"It's time that the fat cats had a heart attack"

“Uprising” is a song by my favorite music band Muse and is featured on their fourth studio album “The Resistance”.  It was released on 2009 and it was written by the leader of the band, Matt Bellamy.

The lyrics of that song talks about rebellion against politicians, big companies and everyone who wants to dominate and control the people using the power that they have by a bad way. As Bellamy said, “This song is influenced by glam rock, 80s synths, riots and the more eccentric protesters at the recent G2O protests. It expresses a general mistrust of bankers, global corporations, and politicians”. In simple words, it’s a protest song.

In the music video, we can see the band playing on the back of a truck through a miniature city. Through the window of a TV shop the band looks at TVs with teddy bears on the screens and Bellamy smashes the window and TV’s with his guitar, as rebelling against them.  As the video progresses we see the people burning teddy bears on a bonfire, and later the bears (who are characterized with small fangs, claws and reptilian eyes) emerge from the floor and start attacking the city.  

These teddy bears represent, for me, the global corporations, the politicians and the people who want to control the masses for their own purposes. They are characterized as teddy bears that destroy the city because they look very innocent externally but actually, they have bad intentions.