Feeling Good by Muse
Jesus. It’s been long enough hasn’t it? Apologies, dear reader(s). A few months back I started constructing my response to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way video. But while I was perfecting my thoughts into a well manicured, sharp and witty essay (because, if I ever post it, it will be an essay), she goes and makes two or three or fourteen new videos and now everyone thinks she’s sold out (my stance from the beginning just fyi) and my poor little brain can’t catch up.
Whatevs. Different rant for a different post.
Right now, we cant talk about the above clip. And I know I’ve done a lot of Muse on here before - which is strange because I’m not some sort of Stephanie Meyer level of fangirl or anything - but thinking about this cover over on my twitter made me search out a video for it.
You should know, cover songs are my jam. But no one ever makes videos for them. Very rarely they get recorded professionally but it’s like Christmas for me when they do and this one is an ultimate fave (Snow Patrol doing Beyonce’s Crazy in Love is another all time classic).
The great thing about this song, that they really play up in Michael Buble’s video, is the sexiness of it all. That gorgeous crooning voice and the down beat but soothing tempo. It could very easily (as they suggest at) be a James Bond theme song. And that would make one James Bond movie that I’d enjoy watching.
Poor little Matt Bellamy doesn’t have the same sort of sex appeal that Buble does and yet somehow, he makes the cover version even sexier. It might be the the stripped back vocals, it might be the petals constantly falling from the ceiling, it might be the blood red room, (it’s certainly not his teeth). Or, it might be the distorted faces of the vaguely gothic people slowing closing in around the band.
And yes, I bang on about story line so often and I know nothing really “happens” in this clip - it’s just a concept. But a concept that I love. Muse take a sexy ass song, make it even sexier (see earlier twitter comments about performing a burlesque dance) and then throw into the mix what are essentially deformed humans.
I could read into this and say that “sexy” can come in all shapes and sizes but I doubt that’s what they were going for. They were going for a bit of a My Chemical Romance, freak show-esque setting, though a little bit toned down. I love it though. It means nothing, but it’s not what we expected that makes it great in my books.
