Supermassive Black Hole (song)
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| Single by Muse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Black Holes and Revelations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Crying Shame" (7", CD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Writer(s) | Matthew Bellamy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Supermassive Black Hole" is a song by English band Muse, featured on their fourth studio album Black Holes and Revelations. It was written by Muse lead singer and principal songwriter Matthew Bellamy. It was released as the lead single from the album on 12 June 2006, backed with "Crying Shame".
The song charted at number four on the UK Singles Chart, the highest singles chart position the band has achieved to date in the United Kingdom. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 74 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.
Bellamy said that the song was "the most different to anything we've ever done." Influences included bands such as The Beatles, Millionaire, dEUS, Evil Superstars and Soulwax. Bellamy said that "these groups were the first to mix R&B rhythms with alternative guitar. We've added a bit of Prince and Kanye West. The drumbeat isn't rocky, with Rage Against the Machine riffs underneath. We’ve mixed a lot of things in this track, with a bit of electronica; it’s different, slow, quite funky."
In an interview with NME, Bellamy said "I was going out dancing in clubs around New York. That helped create tracks like 'Supermassive Black Hole'. Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well, with that dance type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar and I've always wanted to find that."
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