Coldplay's 'new' direction...

and remember: don't go chasing waterfalls.

xposts. Not a shock, just didn't think Chris Martin could possibly top his past efforts. Proper laugh out loud stuff innit. But ya know, it might sound alright.

Yeah, really. I'm sure the single will be a fine enough weird tease for the future album. Lyrics from 90% of acts would look stupid in isolation, tbh. Though most bands aren't huge giant asking-for-it targets, either.

this whole thing of being able to read lyrics of a new single before you can hear the song is the worst, same thing happened with "Born This Way." i wonder if they're being released to the public in any official capacity or if it's a matter of someone having access to the recording and wanting to leak some kind of info about it but not being able to leak the song itself.

every teardrop is of chola descent

They should leak the instrumental version and leave us guessing as to the lyrics.

MAYBE I'M IN THE BLACK, MAYBE I'M ON MY KNEES(es)
MAYBE I'M IN THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO TRAPEZES

^ all time

OK, this tuneless new song is pretty weak. Nay, it's the weakest lead single the band has ever released. Sounds like Cranberries or some shit. (Actually, it sounds like Doves's "There Goes the Fear," but minus the melody.)

I remember when "Rubberband Girl" and "The Red Shoes" was announced, it was promoted with a CD of some woman (not Kate Bush) presenting a press release and then reading out the lyrics to that one song.

i fuck w/ this song, but then i liked pretty much all of Viva La Vida so grain of salt

I like VLV, too, but this song blows. Compared to Violet Hill or whatever as a lead track it's just so ... wan. Everything everyone accuses Coldplay of being but worse.

At 9 p.m., the guests went out to a pair of long tables on the terrace. Diaz, A-Rod, and Batali sat near Chris Martin, who had arrived looking cranky. (A publicist warned, “He doesn’t want to talk.”)

Yeah, I read that New Yorker article too.

(A publicist warned, “He doesn’t want to talk.”)

Considering the lyrics posted above, this is proof of the existence of some sort of deity.

I consider this to be a great, catchy pop song. That said, admittedly the lyrics are not their best....

(Even being from a group that usually haven't cared all that much about lyrics)

So even Geir is bringing the beatdown, relatively speaking.

I don't care about Coldplay

That being said, this song sounds like an ignorable prelude to a song that would hopefully have a tune

It should be noted that Coldplay have never been particularly good at picking first singles from albums. The first single release from their albums has, with the possible exception of "Speed Of Sound", never quite been the most popular or acclaimed track on the album.

to some extent i think that's been a deliberate strategy, as they've gotten bigger, and it kind of a common one for really successful acts -- the first single is going to do well regardless and serves mainly to announce the album, whereas the 2nd or 3rd single will be what stays on the radio for months and moves units

Sure, but the first single from each album has in the past at least been, you know, good (relatively speaking). This would be a bad, boring, tuneless song in any context. The first single from an album is supposed to drum up excitement, not dread.

eh, i was never big on "Speed of Sound" or "In My Place," so i'll take this over those. didn't like "Violet Hill" at first but it grew on me.

Huh. I really like "Speed of Sound" and "In My Place," and "Violet Hill" was different enough that it did a good job setting the stage for Coldplay's coming out with Brian Eno.

Anyway, forget this new song. What the world needs to know is: did the band get new uniforms?!

"violet hill" is great, much better than "viva la vifa"

From the notes on YouTube:

The song contains compositional elements of "I Go To Rio" by Peter Allen (1976), written by Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson.

MAYBE I'M IN THE BLACK, MAYBE I'M ON MY KNEES
MAYBE I'M IN THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO TRAPEZES

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sorry

Unnecessary evil clown. Two minutes, penalty box.

Is that their new album cover

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lekhljTagN1qd35ofo1_500.png

the new Foo Fighters video features Dave Grohl sitting in traffic and scowling at cars with Justin Bieber, George Bush and Coldplay bumper stickers

kelpolaris bringing the heat as always

I heard this track twice on a friend's satellite radio station last night :(

Coldplay's nude erection
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, February 7, 2005 1:30 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

i would love to see an extremely literal music video for this

surprised to see indie saddoes hating on a new Coldplay joint

In the wise words of a friend, "To be honest, at this point it just feels cruel to mock them."

What's a saddoes?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=saddo

I don't think society has reached a consensus on what exactly it means either. It's a bit underwhelming.

What's an indie saddo, then? A saddo that listens to "indie" music?

...

a saddo who hasn't quite made it yet

saddo is stupido

i figured it was the same thing as 'sadsack' or pretty much any other pejorative with 'sad' as the root word

yeah it's not exackly a tough one to work out

I just wasn't sure if said saddoes were sad because they listened to indie, because they liked sad indie, or because they liked Coldplay (who may be considered indie in the UK, for all I know).

I actually kind of like the song, not like I consider it to be among their best, but I kinda find it OK.

And I think partly it is because, as a Coldplay fan, I am relived because they still don't change their style too much. Like, I do like the input from Eno on them, and it may have a positive effect on them (sure did on the previous album), but only until a certain level. It is important that the songwriting style is being kept intact, that the songs are still built up in roughly the same "classic" way, but Eno may still have a lot of great input on the arrangements, which may surely benefit from more details, more "air" and more fantasy.

The new single is a sign that Coldplay still sound like Coldplay, that is important to me. Then, hopefully, like last time around, there will be many better songs on the album.

(Two bands that are natural to compare to Coldplay are Keane and Travis, and they have changed their style a bit too much lately, so that is also why I worry about too much of a new direction)

What's great here is that you can pretty much just change the dates in the URL and recycle it every couple of years:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/06/coldplay-reject-plagiarism-claims-single