk7Q Listen]'''
==Description==
Played a lot in 2000 and in 2001 (sometimes on the piano), a rare quiet moment from [[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]].
Features Spanish-esque guitar and soft vocals by [[Matt]].
==Matthew Bellamy definition of Screenager==
"Screenager is a modern teenager being brought up by the screen who develops a distorted image of their body because of pictures in magazines and because technology is rejecting the physical bodies we live in. It's also a bit about people who cut themselves because I used to have friends who did it and I didn't know why. I tried to grasp that it's needing something quite brutal to remind you what your body's about"<ref>Rock Sound - 2001</ref>


== Information ==
==Composition==
Screenager is a fairly soft song, which moves at a slow tempo of 81 bpm. The song is written mostly in G minor, and shifts to G major for the chorus. The same minor-to-major shift can be seen in [[Bliss (song)|Bliss]].


Matt first hinted at working on new Muse material in an interview with ALT 98.7 FM backstage at the ALTerEGO Festival in January of 2020 where he said that the goal for 2020 was to work on new Muse material, allthough the plans were probably halted due to the coronavirus pandemic as the three were unable to get together due to the lockdowns. Bellamy instead focused on releasing his solo material. Matt also hinted on working on Muse material in a May interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Radio, saying that he has a few pieces written that are suited for Muse.<ref>https://youtu.be/wGHqxU-63HM?t=292</ref> In an interview with Rolling Stone, also in May, he said that that the idea would be to record the album in 2021 and potentially go on a tour in 2022. <ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/muse-matt-bellamy-interview-coronavirus-quarantine-999208/</ref>
Bellamy's vocal range spans from G3 to D5.


Bellamy confirmed he started writing the new Muse album in an interview with [[The Jaded Hearts Club|The Jaded Hearts Club Band]] for The Sun.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12884819/matt-bellamy-thought-jaded-hearts-club-were-the-beatles/</ref> He also hinted at the band working on the next album in a brief Instagram comment in March 2021.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/lxdvdb/new_album_on_the_way_confirmed/</ref>
==Additional information==
It is about technology and how it separates people even further rather than bringing them closer together. Also, it is the track with the infamous bubble wrap, shopping bag and skeleton bone percussion sounds, inspired by [[Tom Waits]]. Also about self-harm.


In the interview, Bellamy said the following: ''"I started writing when all the protests and all the chaos were kicking off. It’s a weird thing to say but it suits the music I write. It keeps you a little bit on edge."''.
It was played regularly for the last time in [[Avenches Arena 2002 (gig)|Avenches on 15th August 2002]] before the 10th anniversary plays of Origin of Symmetry at [[Leeds Bramham Park 2011 (gig)|Leeds]] and [[Reading Little John's Farm 2011 (gig)|Reading]] in 2011.


Bellamy jokingly said, in an Instagram comment reply on [https://www.instagram.com/p/COBjSGLhFzP/ Dom Howard's Instagram post], that the album would include "emotional gasps and many usages of the word ‘soul’.".
==Live==


== Recording ==
Screenager made its live debut on the first non-promotional gig in 2000. Screenager continued to be performed and improved upon gradually until the beginning of June 2000 when Screenager was put on hold until October 2000. During this time the band worked on the song and had finished the instrumentation of Screenager, cutting out a verse to shorten the song. Upon Screenager's return in October 2000, the song was mostly complete with the exception of a few lyrics which would be altered for the final version.


In an interview with NME, Bellamy said that he'd like the idea of the band "totally resetting" and going back to their hometown of Teignmouth, Devon to rehearse and record the next album. It appears however, that this was not the case, as the first studio pictures that started to emerge were from Bellamy's studio, located somewhere in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and later sessions took place at [[Abbey Road Studios]]. The first proof of Muse being in the studio was an Instagram post of [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT4hOxjpeI/ Matt playing a piano], posted in March of 2021, however work likely began even earlier.
[[Screenager (live) | More here]]


[[Aleks Von Korff]], who previously worked with Muse as an engineer on [[Simulation Theory (album)|Simulation Theory]], and produced Bellamy's solo material - songs like [[Tomorrow's World (Matthew Bellamy song)|Tomorrow's World]], also posted a picture from this L.A. studio, with the wooden Kawai piano. It is presumed he's also producing the album or at least some parts of it. According to him, the studio, named by Von Korff as "The Black Lodge", had been fully built in early 2020.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/</ref> The studio has previously been seen during the recording sessions for the debut album of Matt's cover band/supergroup [[The Jaded Hearts Club]], aswell as during the recording of [[Simulation Theory (album)|Simulation Theory]].
==Trivia==
[[Matthew Bellamy|Bellamy]]'s voice cuts out for a split second at 3:33.


Between April and June 2021, they took a break from recording, to work on a remix of [[Origin_of_Symmetry_(album)#Origin_of_Symmetry:_XX_Anniversary_RemiXX|Origin of Symmetry]]. In early June, Chris came to L.A. to join Dom and Matt continuing work on the album.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CP6Xo7IjPs1/</ref>
During the 2001 tour, as seen on the [[Hullabaloo (DVD)|Hullabaloo DVD]], the song was preceded by [[Music by Sergei Rachmaninov|Rachmaninov's prelude in C♯ minor]], which was transposed down to C minor to match Screenager.


In November of 2021, [[Adrian Bushby]] posted a picture of him and Howard at [[Abbey Road Studios]], tracking drums, hinting at the album being partially tracked in there.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CWBaoDFtHHk/?utm_medium=copy_link</ref> Prior to that, on July 24th, 2021, Muse also posted a picture of Bellamy holding one of his Manson guitars, posing infront of Abbey Road Studios with the caption saying "Good to be back".<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtsMriBtpm/</ref> Bellamy also posted a picture of Bing infront of Abbey Road Studios around that time.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CTFAGKPjCx5/</ref> This makes the upcoming album the first of their LPs to (also) be recorded at Abbey Road in 20 years, when [[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]] was recorded at the studios.
==Lyrics==
{{lyrics
|Who's so phony and always surrounded?
Stop your screaming - no one can hear
All the scars on your skin: 'Post no bills'


On December 1st, 2021, Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer at Sterling Sound Studios posted a picture of Bellamy and Howard sitting on a couch. This implies that the band finished recording the album and it is already being mastered. <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9SHCXPtJy/</ref>
Who you were
Was so beautiful
Remember who
Who you were


The album has been, compared to previous releases, recorded in almost complete secrecy, with very few images from the recording sessions themselves, and no real info as to what we might expect from it, up until Matt's snippet of [[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]] was streamed live on Instagram.
Hide from the mirror - the cracks and the memories
Hide from your family - they won't know you now
For all the holes in our souls host no thrills


== Release ==
Who you were
Was so beautiful
Memories who -
Who you were
}}


On December 25th, 2021, Bellamy made up for the lack of a muse.mu Christmas present with a short livestream from his Tesla, on Muse's Instagram profile, showcasing part of [[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]], as seen on the car dashboard, together with a track number "4", meaning it'll likely be the fourth track on the album. The 60 second stream was then screen-recorded by a few people, with copyright bots deleting the post, and revealing the song name in the process, meaning that the song was, at that time, nearing it's release. Matt's minute-long stream can be listened to [https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/romrcw/full_60_second_preview_of_new_song_wont_stand/ here]. The then approaching release of the song was teased once again on Muse's New Years Eve Instagram post, when they wrote a caption saying "Looking forward to WSD. We'll see you on the other side!" under a picture, before quickly replacing "WSD" with "2022".
===Extra verse===
In early live performances, Bellamy sang an extra verse, and sang the first two verses together before the chorus:


[[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]] was subsequently announced a week later, on January 7th, 2022, on Muse's social media<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbuFCOKPfv/</ref>, after the "https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/" site has been spotted being already online but private a day earlier. Together with it also came the single artwork (which was leaked through source code via the wontstanddown website a few hours before it's official unveiling), and a new promo image of the band. The song can be pre-saved and pre-added on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/ here]. The single artwork and the music video also include a mysterious monogram. It is speculated that it might be linked to the album name, however the real meaning has not been revealed yet.
{{lyrics
|Who's so phony and always surrounded?
Stop your screaming - no one can hear
All the scars on your skin: 'post no bills'


== Tracklist ==
Hide from the mirror - the cracks and the memories
Hide from your family - they won't know you now
For all the holes in our souls host no thrills


{{tracklist
Who you were
|04 = Won't Stand Down
Was so beautiful
Remember who
Who you were
 
I always hoped that things could be beautiful
And I thought underneath you'd be called other names
All the holes in our souls host no thrills
 
Who you were
Was so beautiful
Remember who
Who you were
}}
}}


== Ninth album recording gallery ==
== Quotes ==
<gallery>
* ''"it`s called `razor blades and glossy magazines`. a working title maybe"''<br>Matt talking about the song's title after its live debut, 01/14/2000.
File:2021_16_02_AVKRack.jpg | "One of these kinda days ☺️❤️🍝" (16th February 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLVKL00B2hg/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram]
File:2021_27_02_AVKMellotron.jpg | "Brought a few toys from home into work 🤗🎹" (27th February 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLx1Mf6hoSb/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram]
File:2021-12-03_KKawaiAVK.jpg | "ty @kawaipianos for this beauty 🤍 sounding innnnnncredible 👌🏻" (12th March 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVDlJJhgc0/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-12-03_MattExplorers.jpg.png | "Who can name that tune?" (''video'') (12th March 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT4hOxjpeI/ Matt's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps1.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps2.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps3.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-12-04_RoxaneBettyDom.jpg | "Being Dom Malkovitch 🎨 @roxannebettycreative" (12th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNlBWLHjCue/ Matt's Instagram])
File:2021-23-04_DomFloyd.jpg | "The producer still needs naps. He wanted to let you know the new album is sounding fat and to hope you are all keeping well and healthy 🙏🤟🏼🥁" (23rd April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/COBjSGLhFzP/ Dom's Instagram]
File:2021-23-04_AVKBar.jpg | "Old fashioned time at the studio bar after a nice long week of tracking 🥃😌" (23rd April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/COCFq66BHTW/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-13-06_StudioDogAVK.jpg | "Studio dog best dog 😍" (13th June 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CQC7TPghyBx/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-07-24_BellamyAbbeyRoad.jpg | "Good to be back" (24th July 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtsMriBtpm/ Muse's Instagram])
File:2021_08_11_BushbyInstagram.jpg | "Drum tracking with @muse at @abbeyroadstudios a couple months back. In my happy place with @domhoward77 and the gang 💕🎵" (8th November 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CWBaoDFtHHk/ Adrian Bushby's Instagram])
File:2021_24_11_DomDogAVK.jpg | "girl wouldn’t stop chewing on cables, so put her in my lap while working. not the most productive day but probs the cutest.🤍" (24th November 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CWo6DE3vq42/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021_01_12_ChrisGehringerMuse.jpg | "@muse" (1st December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9SHCXPtJy/ Chris Gehringer's Instagram])
File:2021_12_25_AVKStudio1.png | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (''video'') (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio2.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio3.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio4.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio5.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_01_10_AVKWSDBassScreen.png | "THURSDAY! 1.13 #wontstanddown @muse 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻" (''video'') (10th January, 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CYiXIHfrqOM/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_01_10_AVKWSDWahs.jpg | "THURSDAY! 1.13 #wontstanddown @muse 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻" (10th January, 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CYiXIHfrqOM/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
</gallery>


==References==
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Revision as of 14:18, 11 January 2022

Muse song
Name Screenager
Album/single
Length 4:19, 4:21 (XX Anniversary RemiXX)
Alternative titles
  • Razor Blades [1] »
  • Razor Blades and Glossy Magazines [2]
  • Glossy Magazines
  • Razor Optics
  • Host No Thrills [3]
First live performance 6th January 2000
Latest live performance 28th August 2011
Recorded Real World Studio Wiltshire, 2001
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer John Leckie


Listen

Description

Played a lot in 2000 and in 2001 (sometimes on the piano), a rare quiet moment from Origin of Symmetry.

Features Spanish-esque guitar and soft vocals by Matt.

Matthew Bellamy definition of Screenager

"Screenager is a modern teenager being brought up by the screen who develops a distorted image of their body because of pictures in magazines and because technology is rejecting the physical bodies we live in. It's also a bit about people who cut themselves because I used to have friends who did it and I didn't know why. I tried to grasp that it's needing something quite brutal to remind you what your body's about"[4]

Composition

Screenager is a fairly soft song, which moves at a slow tempo of 81 bpm. The song is written mostly in G minor, and shifts to G major for the chorus. The same minor-to-major shift can be seen in Bliss.

Bellamy's vocal range spans from G3 to D5.

Additional information

It is about technology and how it separates people even further rather than bringing them closer together. Also, it is the track with the infamous bubble wrap, shopping bag and skeleton bone percussion sounds, inspired by Tom Waits. Also about self-harm.

It was played regularly for the last time in Avenches on 15th August 2002 before the 10th anniversary plays of Origin of Symmetry at Leeds and Reading in 2011.

Live

Screenager made its live debut on the first non-promotional gig in 2000. Screenager continued to be performed and improved upon gradually until the beginning of June 2000 when Screenager was put on hold until October 2000. During this time the band worked on the song and had finished the instrumentation of Screenager, cutting out a verse to shorten the song. Upon Screenager's return in October 2000, the song was mostly complete with the exception of a few lyrics which would be altered for the final version.

More here

Trivia

Bellamy's voice cuts out for a split second at 3:33.

During the 2001 tour, as seen on the Hullabaloo DVD, the song was preceded by Rachmaninov's prelude in C♯ minor, which was transposed down to C minor to match Screenager.

Lyrics

Who's so phony and always surrounded?

Stop your screaming - no one can hear All the scars on your skin: 'Post no bills'

Who you were Was so beautiful Remember who Who you were

Hide from the mirror - the cracks and the memories Hide from your family - they won't know you now For all the holes in our souls host no thrills

Who you were Was so beautiful Memories who - Who you were

Extra verse

In early live performances, Bellamy sang an extra verse, and sang the first two verses together before the chorus:

Who's so phony and always surrounded?

Stop your screaming - no one can hear All the scars on your skin: 'post no bills'

Hide from the mirror - the cracks and the memories Hide from your family - they won't know you now For all the holes in our souls host no thrills

Who you were Was so beautiful Remember who Who you were

I always hoped that things could be beautiful And I thought underneath you'd be called other names All the holes in our souls host no thrills

Who you were Was so beautiful Remember who Who you were

Quotes

  • "it`s called `razor blades and glossy magazines`. a working title maybe"
    Matt talking about the song's title after its live debut, 01/14/2000.

References


Go back to Origin of Symmetry