wow, u ppl seriously have no taste. Muse are one of the greatest and most original bands on the planet, fact. Matthew Bellemy is an amazing singer and they are far from boring. I've seen em live 3 times (including this very show) and they got better and better everytime! Michael ripped of classical music too, and they hardly ripp it off when they write their own pieces do they. Before anyone comes back at me, NO i don'tthink they deserved to win this. The Bad Tour at Wembley is beyond amazing and no show will ever touch it (tti may have beaten it, but we'll never know) and should have won it. but i never thought it would. as other have said here, i thought the world cup would kill it, but i was wrong. Still, my point is have some f**king respect for other artists. Just cos u don't understand or like their style of music, doesn't mean they are talentless.
How ignorant. Clearly, not everyone here is saying Muse are not talented. I, for one, happen to like them. However, they do not compare to Michael in regards to talent or quality of performance, despite being an entire band. Michael didn't "rip off" classical music. Ripping off is taking something and not adding anything original to it [i.e. Lady Gaga and pretty much anyone else who has ever tried to copy Madonna]. Michael did no such thing, and you'd have to be out of your bloody mind to argue otherwise. With that said, Muse have to have influence/inspiration from
somewhere, right? Neither they nor their music are 100% original. Hardly anyone is, and certainly not within the last two hundred years or so. Even the most accomplished classical music geniuses had borrowed influences from somewhere--you expect me to believe Muse surpasses them as well?
Moreover, Michael wrote his own songs too. He was a visionary in far more respects than one, which is not anything Muse could ever claim.
Yes, Muse is light years beyond most mainstream music nowadays in terms of quality, and their songs do have relevant lyrics for the most part, but saying they're better than Michael Jackson and one of the most "original" bands is just preposterous! Rammstein has more interesting shows than they do, btw. :3
Moreover, to claim people have no taste when it comes to music because they don't like artists whom you happen to like is really quite stupid. Stating your opinions as fact is doubly so. With that said, you're allowed to have your piece, and so are we. Not everyone in the world likes Muse--deal with it.
, and Muse's singer sounds like him. yes, Muse are respectable, I even have their first 3 albums, but I got bored soon. 
