Know Your Enemy

"It's monstrous. It's probably intended as a monumental shock, but it seems to me hideously hubristic. There's always been something in that big, bombastic pop that is almost Nuremburg-lite. The most charitable thing I could say about Muse is that they were trying to mimic that tradition."

David Stubbs reveals he's no fan of Muse's official Olympic single 'Survival'. Neither am I (here it is in all its dubious glory), but Stubbs seems to have led quite a sheltered life for a music critic if he thought Muse coming out with a "bombastic" and "hideously hubristic" song might possibly constitute "a monumental shock"...