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| Name = Space Dementia
| Name = Compliance
| Album = {{drop
| Album = {{drop
|[[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]] <small>(3)</small>,
|[[Will of the People (album)|Will of the People]] <small>(2)</small>
|[[Hullabaloo Soundtrack (live)|Hullabaloo]] <small>(18)</small>, [[Hullabaloo (live)|Hullabaloo DVD]] <small>(11)</small>
|[[Compliance (single)|Compliance]] <small>(1)</small>
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| Length = 6:20, 6:03 <small>([[Origin of Symmetry (album)#Unmastered press preview, unmastered UK CD-R, German promos|unmastered]])</small>
| First =
| AltTitles = -
| Latest =
| First = [[Denk aan Henk 3FM 2001 (gig)|12th April 2001]] <small>(full)</small><br />[[Neuhausen ob Eck Southside Festival 2006 (gig)|24th June 2006]] <small>(outro for [[Knights of Cydonia (song)|Knights of Cydonia]])</small>
| Length = {{drop
| Latest = [[Paris Cigale 2018 (gig)|24{{supo|th}} February 2018]]
|4:10
| Recorded = [[Real World Studios|Real World Studio Wiltshire]], 2001
|3:33 (Radio edit)
}}
| AltTitles =  
| Recorded = 2021
| Release = 17{{supo|th}} March 2022
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
| Producer = [[John Leckie]]
| Producer = Muse, [[Aleks Von Korff]]
| Chart position = -
| Chart position =  
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}}
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| Previous = [[Will of the People (song)|Will of the People]]
| Current = Space Dementia
| Current = Compliance
| Next = [[Hyper Music (song) | Hyper Music]]
| Next = [[Liberation (song)|Liberation]]
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| Previous = [[Showbiz (album) | Showbiz ''(1999)'']]
| Previous = [[Simulation Theory (album) | Simulation Theory ''(2018)'']]
| Current = [[Origin of Symmetry (album) | Origin of Symmetry ''(2001)'']]
| Current = [[Will of the People (album) | Will of the People ''(2022)'']]
| Next = [[Hullabaloo (album) | Hullabaloo ''(2002)'']]
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==Description==


[[File:Matt's fly.JPG|right|thumb|Matt recording for Space Dementia]]
== Description ==
Space dementia is a hypothetical mental condition in popular science fiction astronauts are said to sometimes experience when they're in space. This can be contributed towards feelings of insignificance, insecurity lack of social contact and awareness of total isolation from the human race. A [[Rachmaninov]]-inspired song that starts with a piano introduction and heads into a heavy verse, with hammering piano and bass, the chorus is introduced by a looping synth keyboard, followed by a delicate vocal show, before hammering piano introduces the next verse.  However, the chorus vocal line (from "... and tear us apart", until the end of the chorus) and chords are an exact reduction of part of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto 1st Movement at about 1:30. The song is finished with an elaborate extended chorus, then a heavy codus at about 5:30, incorporating phase effects, piano, guitar, and distorted bass and contains sound of Matt's fly being zipped and unzipped.


==Matthew Bellamy definition of Space Dementia==
Announced on March 11th, 2022, their second song off to be released and to be featured on [[Will of the People (album)|Will of the People]], Compliance, is set to be released on March 17th, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/muse/status/1502298309368631296</ref> The song, and its music video, leaked two days earlier, on March 15th, 2022, through Vimeo.<ref>https://vimeo.com/688432698</ref>


"Space Dementia is the term NASA Used for what happens if you're left out in space for a long time, because if you truly conceptualise the situation of being there and looking back at Earth, it can drive you mad, The song's about a person who's quite important in my life and who gives me space dementia when I look at them. It's about being intensely engrossed so that you become obsessive and almost nasty"<ref>Rock Sound - 2001</ref>
== Additional information ==


==Composition==
According to Matt Bellamy, "''Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms & religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason & compassion. They just need our Compliance.''"<ref>https://twitter.com/muse/status/1502298309368631296</ref>
Space Dementia is a piano-driven rock song, with elements of classical music, electronic rock and heavy rock/metal. Composed in E minor, it starts at a very slow tempo of 62 bpm, which increases to 85 bpm for the majority of the song. The outro contains a sudden shift from piano to heavy, distorted guitars, and is played in 6/8 time at 114 bpm.


Bellamy's vocal range in the song spans from F♯3 to D5.
The song is mostly reminiscent of elements from 80s and 90s pop and synthpop, while bringing in some elements of big beat. The the guitar lick during the verses, and the synth solo line are reminiscent to the Knight Rider theme song.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDZsKSGoVg</ref>


==Recording==
There are two versions of the song; The shorter edit of the song (which was leaked as it's on the music video) misses the post-solo "ooh" falsetto part.
When Muse first demoed the song for [[John Leckie]], the piano was so overpowered by the bass and drums Leckie had to put his head in the piano whilst Matt played<ref name="xfm20071007">{{cite/xfm20071007}}</ref>


"Space Dementia" was originally intended to be the final song in ''[[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]]''. The heavy guitar outro section was recorded seperately and intended to contrast the piano. The band originally wanted to increase the low-frequency sounds at the end below the levels of human hearing to an illegal level.<ref name="sl2001">{{cite |
== Instrumentation ==
title=Promoting Origin Of Symmetry | desc=Interview | date=2001 | auth=Matt Bellamy / Steve Lamacq | pub=BBC Radio 1 | doc=Steve Lamacq (radio)#2001: Promoting Origin Of Symmetry | type=int
}}</ref>


===H8===
Compliance is based around organic elements, with a simple drum part, almost sounding like its looped, and a distinctive bass line riding throughout the entire song. The song doesn't appear to include a lot of guitar, apart from the palm-muted "Knight Rider" one in the verses and the final chorus, and the heavily-synthisized guitar during the solo. It also seems to include a keytar during the solo and the final chorus. The lead synth during the chorus was inspired by Van Halen's Jump, as it (the Jump synth) was heard in an Instagram video, posted by [[Aleks Von Korff]] in Muse's studio back in 2021.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7TfsWhZl-/</ref> The song runs at a tempo of 110BPM.
A comment from Matt detailed the meaning of 'H8' in a 2003 interview: "Using a microcomputer (Hitachi H8 / 3048F) which can be built into the industrial machines, you can learn and understand the inputs /outputs of the microcomputer as a basis of robot control and conduct the experiments by C-language for steppingmotor control, servomotor control (PWM control) and serial communication. H8 model, a 16-bit microcomputer consists of 32-bit registers, has a flash ROM of 128KB, a RAM of 4KB (SRAM) with external extension of 128KB and 78 I/O terminals with the built-in A/D and D/Aconverters. H8 is a microcomputer usually built into a TV, VTR, mobile-phone and car navigator. Since it has ample I/O terminals, H8 microcomputer is also used as a brain of a small robot."<ref name="uaclub">  
{{cite |
title=Interview | desc=Microcuts.net news | date=2003-06-03 | pub=Microcuts.net | url=http://microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/06032003-interview.php | dom=microcuts.net | type=ext
}}</ref>


For the lyrics of "Space Dementia" in the sleeve notes of ''Origin of Symmetry'', 'H8' is mistakenly printed as 'Height'.
During the solo, Bellamy can faintly be heard beatboxing, giving the already distorted drums during that part a turntable-ish effect. All the choirs in the choruses are sung through vocoder. The vocoder used in the song is Moog's 16 Channel Vocoder.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CbQg2usA_co/</ref>


==Live==
== Music Video ==
Starting at the [[Neuhausen ob Eck Southside Festival 2006 (gig)|Southside Festival]] on June the 24th 2006, the Space Dementia ending was used as an outro for "[[Knights of Cydonia (song)|Knights of Cydonia]]". The playing of this outro was ceased between sometime in 2007 (still used as late as April 2007) but was used for most gigs until mid-November 2006.


After being performed last in 2005, the full song made a return to the live setlist at [[Monterrey Arena Monterrey 2008 (gig)|Monterrey Arena 16th July 2008]] and, as the rest of "[[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]]", was played at [[Reading Little John's Farm 2011 (gig)|Reading]] and [[Leeds Bramham Park 2011 (gig)|Leeds 2011]], and then returned once again seven years later at the by request gig [[Paris Cigale 2018 (gig)|Paris Cigale 2018]] after being the third most voted song by ticket holders<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180417043729/https:/twitter.com/MattBellamy/status/967524455651176448 | Twitter @MattBellamy 24 Feb 2018]</ref>.
Directed by Jeremi Durand, the music video is loosely continuing the theme from Won't Stand Down's music video. More can be read [[Compliance (video)|here]].


[[Space Dementia (live) | More here]]
== Live ==
 
== Lyrics ==


==Lyrics==
{{lyrics
{{lyrics
|Mmmmm
|Compliance
H8 is the one for me
We just need your compliance
It gives me all I need
You will feel no pain anymore
And helps me coexist
And no more defiance
With the chill
We just need your
 
Compliance
Just give us your compliance
We won’t let you feel lost anymore
No more self-reliance
 
Fall into line, you will do as you’re told
No choice fatigue, your blood is running cold
We lose control, the world will fall apart
Love of your life, will mend your broken heart
 
Life lived in fear, you need protection,
You’re all alone, too much rejection,
We have what you need, just reach out and serve
We can save you (Save you)
We just need your


You make me sick
Compliance
Because I adore you so
We just need your compliance
I love all the dirty tricks
You will feel no pain anymore
And twisted games you play
No more defiance
On me
Just give us your compliance


Space dementia in your eyes and
Cover your tracks, we know what’s best for you
Peace will arise
You’ve bitten off much more than you can chew
And tear us apart
You’re running scared, you’ll run into our arms
And make us meaningless again
Come join our clique, we’ll keep you safe from harm


Mmmm, yeah
Our toy soldier, you’ll do the dirty work
You'll make us wanna die
Stay loyal to us, we’ll take away the hurt
I'd cut your name in my heart
We have what you need, just reach out and serve
We'll destroy this world for you
We can save you (Save you)
I know you want me to
just give us your
Feel your pain


Space dementia in your eyes and
Compliance
Venus will arise
We just need your compliance
And tear us apart
You will feel no pain anymore
And make us meaningless again
No more defiance
Just give us your compliance


Ooooh ...
Compliance
We just need your compliance
You will feel no pain anymore
And no more defiance
 
Compliance
We just need your compliance
You will feel no pain anymore
And no more defiance
 
We just need your compliance
 
Oh, fear is controlling you
It’s time to give it up
And give into us (We can save you, save you)
Give us your compliance
}}
}}


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==See also==
[[Category:Songs]]
*[[Origin of Symmetry media use|Commercial use in media]]
 
{{Backto | Origin of Symmetry (album) | Origin of Symmetry}}

Revision as of 11:40, 19 March 2022

Muse song
Name Compliance
Album/single
Length
  • 4:10 »
  • 3:33 (Radio edit)
Alternative titles
First live performance
Latest live performance
Recorded 2021
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer Muse, Aleks Von Korff
Chart position


Description

Announced on March 11th, 2022, their second song off to be released and to be featured on Will of the People, Compliance, is set to be released on March 17th, 2022.[1] The song, and its music video, leaked two days earlier, on March 15th, 2022, through Vimeo.[2]

Additional information

According to Matt Bellamy, "Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms & religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason & compassion. They just need our Compliance."[3]

The song is mostly reminiscent of elements from 80s and 90s pop and synthpop, while bringing in some elements of big beat. The the guitar lick during the verses, and the synth solo line are reminiscent to the Knight Rider theme song.[4]

There are two versions of the song; The shorter edit of the song (which was leaked as it's on the music video) misses the post-solo "ooh" falsetto part.

Instrumentation

Compliance is based around organic elements, with a simple drum part, almost sounding like its looped, and a distinctive bass line riding throughout the entire song. The song doesn't appear to include a lot of guitar, apart from the palm-muted "Knight Rider" one in the verses and the final chorus, and the heavily-synthisized guitar during the solo. It also seems to include a keytar during the solo and the final chorus. The lead synth during the chorus was inspired by Van Halen's Jump, as it (the Jump synth) was heard in an Instagram video, posted by Aleks Von Korff in Muse's studio back in 2021.[5] The song runs at a tempo of 110BPM.

During the solo, Bellamy can faintly be heard beatboxing, giving the already distorted drums during that part a turntable-ish effect. All the choirs in the choruses are sung through vocoder. The vocoder used in the song is Moog's 16 Channel Vocoder.[6]

Music Video

Directed by Jeremi Durand, the music video is loosely continuing the theme from Won't Stand Down's music video. More can be read here.

Live

Lyrics

Compliance

We just need your compliance You will feel no pain anymore And no more defiance We just need your

Compliance Just give us your compliance We won’t let you feel lost anymore No more self-reliance

Fall into line, you will do as you’re told No choice fatigue, your blood is running cold We lose control, the world will fall apart Love of your life, will mend your broken heart

Life lived in fear, you need protection, You’re all alone, too much rejection, We have what you need, just reach out and serve We can save you (Save you) We just need your

Compliance We just need your compliance You will feel no pain anymore No more defiance Just give us your compliance

Cover your tracks, we know what’s best for you You’ve bitten off much more than you can chew You’re running scared, you’ll run into our arms Come join our clique, we’ll keep you safe from harm

Our toy soldier, you’ll do the dirty work Stay loyal to us, we’ll take away the hurt We have what you need, just reach out and serve We can save you (Save you) just give us your

Compliance We just need your compliance You will feel no pain anymore No more defiance Just give us your compliance

Compliance We just need your compliance You will feel no pain anymore And no more defiance

Compliance We just need your compliance You will feel no pain anymore And no more defiance

We just need your compliance

Oh, fear is controlling you It’s time to give it up And give into us (We can save you, save you) Give us your compliance

References