I went to Arcade Empire on Friday. I made a video.
Line-up:
Janie Bay
Coelacanth
Albert Frost
Francois van Coke
“Dear Brocolli’s/EON Production/007 people,” is how the letter I’ve convinced myself Muse wrote to the producers of the James Bond movies starts.
“As I’m sure you’ve noticed, our music and your films have a few things in common – both were featured in the Olympic Opening Ceremony, which just proves that we’re all pretty cool, and regarded as ambassadors of England. Have you guys been knighted? Who should we speak to about that?
“Anyway, I’m sure you’ve discovered the copy of our newest album, The 2nd law, that was enclosed with this letter. We think it’s pretty rad*. We really only want you to listen to Supremacy. It’s the first track and everything. Here’s what we were thinking: Would it really be so terrible to change your new film’s title to Supremacy at the last minute? Then you can totally use our song for the opening credit sequence.
“Don’t worry – it’s nothing like that atrocity Survival that was used as the Olympic theme song. Although it really is much better when removed from the context of actual races, when you can more clearly tell it’s about the race for survival, not gold medals.
“If that offer doesn’t appeal to you (but come on, Adele’s feelings won’t be hurt that much), you can always look for spots in the film for some of our other songs. Madness is an amazing Queen-esque track (it’s done well, but ultimately a blatant rip-off – but don’t quote us on that) that’ll do wonders for whatever love story you’ve plastered in between the action scenes.
“A track like Panic Station might also work well. Oh, screw that! It won’t work well for a movie: It’s way too cool, and people will just close their eyes and listen to the music. Maybe it’s great if you have a few real boring bits in the film? It’s even got counting bits in it. EVERYONE loves songs that go “one, two, three, four.” [That’s a music industry insider fact. Trust us on that one.]
“As you probably know (since we are a world-famous, top-class group), all the tracks on the album are good, well-produced songs that’ll stand out among the rest. So there’s a selection of 10 decent songs, 1 instrumental Prelude, and two pseudo-instrumental tracks laced with vocal samples and electronics reminiscent of dubstep to choose from. The dubstep-thing was mostly included to gather some pre-release hype/debate/arguments. It’s not actually dubstep, and it rarely and naturally features within the songs – nothing that really detracts or interferes. Maybe it’s just our way of trying to keep up with the popular trends – almost like the way these last three Bond films are complete redesigns based on the more modern “spy films” like the Jason Bourne ones.
To summarise: PLEEEEEAAASE use Supremacy for your movie! Or at least one of the other 12 awesome tracks on The 2nd Law.
Kind Regards
MUSE
*They’re rockstars – they’re allowed to use uncomfortable, outdated terms.
Flrsi 
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