Muse fans may not like it, but their band will be on the 'New Moon' soundtrack

Last week, before Gina McIntyre had her behind-the-scenes round-up with The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz, we talked about whether Muse would be making a repeat appearance on the second soundtrack from the Twilight series.

Fans of Muse that do not also happen to be Twilight series fans were not pleased.

Here are a couple of comments that were left on the article:

* "From an Atheist's point of view, for me to be praying to 'god' for Muse to not be on the next stupid Twilight soundtrack, that's pretty serious."
* "i'm sick of muses epicness being tainted by the lameness that is twilight"
* "I don't want to have to fight pre-teen girls for tickets to a live show"
* "really? seriously people, LEAVE MUSE ALONE!! the are not 'the twilight band' they are MUSE and they are better than twilight. I'm sick of all these people saying that they are muse fans when the only song they know is SMBH."
* "many fans hope and expect that their music will make a return visit to the twilight music?, who are those fans, really?"
* "Most Muse fans HATE the fact that they have been thrown into the whole Twilight mess... seeing as it brought on a plague of people who only appreciate it because it was in a crappy movie adaptation of a stupid book. If Muse is in New Moon i will cry."

You get the idea. There were two basic principles echoed in the commentary. The first was a distaste for the novels; fair enough. The second was a large presumption based on a small set of experiences; not so fair, perhaps.

Some of us who happen to be Twilight fans actually liked Muse way back when. My own experience was that I bought Absolution on a whim, loved it, and played the entire album again and again and again any time I was in a bad way (the converse is true for Elliott Smith's XO). Perhaps it is the minority circumstance to have had an appreciation for Muse's work before it became involved in the Twilight series, but perhaps it is not.

In any case, New Moon's director Chris Weitz, told the L.A. Times recently that the soundtrack will indeed have Muse as one of its feature artists (alongside Radiohead and Band of Skulls).

So, to turn back to the original question in the prior article - which Muse song would be appropriate for the New Moon album? Thoughts?
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Comment by isabella m. cullen on July 19, 2009 at 5:11pm: jelous much?...all those hatters...cris said dat muse wanted to be on da soundtrack...no one forced them!!!

Comment by Ms. Renesmee Carlie Cullen Swan on July 19, 2009 at 5:15pm: thatz kool, but aperantly die-hard Muse fans dont like it, but that would mean that i am one of the few die-hard Muse fans that do, so YAY!!!!

Comment by Brianna on July 19, 2009 at 5:30pm: haha. they act like someone is forcefully making muse contribute to the twilight saga. ridiculous. that kind of ignorance is not even worth getting upset about. let them overgenralize and let them waste their energies hating something harmless and unoffensive. it's their issue, not ours.

Comment by Isabella Marie Swan™® on July 19, 2009 at 5:35pm: i hope they have good song for newmoon the movie i really hope they put going under by evanscene

Comment by Monika Lopez on July 19, 2009 at 6:03pm: I liked Muse before Twilight.. I even own one of their cd's... fans are just b******'... but come on.. Muse will get a bigger fan base this way.

Anyway.. I think "Take a bow" would be a cool song to be in the New Moon soundtrack.. but we'll see.. maybe they'll just make a new song.. ahha .. I say SURPRISE ME!

Comment by Josie Hale on July 19, 2009 at 6:47pm: wow...haters are great, arent they? I love the fact that they all assume that just because a lot of people only discovered Muse because they were on the Twilight soundtract (myself included) that we only like SMBH...yes, that was the song that got me listening to Muse, but since then I have discovered many songs by them that I love...

and anyway, I don't see why they are complaining...the band isn't. Any publicity is GOOD publicity it doesn't matter how you discovered them, it only matters that you love the band...

Comment by Jackie on July 19, 2009 at 6:48pm: JEALOUS MUCH? LMAO Whatever HATERS! Muse keeps saying YES they must LOVE being apart of the movies and gaining MORE FANS, SELLING MORE records! HELLO? get over it and STFU already stop crying about it! BTW Stephenie Meyer herself LOVES Muse and WROTE the books listening to them!

Comment by SHIRY on July 19, 2009 at 7:01pm: 1st of all you Fans should be proud tht ur band our band its making themselves known not only by saling there own CD but also by being in one of the most best selling books and movie of the decate and by being such and inspiration to tht wonderful writer tht its stephanie meyer if u are not going to be supporter of their succes then u are not a true FAN cause being a FAn requires a lot a support to our band so stop being so rude to tht wonderful band tht is muse cause they have inspire us so much so stop b******* and start being sports ok luv Yashira FRom Puerto Rico .....!!!!!