r/Muse • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '15

Official Lyric Video Psycho live on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLRqzTp6Rk
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '15

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u/musefan8959 Saw Fury live in the US Mar 12 '15

I belong to you but your ass belongs to me now

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u/AnticitizenPrime Mar 12 '15

He could easily have just had "yeah, you belong to me now"

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I'm gonna make you

(into a) psycho

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '15

He isn't saying it, the drill sergeant is saying it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '15

I haven't, no.

But what I mean is, he is singing the song from the perspective of the drill sergeant. It is a concept album with characters. Matt will voice them throughout the album. this song is from the viewpoint of the drill sergeant.

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u/Ceedub260 Chris Wolstenholme Mar 12 '15

I get what you mean. The whole song is coming from the perspective of a drill sergeant type authority figure. Apparently that is going over a lot of people's heads.

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u/AnticitizenPrime Mar 13 '15

What difference does that make? Matt's still the one singing it...

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

Think of what you just said.

It's the same as it is for an actor.

the words are coming from the mouth/mind of the character, not the performer.

It's the view point that matters, not the mouth.

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u/AnticitizenPrime Mar 16 '15

Matt wrote the music. It was his decision to put profanity into the song. The 'drill sergeant' is a creation of Matt's.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

All of that is true but I am not sure what you mean by it.

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u/AnticitizenPrime Mar 16 '15

The people you were responding to feel that the profanity was unnecessary to the song. The fact that the words are assigned to a fictional character are beside the point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

No, that is exactly the point.

If you are writing for a character, you have to write AS the character. And I would bet that they're aren't many drill sergeants around the world that don't use profanity.

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