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Supermassive pop extravaganza

  • May 18, 2006
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So we got a text message the other night.

"The best pop album of the year is the Muse album. Unbelievable."

While we were trying to watch the Moors murders thing on our Sky+, Michael from Popjustice HQ was at some sort of 'listening party' for the new Muse LP. After a few minutes, another text message arrived.

"It is not an indie/rock album in any sense. It's like 'Ray Of Light' done by Goldfrapp. AMAZING."

And then another:

"Have chan­dalier photos. Am quite drunk becuase the food was a bit scarce."

Michael has now sobered up and offers the following.

Ten reasons Muse are the best new boyband of 2006

    * There are three of them — just like Point Break and EYC.

    * They are boys — just like Take That, 911 and the Pussycat Dolls.

    * They aren't com­pletely dreadful to look at.

    * Their new album is a massive elec­tronic pop 'extra­vag­anza' due to the fact that Muse have clearly listened to nothing but Queen, Goldfrapp and Phixx for the past three years.

    * Oddly, this means that Muse now sound a bit like The Honeytraps.

    * One song sounds like Madonna's 'Ray of Light'.

    * The album seems to have been inspired by Old El Paso dinner kits. There is a definite whiff of burrito on the second half of the album.

    * 'Supermassive Black Hole' sounds a lot like Britney's 'Do Somethin'. Britney is not a boyband but you get the general idea.

    * Most of the songs could be played at a disco, and par­tic­u­larly the disco known as Club Popjustice — every Friday in London town, 11–3, £3 on the d… (Get on with it — Ed)

    * One song sounds a bit like the Shapeshifters, but not the one with the video at the fair­ground — the rubbish one they did recently. A good version of that. Perhaps the word 'Balearic' should be used now. Not so much a change in direction as a sudden swerve across all four lanes on the motorway. (PS Can Lamemza have a crack at this one?)

    * I did get a Muse pencil (it was orange) but that must have fallen out of my bag somewhere on the way home.

    * The last song has a horse on it.

    * A HORSE.

Let's not forget this.

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Brilliant.

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