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Muse have praised both 'Royals' star Lorde and Kanye West - with Matt Bellamy claiming he has named his cats after Kanye and girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
In a new interview, in which Bellamy also discusses his life under the spotlight as one of the world's most famous rock frontmen and as the boyfriend of Hollywood star Kate Hudson, both Bellamy and bandmate Dom Howard discuss the two musicians, who have been two of the biggest music stars in 2013.
"That ‘Royals’ song, that’s pretty interesting," Matt Bellamy tells Radio.com. "Lorde have mercy, yeah. That’s pretty good."
When discussing Kanye West, Bellamy praises his divisive Yeezus album, claiming the record 'threw him off', but saying it is 'very good'.
"I’ve got to admit, I don’t know much about Kanye," he said of Yeezus. "I’ve heard bits of that new record, I like some of the sounds on it. Some of the lyrics of those artists sort of throw me off a little bit. It’s very full on, it’s very in your face, it’s very like ‘me, me, me,’ and all that. But it’s cool, the music’s good."
Bellamy + Howard with Christian Horner at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, November 2013
Howard spoke of Kanye's now-infamous Zane Lowe interview, which made as many headlines as the music, saying that West's bizarre behaviour is one of the reasons he is such a fan.
"It starts off with him kind of gradually working himself up and ranting and you think, ‘what the f*** is he talking about?’" says Howard. "But by the end of it, he kind of justifies his comments… I kind of like Kanye because he’s giving (a middle finger) to the man and to the kind of standard public way of doing things with the music."
Matt Bellamy then added: "I’ve got two cats named Kim and Kanye."
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