May 16, 201610 yr Wow! I'm not sure if it really fits the song, but I love it! I think it's the first "artsy" music video by them:D don't forget lit ii, strawberry swing :) to me those were pretty artsy too. but this is definitely the most surrealist mv they have made.
May 16, 201610 yr Wow okay whew, I felt like watching a fantasy film from the 90's mixed with Tumblr Aesthetics™. THAT WAS FUN! :cheesy: And I think extremely well made aND NOT AWKWARD for a change. And holy crap, Coldplay just kept on growing, that was somewhat terrifying hahah :uhoh:
May 16, 201610 yr Looks like the band-on-bikes scene wasn't for this video, I wonder what video's next! (too early, I know) Oh yea - forgot about the bikes......... hmmmmmm? This vid's very clever and entertaining - love the giant-sized CP... just not enough of them.
May 16, 201610 yr Coldplay just kept on growing, that was somewhat terrifying hahah :uhoh: was that a pun? :escaping2:
May 16, 201610 yr My expectations weren't exactly low after what Chris said, but the video is even better than I expected! I love it so much!!! the graphics are INCREDIBLE, it features the band, it hy as a message and it's just so beautiful! Anyone who thinks new coldplay sucks should watch this. The only thing I don't like is that they used the radio version of Up&Up. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Coldplaying mobile app
May 16, 201610 yr Is that the Gaza apartheid wall I see at ? Either way. The underlying message is very moving, the end result beautiful.
May 16, 201610 yr ️️Incredible video, so trippy. I love psychedelic things, first Georgia's ESC entry, now this really different and unique look at the world from Coldplay. I think that new Radiohead album and videos have woke them up a little bit, it is a stellar video compared to the others in this era. I'm sad they didn't use the album version, but hey for what it is, it's bloody brilliant. :D
May 16, 201610 yr "Hello Chris Martin please don't crush my house! "Alright lmao" "Uhm correction, please don't crush my city" "Yah okay!" "Uuuh.. could you please nOT STEP ON MY COUNTRY KTHXBYE" "what? I didn't catch tha-oh sHIT SORRY!" "BRO YOU JUST STEPPED ON EUROPE"
May 16, 201610 yr the details of him creating waves with his foot ~2:30 is incredible. the level of detail is impressive. this video must have taken a long time to create.
May 16, 201610 yr ️️ I think that new Radiohead album and videos have woke them up a little bit, it is a stellar video compared to the others in this era. I'm sad they didn't use the album version, but hey for what it is, it's bloody brilliant. :D I don't think coldplay had already heard the radiohead album or seen the videos when they made the Up&Up video. It must have taken pretty long to film all the footage and edit the video, apart from that coldplay are wearing the outfits they were wearing in the photos from the beginning of the era. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Coldplaying mobile app
May 16, 201610 yr That was brilliant !!!!!:omgomg::omgomg::omgomg: It rivals Strawberry Swing and The Scientist in terms of creative and well thought music video. It may seem like a collection of random mindf**** s**** going on but almost every image has something to say about society today. It is one of my favorites Coldplay music videos to date. I'm really impressed by it. The only downside is the short radio version of Up&Up, but for me it's only a detail, nothing that would make me dislike this brilliant piece of art :D:D:D.
May 16, 201610 yr Love the video. It's visually amazing, very artsy and trippy, with a surrealist touch. The message is beautiful too. There's just so much to discover and see! The amount of detail is insane! Really enjoying this. I just wish they had used the album version. But still, it's brilliant. A true artistic masterpiece, in my opinion.
May 16, 201610 yr IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!:bliss::bigcry::clap::guitarist: Jonny's guitar, the NY scenes, the turtles in the subway, the macaroni, the elephants, THE BABY ON THE AIRPLANE WING, the whole big friggin beautiful piece of magical artwork. :love::loveshower::sunny:
May 16, 201610 yr Author Check out this NME article! http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/69-mind-boggling-things-we-witnessed-in-coldplays-new-video-for-upup?
May 16, 201610 yr The video broken down by NME :P http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/69-mind-boggling-things-we-witnessed-in-coldplays-new-video-for-upup?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social In the following blog we will attempt to list, in order, all of the strange, surreal and symbolic things in the mind-boggling new Coldplay video for ‘Up & Up’ (which, by the way, is the track from their latest album, ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’, on which Noel Gallagher plays guitar). OK, let’s get on with it: 1. Turtle flying through subway station 2. Porpoises in the sky 3. People swimming in washing machines 4. Person swinging from satellite limb 5. Normal-sized girl fishing by tiny Golden Gate Bridge, or really enormous girl fishing by normal-sized Golden Gate Bridge, we just don’t know 6. Women on balcony looking directly out at constellations 7. Synchronized swimmers in teacup 8. Football match happening on cake shaped like a football pitch, possibly in a giant’s kitchen. Again, we just don’t know 9. Lady diving into clouds 10. Popcorn erupting from volcano, combining two of our greatest fears 11. Totally impractical skyscraper cereal 12. Inception-style world-bending 13. Massive Will Champion playing massive drums in a valley 14. Massive lady swimming above city 15. Bald eagle flying underwater 16. Boat soup 17. Huge Chris Martin lying all over fields, unknowingly causing untold devastation 18. Pasta skydivers 19. Flying manta ray, friend to surfers 20. Upside-down sky-boat 21. Big Jonny Buckland treading on fields and all wildlife in them 22. Cyclists scaling skyscrapers 23. Irresponsible baby clutching onto aeroplane wing 24. Person jumping off tortoise head into water 25. Mountain-sized Guy Berryman playing bass for his mountain friends 26. Car driving over city buildings 27. Big Will Champion again, this time on shiny archipelago 28. Car recklessly driving through mystery tunnel to space 29. Submarine-rider and general weirdo 30. Massive butterfly drinking from oil rig 31. Tiny elephants following big Hoover 32. Protestors by big house of cards 33. Colourful upside-down city hanging above sea 34. Washington Monument high-jump 35. Big girl 36. Wormholes parachuting. (Yes, seriously) 37. Big Guy Berryman again 38. Go-kart on the moon 39. City plagued by beautiful but obstructive and untameable flowers 40. Cosmic superhighway 41. Chris Martin leaning back on a mountain, possibly causing avalanches 42. Subway turtle 43. Underwater plane 44. Enormous poppies underneath tiny helicopters 45. Rocket people with a death wish 46. Large Johnny Buckland obstructing a plane’s flight path 47. Horses racing over the sea by a motorboat 48. Skiers on a huge snow pillow 49. Johnny B in the clouds again 50. Planes in a double world 51. Planets hovering above the pavement 52. Star tunnel 53. Someone swimming on the side of a car (this is our favourite image, by the way) 54. Guy Berryman properly way above cloud level. Like, what a tall dude 55. Someone trying to iron a waterfall, the idiot 56. Continent-sized swimmer raising sea level significantly 57. Chris Martin stamping on crops again, does he actually just hate farmers like 58. Subway window to distant galaxy 59. Flying jellyfish monster 60. Porpoises in the sky 61. Kids running to a horizon, with view of much broader horizon 62. Encore: washing machine swimmers 63. Drivers circling Saturn’s dust ring (a close second-favourite image) 64. Chris Martin even bigger than before, lying on the land with a plane flying past his ear 65. Model plane flying past a bookshelf on a mountain 66. The satellite swing again 67. Even bigger Will Champion on a tiny bit of land, where will he sleep and eat and stuff 68. People falling upwards 69. Person swimming through clouds In all seriousness, the video makes important points about refugees, war and the environment – with shots of environmental destruction, refugees, and even Donald Trump's 'wall' – so make sure to give it a proper watch: They spelled Jonny's name wrong but we will let them know :P
May 16, 201610 yr Ha you beat me but it took me a long time to copy/paste and too lazy to delete :laugh4: Check out this NME article! http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/69-mind-boggling-things-we-witnessed-in-coldplays-new-video-for-upup?
May 16, 201610 yr Artsy, meaningful and visually stunning - great video. The frequent use of swimmers was a bit boring, though. By the way I also thought the wall on the beach looks like the wall between Israel and Palestine - it could fit in with the general message of the video against divisiveness and for unity (and environmental care) on this planet.
May 16, 201610 yr im having a hard time picking out my favorite, i just cant stop watching! Me, too, but I really like this one Also, doesn't the thumbnail remind you of The Scientist video?
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