April 4, 20215 yr 4 hours ago, SwirlingChaos said: Anyone think MOTS will be registered today? Most likely not until tomorrow or Tuesday at the earliest since today is a Sunday!
April 4, 20215 yr I've seen this Dua Lipa debate heat up and I wanted to put in my 'two cents'. Look at this photo. It's a design concept ordered by FirstGroup for the Great Western franchise. The photo is of the prototype Standard class seat design. It's a combination of blue, violet, teal and brown of all colours. Thank god First Great Western never used it... This image perfectly sums up collaborations in music. Multiple distinct styles (or colours in this anecdote) come together to make something awful. Very few collaborations actually work, like Under Pressure, as most end up being the 'bargain bin' of music. Something Just Like This had very little 'Coldplay' in it other than Chris singing and a guitar near the end and ended up as being a song that had pretty much zero redeemable features, and as much as I love its acoustic mix, Princess of China was pretty tepid. Dua Lipa is not much better. She's nowhere near as important to music as Rihanna (or Coldplay for that matter) and her music fits into a new genre pioneered by Billie Eilish and herself, which I like to call 'non-music', because nothing of any importance happens for the duration of the song. Coldplay is already not a spectacular band, achieving neither the ballad status of Take That nor the rock style of Feeder, nor the electropop style of New Order. Unfortunately people will listen to anything nowadays and a collaboration with Dualit Lipase, or a lot of other acts, will not do Coldplay's reputation any good. People need to actually analyse what good a collaboration what do. "But muh space theme! It's going to happen eventually; I just know it!" isn't analysis. Coldplay and Dua Lipa have very different styles. She's in the 'generic pop' genre, and Coldplay is traditionally in the pop-rock/'Take That Light' genre. I expect that a hypothetical collaboration between them would end up like the seat moquette above. Two distinct styles being forced into each other and achieving nothing in the process. That said, they could do a lot worse. While Dua Lipa's only achievements as a celebrity is appealing to 14-year-old girls and voting Remain, people like Cardiovascular Bronchitis and Little Nasdaq X are the bottom end of music. Calling it music at all is a push, being nothing more than Garageband loops and shouting obscenities. It's not music, it's a diatribe. A collaboration with them would be the end of Coldplay. However, I am firmly against any collaborations. It would just make any music they do make less credible, and would achieve nothing in the process.
April 4, 20215 yr Man I forgot how intensely anti-mainstream pop this forum can be haha I'm an oldplayer and just wanna make it clear: I love Dua, Lil Nas X, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Rihanna, Ariana Grande. I think we're living in a moment where pop stars feel truly talented and interested in pushing bounderies again, and I listen to pop music quite regularly along with alternative music (metal, punk, hip-hop, indie). I say this not as a prescription for you all, but just as an unashamed proclamation that some folks can like Coldplay and other brands of music, and that's okay. But that said, I like your post and metaphor Doomotron. I agree that most big name collabs in Coldplay's career haven't gone their way. Just to go over names Princess of China actually has a cool instrumental but lyrically it's complete trash and the song mostly is "oh-oh-ohs." A Sky Full Of Stars leans too heavily into Avicii's branding and makes Jonny, Guy and Will toothless on the song. HFTW is probably my favorite of all these, but I think it has a kinda boring chorus and they should have used Beyonce more. And Fun with Tove Lo is just boring. Tove Lo really adds nothing but soft backup vocals and the song itself should have been a B-side. And don't get me started on SJLT. There's no promise a Dua collab would break this mold. But I also wanna uplfit what others have said, including Everyday Life, because we should remember collabs can also mean smaller artists like Norah Shaqur, Jon Hopkins, the LOVE choir and more. So it's okay to not like big pop artists, but also let's remember that Coldplay for the last decade has been a band very interested in collabs and that likely won't change. If Dua gets announced for a huge pop song, fingers crossed its good. If Jon Hopkins helps produce some spacey ambient songs, awesome.
April 4, 20215 yr 7 hours ago, lennyrott1 said: Man I forgot how intensely anti-mainstream pop this forum can be haha I'm an oldplayer and just wanna make it clear: I love Dua, Lil Nas X, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Rihanna, Ariana Grande. I think we're living in a moment where pop stars feel truly talented and interested in pushing bounderies again, and I listen to pop music quite regularly along with alternative music (metal, punk, hip-hop, indie). I say this not as a prescription for you all, but just as an unashamed proclamation that some folks can like Coldplay and other brands of music, and that's okay. But that said, I like your post and metaphor Doomotron. I agree that most big name collabs in Coldplay's career haven't gone their way. Just to go over names Princess of China actually has a cool instrumental but lyrically it's complete trash and the song mostly is "oh-oh-ohs." A Sky Full Of Stars leans too heavily into Avicii's branding and makes Jonny, Guy and Will toothless on the song. HFTW is probably my favorite of all these, but I think it has a kinda boring chorus and they should have used Beyonce more. And Fun with Tove Lo is just boring. Tove Lo really adds nothing but soft backup vocals and the song itself should have been a B-side. And don't get me started on SJLT. There's no promise a Dua collab would break this mold. But I also wanna uplfit what others have said, including Everyday Life, because we should remember collabs can also mean smaller artists like Norah Shaqur, Jon Hopkins, the LOVE choir and more. So it's okay to not like big pop artists, but also let's remember that Coldplay for the last decade has been a band very interested in collabs and that likely won't change. If Dua gets announced for a huge pop song, fingers crossed its good. If Jon Hopkins helps produce some spacey ambient songs, awesome. I love ASFOS, SJLT, Fun, Fun is very underrated ?
April 5, 20215 yr 15 hours ago, Koleybolen said: Most likely not until tomorrow or Tuesday at the earliest since today is a Sunday! what about these dates? why now?
April 5, 20215 yr I think Jacob collier it’s gonna help out with the space thing ( remember that moon he did, sounded very much like a space sound )
April 5, 20215 yr And for the colabs discussion. I think that no matters who’s gonna be collaborating or not as long as the music is good.
April 5, 20215 yr 15 minutes ago, amazingnico said: And for the colabs discussion. I think that no matters who’s gonna be collaborating or not as long as the music is good. Yeah I’m very excited to see ?
April 5, 20215 yr At this point I'm very jealous of Taylor Swift fans who have had two new albums come out during lockdown along with a reworked album being released next month... so far we've had Flags to keep us going?
April 5, 20215 yr ^This. Taylor has been crushing it. I always liked her early albums and 1989 a lot but this past year she really became the most essential pop star. Both Folklore and Evermore are very, very good albums. Excited about the Jacob Collier news! It'd be cool if he featured... but I bet like with EL could be helping do mixing and production if the album is getting wrapped up. He also played the role of helping create "Angelina" from Cry Cry Cry, which Chris alluded to wanting to use again. I'm open to that... but also Cry Cry Cry is probably the first song I'd remove from EL since it tonally feels so different.
April 7, 20215 yr On 4/4/2021 at 9:49 PM, amazingnico said: And for the colabs discussion. I think that no matters who’s gonna be collaborating or not as long as the music is good. Amen to that. With all the talk of Coldplay and colabs my mind rushed to this song. Dunno how many of you know it but I thought I'd share it just in case. I interpret it as a non-Pop song however that's just me. One of my favorite colab with Chris. "Gold in them Hills" https://youtu.be/85Kf9-hJ3yg Edited April 7, 20215 yr by TealAppeal Spelling
April 7, 20215 yr The Music Of The Spheres is inside our head? 1617793918481.mp4 Edited April 7, 20215 yr by Sonny
April 7, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, Pepperfish said: British press reporting Music of the Spheres imminent Which papers?
April 8, 20215 yr Yes, it's the Sun and the Daily Mail. It's nothing we don't already know, they are just finally catching on to what us fans have discovered about the Music of the Spheres trademark.
April 8, 20215 yr Will Champion will be joining DrumathonLIVE 2021 to raise awareness and funds for mental health May 15th. It looks like May is going to be a somewhat entertaining month after the guys have been out for a while. Is it a sign that we could have something next month? Edited April 9, 20215 yr by Shiver98
April 10, 20215 yr Anybody know the song being played at the very beginning of the clip? Sounds kind of like a bit of Poppyfields but as far as I know it sounds different from anything they've ever made. I think it sounds pretty nice!
April 10, 20215 yr 5 hours ago, TheBigBadBono said: Anybody know the song being played at the very beginning of the clip? Sounds kind of like a bit of Poppyfields but as far as I know it sounds different from anything they've ever made. I think it sounds pretty nice! I thought he may be improvising, but it could also be a new song, who knows!
April 10, 20215 yr 9 hours ago, TheBigBadBono said: Anybody know the song being played at the very beginning of the clip? Sounds kind of like a bit of Poppyfields but as far as I know it sounds different from anything they've ever made. I think it sounds pretty nice! It has some resemblance to the piano that is buried in the mix at the beginning of Champion of the World, but it's not identical.
April 11, 20215 yr 17 hours ago, TheBigBadBono said: Anybody know the song being played at the very beginning of the clip? Sounds kind of like a bit of Poppyfields but as far as I know it sounds different from anything they've ever made. I think it sounds pretty nice! God it sounds so haunting... I'd love a song starting like that, imagine listening to that intro and then the song kicks int, talking about an astronaut lost in space. :P
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