April 30, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, WskCarlosG said: I'm back ? hahaha Friday May 7 ?? I improve my Kaotican thanks to Duolingo (?) Edited April 30, 20215 yr by basstialbo joking
April 30, 20215 yr Higer power gonna be paradise 2, probably band thinking huge potential on this song like paradise so now ım thinking we’ll get single next Friday they are probably not announce album at least few more weeks maybe they will announce with second single maybe album arrive mid summer or september
April 30, 20215 yr Either ETIAW or Paradise are really good pop songs. Which is what we can expect from Higher Power too. Thats not bad at all. ? I wouldn't raise my hopes too much of getting something really atmospheric with the new record. To me, it looks like a really poppy one coming up... Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Westminster
April 30, 20215 yr Higher Power would be White Shadows 2 hopefully a little clip until the full song next week ?
April 30, 20215 yr I really like White Shadows. But i highly doubt we're getting stuff like that. For various reasons. One of them is that the band were never really satisfied with the X&Y album. Cant imagine they're going back into that direction personally. Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Westminster
April 30, 20215 yr Alien radio: Top right corner there's like a melody with text scrolling att the bottom - has it been decoded? Also bottom right corner, is that dutch? Can't hear what language it is... Sorry if I'm second om the ball. Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Famous_Old_Painter Spelling
April 30, 20215 yr I feel like I’ve got no idea what to expect. Obvs it’s going to be poppy, it’s a shame if people are getting their hopes up for a big rock song but I still don’t know what we’ll get. I think it won’t be ASFOS level easy listening, and I think it’ll have more depth than HFTW, but yeah I could see it being Paradise, ETIAW or Adventure level. When I think about the two versions of The Race, they’re both synthy and modern, although the documentary version sounds like it’s got a bit of an older touch and neither of those are overwhelmingly typical pop and I’m kind of hoping that, along with some of their spacier songs have been used as a bit of a blueprint for the album. Idk, I’m sure whatever they put out will be really good!
April 30, 20215 yr 11 hours ago, MosesTheMarshmallow said: You'd think so, but I think for quite a while now Coldplay has recognized/advocated about refugee issues and framed it around this alien theme. Look at A L I E N S - if you look at the actual lyrics, music video, and advocacy (end of the video calls for donations to Migrant Offshore Aid Station based in Malta, which aids Mediterranean refugees). Very similar themes about refugee issues in Daddy and Orphans, and recall Moving to Mars is named after the Mat Whitecross documentary about refugees. A lot of the refugee experiences is about landing in a foreign environment, literally being legally labeled as an "alien." And a lot of refugees want to go home but they can't because of ongoing conflict - the lyrics of Orphans and A L I E N S both get at the idea of wanting to go home. So in my mind this makes perfect sense - an album that tells a refugee story but through the palatable lens of space rock. This is an update on AROBTTH, an album about heartbreak and a little bit about war (Politik), dressed up in palatable alt piano rock. VLV is very much also an album about the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, but dressed up in a poppy uniform (speaking of poppies, I theorize that Prospekt's March/Poppyfields must have something to do with opium poppy production in Afghanistan). IMO this is probably the most reasonable theory. Even though the single's poppy and Max Martin's producing it, the marketing, themes, concepts, and planning for this seem so much more ambitious than anything since Mylo. The entire set-up of codes, alphabets, radio stations, etc. just screams a more ambitious (maybe not as experimental as EL) album. Not to mention that the term Music of the Spheres appeared way back in 2010 - the same time A L I E N S and Moving to Mars were written. Edited April 30, 20215 yr by TheBigBadBono
April 30, 20215 yr What i really (!) hope for is more guitar riffs like in PoC. I know, not much love for that song but i LOVE that riff by Jonny ? This, combined with an Aliens-sounding sort of song, would be perfect imho. Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Westminster
April 30, 20215 yr 2 minutes ago, TheBigBadBono said: Not to mention that the term Music of the Spheres appeared way back in 2010 - the same time A L I E N S and Moving to Mars were written. Okay, this one needs a bit explaining. I would think that most of us don't know this fact.
April 30, 20215 yr 1 minute ago, CP-EST said: Okay, this one needs a bit explaining. I would think that most of us don't know this fact. Matt McGinn (Jonny's roadie iirc) published a book in 2011 called Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay. It covers most of his time with Coldplay (from X&Y or AROBTTH onwards), up until recording past Viva La Vida. One of the pages in the book contains a reference to Brian Eno and the Music of the Spheres. You can find the line yourself here: https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=3k4mEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT97&lpg=PT97&dq=an+insanely+overcapable+piece+of+high-end+silliness+that+probably+contains+the+secret+answer+to+the+Music+of+the+Spheres&source=bl&ots=iOpYCDCw0Y&sig=ACfU3U3jzgTeV-KCBGY4zYcHz9ESfeBFpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnkLrIvaXwAhVJGaYKHdVcANoQ6AEwAHoECAEQAw#v=onepage&q=an insanely overcapable piece of high-end silliness that probably contains the secret answer to the Music of the Spheres&f=false It's also worth noting that A L I E N S was heard way back in 2009 on the South Bank Show (43:34 in the Youtube Video) So yeah, I have reason to hope for a Brian Eno influence in this album. I'm pretty sure Jon Hopkins is helping with this album, although I might be wrong.
April 30, 20215 yr 6 hours ago, 42Escapist said: There's no way they would go all out trying to promote a single and then disappear. They've changed the website and released that band photo from a few pages back that shows them in new outfits. They created a whole Kaotican alphabet that has something to do with the themes of this era, which looks quite a bit like the Klingon alphabet if you ask me ? This is what I was thinking even before these extra symbols showed up. Every track on MX has a symbol. Ghost Stories is the same way, including the bonus tracks: Now what I'm wondering is if Higher Power is the first single of a new album and if each song on the album has a corresponding symbol... which one is used for Higher Power? Who knows, that may become clear once we know the complete lyrics to the song. I think the same wy as you! But this would mean that we have all the symbols to start working on decipher the 12 songs of the album!
April 30, 20215 yr 13 hours ago, MosesTheMarshmallow said: I theorize that Prospekt's March/Poppyfields must have something to do with opium poppy production in Afghanistan). I very much doubt that! The poppy is a British symbol for war remembrance. If you notice, around Remembrance Day people in Britain wear a poppy to commemorate those who died in the world wars. The boys have also done so in the past, when they had public appearances on that day. The poppy is also referenced in All Your Friends, by the way.
April 30, 20215 yr 57 minutes ago, Famous_Old_Painter said: Alien radio: Top right corner there's like a melody with text scrolling att the bottom - has it been decoded? Also bottom right corner, is that dutch? Can't hear what language it is... Sorry if I'm second om the ball. Yes it has been decoded ? Do check out the fans google doc, everything we know or have guessed so far is in there : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fpj1-mEXKxeQpm5GBrtL8wdIR4bDHOGRVCOsOxFoBvs/edit#
April 30, 20215 yr I'm really torn on what to think about Higher Power. On the one hand I'm irrationally excited like never before for this new era. The buildup and the space and codebreaking themes and colour schemes etc are amazing, and the possibility all this could be tied in with the song being played from the ISS or something...!! On the other hand, every rational consideration tells me that musically, this won't be something I like. The MX era is my least favourite era, it's the one album and era I have least been able to connect to. And everything points to HP being a massive pop single, produced by a massive pop producer. The thought of a Coldplay song with a long list of songwriters that include Max Martin is also something that at least my own Oldplayer self six years ago would have turned up their nose at ? I would still call myself an Oldplayer overall, but Kaleidoscope EP and then of course Everyday Life have shown me that the guys still very much have the ability to create music that is just as beautiful and magnificent as in their early days. I think Kaleidoscope EP was a terrific EP that blended old Coldplay and pop Coldplay in a great way and had a great Stargate-free production, it should have been what AHFOD should have sounded like. And Everyday Life was this masterpiece recalling Viva and AROBTTH/Parachutes atmospheres and that was full of collaborations, but all of these collaborations were done right. I also recently thought, with Everyday Life, the former Wedding Album that was meant to be the successor to Viva, the band made - saying it in a very simplified manner now - a kind of Viva 2.0 (think Arabesque etc). Now everything points them to making a kind of MX 2.0 and the rational part of me is worried because MX wasn't my thing, and another part is wondering whatever would come after. A part of me also wonders if they have fallen into a kind of dichotomy ever since the completion of the first three albums and whether it will stay that way: Viva and MX GS and AHFOD EL (Viva 2.0) and MOTS (MX 2.0) LP10 and LP11?? Anyway, I think Coldplay have gotten much much better again since 2017, so I'm not nearly as pessimistic on their output as I was six years ago. Six years ago also this forum was full of clashes between "Oldplayers" and "Newplayers", and I'm so glad we have moved past that and everything has become peaceful. And with Everyday Life having been such a great gift to Oldplayers, I think we all can live with MOTS being more poppy ?
April 30, 20215 yr Album potentially second half of the year according to Parlophone https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/coldplay-uk-label-bosses-discuss-new-project-upcoming-album/ Edited April 30, 20215 yr by Ex&Why
April 30, 20215 yr So this also ends the discussion about Higher Power begin just a single or album title, since he clearly states that they want the focus to be on the single for a while. Fingers crossed for this album, because Everyday Life was a more than welcome surprise for me, being more personal and small. Not sure if I'm gonna like the big stadium-sound... but we'll see! Truthfully, I can never really hate anything Coldplay does ?
April 30, 20215 yr 38 minutes ago, Coeurli said: Yes it has been decoded ? Do check out the fans google doc, everything we know or have guessed so far is in there : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fpj1-mEXKxeQpm5GBrtL8wdIR4bDHOGRVCOsOxFoBvs/edit# Thank you so much!
April 30, 20215 yr 5 minutes ago, Ex&Why said: Álbum potencialmente en la segunda mitad del año según Parlophone https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/coldplay-uk-label-bosses-discuss-new-project-upcoming-album/ As they are putting it, it looks like MX2. We will see when the tour will begin depending on the pandemic
April 30, 20215 yr 12 minutes ago, Ex&Why said: Album potentially second half of the year according to Parlophone https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/coldplay-uk-label-bosses-discuss-new-project-upcoming-album/
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