Songfacts®:

• "Will Of The People" is a defiant glam rocker inspired by the chaos and protests of 2020. Vocalist Matt Bellamy is looking for a people's revolution that will overthrow our institutions and jail the leaders.
• There is a playful provocation to the dystopian stomper that hints Bellamy is not an authentic revolutionary. He talks about throwing "the baby out with the bathwater" and demands a revolution with the caveat "so long as we stay free." Bellamy's somewhat sarcastic explanation of the song enhances this view.
  
  "'Will of the People' is fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data center running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought 'f--k this.'"
• This is the title track of Muse's Will Of The People album. According to Warner Records, the record is a collection of songs of different genres with the title track said to be a "glam rocker." Muse wrote the record partly in response to their label's request for them to release a greatest hits album, which the band refused. "We were reaching that point where there was talk about maybe doing a greatest hits album, and we weren't really in favor of doing that," Bellamy told The Big Issue. "So it's almost like we've made a record that is a greatest hits album – of new songs."
  
  "That means this album might have a metal track on it – and it's like, the best metal track we've ever done," he continued. "Or there's a sort of soft ballad, love song and it's probably the best ballad love song we've ever done, and so on."
  
  Bellamy added: "It's a montage of the best of Muse. It's a new take on all of those types of genres that we've touched on in the past."
  
  Critics have compared this song's subject matter and rhythmic pattern to Muse's 2009 single "Uprising." There are also stylistic similarities to "Supermassive Black Hole" and "Psycho."
• Matt Bellamy explained that the Will Of The People album took influence from "the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world."
  
  He added: "A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests and riots, an attempted insurrection, Western democracy wavering, rising authoritarianism, wildfires and natural disasters and the destabilization of the global order all informed Will Of The People. It has been a worrying and scary time for all of us as the Western empire and the natural world, which have cradled us for so long are genuinely threatened. This album is a personal navigation through those fears and preparation for what comes next."
• The cinematic sci-fi video follows a group of masked revolutionaries setting fire to the Ministry of Truth building. From there, they head into a desert where they destroy giant statues representing the three Muse band members. The last scene is also depicted on the album's cover art.
  
  Animator and producer Tom Teller directed the dystopian music video. Other visuals he's worked on include ones for Leon Bridges ("Motorbike") and Lindsey Stirling ("'Lost Girls").
• Matt Bellamy wrote the song and co-produced it with his two band members along with LA-based music producer and engineer Aleks von Korff.
• Will Of The People became Muse's seventh record to top the UK albums chart. It made history as the UK's first-ever #1 album using NFT (non-fungible token) technology, thanks to a limited-edition "digital pressing" on the "eco-friendly" crypto platform Serenade.