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Muse ‘mad’ for Kate Husdon

No matter which way you slice it, the pros of being paired-up with someone like Kate Hudson are numerous. Getting to call one of the most beautiful ladies in Hollywood your fiancée is a pretty good deal. You also get Goldie Hawn as your future mother-in-law, which must make Thanksgiving pretty wild. And you probably get an automatic plus-one to every movie premiere in the world, popcorn and valet privileges included.

But for Muse singer-guitarist Matt Bellamy, simply being with someone even more famous than he is has its own rewards. While Muse regularly fills arenas in the US and stadiums in Europe, Hudson’s movie-star aura still generates more attention and media fervor.

“It is great to be with someone who understands all that stuff — probably more so than I do,” Bellamy tells The Post. “It ultimately means we can enjoy our private time together even more. It probably sounds weird but we live a pretty normal life. It’s actually quite easy to get away and hide from the paparazzi and all that bollocks. Sometimes they chase you down, but if you want to hide from it, I think you can.”

Bellamy, bassist Christopher Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard have just released their sixth album, “The 2nd Law,” which has climbed to No. 2 on Billboard’s album chart, spurred on by the British trio’s slick showing on “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 6.

The album is an evenly balanced mix of riff-heavy rock songs, funk freak-outs and a musical flavor new to Muse: dubstep, a once-obscure style of electronic dance music that has recently found its way into bass-heavy tracks by Britney Spears and Rihanna.

“Out of the three of us, I think I’m probably the one that leans more to finding a contemporary, cutting-edge element,” Bellamy says. “The dubstep influence came from seeing acts like [British trio] Nero play live. It was interesting to see a mosh pit emerging at what is essentially a dance gig. It was like a rock concert with people crowd-surfing. I’ve always been interested when electronica gets aggressive like that.”

Bellamy was so impressed, he asked Nero to work with the group. The result was “Follow Me,” a techno workout that runs far afield of the group’s better known blend of Queen-like prog-rock and pop.

Lyrically, many of the new tracks revolve around a loose concept: that humankind’s continual economic, ecological and technological growth is unsustainable. It’s highbrow, yes, but not quite as egregious as Bellamy’s previous incorporation of conspiracy theories into the songs on 2009’s “The Resistance” and 2006’s “Black Holes and Revelations.”

It’s probably for the best, given the kind of fans that Muse has attracted off the back of their dalliance with the crackpot crowd.

“Everywhere we go, we seem to bump into some kind of extremist,” Bellamy says, only half-jokingly. “I remember outside one gig, there was some guy waiting outside our bus who kept trying to give me the Book of Mormon and was saying that our songs have messages that relate to it. I was like, ‘Oh, come on!’ Then, literally three gigs later, someone else came up to me and tried to give a copy of the Holy Bible and said, ‘There are secret messages in your songs that relate to this book, I think you need to read it.’

“Then there are the hard-line underground, we’re-gonna-take-down-the-government type people who come backstage and say things like, ‘You’re on our side, aren’t you?’ I’m not so sure what that says about me or the music we make, but sometimes we do express some more obscure points of view that question the reality we live in.”

In place of the crazy conjecture, Bellamy has written his most intimate and personal lyrics to date, some of which were sparked by his relationship with Hudson, with whom he has a one-year-old son, Bingham. Muse’s current single, “Madness,” was inspired by a minor fight the couple had. That tiff turned into one of the album’s highlights.

“Those are the songs that people seem to be responding to most,” Bellamy says. “It might be where we’re going in the future. It would make a nice change.”

Yet another reason to shack up with Kate Hudson: Even when she’s angry, she inspires hit singles.