Matt Bellamy! To Produce The Disco
Panic! At The Disco's set at Reading last year may have inspired a spirited bout of bottle chucking from the festival fans, but that didn't deter Muse's Matt Bellamy from hopping aboard the Panic! express, telling the band backstage that he was impressed by their "performance." Lest you think Matt was motivated by sympathy alone, though, P!@TD released some interesting news yesterday. Via MicroCuts:
Panic! At the Disco's second LP will be produced under the careful eyes and ears of Muse frontman, Matthew Bellamy, the band announced yesterday. "I first spoke to Matt at Reading festival, shortly after our set" claims singer Brendan Urie. "He told us how unlucky we were to be treated by the crowd, and he really enjoyed our set. We soon recieved an email from the Muse management, saying that he wanted to help with our new album in some way, so we invited him over to the studios and played our new demos and he loved them."It's so crazy it might just work! Probably not though. And let's just hope that influence is a one way street; nobody needs to see Muse get all Brechtian. Absolution would have an entirely new meaning in Camp Muse. (Thanks for the tip, Script Girl!)...
"Fever [You Can't Sweat Out] had some danceable songs," says Ryan Ross, the band's main lyricist "but we heard Supermassive Black Hole, and thought 'we want to make songs like that'". "Matt's also a very talented pianist, most of my piano on the new LP is influenced by his work and technique", says Brendan, "he has been teaching me new styles and ways to play, and it feels like I'm now becoming him!"
UPDATE: Good news Muse fans! We've just received word and the story ain't true. Panic!'s still looking for a producer. liv wins the award for Best Bullshit Detector.
Posted at 4:40 PM
Tags: Muse | Panic! At The Disco
Why Matt? WHY?!
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Hey Matt, if you try a little harder your band can sell themselves out a little more! They lost their brains when they opened for My Chemical Romance.
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Just what we need, Emo Radiohead.
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Crap. What's next? Matt Bellamy helps out Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte, Angels and Airwaves...? God, I hope not.
*sits back and watches all the Indie hip kids either throw out their Muse CDs out the window or gather on the street corners and smash a bunch of Muse paraphernalia*
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What the fuck. Muse has really gone to shit in the last few years...
I still have Oos and Absolution love though!
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Aw come on guys, Muse has to appeal to 14-year-old girls somehow....
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yeah, come on, throw away all their cd's. matt and avril? can't wait!
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I'm gonna just assume this is bullshit until I hear a quote from Matt. Because this is regoddamndiculous. Matt is not stupid. Patd are very very very much so. I wont toss my Muse music out the window, but I will stop fantasizing about Mr. Bellamy (mostly because that cocksucker Brandon Urie will always pop up and ruin it).
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You know, instead of being the tragedy that you guys predict, it could be the best thing to happen to Panic! ever. Please Matt, make them good.
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It's kind of like if a professional tailor went up to a newbie on t_shirt_surgery and said "...uhhh, that DARE halter dress is nice, but if you want, I can help you with you know... learning the basics of using a sewing machine..."
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Damn! he must have been really out of his mind when he heard them play. wait til he hears their CD tho...
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Muse sucks.
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Muse is great. You say they suck? Well i dont see your band playin the Wembley stadium. Hmmm? Yes? They are? Oh... well I don't see your band winning Best Live Act at numerous award shows (shows that are actually meaningful). Oh but of course everyone is critical and must say that a band who has done so much good music and is doing great things IS SHIT. of course they MUST suck... i mean they were compared as the next radiohead. and everyone knows radiohead sucks. oh wait... radiohead is great. so obviously muse sucks but they are going to be the next great band? hmmm... looks like matt bellamy is going to play wembley to no one cause apparently, in the words of tom, "Muse sucks."
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Firstly, you don't know what "my band" is. Secondly, the only reason Muse is called "the next Radiohead" is because everything they do ends up sounding like a Radiohead cover band with a bunch of proficient musicians. They take everything Radiohead does well and do it wrong.
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Tom, get off the Muse-as-Radiohead bandwagon. Yeah, there were clear similarities when Showbiz came out, but can you really say tracks like 'Knights of Cydonia' or 'Citizen Erased' are just Radiohead covers? There's far more Rachmaninov & Queen in Muse than Radiohead.
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Oh shit, that scared me so bad. I would pretty much lose respect for Muse if they even went near Panic! At the Disco. My lord, were they trying to give me a heartattack?
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yeah! muse fucken suxx0rs! THE ARCADE FIRE fucken rules and is betters than j00 and j00r favorite radiohead-wannabe gay muse! woohoo! ian g and sean should stop sucking matt and co's dick and seriously start listens to THE ARCADE (MOTHERFUCKEN) FIRE because at least THE ARCADE FIRE doesn't rips off radiohead and Win Butler would never produce a gay band's record like panic! at the disco whose equally suxx0rs as muse and sufjan and grey's fray patrol L0LZ.
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It's one thing to cite evidence for Muse's musical value or whatever, but to just assume that someone who dislikes Muse only dislikes them because they're trying to be indie and attacking them for that is just stupid.
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brendon's name is misspelled often...=( LOL!
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Guys, this story has been certified a lie. It was made up by a guy on the muselive.com forums.
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did no one read the bit at the bottom of that? Matt Belamy is NOT actually producing P!ATD, no need to worry....
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Heh, owned by Muselive.
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Too bad the story was false. In Muse we got to hear what Radiohead would sound like if they were a shitty hard rock band and it would have been cool to hear what Radiohead would have sounded like if they were a shitty emo band.
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Everyone hating on Muse has probably only heard whatever is played on the radio or said by uninformed writers. Do some actual listening before you make retarded Radiohead comparisons.
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The only reason Muse is really compared to radiohead is cause their single muscle museum and the same guy who produced the bends produced muse's showbiz. muse deserves respect for not only the massive amount of major awards that they've gotten and because of they props given by well known and accomplished musicians. liv is a smart girl. listen to "map of your head" or "house of the rising sun" and you'll see what they're all about. they're sound is brilliant. but that's my opinion. and the opinion of someone who lives in alabama is worth that of a... broom. sure...
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yeah theres a muse concert. sorry its not in a dumpster.
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Hahahahaha. Eric and Tom probably have shit taste in music. Also, I'm relieved this was proven false.
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oh my god. i hate you matthew, i hate you.
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LOL the headline, very good.
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ATTENTION PEOPLE!!! THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY TRUE! IT WAS A JOKE ON THEIR MESSAGE BOARD! LOL!
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Im all mix up. Is it true or not that Matt help PatD??
I dont think it is cuz Matt and Muse are so fabulous it's almost impossible for them to do that mistake.
So plz someone answer me.
If its not true come on stop talking about it it's shit
And if its true well plz Matt what happened to you?! I cant believe that you are ruining everything for that band!!
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I REALLY doubt this is true. Matt Bellamy is way too good for P!ATD and their rubbish.
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Pile of horse sh**. Matt isn't producing it. Panic! and Muse are my two favourite bands, but I can never see them working together like this. And Panic! are still using the producer of AFYCSO, Matt Squire. This is SO fake. Panic! and Matt DEFINITELY do not talk like that. I don't see why people always write fake stuff. This dude will be a great journalist. Writing not ONE SINGLE TRUE FACT.
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muse really sucks balls. at least PATD is decent. they dont go around pissing other bands of like my chem.
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