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So I wrote something about listening to Everyday Life and how it makes me feel and depression. I'd appreciate if some of you could take a look at the thread (didn't wanna post it here because the subject matter is a bit heavy): https://coldplaying.com/forum/index.php?threads/everyday-life-and-depression-spoilers-inside.125941/post-5952155 Thanks :heart:

That's interesting cause I felt the bridge of Champion Of The World has a lot of structural similarity to the chorus of Things I Don't Understand !

I wanted to write about the album Everyday Life and depression. First off, I need to tell you that I'm suffering from clinical depression. I may have alluded to it before but a couple of weeks ago I decided to truly talk about it openly on Twitter and now I'm coming out with it on Coldplaying too. Because mental health is so important and it needs to get more awareness and understanding in the general public, and I'm trying to do my bit. Almost exactly one year ago, I was at an absolute low point. I missed watching AHFODFilm in the cinema because I was hospitalized on the morning of that very day. One year on, I'm much more stable but there are times when I'm still feeling very depressed despite ongoing therapy. This illness has cost me a lot. I think it has even cost me a friendship that was very dear to me. Just as a quick explanation, depression is NOT the same as sadness. It's very hard/impossible to understand if you have never felt it. The difference is (for example), when I'm "only" sad, I can listen to Coldplay (an album like X&Y or AROBTTH maybe) and be sure the songs will lift me up. When I'm truly depressed, I can listen to X&Y and it won't speak to me anymore because I'm in a dark, emotionally unreachable place where I question my existence and life and everything. That said, music may not lift me up but depressing music can make it worse. So now Everyday Life came out (or rather, it leaked) and from the first minute of listening to it, I felt this would be an emotional, dark and heavy album. Don't get me wrong, I love it and think it's a masterpiece and musically I've been waiting for Coldplay to return to darker and heavy music for a long time. But I can't help wonder if listening to it that often is doing me any good right now. I'll list some songs I have issues with: Sunrise is such a sad, sad track that ends with a glimmer of hope, but for most of it feels like a funeral march to me. Those strings really tug at your heart. Trouble in Town is my favourite track tied with Champion of the World, but it is so dark and bleak and hopeless at times. When that piano comes in at "And I get no shelter..." and when the instrumental explodes and the chords change... Daddy is such an emotional song and a tear jerker/heart breaker under any circumstance. But on Monday I was listening to Daddy when I found out that someone I thought of as a dear friend had blocked me on Twitter. It was just too much. I had to stop listening to the album when that happened. Arabesque is not sad but very heavy and the truth is it makes me feel nervous and a bit overwhelmed at times When I Need A Friend is on the melancholic spectrum or at least certainly feels like that to me. Eko sounds very wistful/longing and sad in tone. Old Friends is not sad per se but reminds me of the fact I have almost no friends and that people who are your friends today might have left you by tomorrow. The piano in Bani Adam is so goddamn sad, sad, SAD. I really don't know where the band plucked all that sadness from suddenly. The second part with guitar and drums is not exactly happy either. Everyday Life has such beautiful strings but they tug at my heart too. Tl;dr I feel like listening to this album can potentially make you even more depressed. I was wondering how you cope with what music does to your feelings, and if anybody has similar feelings about Everyday Life or sees it differently.

I've never heard a Bon Iver song I'm afraid, so it can't be that. Damn, I'm wracking my brains but can't find where I've heard it before :joy:

I think I read on Twitter today that these rumours have been retracted since, and no festival appearances are planned for Coldplay in 2020 ?

Wow, you've been on this Forum for 15 years :O

I saw someone ask something like that in the Youtube comments for the band Q&A, waybe we're lucky and the question gets picked !

It reminds me more of something else actually but I can't for the life of me remember what...

Haha I had to think of that too !

Yeah, I thought the same. It's a conventional album but I'd take a great normal album like this one over a crappy full double album anytime.

Guess you're no fan of Swallowed in the Sea and Proof then :joy:

Damn, this album is growing on me so fast. Even in the tracks I thought "meh" are beginning I begin seeing beauty (with the exception of WOTW/POTP, BrokEn and Cry Cry Cry, these I'd still rather skip). Even though the album lacks flow and cohesiveness it's a fucking masterpiece ! Seriously, Church, Eko and Old Friends have grown so much on me. Even When I Need A Friend has.

Just listened to the Owl John song and it sounds like it's not the exact same riff, just part of it. God I love this song way too much.

Just curious, is EL anyone's top 1 favourite Coldplay album yet ?

The lyrics are extremely simple, but I think in this case it fits the subject matter since it is from the perspective of a child. And even very simple lyrics can shine if they are sung in a believable and emotional way, which is the case here.

OK, my ranking: 1. AROBTTH/X&Y 2. Parachutes 3. VLVODAAHF 4. Everyday Life 5. GS 6. MX 7. AHFOD

Yeah, same. The guitar riff is one of the things I immediately loved about the song and I honestly thought this was Jonny's brilliance. So, from a Coldplay point of view, it's a bummer. Then again, one of my favourite Coldplay Songs, if not my favourite, is Talk...

The album is one CD everywhere. It said so in the official Coldplay shop description. I envy you for already having the physical copy :D Is it really a "book" with a CD inside like it said somewhere on Amazon ?

I agree that Trouble in Town stands out more and is bold and partly experimental and unexpected for Coldplay whereas Champion of the World is typical Coldplay...but typical GREAT Coldplay. Honestly, I think I love them both equally at the moment !

I don't know if you read it, but I learnt from @Captain Crieff that the guitar in Champion of the World is sampled from a song by Scott Hutchinson, an indie rock singer who committed suicide. That lends additional weight to the lyrics...

Hey my friend, I don't mean this in bad way so please don't be offended, but I have to say that approximately 60% of your Posts in various song threads over the past few weeks are like, is Song XYZ gonna be the next single/the big hit single etc. The truth is, we are as clueless as you are. No one knows and only time will tell :rolleyes:

I think it's about embracing spirituality in general, whatever religion that may be. Showcased by the fact that Muslim prayers etc are also included on the record. By the way a lot of earlier Coldplay lyrics reflected Chris struggling with his faith (think Cemeteries of London etc.), but recently he has been embracing it more openly (MX, AHFOD, and now this). I am an atheist who is, frankly, bothered by creationism so I see lyrics like those of Amazing Day or that John Coltrane quote in Bani Adam, as well meant as they are, somewhat critically. But then I don't believe Chris is a staunch supporter of creationism. And I have gotten more open-minded over the last few years I think and am now better able to see what other people see in religion, so to speak - even if I'm still as atheist as ever.

WHatever it is, it's fucking annoying !!! :joy:

Well, ever since the release of Hypnotised things have been becoming better again. Kaleidoscope EP was the first taste of Oldplay's return, don't you forget that everyone :D