Friday 18 February 2011

Deconstructing a Rock star 1: Matt Bellamy

Matthew James Bellamy is the lead singer/guitarist/pianist of the Teignmouth rock band, Muse:
Matt generally goes for unconventional stykes, usually including red clothing, and bright coloured skinny jeans. All of the band tend to wear bright colours, but it is only Matt who will turn up quite happily in a sparkling silver sequin suit! Matt Bellamy is not afraid of fashion criticism, and will wear whatever he wants to. This is a reflection of his music. He writes songs, not necesarily designed to become popular, but to satisfy his, and the rest of the band's satisfaction. Muse have never been a band to go by the book, they always try out new things, and mix genres to suit them. As a result, the world has realised they are complete geniuses, and love them completely.


However, Matt Bellamy's fashion sense, is aguably, not as impressive as his musical talent. He tends to go for bright colours and black, with sparkling guitars that he designs himself.


Dom Howard, drummer of Muse; chooses bright colours, and is known to be particularly fond of neon yellow skinny jeans. Chris Wolstenholme is the most ordinarily-dressed of the band. Matt has also had a number of different hair colours: black, red, blue, bleach blonde, amongst the inbetween-y colours!


His ability to stand out, whether in a good way or (to some people's opinions - not mine!) not; he always makes an impression, which is exactly like his music. He will always put his stamp on a genre (usually variations of rock) which set him and the band miles apart from copycat bands that just all do the same thing. Muse experiment as much with fashion styles as they do with music styles...so beware, who knows whats coming next!


Matt usually wears red, black or white, generally with a random accessory, like his light up sunglasses. He is definately an individual, however he does belong to some typical trends (or starts them!), especially his wearing of "Atticus" clothing. He is seen wearing his "Atticus Marley" jacket - shown in the 1st image - a lot, and also has a red one the same, and a slightly different red version - shown in the 3rd image. It is a good comparison to their music, that Matt likes to keep to the rock genre, but also likes to add extra things into the mix...



...like the sunglasses!



Matt stands in power-stance mode, typical of rock stars. He also pulls a variety of facial expressions he's developed from himself and previous rock symbols. He pulls his "serious face" - as seen in the 2nd image - and his "guitar face" he pulls when playing a powerful riff. Matt has become famous amongst fans for all of his expressions, and how he puts all of his emotions and passion into his performances.




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