People are acting as if Everyday Life wasn't filled to the brim with great slow songs 

4 hours ago, Famous Old Painter said:

People are acting as if Everyday Life wasn't filled to the brim with great slow songs 

But it's not though. 6 songs? 

Even then, not all that great to me. Heh.

Edited September 9, 20241 yr by shred

https://x.com/coldplay/status/1833595037709701486?s=46&t=6zMzvb-p521WuoVjBRwfOQ

I wonder what FRNDZ is?  Also, sad to see that Earthling didn’t make the cut on Moon Music.  Love that song.

So the song Moon Music was originally separated into three parts. Earthling is written as Earthling pt. 1, implying there are other Earthlings we don't know about? Then there's FRNDZ, whatever that is. 

in the page on the left we can read the original release date: May 24th

16 hours ago, nicklawmusic said:

I wonder what FRNDZ is?  Also, sad to see that Earthling didn’t make the cut on Moon Music.  Love that song.

 

8 hours ago, Famous Old Painter said:

So the song Moon Music was originally separated into three parts. Earthling is written as Earthling pt. 1, implying there are other Earthlings we don't know about? Then there's FRNDZ, whatever that is. 

On the left page you can see that the word is also written stylised as "FRENDZ" and "friendz", so = friends.

At first I thought it was an acronym for "Fernández" or a reference to "Franz Ferdinand".

All My Friends are Aliens is in the booklet too. Maybe FRNDZ is a fleshed out version of that? Or something completely seperate? Either way it came very close to making the album, whatever it is. 

Jupiter lyrics apparently leaked 

https://genius.com/Coldplay-jupiter-lyrics

The "Jupiter named for a planet called a melody / wasn’t exactly where she ought to be" lines are absent, but "orchestra of rainbows" turns up. And more "la la la las" in case you were worried there'd be a song without them. 

Also these lyrics aren't great. 

Edited September 11, 20241 yr by Famous Old Painter

5 minutes ago, Famous Old Painter said:

Jupiter lyrics apparently leaked 

https://genius.com/Coldplay-jupiter-lyrics

The "Jupiter named for a planet called a melody / wasn’t exactly where she ought to be" lines are absent, but "orchestra of rainbows" turns up. And more "la la la las" in case you were worried there'd be a song without them. 

Also these lyrics aren't great. 

Looks like they are the cheap version of FLIFIL lyrics... Let´s hope the melody and Jonny´s parts are great.

It's just frustrating, because I know Chris is still capable of writing lyrics that are deeper and more meaningful than this. They came up with a ton of ideas for Moon Music yet this is the wordplay they choose to release to the public. Ugh 

on genius there are also lyrics for iAAM, are they legit? they also repeat "I get these feelings" many times... it's a mix up maybe ?

it feels like kind of repetitive to me

I could see the repetition of iAAM working if the vocal melody is good. 

So we have lyrics for every song now except Moon Music and 🌈, correct?

Correct. 
Also bear in mind those might be early lyrics not final lyrics since they’re from the notebook. 
I don’t see a problem with them either they express the message of the song well enough and are better than flifil lyrics on any given day. 

Aren't they gonna release a music video for We Pray? 

12 hours ago, Famous Old Painter said:

All My Friends are Aliens is in the booklet too. Maybe FRNDZ is a fleshed out version of that? Or something completely seperate? Either way it came very close to making the album, whatever it is. 

ALL MY FRiENDS ARE ALiENS is a jam session and as far as i know hasn't progressed any further than that

9 hours ago, johnnymax8652 said:

on genius there are also lyrics for iAAM, are they legit? they also repeat "I get these feelings" many times... it's a mix up maybe ?

it feels like kind of repetitive to me

yep, they're real

if you look real close you can see them all

In my humbled opinion they shouldn't have released FLIFIL as a single Good Feelings was a better choice for a single.

FLIFIL has has a good tune that people would have appreciated more if they only listened to it when the album is released instead of making it the first new song they hear from the band since Coloratura.

Edited September 13, 20241 yr by Galal

1 hour ago, Galal said:

In my humbled opinion they shouldn't have released FLIFIL as a single Good Feelings was a better choice for a single.

FLIFIL has has a good tune that people would have appreciated more if they only listened to it when the album is released instead of making it the first new song they hear from the band since Coloratura.

I think there seem to be certain criterias for the lead singles of the albums. When looking back, if I'm not wrong, first singles are without featuring artists and more universally representative of the album, that's what FLIFIL was.
So, then a lot of points would have still supported Good Feelings to be at least the second single, because that's when they usually bring out featuring artists. But I guess the points against it were: not that unique really - kind of similar to AOAL and My Universe, so that's where they went for We Pray instead.
I might be wrong, that's just my interpretation of their decisions, but indeed Good Feelings deserved to be a great summer hit.

Edited September 13, 20241 yr by CP-EST

I’m surprised We Pray isn’t more successful tbh. Usually the second single gets the big push but apparently not this time. 

18 minutes ago, Famous Old Painter said:

I’m surprised We Pray isn’t more successful tbh. Usually the second single gets the big push but apparently not this time. 

They aren't collaborating with big names on this one and for some reason they didn't release a music video they are still in the FLIFIL era with the new video of the making of its video

In this day in age, you never know what's going to land and become a big Top 40 hit. Shaboozy has been dominating and Sabrina Carpenter, Post Malone and Chappell Roan are having immense years delving into a bunch of different genres. On top of that you have Tik Tok trends organically sprouting up bringing back older music often with a huge nostalgiac appetite -- like Sparks and Yellow show up a lot. 

I was hoping We Pray would have more of an impact on the charts given in some ways, it's the most "Viva La Vida" sounding song from the band with the strings and big drums. I appreciate the band promting a different style of music for a single and featuring great artists from across the world, it certainly did better than FLIFIL and I think it's been doing pretty well in the UK? At the end of the day, I think it's a catchy and good song but I can see why, espescially compared to other excellently produced pop music, it didn't grab people's attention. To some degree we have to contend with the fact that these are men in their mid 40's and that won't always have appeal to pop audiences. 

I'm maintaining my prediction that Good Feelings will chart Top 40 for a few weeks at least though. It's a groovy song. 

Edited September 13, 20241 yr by lennyrott1

FLIFIL was a smart choice as first single. It gives a good first taste of this album which otherwise would probably have gone under the radar and overlooked if released with the rest of the album. It’s definitely not their strongest lead single, but it’s a grower and fun to singalong (and clap clap) to. And it sounds absolutely timeless for Coldplay.
WE PRAY also made sense as they had already debuted this at Glastonbury which had a positive response and gives a different colour of music to the lead single. Unfortunately it hasn’t charted that well outside the UK. 
GOOD FEELiNGS will be a sure fire hit with a great collab so it’s a good thing they have this to fall back on as I’m sure it will do well commercially and gives one of the albums best flavours. 

And then we have ALL MY LOVE. If they promote this well, I can also see this performing well commercially as it’s sort of reminiscent of Ed Sheeran (think How Would You Feel if it was a piano version) and as we saw works extremely well as a wedding song. 
And it sounds like the rest of Moon Music will have some real gems so very much looking forward to the next 20 days. 

A cool shot of playing nothing