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We're not sure about this one. Don't get us wrong, we LOVE
rockers Muse, but their song Survival, which was chosen as the official song
for the London 2012 Olympic Games, is just a bit drab. It doesn't sound like an
Olympic song. Nothing that grabs you by the balls. It's just a bit of a
non-Oympic song. However, Muse's Matt Bellamy is quite excited with the news.
"It's a huge honor to have the track chosen as such a major part of the
London 2012 Olympic Games. I wrote it with the Games in mind as it expresses a
sense of conviction and determination to win." But not everyone shared
Matt's moment of joy. Leor Galil wrote on forbes.com: "The issue with
“Survival” isn’t just that it’s a tasteless, lackluster number. It’s not that
it sounds like Muse is in a state of self-parody. It’s not that the band felt
the need to throw every orchestra instrument and the kitchen sink into the mix
in an effort to sound peerlessly epic. It’s not that the group sounds gaudy and
slightly emotionless in the process of recruiting every veritable sound to do
its part in the number. It’s not that the tune’s lyrics are a collection of
sports cliches. Perhaps the committee selected the tune because of the way its
opulence evokes a certain degree of pomp and circumstance one expects to hear
at something as grand as the Olympic Games. Unfortunately the truisms about
competition Bellamy lazily rolls out on “Survival” feel entirely antithetical
to the event the song is supposed to represent." What do you think? See why we still LOVE Muse...
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