Won't Stand Down (video)
| Muse video | |
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| Name | Won't Stand Down |
| Album/single | LP9 |
| Length | 4:01 |
| Initial air date | 13th January 2022 |
| Filming Location | Unknown |
| Director | Jared Hogan |
| Watch | YouTube |
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Information
First music video for the first single, Won't Stand Down, off of the upcoming album. It will be released together with the single itself on January 13th, 2022, at 3PM GMT. [1]
Up until a few days before the release, very few teases were shown regarding the music video (only ones being the short snippet on Muse's TikTok[2], Bellamy teasing with a screenshot of him[3] and another screenshot from the video posted on Muse's Instagram[4]), until a longer music video tease was posted by Muse on an Instagram story on January 12th, 24 hours before the release, together with a YouTube premiere link.
The video has been produced by MrMr Films, a production company based in London and Shelter Film, an Ukrainian production company based in Kyiv.
Description
The band appear to have taken a horror-based approach for the music video. The video depicts how one person has all the power in its hand. It features an older actress on a wheelchair, dressed in white, wearing a grotesque Matt Bellamy mask. This character's presumably named "Kueen" in the music video.
Kueen is pushed on small stage infront the "Army", a group of people wearing all-black suits and masks. With the army all lined-up, her hands are hooked up to cables hanging from the air via an electronic controlling device. She then begins to move her hand, controlling the movement of the army with it, while they dance to the song. At the end, due to all the power in her hands, Kueen is transformed into an all-black grim reaper-looking creature with a different mask, the same which was featured in the Instagram filter Muse put out a few days prior to the release.[5]
Trivia
- The masks worn by the Army, portrayed in the video, are similar to the ones worn by 'Nameles Ghouls', masked band members of the Swedish metal band 'Ghost'.
- Each member of the Army wears the mysterious monogram pattern on their suit, identical to the one seen on the single cover. The video theme itself also appears on the single cover.
Won't Stand Down Screenshots
Credits
- Director: Jared Hogan
- Producer: Savvas Stavrou
- Production Company: MrMr Films
- Director of Photography: Joe Cook
- Editor: Paul O’Reilly
- Edit Producer: Tatyana Alexandra & Polly Kemp
- Edit Company: Trim Editing
- VFX Supervisor: Denis Reva
- Colourist: Jacob McKee
- Online: Joey Doyle
- Grade & Online Producer: Maria Webb at Forager
SHELTER:
- Producer Dasha Deriagina
- Production Assistant: Anastasiya Kovaleva
- 1st Assistant Director: Vadim Yuzba
- 2nd Assistant Director: Misha Varopay
- Production Designer Danil Dubrovsky
- Costume Designer: Margarita Shekel
- Wardrobe Team: Iris Laricheva, Anna Maksimova, Andrew Bib
- Hair/Make-Up: Dasha Taivas
- Choreographer: Roman Chukmanenko
- Choreographer Assistant: Dasha Samoilove
- Casting Director: Karina Melnichenko
- Casting Manager: Sergey Pulenetz
- Stunt: Svyatoslav Barabolya
- Production Manager: Max Matveev
- Focus Puller: Eugene Bubley
- Gaffer: Valeriy Butkov
- BTS: Ira Suldina, Sergei Prostakov
CAST:
Kueen:
- Natalia Zozulia
Army:
- Erchik Vika
- Yakobchuk Masha
- Zakharchenko Daria
- Dmitrienko Eugeniy
- Gordeev Aleksandr
- Grigoryan Tigran
- Kabys Volodymir
- Kilimchuk Misha
- Kobrin Ostap
- Kozenko Alexandr
- Kravchenko Dima
- Kudin Dmitriy
- Shpak Denis
- Vagner Artur
- Veselov Amiran
- Veselyi Andrey
- Vodzianskii Anatolii
- Yatsunenko Rostislav
- Shtanko Dmitrii
- Kostetskiy Igor
- Kokritskaia Liza
- Lapko Nastia
- Volosova Veronika
- Simonov Petr
- Povoznikov Andrei
- Zagorui Iaroslava
- Sitalo Maksim
- Isaenko Polina