Synopsis

Muse perform "Feeling Good" in a surreal studio environment filled with distorted audience members, drifting cherry blossom petals, and stark blue-screen imagery. Matt Bellamy sings directly to the camera while the band's theatrical performance is framed by unsettling close-ups and exaggerated faces in the crowd. The video turns the song's apparent optimism into something strange and confrontational, replacing a conventional feel-good atmosphere with a nightmarish visual style that matches Muse's darker early-2000s aesthetic.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released in October 2001, alongside Muse's double A-side single pairing "Feeling Good" with "Hyper Music."

• It was filmed at Black Island Studios in Acton, London.

• The production used a blue screen, allowing the band and the distorted audience imagery to be combined with artificial backgrounds and visual effects.

• The two videos for "Feeling Good" and "Hyper Music" were made from a single production budget. The limited resources encouraged a performance-focused approach and a deliberately inventive visual style.

• The original concept for "Feeling Good" was intended to be a more mainstream pop performance. The decision to populate the audience with monstrous, distorted Muse fans turned it into a much darker counterpart to that idea.

• A planned sequence showing Bellamy falling through the room with a pyramid of Muse fan heads was removed because there was not enough time to continue renting the studio.

• Muse recorded "Feeling Good" for their 2001 album "Origin of Symmetry." The song was written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the stage musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd."

• The single reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart.