Difference between revisions of "United States of Eurasia (song)"
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| Producer = Muse | | Producer = Muse | ||
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Revision as of 16:46, 5 July 2009
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| Name | United States of Eurasia |
| Album/single | The Resistance (4) |
| Length | Unknown |
| Alternative titles | - |
| First live performance | - |
| Latest live performance | Unknown |
| Recorded | Milan, Italy, 2009 |
| Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme |
| Producer | Muse |
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Description
A song featuring stringed instrumentation.
Additional information
The song title was found by Muse fans from a picture on Twitter of Matt holding a score.[1] The name comes from the book The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzeziński, who puts forward the view that Eurasia must be controlled by the USA to secure oil supplies.[2]
In addition, it draws influence from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell,[2] in which Eurasia arbitrarily changes between ally and enemy of Big Brother country Oceania. This is where the idiom "We have always been at war with Eurasia/Eastasia" came from, typically employed in response to the most obvious political uses of the exposure effect to convince a populace that a ruling figure or party said or did the opposite of that which was in fact actually said or done.