Cartoon Music For Superheroes: Muse's "United States of Eurasia" now unlocked

Muse after arriving in Oslo.

Courtesy of MuseWire

All six parts of the song have now been unlocked and the song does take a few surprising twists, just like Dominic Howard said in his blog a few days ago. However, Muse have announced that there is a seventh part to the hunt, which will make the song's MP3 available to download. Some people think that there may be more to the song than just these six parts, so it's a matter of time before their plans are revealed.

After starting off with just a piano, followed by strings and Matthew Bellamy singing in a way reminiscent to the band's 1999 track "Unintended," the song takes an epic turn to sound like a song only Muse can create. The song explodes when Bellamy begins singing "Why split these states/When there can be only one?" in Queen-like fashion.

The instrumental parts throughout the song have a Middle-Eastern influence to them, and along with Bellamy's incredible piano skills, Howard's impressive drumming and bassist Chris Wolstenholme's known talent of giving the bass a role in a lot of their music make for a great comeback single since their last album was released in 2006.

A lot of people are beginning to talk about how Muse is ripping off Queen in the song, due to the parts that sound similar to Queen. One thing that needs to be realized is that the song, which is about 3:44 long, has so many elements to it and people are focusing too much on just one aspect of it, rather than taking in the whole song and before making a decision about it. Not only does most of the song sound nothing like Queen, but no one even seems to be paying attention to the message Muse is trying to say in the song.

Stereogum seems to think that Muse using a band as inspiration is the same thing as becoming a cover band. Other bands like Wolfmother have also been compared to sounding like other great bands, and yet most of them haven't had to deal with serious criticism for it.

Only one track has been made available to the public, so we still don't really know for sure what the album is going to sound like.

Listen to "United States of Eurasia" below:

Musewiki.org has put together the lyrics for song:

You and me are the same
We don't know or care who's to blame
But we know that whoever holds the reins
Nothing will change
Our cause has gone insane

And these wars, they can't be won
And these wars, they can't be won
And do you want them to go on
And on and on
Why split these states
When there can be only one?

And must we do as we're told?
Must we do as we're told?

You and me fall in line
To be punished for unproven crimes
And we know that there is no one we can trust
Our ancient heroes, they are turning to dust

And these wars, they can't be won
Does anyone know or care how they begun?
They just promise to go on
And on and on
But soon we will see
There can be only one

United States
United States
Of...

Eurasia!
...sia!
...sia!
...sia!

Eurasia!
...sia!
...sia!
...sia!

Eurasia!
...sia!
...sia!
...sia!