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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hoodoo (page 2/ 2) ------ performed by Muse mindblowing | Reviewer: Muse-ic | 12/31/07 This is the best song of Black Holes and Revelations, by far. It's so powerful and has amazing depth ... anyone know what "hoodoo" means? how does it relate to the song? Absolution was the best album by any band I ever heard, and it is amazingly hard to follow that :D and although BH&R is not as good as Absolution was (I can seriously listen to that over and over for the rest of my life) this song is definately one of their best of all time. Whyyyyyy-- its musical perfection Lyric explanation from my perspective | Reviewer: Steph | 11/27/07 Building a new reality hints towards the notion that life is nothing but an experience and this experience is our reality. The song is speaking from a philosophical view trying to capture and portray everyones experience as one form - this form being life itself. The artist is setting up a conceivable outlook for people to imagine the 'what ifs' of their existence. Try to eliminate all other influences in existence and find your inner instincts. Listen to what they are motioning you to experience. Life is not tangible. You cannot replay and you cannot change what is done. It is on this notion that you are protected. You are free from pain because there is a forseeable end and therefore anything you do will one day end and the pain will never last forever. Why is this a crisis in your eyes again? You cannot comprehend or even conceive the possiblility of an alternative outlook. Fear is the main instinct that hinders people from creating a life that forfills their instincts. "Come to be How did it come to be Tied to a railroad No love to set us free Watch our souls fade away And our bodies crumbling" This is not questioning the presence of life itself, more the idea that as a human race we have lost complete touch with what we are about. Through the advancement of time we have lost touch with reality and are now at a point where we are living in an artificial world. We are, to an extent, stuck in this world as there is no longer an alternative. The only alternative is an escape through the means of our minds. It is through this interpretation that the last lines of the song can be seen as a conclusion to an examination of the meaning of life. Who we are is no longer possible to be known as there are too many external influences impacting on our souls. We cannot feel raw love, nor be subjected to such a force and the reason for this is the destructive path the human race has wandered down, never to return again. I apologise if I have offended anyone through my interpretation of this amazing song. meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/07 lol going off of what benjamin said.. the end is also played by an electric guitar. but either way i really love the intensity of rock mixed in with a very beautiful classical feel (classical can also get very intense too so i'm not saying classical isn't intense) :D of this whole album. muse is all about musical intensity and sometimes it might seem out of control, but i personally like it.. =P anyway, what i really meant to ask is if anyone knows the meaning behind the lyrics..? the word hoodoo means someone or something that brings bad luck. just wondering who muse is referring to when they say "you".. a specific someone? or audience in general? though i also agree with ben that there are a lot of songs that achieve the lyrics and music matching perfectly, i liked mark's analysis of splitting it into 3 parts. just wish i knew what the lyrics meant. a.ma.zing. | Reviewer: michelle | 7/24/07 i so agree with MICHELLE and kira....its just a stunning song and the whys...omg. it's just a dream. muse are just amazing. In response to the review by Mark | Reviewer: Benjamin | 7/20/07 "The guitar work that Matt Bellamy provides is played on a classical guitar... I believe it's an electric guitar. "...very heavy drum rolls..." They are not rolls and seem to be triplets. "There are very few songs that can be analyzed in this kind of way, where the music and the lyrics both mean something and they both represent each other perfectly." For me, there are many songs that achieve just that. I do not care for the most of the songs on "Black Holes and Revelations." They seem to be mostly close-minded views about politics/politicians and depthless personal relationships. I do like a good deal of Muse's work on "Origin of Symmetry" and "Absolution" though. what is it about? | Reviewer: Karakurt | 7/3/07 This song is beautiful and it sounds great, but... I'm not born as an english speaking person, so I don't really understand what is this song about. I mean - I understand each sentence for itself but.. you can call me stupid or whatsoever, but I'm not able to put it all together into a one whole meaning... Brilliant | Reviewer: Mark | 6/16/07 I agree with Michelle, this song has the typical Muse feel to it, which is theatrical and over the top. This is not a bad thing, however, the song has so much passion and emotion within it. The guitar work that Matt Bellamy provides is played on a classical guitar in a kind of western fashion. The song actually takes you through the stages of the lyrical content. I consider it to be 3 sections; a regretable beginning, a chaotic life, and an unfufilled ending. The music represents these stages perfectly by beginning the song with just guitar work that provides a kind of ominous feeling. It slowly builds up with very quiet snare work on part of the drummer, Dominic Howard. In the middle of the song, the chaos begins with a very heavy and very emotional "bridge", if you would like to call it that, consisting of a very chaotic piano piece mixed with very heavy drum rolls and a very heavy bassline to top it all off. Then, following the chaos, the aftermath is then played on just the acoustic guitar in a depressing tone with the lyrical content coinciding perfectly. I would say that as a true form of art, this is possibly Muse's most brilliant piece. When I first heard the Black Holes and Revelations album, this song did not catch my ear. After I saw them live in San Francisco, I realized how amazingly powerful this song is. There are very few songs that can be analyzed in this kind of way, where the music and the lyrics both mean something and they both represent each other perfectly. Another hats off to Muse for producing another amazing song. I cannot wait to hear their next album. Brilliant | Reviewer: Mark | 6/16/07 This song has the typical Muse feel to it, which is theatrical and over the top. This is not a bad thing, however, the song has so much passion and emotion within it. The guitar work that Matt Bellamy provides is played on a classical guitar in a kind of western fashion. The song actually takes you through the stages of the lyrical content. I consider it to be 3 sections; a regretable beginning, a chaotic life, and an unfufilled ending. The music represents these stages perfectly by beginning the song with just guitar work that provides a kind of ominous feeling. It slowly builds up with very quiet snare work on part of the drummer, Dominic Howard. In the middle of the song, the chaos begins with a very heavy and very emotional "bridge", if you would like to call it that, consisting of a very chaotic piano piece mixed with very heavy drum rolls and a very heavy bassline to top it all off. Then, following the chaos, the aftermath is then played on just the acoustic guitar in a depressing tone with the lyrical content coinciding perfectly. I would say that as a true form of art, this is possibly Muse's most brilliant piece. When I first heard the Black Holes and Revelations album, this song did not catch my ear. After I saw them live in San Francisco, I realized how amazingly powerful this song is. There are very few songs that can be analyzed in this kind of way, where the music and the lyrics both mean something and they both represent each other perfectly. Another hats off to Muse for producing another amazing song. I cannot wait to hear their next album. beautiful | Reviewer: Kira | 6/16/07 The best song on the album, and the saddest. The "whyyyyyyy"'s kill me. Powerful song. Excellent song | Reviewer: Michelle | 4/22/07 It's so heavy and passionate. One of the few songs that can make me cry. 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