Results for “Muse”

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Muse

"Uprising" is a stomping call-to-arms built on glam-rock bombast and conspiracy-theory rhetoric, casting ordinary life as a…

mass media manipulation anti-establishment revolt collective solidarity

Muse

A breakup song that keeps calling itself clarity while still describing confusion, 'Madness' turns a relationship's volatility…

obsessive love self-deception emotional dependency

Florence + the Machine

This is a faithful, vocally-driven cover of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's classic ballad, recorded for a tribute album marking…

devotion and intimacy the mythologizing of a muse road-worn romance

Red Hot Chili Peppers

A loose, party-funk sketch of a mythologized woman named Maggie, built less around narrative logic than groove and wordplay. The…

hedonism and release mythologizing a muse transience/impermanence

Squeeze

A character study of a self-mythologizing teenage stoner who mistakes intoxicated musing for insight, told by a narrator who…

arrested development self-delusion adolescent isolation

Electric Light Orchestra

A pure-adrenaline opener for the Xanadu soundtrack, this song functions less as a narrative than as a single sustained…

awakening/rebirth wonder and disbelief transformation

The Kinks

A meditation on dispersal that moves from an agrarian image of scattered seeds to personal grief over a lost lover, and finally…

mortality loss and grief impermanence

Caroline Polachek

"Door" uses the image of an endless sequence of doorways to describe a pursuit that never arrives — of a lover, a self, or…

identity dissolution unrequited or ambiguous longing self-erasure and humility

Wu‐Tang Clan

This is a posse-cut style Wu-Tang track where multiple MCs trade dense, boastful verses about street history, criminal résumé,…

street survival and generational crime materialism and excess lyrical supremacy/battle rap bravado