2011’s Mylo Xyloto leaned too far into electronics, and 2014’s Ghost Stories overcorrected for the prior album’s cloying pep by veering into hushed (and sporadically sort of effective) folktronica.
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2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head ramped up the guitars 2005’s X&Y upped the atmospherics and spindly post-punk guitar theatrics in preparation for the 2008 coup Viva La Vida or Death and His Friends, for which they called in the legendary Brian Eno for a crack at the big music he coaxed out of U2 20 years prior as the Dublin quartet carried the banner for stern, sentimental Irish rock and roll around the world. They’ve been running from the sleepy, sad-bastard excellence of 2000’s Parachutes ever since. This is Chris Martin’s superpower, the well from which Coldplay’s hits spring.Ĭoldplay doesn’t want to be this band. You’ll catch yourself remembering someone you miss, and you will cry. If you’ve forgotten about the gale-force power of “Fix You,” revisit this video of the band playing it to the 40,000-seat Allianz Parque in São Paulo in 2017, as couples, friends, and families in the crowd hold each other and weep openly through the bridge, or this clip from ABC’s Brothers and Sisters (spoiler alert!) of a politician having a medical emergency on the way to the hospital where a surrogate is in labor with his adopted child as the song reaches its climax. One of his most memorable lyrics goes, “I will try to fix you.” He means it. Lead singer Chris Martin’s voice is pillowy and encouraging, like a hug. The riffs rock softly but firmly, the way a cradle does. (The Korean-language rap sections performed by Suga and J-Hope were pre-recorded.) Coldplay notably traveled to Korea to record “My Universe” during the pandemic.Chris Martin breaks the traditions of his woke savior predecessors in stadium rock with a record that tries to give everyone a seat at the table.Ĭoldplay is comfort food. The seven members of BTS were featured as holograms on a backdrop as Chris Martin sang both English and Korean-language parts of the song. The bands were in two different countries-Coldplay in NYC, and BTS back home in Seoul-but came “together” on stage.
Just last week, Coldplay and BTS performed as part of the Global Citizen Live event. While the visuals of “My Universe” may be intentionally futuristic, the ability to play together across vast swathes of space is not. It’s why seeing the bands find a way, despite their harsh reality, to share a joyful experience so damn inspiring. It’s a representation of the forced physical distance that has come to define much of the past few years. It doesn’t seem a coincidence that the fictional versions of BTS and Coldplay featured in this video are unable to be together in person. Personified by “The Silencers,” this antagonist can be broadly interpreted by the societal prejudices that can sometimes keep up apart, but also by a pandemic that has made the most basic rituals of togetherness more complicated. Here, the enemy is not difference, but a mysterious, totalitarian force that has banned all music. Together, they make something beautiful and special that brings them joy despite the seemingly dismal worlds that surrounds them both. In it, BTS and Coldplay (and, OK, alien supergroup Supernova 7) are excited to collaborate. The music video doubles down on the theme of people coming together despite distance and differences. “My Universe,” on the other hand, embraces the science fiction aesthetics of working class space operas like Space Sweepers or Guardians of the Galaxy, with some (and I mean this as a compliment) Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century thrown in for good measure.
Also directed by Meyers-it has a speculative fiction premise in which Styles has a literally blinding smile, falls in love with a fish, and is able to power his sailboat using the winds of his jarred yells, but keeps its visuals down to Earth to tell its fairy tale-like story. A great example of the latter is Harry Styles’ “Adore You” video. High-concept, genre-driven music videos are par for the course in the visually immersive world of K-pop, but are less common in western music videos, which (save for some outliers, like Janelle Monae’s funky, political sci-fi adventures) have more “grounded,” realistic aesthetics, even when they skew fantastical. The “My Universe” music video/short film is directed by Dave Meyers, an American filmmaker best known for his commercials and music videos, which include MVs for artists Drake, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Normani, Ariana Grande, and many, many more. In spite of the ban, and with the help of a space DJ, the groups come together for a high-energy, galaxy-spanning performance of their new song. BTS and Coldplay went fully, gloriously sci-fi in the music video for their collaboration, “My Universe.” In the new music video, released at midnight on September 30th, the two bands exist in a futuristic reality where music is forbidden.
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