Coldplay's 'new' direction...

"Must we expose the youth of Britain to this shit?", said Peter Tatchell of gay rights movement Outrage! "Sorry, new album? What new album?"

Does anyone on ILM actually like Coldplay? I'm growing more and more sick of them.

"More recently, Coldplay began dropping a series of fascinating reference points - electronica, Brian Eno and Kraftwerk - none of which seemed to fit in with their reputation as purveyors of elegiac, mid-tempo, stadium-friendly ballads. At the very least, an intriguing listen was on the cards."

that blinding light you can see on the horizon is 1978.

"The Fir Trees" is also the least fascinating pseudonym you could get in 2005.

are they anything like DMB fans?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/uk_t_in_the_park/img/7.jpg

Chris said: “We shouldn’t restrict our options. To me, the most bizarre things at the moment are the most exciting. I’d even be up for making a didgeridoo album in Alice Springs.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005470078,00.html

LOL @ "Viva la Vida" being used as a pro-life anthem (get it?) at rally in Spain.

(watch video)

oh god

The lyrics to their new single are just... wow.

"make sweet love to me gwynnie, let your golden locks caress my taint."

Of all the bands that should not be teasing a new single by releasing the lyrics first, it's this one.

I WORK 4 U

I TURN THE MUSIC UP, I GOT MY RECORDS ON
I SHUT THE WORLD OUTSIDE UNTIL THE LIGHTS COME ON
MAYBE THE STREETS ALIGHT, MAYBE THE TREES ARE GONE
I FEEL MY HEART START BEATING TO MY FAVOURITE SONG

AND ALL THE KIDS THEY DANCE, ALL THE KIDS ALL NIGHT
UNTIL MONDAY MORNING FEELS ANOTHER LIFE
I TURN THE MUSIC UP
I'M ON A ROLL THIS TIME
AND HEAVEN IS IN SIGHT

I TURN THE MUSIC UP, I GOT MY RECORDS ON
FROM UNDERNEATH THE RUBBLE SING A REBEL SONG
DON'T WANT TO SEE ANOTHER GENERATION DROP
I'D RATHER BE A COMMA THAN A FULL STOP

MAYBE I'M IN THE BLACK, MAYBE I'M ON MY KNEES
MAYBE I'M IN THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO TRAPEZES
BUT MY HEART IS BEATING AND MY PULSES START
CATHEDRALS IN MY HEART

AND WE SAW OH THIS LIGHT I SWEAR YOU, EMERGE BLINKING INTO
TO TELL ME IT'S ALRIGHT
AS WE SOAR WALLS, EVERY SIREN IS A SYMPHONY
AND EVERY TEAR'S A WATERFALL
IS A WATERFALL
OH
IS A WATERFALL
OH OH OH
IS A IS A WATERFALL
EVERY TEAR
IS A WATERFALL
OH OH OH

SO YOU CAN HURT, HURT ME BAD
BUT STILL I'LL RAISE THE FLAG

OH
IT WAS A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL
A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL

EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

jesus

http://i55.tinypic.com/afjx9h.jpg

Love how each "wa" syllable of "waterfall" is spelled out. These lyrics are BA-BA-BA-BA-BAD.

"In a variation on Radiohead's 'pay what you want' scheme, Coldplay has set up a 'donate' button for those interested in paying them not release this single now."

(I kid, I like Coldplay fine, lyrics aside.)

MAYBE THE STREETS ALIGHT

Really clunky to my ear

Jesus, those lyrics are real?????

I like Coldplay fine, but hooo leeeeee fuck.

Guys, newsflash, you probably have never seen any of the other lyrics printed out like this, but this is in no way worse than their other terrible lyrics.

It's an amazing imitation of Richard Ashcroft.

I thought I'd never want a tattoo, but now I'm not so certain anymore:

IT WAS A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL
A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL

IT WAS A WATERFALL
IT WAS A WATERFALL
IT WAS A GODDAM MUTHAFUCKIN'
WATERFALL

It reads like the first search-engine optimised stadium rock lyric. Kids dancing? Check. Waterfall? Check. Music turned up? Check. Flag-waving (for the festival audience)? Check. Symphony. Yep. Cathedral? You bet.

They have to be made up.

I'd rather be a semi-colon.

The "rebel song" reference makes me queasy.

Maybe this is their "political" album.

I FEEL MY HEART START BEATING TO "CLOCKS"

Sleeve art is a graffitoed wall so who knows? I'm a protest-song guy, obviously, but Chris Martin isn't the lyricist for the job.

I think if you transcribed 98% of the lyrics from Viva La Vida in ALL CAPS and made sure to type out every vocal tic, they would look just as awful. Not being cap'n save a lite FM band here, but this isn't like some huge shock that Chris Martin writes awful lyrics.

This band's existence is an aesthetic mistake and liking them on any level is inexcusable. kthxbai.

I'D RATHER BE A COMMA THAN A FULL STOP

http://101tees.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/commachameleon2.gif

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