A dorky admission regarding Muse and Twilight
25 August 2009
As if the world needs further proof that I’m a total dork, here it is.
I’ve liked Muse since 2003, but I liked them in a very passive, “I like them. Haven’t bought any of their stuff, but I like them,” kind of way. Ben caught on fire for them a couple years ago. To the point where I was like, “Oh my gosh. ENOUGH,” because it was all he played.
And then I read the Twilight Saga. Stephenie Meyers, as anyone who has read her acknowledgements knows, is a huge Muse fan and credits them for inspiring much of her series. So a week or so after I’d read all the Twilight books, McKenna and I were playing in the living room one day, and I felt like some music. Muse was in the CD player (no big surprise) and I thought, “Yeah, okay. We’ll listen to that.”
Something clicked. Suddenly I noticed the lyrics, how beautiful they are. I repeated Stockholm Syndrome a couple times. Then Time is Running out. Then Hysteria. And then I listened to the CD on a loop for the rest of the afternoon. And now, five months later, I’m still in this thing where I really don’t want to listen to anything but Muse. Today in the car I tried something else but after a song, I ended up skipping back to the live Muse CD.
To make things even weirder, when I read Eclipse in the next couple weeks, I really want to listen to Muse while I’m doing it. I shared this with Ben, totally aware that it’s nutty, and he just gave me this look. On one hand, he’s grateful that I’ve come around on the Muse thing, that it’s now me who says, “Let’s watch the concert DVD again.” On the other hand, wanting to listen to specific music while I read a specific book is a little … It’s not normal. It’s taking my love of Muse and Twilight to a new extreme. And it reminds me of those crazy people who say if you listen to Pink Floyd’s The Wall while you watch The Wizard of Oz, they line up perfectly or something.
So I’ll report back on if reading Eclipse with the music that inspired it enhances the experience at all. Unless, like Ben suggested, my experiment opens up some kind of energy pocket, and I wind up living in Forks with Bella, Jacob, and Edward. Which, contrary to popular belief, I would rather not have happen. I like my vampires and werewolves safely contained in pages or on the movie screen.
LOL on that last line, girl. Me too!
Posted by Roseanna on 25 August 2009