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Revision as of 19:32, 30 June 2009

Muse song
Name Plug In Baby
Album/single
Length 3:40
Alternative titles -
First live performance 6th January 2000
Latest live performance -
Recorded Ridge Farm Studios Surrey, 2001
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer David Bottrill
Chart position 11

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Description

The song is a semi-fear about the evolution of technology and how it appears to be evolving faster than we are.

Additional information

Bellamy was apparently on magic mushrooms when he recorded it. It is also rumoured that the meaning of the song is his love for his guitar, or it could be criticizing todays new technologies such as the internet, which are supposed to be encouraging people to communicate when it really separates them.

Although on the album Origin of Symmetry the song begins with a crossfade from the end of previous track "Hyper Music", the version found on the single contains a 'clean' introduction. Likewise, the single version of "Hyper Music" has a clean ending.

"Plug In Baby" was to be re-recorded under the wishes of Maverick to coincide with an US tour promoting Origin of Symmetry.[1] As Maverick wished Matt to tone down the falsetto on the song, Muse left the label and "Plug In Baby", as well as the rest of the album, remained unreleased in the US. It is unknown if Muse did re-record "Plug In Baby" and whether this version still exists.

In an interview with James Matheison at the [V]HQ, Bent St, Sydney, in 2004, Matt momentarily forgets the meaning of Plug In Baby.

Fan: Umm, hi. This is going back a bit, but the song "Plug In Baby" - what is that about?
Matt: Ah, shit. (laughs)
Dom: You're on now.
Matt: Umm... (laughs) Uh, I can't remember now. (Dom and Chris laugh at Matt) Umm, what is it? I read- I read some book about like- uh, I don't know what it was. Something to do with, umm... co- like, uhh... bo-bots, kind of... dunno, can't remember anymore, hold on. What was it? My plug in baby, uhmm... I'm so- I'm sorry, I don't know. I can't remember. Sorry.
James: Was it about you, uh, travelling around the world, and you've got-?
Matt: It's- It's all random, it just comes out- I mean, it's random, I've got no idea what I'm singing about at all, sorry. It's just like- It's just kind of like, write a few chords and that, and then just... improvise a few words, and just hope it means something. It does mean something! Trust me. But I can't work it out myself. 'Cause I'm subjective, you see. So I can't actually quite work it out, that's for you lot to work out. (laughs)
James: It doesn't have anything to do with when you're travelling the globe and you have trouble, uh, finding powerpoints-
Matt: (laughs)
James: -that'll fit your walkman, or the like?
Dom: If you want it to be. (smiles)
James: Well, it is for me, then, I guess!
Dom: (nods and grins) Cool.

Howard: "That song’s about putting emotion into something that has no soul - like a child’s teddy bear or a computer. And also what it would be like if we could genetically engineer puppies that never grow old."

Bellamy: "I think the chorus is probably referring to some kind of analogy of the touring lifestyle, of what it feels like being on stage playing or whatever it might be, but kind of saying that really, I'm prepared to pretty much sacrifice everything in my personal life for the sake of playing music."[2]

Italian fencer Matteo Tagliarol suggested the song aided him in the attaining a gold medal during the 2008 Olympics, stating "I listened to 'Plug In Baby', of Muse, just before entering the field. I'm going to put the disc close to the medal!" in an interview minutes after winning.[3]

Lyrics

I've exposed your lies baby
The underneath's no big surprise
Now it's time for changing
And cleansing everything
To forget your love

My plug in baby
Crucifies my enemies
When I'm tired of giving, whoa
My plug in baby
In unbroken virgin realities
Is tired of living oooh

Don't confuse
Baby you're gonna lose
Your own game
Change me
Replace the envying
To forget your love

My plug in baby
Crucifies my enemies
When I'm tired of giving, whoa
My plug in baby
In unbroken virgin realities
Is tired of living
Oooh
And I've seen your loving
Mine is gone
And I've been in trouble
Wooaahhhh

Early versions

An early live version can be watched here

In early live versions, Bellamy would sing something similar to this:

You closed your eyes, yeah baby (or: I have exposed your lies, yeah baby)
You're gonna break my compromise (or: Don't wanna make no compromise)
Don't you know
That I'm changing
And cleansing everything
To forget your love

My plug in baby
Crucified my enemies
When I'm tired of living
Woah, God was in me
In unbroken virgin realities
I'm tired of living
Oooh ...

Don't confuse
'cause baby you're gonna lose
Your own game
Change me
Replace the envying
To forget your love

My plug in baby
Crucified my enemies
When I'm tired of giving
Woah, the cause within me
In unbroken virgin realities
I'm tired of living
Oh ... (x3)

Your truths
Are coming in
And I feel broken
Next to you
And I've been in trouble
(Baby It's Right)(?)

Oh
And I've seen your loving
And mine is gone
And I've seen your loving
Wooaahhhh

References

  1. Microcuts. (2002-02-15). Gigs and USA. Microcuts. Retrieved from microcuts.net.
  2. Muse: The Making of Origin of Symmetry (2007-10-07). Xfm. Retrieved from www.muselive.com. [verify]
  3. arraggiatus. (2008-08-10). Muse & The Olympics. Retrieved from muselive.com.

See also


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