Muse have had to change their social media handles to make way for Meta’s new AI tool.
The Devon rock icons changed their handle on X and Instagram from @Muse to @Musetheband, allowing Meta’s new AI tool, also called Muse, to take on their former usernames.
The AI assistant, which was rolled out in the United States this week, is designed to assist users with everyday tasks including responding to emails, making schedules, and converting long-term goals into action plans.
Some fans have pointed out the irony of the switch, given Matt Bellamy‘s penchant for dystopian lyrics, with their albums ‘Simulation Theory‘ and ‘Drones‘ including references to algorithms and technology taking over.
‘Algorithm’, the opening track from 2018’s ‘Simulation Theory’ sees Bellamy sing: “Burn like a slave/Churn like a cog/We are caged in simulations/Algorithms evolve/Push us aside and render us obsolete.”
“Muse going from making dystopian rock albums warning us about the machine takeover to taking an AI buyout is top tier tragic irony,” one fan wrote on X.
Muse have not commented publicly on the change in username.
does it ever drive you crazy
just how fast the night changes
3 3 3 https://t.co/QznfMrnhF9 pic.twitter.com/ql5Y1ghosu— max ⑂ (@reedoedeer) September 8, 2026
Lmao, zuck took the “muse” handle on Instagram for his new AI thing, and now the world-famous band with nearly 3m followers that’s been around for 25 years has been given “museband” pic.twitter.com/3GxKSc9WqZ
— nbduckman (@nbduckman) September 8, 2026
Muse going from making dystopian rock albums warning us about the machine takeover to taking an AI buyout is top tier tragic irony
— Amber Texas (@GabbieFletcher) September 9, 2026
NME gave Muse’s latest album ‘The Wow! Signal’ four stars, noting: “In rekindling their own purpose, the Teignmouth trio have delivered undoubtedly their most consistent and satisfying album since ‘Black Holes & Revelations’ – doubling up as either a knowing gift to the fans or at least a response to any concerns that Muse had long disappeared too far up their own supermassive blackholes. Look up to the sky with a sigh of relief or a simple ‘wow’.”
Bellamy also recently told NME that the album found him leaning into “the unknown” after a difficult personal period and split from his wife, saying: “I can’t live without music – that feeling came back to me on this album.”
The interview also saw Bellamy look back on the ’00s guitar rock scene and share plans for “building a spaceship” for their upcoming UK and European arena tour.
Muse will bring their ‘The Wow! Signal’ to the UK and Europe this autumn, including two nights at Manchester’s Co-op Live on November 12 and 13, and two London shows at The O2 on November 15 and 16. Find tickets for those shows here.
