All of Muse's albums have a story, and all these story arcs are loosely connected.
This is a bad take, and a wild one, but it's worth thinking about. It first starts out basically being a dramatized version of what's going on in real life before diverging off into its own batshit tales.
- Showbiz: Muse become rockstars.
- Origin of Symmetry: The members battle their own inner demons, likely being trapped inside their own minds.
- Absolution: The members escape to the real world but then decide to leave again because it sucks.
- Black Holes & Revelations: The members travel to another bizarre world (likely their own imagination) filled with Schizo Tech and their subconscious continuing to haunt them.
- The Resistance: The band returns to the real world, only to find it being oppressed by a totalitarian regime, so they overthrow it.
- The 2nd Law: Then they run away to space because humanity is tearing itself apart, and there's nothing they can do about it.
- Drones: The band returns to Earth, which has been torn apart by war, and they tell what story they can from remnants, namely from a woman named Mary.
- Simulation Theory: The band enters a simulation because, you know, life sucks. But then they leave after they discover a virus that's infecting people.
- Will of the People: They travel to another world that's being ruled over by yet another totalitarian regime, overthrow it, and become the new rulers. And then Matt (or someone impersonating him) grows into an old, crazy git who's obsessed with retaining control over his people like a dictatorship.
What do you think?
alternatively, there may not be a single long-running story, but a bunch of arcs tying certain albums together
.- Simulation Theory must be tied to Showbiz. They reference "Teignville", aka Teignmouth and "School", aka the Teignmouth Community College multiple times in that era's videos.
- Keep in mind that the arcs may not have consecutively released albums tied together, it could hop all around.
- Some albums might be tied into multiple arcs or alternate universes. Try to keep track of that.
- But there have to be alternate universes.
- Otherwise, how would have Muse showed up at their high school reunion to play "Pressure" if the whole world was nuked to pieces in the last album?
- Maybe they were already in the simulation. (cue Inception theme)
- Maybe Drones happened in the simulation.
- Otherwise, how would have Muse showed up at their high school reunion to play "Pressure" if the whole world was nuked to pieces in the last album?
- Gonna tie this all together the best I can from everything above and below this mass edit (sorry!):
- Showbiz: Muse become rockstars.
- Origin of Symmetry: Muse deals with the struggle of competition, and may or may not get trapped inside their own minds.
- Simulation Theory: Muse leaves the world to enter a simulation, then returns. Could fall anywhere from before oos to before drones, possibly after bh&r.
- The 2nd Law: The earth falls apart.
- The Resistance: Muse overthrows an oppresive regime. It could have happened before T2L.
- Absolution: Muse decides to just try to go back to normal life. They could have gotten some ability to read people's minds or see memories, or time-travel, giving them the ability to tell more far-out stories. This could have happened any time between Showbiz and Drones.
- Drones: war kills everyone, but Muse escapes to another planet.
- Black Holes & Revelations: Muse adapts to the environment and takes on some possibly superhuman abilities.
- Will of the People: Muse helps a bunch of people overthrow another oppressive regime, this time the Ministry of Truth, and become the new leaders.
The Muse members are not human, or at least something similar
.- How did they survive crashing into a planet? (As seen in the "Sing for Absolution'' video)
- The way they and basically everybody in the CGI-made Will of The People mvs are not animated with completely accurate mo-cap, but something similar that makes them move in a not entirely human-like fashion. See how they're always so smooth and never waver in the slightest?
- All of the members of the species of "the people" are also very muscular. You can see their pecs bulge through their jackets, best seen in "halloween".
- Perhaps they've adapted to living on a harsh desert-like planet.
- Come to think of it, and we all thought it at some point, but it resembles that Mars-like planet from BH&R.
- So, if I'm following all these threads, and they landed on mars, how did they learn to live there, and how long have they been there?
- Dunno, in Cydonia, they were safely going around as holograms.
- Did they die? or did they enter a sort of proto-simulation?
- And more obviously, they all look kind of fake when unmasked. see the WOTP mv and Won't Stand Down, Compliance....
- So what are they, then? Androids? Aliens? Ghosts? Vampires?
- Dunno, but Matt acts like all of the above AT ONCE.
- Well, in Simulation Theory, Matt briefly went werewolf.
- It seems to be zigzagged, as far as I can assume.
- If they aren't human, then what did they have to go through to become such badasses? by Absolution, they could already qualify as astronauts.
- They might have stolen that ship and teamed up with someone to help them out of there.
- Wait, there were missiles blowing up the earth when this was happening. so was this also running alongside the ''Drones' arc?
- They might have stolen that ship and teamed up with someone to help them out of there.
The "people" in Will of the People are stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, where they overthrow their leaders and then become them, only to get overthrown again, possibly by their reincarnations
.It's very highly implied, with Muse tearing down statues of themselves, and with all of the videos seeming to form an endless cycle of events that lead into themselves.- How do they break out? Will they ever?
- if not, it's an alternate universe for the next story, then!
