Muse - Bliss REACTION & REVIEW! FIRST TIME HEARING!

[@clinteastwood14896]

Not many people know what the song is really about, not even many Muse fans. Matt has said (on one occasion about 22 years ago) that the song is about admiring how a child can radiate happiness. "Everything about you resonates happiness". Just pure joy and bliss, without having to worry about anything, without any adult responsibilites, without having been exposed to stuff in life yet. And he said that he misses that feeling of being a child and would want to experience it again as an adult. "Everything about you is so easy to love, they're watching you from above" literally means adults looking down at children and loving them. "Everything about you is how I'd wanna be, your freedom comes naturally". A child can be completely in the moment, completely free, and be happy. And Matt envies that. "Everything about you pains my envying". He wants that for himself. "Give me all the peace and joy in your mind, I want the peace and joy in your mind". We've all had that when we were kids, but we grew out of it slowly. We can remember things from our childhood, but none of us really remember what it felt like being a child and what that carefree state of mind was like. "Your soul can't hate anything". A child is incapable of hating anything or anyone the same way adults are. If something hurts a child, they might cry for a minute, but they will forget it in an instant and go on living their blissful, happy existence without growing to hate it. Another interesting thing is that the background synth track is pretty much stolen from the theme music to a 1992 kids video game called Top Gear for the Super Nintendo (not that anyone ever sued Matt over it). Literally a game for kids. And a third interesting fact: In the early 2000's, they used to play this song live all the time with those huge balloons unleashed upon the audience about halfway through the song. Those balloons are literally something that kids would go crazy over, not adults, because adults don't care about balloons. Kids would jump up and down out of joy if they had balloons like that. But so did the audience. For a brief moment, the people in the audience got to feel that bliss and joy of being a child, lost in the present moment. All in all, it's a song about kids! :D

[@Jamesfoster48]

Thank you. I'm a massive Muse fan and have loved this song, pretty much since it was released in 2001 and I never knew that! It's made me appreciate the song even more! And Fantastic review David!

[@Literallyjustmint]

Love this melody

[@Wolstenstickenstein]

your reactions are addictive to watch David! really glad that you enjoyed this song. it's one of the precious fan favorites. I'm actually starting to watch some of the reactions that I haven't heard the band or the song myself before. it's a cool way of discovering new stuff when you do a very good analysis of the songs.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

That's one of the main reasons I do this, to introduce people to new music and have them join me on the journey of discovery.

[@ethanox19]

i lovvvvvvvvvvvvee thisssssss songggggggggggggg

[@reese8050]

Haha, I really loved the fact you stopped and donated. Felt really nice and chill. I REALLY like the fact you are real and true to your words, even when you dislike my favorite songs it still feels really cool. Makes me want to watch more. Because when you say you do like something, it feels genuine.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

That's the whole reason I started the channel. I'm glad to hear that my honesty and integrity comes through loud and clear.

[@originbliss9488]

Love that you gave it a 10! Just donated some money. This song is incredible live, the energy is always awesome. In the early performances of this song in 2001 they used to finish the set with it, and Matt and Chris would have the tendency to jump onto Dom as he was playing the drums and pretty much destroy the entire stage. Their early days were always complete chaos! Matt doesn’t do it as much anymore, but he was notorious in the early days for being incredibly destructive on stage, he even got Muse banned from renting equipment in the EU because he smashed the rental amps to bits! Muse don’t mess around when it comes to live shows, and young Muse was the epitome of chaotic performances. Matt even holds the record for the most guitars smashed on a single tour (140!)

[@Jessesgirl2013]

Saw Muse Sunday night. I was astounded and thrilled when they busted out this song!

[@tomwright8209]

Bliss top 5 muse tune easily

[@0ptriX]

Just donated. Glad you liked the song mate.

[@Jliske2]

I think this is still Matt's favorite song. When I went to see them live in 2017, they played the song to my pleasant surprise.

[@cranboogie]

Those arpeggios are just heavenly perfect! 🌀🌀🌀🎹🎹🎹

[@heero17v83]

wow I think this is the best bliss live performance and I've never seen this before, so I just watch many times of your vedio these days

[@Christoph1235]

I was lucky enough to be there, the best gig I've ever been to.

[@danielmannandersen2332]

Was a really cool concert in the Royal Albert Hall, Matt even played the church organ at the back for one song. Best live version of Fury is in this concert, for other viewers to enjoy

[@polymniaskate]

I’m not the biggest Muse fan (outside of their first album) but this song is comfortably one of their best - and I love that intro 😊

[@paulolapa3040]

I like them until the third album "Absolution" (2003). After that 👎

[@Exileduh]

@@paulolapa3040 you don't like BHaR? that's uncommon

[@paulolapa3040]

@@Exileduh maybe for 2 songs: invincible and starlight

[@Exileduh]

@@paulolapa3040 u should really listen to city of delusion or assassin again

[@mr.lighnight7750]

Now I feel the need to donate, I'll deposit on my payroll card to be able to do it. 😊 Bliss is top 3 of my favorite muse songs so I'm not surprised you enjoyed it. As a curious fact, Muse usually dedicates at least one concert per tour to charity and records it. Throwing balloons at the public has always been a tradition in many of his concerts, a scene that I remember a lot is when Dominic, after finishing playing, asked the audience to throw a balloon at him to burst it with both drumsticks

[@oliviamarti4833]

OMG 😱 10 🎉🎉🎉 thanks for this 🔝👏👏🫶 love your react again

[@Gazza100786]

The balloons always came out before the album Black Holes and Revelations or whenever Bliss got played 😅 still got bits of confetti from my 2003 gig somewhere from a popped balloon.

[@nicogutholz9399]

Another classic by Muse, and a stunning performance for a good cause, so I'm glad you rounded up the score! Will definitely make a donation myself, as well

[@Max-xq9bs]

Some black balloons in their 2019 tour contained signed merchandise. They are also no stranger to support kids and other charity gigs

[@oonkymppa5923]

I remember reading somewhere, that Matt wrote this inspired by Nina Simone's "feeling good".

[@michaelherron7444]

Great song for great cause, great reaction :) love the score, couldn't have done a better song :)

[@victorjba]

You can play guitar singing and moving. The Edge uses a headset from about 20 years ago.

[@wewantthecup]

So much of Matt Bellamy's vocal work requires him to be able to pull away from the mic for certain notes to get the effect he wants. So I don't know if he'll ever choose to use a headset.

[@clemensburmeister9195]

10 🎉 🤩🤘

[@torresilk4277]

The original video has a link in the description for the donation page for those that don’t want to scan the thingy.

[@Til_What]

Maybe I'm crazy, because I'm a guitarist and that's my focus. But I will always say, that the riff is the driver of the song. The keyboard is important for sure, but I doubt any casual listener will ever remember the keys over the guitar on this one.

[@wewantthecup]

I ran this reaction video through an AI program and asked what your true score would be. 9.1! Nice! (No I didn't really do that) I had no idea if you'd like the song. I had a feeling you'd appreciate the stage energy, and the beautiful sounding bass. Fun fact: Muse basically had balloons like this for nearly every gig for 20 years. They aren't doing it anymore, and it feels so wrong! My statistics are 3 balloon punches, and 1 balloon pop. My friend also got booed for popping one once 😂

[@igary]

Nice one on making the donation!

[@hardcorechristopher9174]

Amazing

[@nerea4327]

Damn, they should’ve recommended the Hullabaloo live instead. That’s where they go apeshit with the balloons.

[@alexanderpringle2541]

Do some motionless in white songs!

[@MsNewsted]

MUSER 4 Life!

[@maurom1620]

synth arpegios like Top Gear: Vegas videogame hahaha flawless! .. could you comment on this? only for curiosity , take care david

[@THEDavidHeretic]

I've never played the game, so I couldn't honestly make any comments on it.

[@dkshines]

Have you been on their show already?

[@miralex67]

hmmm there were better versions live for this song but still a 10. Wow

[@wewantthecup]

Sure, the Live8 version has Matt hitting perhaps his most delicious falsetto ever, but I just can't stand the trippy graphics on the screen throughout that video; and the audio is good but not nearly as well-mixed as this one. Everything about the production of THIS video, and Muse's performance, is flawless for me. It's everything I love about their live show. So I picked it, and stand by my choice :) I love discussing "best-of" Muse performances though, so please feel free to share your shortlist of favorite Bliss videos.

[@ArgieHandle]

Live8 must be an 11 then lol

[@furonet138]

@@wewantthecup Fun fact - that live8 video uses audio from a different performance entirely. I can’t remember exactly which one, but I believe it’s from LA in 2004. I’ve seen a version of the live8 video without all the effects you mentioned, and it had the original audio from that performance, and it wasn’t nearly as good

[@heighleybaily8037]

Great groove but I have no idea what he was singing about 😂. Anything that raises money and awareness for charity is legendary in my book, including you DH ❤

[@danielmannandersen2332]

I think (personally) it's about being so intoxicated with a person, that you put them on a pedestal and make their lack of faults something that will salvage you from ever feeling bad about yourself again

[@THEDavidHeretic]

We'll be doing another St. Jude fundraiser this year, probably in the late summer (July/August)

[@mjjohansson1702]

This is peak Muse to me. Before they went arena anthem rock.

[@santiagoponce2407]

Listen the original version...it's better

[@wewantthecup]

That's a fair and valid opinion! I think the album version of Bliss is a damn masterpiece, especially where it is placed in the album. It is perfect as is, and I highly recommend DH give it a listen on his own (not for the channel). Having said all that, I appreciate their live take just as much. They have evolved it into a heavier, extended version with the guitar solo that isn't on the album. I can never get enough of Matt manipulating his guitar to add new elements. When he was at the amp from 11:28-11:39, he was actually mimicking the arpeggio synth with his guitar, not just making random noise. I just eat that stuff up 😂

[@cranboogie]

Seconding this 🌀🌀🌀👍👍👍

[@NecramoniumVideo]

The keyboard is the lead because they don't have a rhythm guitarist. They won many times the award of Live band of the year, the song is from their older repertoire that rocks and has that perfect mix of electrical music and rock, but i honestly have not loved anything they have done since 2006. It became way too electrical, lost that progressive rock feel they had.

[@c-st4r]

Bro. I am shocked - is this the first 10 ever?

[@DaRunningManSubs]

No, he's done this before. I forgot what exactly was the other performance but it was some band playing on David Letterman and it just so happened that the album that the song was from was for charity. So he gave that a 10 too.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

There have been a total of 7 scores of 10 given on the channel, all for Humanitarian reasons.

[@robertobustamante9694]

David PLEASE stop pausing the video right before the end of the build up. I feel you lose alot of the feel of the climatic buildup because you decide to pause at the WORSE times.

[@gmon78]

My mother died of lung cancer 4 years ago, and yes she was a smoker, and no, she didn't ask for it. I don't appreciate those comments at all man.

[@Gazza100786]

I'm sorry to hear that 😞 I think he was trying to say that children at that age don't deserve to die or go through the trauma when your mum knowingly smoked, which unfortunately gave her lung cancer. I hope you're ok. I've lost family members to that horrible disease, too. Take care! 💪

[@NecramoniumVideo]

Yeah, it's terrible, but still, he was right...

[@gmon78]

@@Gazza100786 Thanks man. Yeah it was rough. She died 14 months after my father died of a heart attack. I'm still processing it. I think I always will be.

[@gmon78]

@@NecramoniumVideo So if someone doesn't wear sunscreen every day and they get skin cancer, you'd say that was their fault too? Really empathetic of you man. You must be a lot of fun and parties; and funerals.....

[@NecramoniumVideo]

@@gmon78 There is a difference between actively smoking that is known to increase the risk of getting lung cancer and getting skin cancer, (that also can be prevented with the correct use of sun block). My mother had breast cancer, and that certainly was not her fault, but you are just being emotional about the fact that you think your mother "deserved it" somehow with David's comment, he never said that, but if you play with a loaded gun, you will get hurt eventually, so dont get your feelings all hurt now.