Liberation (song)
| 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 |
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| Song Nav | ||||
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| Compliance | < | Liberation | > | Won't Stand Down |
| Album Nav | ||||
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| Simulation Theory (2018) | < | Will of the People (2022) | > | |
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]
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."