Matt Bellamy believes younger listeners are beginning to embrace more authentic music because artificial intelligence has become such a major part of their everyday lives.

The Muse frontman said his blended family gives him a unique perspective on both Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

Speaking to The Sun, he said: “My stepson with Kate [Hudson], Ryder, is 22 and he’s just graduated from NYU. Then Bing is 14, and I’ve got the two little ones as well. Having a boy who’s 22 and a boy who’s 14 means I get a real sense of what’s going on in their generation.”

According to Matt, that insight has shown him that younger people's musical preferences are starting to change.

He explained: “I think that generation is turning away from pop, hip-hop and dance a little bit. They’re seeking raw, chaotic-sounding music.

“I think the reason why is because that generation is drowned by AI. AI is dominating everything they do, from schoolwork to music and the arts. I could be wrong but from what I sense from them, they’re gravitating towards what they know to be real.”

Muse recently released their new album The Wow! Signal, which is the band's first record to include a guest artist.

Ellie Goulding joins the band on the hard hitting track Hush. Matt said the collaboration came together thanks to producer Dan Lancaster, along with some encouragement from Coldplay's Chris Martin.

He told NME: “Chris actually got me a Christmas present one year, and it was a book called The Collaborative Way. It was his way of saying, ‘You’re an auto dictator, you need to learn to collaborate’. I read the book and I was like, ‘F***, of course he’s right’. I only managed to pull it off on one song on this album. Dan put together a little writing team, so Hush is the first time we’ve done a collaborative co-write.”

Matt revealed that Ellie ended up joining the song completely by accident.

He said: “By absolutely sheer coincidence, Ellie Goulding was working next door with Marshmello.

“I’ve bumped into Ellie a bunch of times over the years and we’ve talked about doing something. She just popped her head in at about 11pm. She asked to listen… and someone asked her to sing on it. We just turned it into a duet at that point. She sang it in a couple of takes and an hour-and-a-half later, we had the song.”