Format Digital download Label Warner Bros.Helium-3 | Length 10:07 | |
Released 8 June 2015 (2015-06-08) Genre Symphonic rocknew progprogressive metalart rock | ||
"The Globalist" is a song by English rock band Muse, and the eleventh track from the band's seventh studio album Drones. An apocalyptic song, it serves as a sequel to "Citizen Erased". Part of this song contains music based on "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations, composed by Edward Elgar. The song follows "Aftermath", which centers on the album's protagonist discovering love. Matt Bellamy has said that the album's negative stories, "The Globalist" and "Drones", serve as epilogue. At ten minutes and seven seconds, it is the longest song in Muse's discography.
Contents
Concept
The Globalist tells the story of the protagonists' decision to become a dictator intent on destroying everything and everyone by using drones. The song consist is divided into three parts. The first part details the protagonist's origin, as he begins to revolt against the system that didn't raise him with love and made him want to "transform the Earth to his desire". After the protagonist receives a code, which Muse word-for-word had hid in the song, he began World War Three. A backwards code has fragments from the first seven songs on the album and consists this lines:
In the second part, the protagonist becomes insane and destroys the world via nuclear weapons transferred through drones. The third part of The Globalist deals with the aftermath of the protagonists' decision, as he bemoans there is "nothing left to love".
Reception
The Globalist has received mixed to positive reviews. Rolling Stone described the song as "a grand hymn of despair with a hot jam in the center", praising the song's message.