🪐 Coldplay: Music of the Spheres 🪐 | Out Now! | Discussion

[FabulousSammer]

Okay so as a native finnish speaker the carousel story sounds to me like lyrics of one of the upcoming songs. The story has many repeated words and story sounds just like it could be coldplay themed.

What do you think?

[42Escapist]

9 hours ago, Riddikulus said:

Here is the Finnish part translated in English. I did my very best, but ofc it may have some mistakes.

 

 

I wonder if there are hidden meanings behind clips like this one... some of the audio clips are obviously about space, spheres, planets, the music of the spheres, etc. but then there are ones like this that seem completely unrelated.

The "don't let go" and "don't ever let go under any circumstances" bits remind me of lyrics from O and Us Against The World. Obviously "don't let go" is reminiscent of "don't ever let go" from O and "don't ever let go under any circumstances" is reminiscent of "whatever you do, don't let go" from Us Against The World. The moral of the story is to hold on tight, lest you end up like the poor child who fell off the carousel. I wonder if the similarity is a coincidence, or if it's entirely on purpose.

1 hour ago, TheBigBadBono said:

With the discovery of Alien Radio, I can't help but think of two other songs - strangely, it's these two songs that belong to that group of pre-Mylo songs that were allegedly part of the space rock album before Mylo, two songs that share similar lyrical themes of escape and refugees.

Aliens has the lyric "Diamonds ate the radio"

Moving to Mars has the lyric "and I heard it on the radio"

This raises the question - why would you include a radio reference that seems to jump out of nowhere? I don't know what the MTM lyric means but the Aliens lyric seems so random that it has to be a reference to something. Since there was an old song called Alien Radio that was unreleased but repurposed for today it seems to connect the three together.

This is a nice theory. I've always figured that ALIENS and Moving to Mars are meant to tie into one another. Both could be interpreted as songs about refugees, and the title Moving to Mars is literally named after a documentary that Mat Whitecross made about refugees. The ALIENS video tells a story about refugee aliens escaping their home planet and the lyrics of the song include lines that could reference communication across outer space ("all the ETs are phoning home," "call me," "call this line").

I do wonder if more songs like this are on the way, and if Alien Radio is indeed a song on MOTS, it could share those themes.

Oh, and remember one of Chris's Instagram live streams last year when he played a bit of David Bowie's Life On Mars? I wonder if that was on purpose and meant to tie in with the songs he was working on for MOTS... he's definitely a Bowie fan and I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the band is the same way, otherwise they wouldn't have played Heroes at a bunch of AHFOD tour shows.

And, of course, this happened:

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/coldplay-discuss-the-time-david-bowie-shot-down-their-collaboration-request-its-not-a-very-good-song-11848

[Suhit]

Just spotted this on Rik Simpson's insta. It was posted two days ago!

[MrsB]

Guy Berryman changed his insta profile pic, giving me super b-movie retro alien movie vibes. A bit like the Talk video.  I wonder if it'll be a vintage look that ties in to that but follow on from Everyday Life?

[Captain Crieff]

someone tried to play the code we aren't sure about yet:

 

this was actually the first thing I thought when I saw that code but I thought it would sound rubbish lol buuut it actually sounds a bit like the Fall of Man

what do you all think?

[Ex&Why]

Could each individual line be a letter? So starts woth a three letter word, then one letter, one letter, four letter, pause, four, three... Tried to work it out, but the two single letter words next to each other draws a blank

[MrsB]

The Rik Simpson pic genuinely relates to a cake being made by a budget supermarket, that's a rip off.of a cake from a fancy supermarket. Although if Coldplay do release a song about birthday cakes, I'll legit eat my space hat.

[Captain Crieff]

2 minutes ago, MrsB said:

The Rik Simpson pic genuinely relates to a cake being made by a budget supermarket, that's a rip off.of a cake from a fancy supermarket. Although if Coldplay do release a song about birthday cakes, I'll legit eat my space hat.

space cake?

[Yasuko]

11 hours ago, Captain Crieff said:

Some things I've noticed:

if you go to https://alienradio.fm/blank/ (don't get excited, it's really blank) or the page of any of the radio station languages (e.g. https://alienradio.fm/station/french/), well there's nothing to see on the actual page but in the source code there's this:

possibly a song title or so?

 

Also, obviously I can't understand all of those languages but from what i can understand most of the audios are talking about space stuff, but the Dutch one is just reciting Alice in Wonderland so yeah that's weird lol

On the French page, I see this.

 

[Captain Crieff]

Just now, Yasuko said:

On the French page, I see this.

 

yeah that same sentence is on all the language pages, just some website coding stuff I'm assuming

[Yasuko]

12 hours ago, stephen said:

    

 

 

Alien Radio 28

Coldplay

 

 

skip_previous pause stop skip_next repeat queue_music volume_down

 

• Alien Radio 01 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 02 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 03 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 04 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 05 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 06 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 07 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 08 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 09 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 10 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 11 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 12 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 13 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 14 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 15 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 16 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 17 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 18 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 19 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 20 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 21 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 22 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 23 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 24 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 25 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 26 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 27 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio 28 Coldplay volume_up
• Alien Radio BG1 Coldplay play_arrow
• Alien Radio BG2 Coldplay play_arrow

I wonder this means 30 songs on LP9.

[#AnotherColdplayFan]

Hey guys, please delete this if inappropriate but we're putting all theories in a Google Doc since last night.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fpj1-mEXKxeQpm5GBrtL8wdIR4bDHOGRVCOsOxFoBvs/edit?usp=sharing

Please feel free to contribute! We need the biggest minds ?

[stephen]

Found this today! 

 

[stephen]

11 minutes ago, stephen said:

Found this today! 

 

Here's the code in case they delete it!

 

         <div class="overlay content-wrapper js-overlay">

    <div class="overlay__inner content-inner">

        <div class="overlay__close-btn-wrapper">
            <button class="overlay__close-btn js-overlay-close">
                <span class="visually-hidden">Close</span>
            </button>
        </div>

        <div class="overlay__content overlay__box">
            <div class="overlay__info">
                <img src="https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/themes/arfm/static/build/images/_.svg" class="overlay__info-image" alt="___">
                <div class="overlay__text"><span class="js-media-filename-overlay"></span> / <span class="js-media-filesize-overlay"></span></div>
            </div>
            <div class="overlay__media">
                
                <img src="#" class="overlay__media-image js-overlay-image" alt="___">                

                <div class="overlay__media-video js-overlay-video">
                    <div class="overlay__media-video-inner">
                        <div class="overlay__media-video-wrapper">
                            <video class="overlay__media-video-player js-overlay-video-player" playsinline="">
                                <source src="" type="video/mp4">
                                <p>Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video.</p>
                            </video>
                        </div>
                        <div class="overlay__media-contols">
                            <button type="button" class="overlay__media-video-play js-play-pause-video">Play</button>
                            <input type="range" class="js-seek-bar" value="0">
                        </div>
                    </div> 
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>

 

[stephen]

And the '_.svg' which translates to 'Message'

 

_.svg

[Captain Crieff]

29 minutes ago, stephen said:

Found this today! 

 

I noticed that as well yesterday but wasn't sure about anything because my web developing knowledge is super basic! there seem to be more placeholders for content

[coldplay12]

Found on Alien Radio website
My Thoughts, from left to right
1 AHFOD Era
2 MX Era
3 Don't Know
4 GLASTO SHOW

[MrsB]

Some thoughts on the 4 symbols and symbolic meanings:

The spiral symbolises creative forces and growth.  

The triangle with a horizontal line through a triangle represents endurance &  nourishment. Individually the triangle is male and the horizontal line represents a co.plete journey (start to finish).

The Infinity symbol relates to limitless energy and metaphorically to love.

The three overlapping ellipses in symbology relate to unification.

Some stuff to ponder ?

[Ex&Why]

41 minutes ago, coldplay12 said:

Found on Alien Radio website
My Thoughts, from left to right
1 AHFOD Era
2 MX Era
3 Don't Know
4 GLASTO SHOW

3. The new album

 

Maybe the order of events/releases

[Captain Crieff]

has anyone else noticed the Aristotle snippet seems to be gone? it was here yesterday https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARFM-5.mp3 and I can't find it using the marker either

[stephen]

4 minutes ago, Captain Crieff said:

has anyone else noticed the Aristotle snippet seems to be gone? it was here yesterday https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARFM-5.mp3 and I can't find it using the marker either

This is what I can see today. I noticed last night that they kept changing...

[Coeurli]

 hi

So this has been wild!

Stephen thanks so much for the playlist!

I'm still wondering what exactly is the point of the Alien Radio, the theme of the era seems to be numbers radio but in the context of space so the most logical explanation is : they're going to drop some teasers and actual song bits of the new album in those frequencies. I feel like we're going to have to check for them every day 

Also could they may be update the lyric at the top of the page? I feel like we should pay attention.

Oh and I assume that there are posters everywhere already, they may post a couple more pics in the coming days but i think that the point was to tell us to go look for them ourselves lol

Anyway this is exciting

[Coeurli]

15 hours ago, Captain Crieff said:

@Alien Radio where are you man, your time to shine has come

I've literally been thinking about them for over 24 hours now  i keep thinking, man, they would be so happy

[Stanz2500]

1 hour ago, Captain Crieff said:

has anyone else noticed the Aristotle snippet seems to be gone? it was here yesterday https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARFM-5.mp3 and I can't find it using the marker either

Maybe the sounds are a countdown to the album?

[Shiver98]

Again, it says that Coldplay will perform in Rock in Rio

https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/ancelmo/post/amp/banda-britanica-coldplay-vem-ao-brasil-em-2022.html?__twitter_impression=true