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The song's title has been "officially" leaked on March 14th, 2022 via the JSON output from [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/api/v1/catalogue/new/ wontstanddown.muse.mu], which contains basic album info.
The song's title has been "officially" leaked on March 14th, 2022 via the JSON output from [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/api/v1/catalogue/new/ wontstanddown.muse.mu], which contains basic album info.


NME described the song, in a June 2022 interview with Matt Bellamy, as a "ballad-turned-[[Queen]] rocker".<ref>https://www.nme.com/big-reads/muse-cover-interview-2022-will-of-the-people-3243209?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=</ref>
NME described the song, in a June 2022 interview with Matt Bellamy, as a "ballad-turned-[[Queen]] rocker".<ref>https://www.nme.com/big-reads/muse-cover-interview-2022-will-of-the-people-3243209?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=</ref>. Later on, another review said that the song is a modern calling from with that of Queen's greatest song, Bohemian Rhapsody


In the same interview, Bellamy said about the song that it is "''leaning towards what I felt seeing the Black Lives Matter protests. I’m not gonna try to claim to have any understanding of what that culture’s been through or anything, but “intend to erase your place in history” was that feeling of anger… that emotion that you feel in the moment of revolution, where you just want to tear it down and destroy this, even to the extent of changing history itself – people pulling statues down. And “you stole the airwaves but the air belongs to us.''"
In the same interview, Bellamy said about the song that it is "''leaning towards what I felt seeing the Black Lives Matter protests. I’m not gonna try to claim to have any understanding of what that culture’s been through or anything, but “intend to erase your place in history” was that feeling of anger… that emotion that you feel in the moment of revolution, where you just want to tear it down and destroy this, even to the extent of changing history itself – people pulling statues down. And “you stole the airwaves but the air belongs to us.''"

Revision as of 14:49, 21 July 2022

Muse song
Name Liberation[1]
Album/single Will of the People (3)
Length 3:06[2]
Alternative titles
First live performance
Latest live performance
Recorded 2021
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer Muse
Chart position


Description

The song's title has been "officially" leaked on March 14th, 2022 via the JSON output from wontstanddown.muse.mu, which contains basic album info.

NME described the song, in a June 2022 interview with Matt Bellamy, as a "ballad-turned-Queen rocker".[3]. Later on, another review said that the song is a modern calling from with that of Queen's greatest song, Bohemian Rhapsody

In the same interview, Bellamy said about the song that it is "leaning towards what I felt seeing the Black Lives Matter protests. I’m not gonna try to claim to have any understanding of what that culture’s been through or anything, but “intend to erase your place in history” was that feeling of anger… that emotion that you feel in the moment of revolution, where you just want to tear it down and destroy this, even to the extent of changing history itself – people pulling statues down. And “you stole the airwaves but the air belongs to us."

Live

Lyrics

Incomplete

You make us feel silenced /

You stole the airwaves but the air belongs to us / And violence – you’ll make us turn to violence / We have plans to take you down / We intend to erase your place in history

References