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Muse's new song, "Reapers"

I'll wait to cast my final judgment until I hear the studio version of the song, but in the meantime, I'm finding Muse fans' reactions to their new song "Reapers" to be quite amusing.

A couple nights ago, Muse debuted a song from their upcoming album "Drones" live in Belfast, before performing it for a second time last night in Glasgow. The song, "Reapers," was actually the band's closer for the two nights, and upon reading the reactions from fans on the band's homepage, as well as on YouTube, I've had to chuckle a few times.

According to these fans, the song "Reapers" shows hints (influences) of the following bands/musicians:

1) AC/DC
2) Van Halen
3) Led Zeppelin
4) Queen
5) Def Leppard
6) Rage Against the Machine
7) Linkin Park
8) Jack White
9) Madonna
10) Prince
11) Lady Gaga
12) Deep Purple
13) Lynyrd Skynyrd
14) George Michael
15) Iron Maiden
16) Nirvana
17) Radiohead
18) Queens of the Stone Age

Never in my life did I think I'd hear people say a song sounded like both Iron Maiden and Lady Gaga. I suppose that's one reason why I love Muse so much. There are times I wonder if they just place the names of different genres or artists on a piece of paper, put them into a hat, pull a few random ones out, and say to each other, "Yeah, let's see if we can pull off an old school Metallica riff with the beat of a KC & the Sunshine Band song, the vocals of Prince, and oh yeah, let's also include some piano, a saxophone, maracas, and cowbell." Knowing them, they'd probably find some crazy way of making it work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1yYHnIOSY
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