If they want to keep exploring Muse, there’s a ton of good tunes out there. New Born, Mercy, Resistance, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Neutron Star Collision, Knights of Cydonia, Ruled by Secrecy.
As to concepts, I am about to start arranging this myself, but As Dreams Are Made On. It may sound familiar because BD did it in 2016, but theirs was an exploration of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Mine is just exploring different angles of this excerpt:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
So first, the rep:
Are You Actively Eating That Candy Bar, I Am Batman, I’ve Got You, Call Me - Benjamin Wallfisch
Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy
Photograph - Cody Fry
Away With Your Fairies(Humanity Version), Red - Thomas Bergersen
The first movement would introduce to us the vastness of humanity and our development(thus the use of the energetic Wallfisch tunes). However, there’s some underlying melancholy because the story that the tunes are taken from(The Flash movie) doesn’t exactly end well for certain bat and s themed characters.
we would then explore the realization that, to paraphrase the text, we are nothing but momentary specks in a massive universe(multiverse if you want to keep going into the parallels of The Flash), and ultimately we are as inconsequential as dreams and dust. Photograph and it’s lyrics really embody this despair as the singer is afraid to forget moments that have passed.
To close, we would look on a happier meaning of the text, which is that despite us being temporary and disappearing into thin air, we still achieve greatness and can still affect the world around us in our short time here. Bergersen’s tunes bring an infectious energy and joy that fits this reading. Dreams are after all what keeps the world turning, so maybe it’s a good thing to be what dreams are made on.
Oh, this got really long. Sorry about that. Fresh ideas do that to me. Hope it turns out okay for me!