...of Plug in Baby?
It's one of the great mysteries of life (for Muse fans, at least). It seems every time Matt gets to explaining about it, he reveals that he actually can't remember what it's about...
Interviewer: "Hey, Matt, what's your plug in baby?"
Matt: "My plug in baby is my own physical body. I'm using it objectively a bit more these days. I'm not in it, I'm sort of using it. I can't explain what I mean. I make it do things now that I used to be worried about. What is it? I don't know. It's like I am my own ventriloquist. Oh, I can't remember. Help me!"
Dom: "You've said it before. You've said, 'Blah, blah, blah, and that's my plug in baby'."
Matt: "I've explained what the meaning of it is, but I don't know what it is. It's definitely myself, I think.
[to Dom] Do you think we've lost it in the last few weeks? Just fucking blown it?"
Another interview...
Interviewer: "Now, is it true, because i was told that you said Plug in Baby was about genetically engineering puppies to live forever. Did you say that?"
Matt: "I say alot of things"
Then, finally, we think we have an answer!
Matt: "It is about how we project our emotions from our innerselves into technologies around us. 'Plug In Baby' is like a made up term for 'that thing we do'. I think in a generation of pretty much athanism and none spiritual times technology becomes a way of feeling connected to people"
But then he says...
Matt: We were all off our faces on mushrooms when we recorded Plug In Baby... There was this big field next to the recording studio filled with them. So we ate them all. I don't know what we were doing, but we all ended up naked in a jacuzzi and i went deaf in one ear from falling asleep in the sauna...
So, it seems we'll never get the truth on what the original idea behind Plug in Baby, but hey, just for the hell of it, what do you guys interpret it as meaning?