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If I am remembering correctly they had just learned they had a miscarriage. I don't blame him one bit.

Chris has always wanted to salvage what privacy he can and I think there are thousands of videos out there with him being wonderful with fans. If he flips his lid a few times who can blame him?

I think he probably had his hair fixed, but I just wonder if age has given him a ruggedness that has just enhanced his look. I feel he is going for the Bruce Springsteen thing. In looking back at old videos during AROBTTH era, I realize that he was hotter than i gave him credit for at the time. I mean, all his closeups in the black and white video of God Put a Smile Upon Your Face make him look like he could've been a model for CK or something. He was smoking hot!

This is pretty damn funny!

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall was playing in the background of a work event today. I thought, who is this playlist genius?

Both ha but paradise more.

That is fantastic! (It is my theme song for life)

I haven't gotten around to listening to much of the new Snow Patrol but it is next! And I heard Lenny Kravitz is coming out with a new album. I listened his newest release and thought it was cool.

Right now I am listening to (besides Coldplay): Beach House 7 newest release which is beautiful Novo Amor (I have a playlist with this, Bon Iver, Damien Rice and similar, but Novo Amor is my newest addition) U2 Beck And a collection of stuff like Death Cab for Cutie, Temper Trap, Florence & the Machine, Alabama Shakes, Childish Gambino, The Weeknd, The Civil Wars, XX, etc....I mostly keep it pretty eclectic with exception of my pure Coldplay list

Name: chicken in the sink Album: why did I say that? First single: awkward

Today I was listening to Til Kingdom Come and the part where he says "in your fire and in your flood" made me wonder if Vance Joy got inspired by that lyric. It's a stretch probably but maybe.

It is so easy to forget to read music. I played clarinet for 7 years and had forgotten by the first year after I quit. I still have muscle memory for some songs we played all the time 20 years later though. Weird!

This is beautiful and healing. Thank you.

My kid has been watching this YouTuber who kind of annoys me but then I saw an episode where they were enthusiastic about their love for Coldplay so I am less annoyed.

Grasping on straws I guess. :) Full of surprises means you can't guess, I guess!

My daily affirmation says happy thoughts bring happy things so let's try this out! Hoping our tbt from Dave Holmes tomorrow will shed some light on this...

It's. good reminder. I have gotten professional help from time to time but not enough...To be honest, when it gets too deep and we uncover too much I run away. I don't drink away the pain anymore like I used to, so I have gotten over that hump, but you are right - I always have to be vigilant about it because it does get addictive. As a child, I had something traumatic happen to me for a few years that I kept hidden and even blacked out until it came back to me when I was a teenager...then I told people and they did nothing because it was "too late, why didn't I say something sooner"...so it has always messed me up. It is unbelievable what that kind of trauma can do to you to shape your life. When I look at my anxiety, my insecurities, my confidence, think about who I could've been had it not happened....I do get bitter. Before it happened, I apparently was a very confident child, but then I shrank in my shell. Despite all that, miraculously, I have persevered and am in quite a good place in my life, with my family, my work, everything really. I am unbelievably grateful. Sometimes I do go to a dark place though. I probably do need to sort it all out eventually. But I'm honestly afraid of what might change if I do face it further.

I love that. I think everywhere you go trying to spread love is an amazing thing. If only more of those in the world chose love, how different it would all be.

I'm glad that it may have helped in some small way in your darkest hour...and I am sorry you are going through this. :( I don't know if this is helpful, but, I am a ruminator, and there are definitely times when my hormones are such that I will sit in that spiral until I cry it out, or push everyone away while I am in my dark place and pass the storm. I'm lucky in that usually I can get past it in a few days. But, something I am trying recently is much more mindfulness. I used to think all this stuff was crazy and didn't work for my anxious mind. But it has recently started to click with me. Probably because I have been rewatching Chris's interviews post his breakup and all he did to heal himself. Practicing emptying my mind, just noticing how I feel, trying to attach no judgement to it, trying to love myself no matter what I feel. Finding the positive in the negative. It's hard. It takes practice. But when I am successful, it really helps.

Ah man, they really mention his Coldplay fandom in this article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-aviciis-final-days-w519621 So, so sad. I honestly could related to this article a lot. I also caught myself drinking too much to overcome anxiety in social situations (or anxiety in general). I'm glad I realized it early enough before it took over, but can see how the lifestyle and meteoric rise would become overwhelming. And depression...you get highs and manic and feel like you can conquer the world, but those lows drag you deep. RIP.

Ugh this is my first year as a superfan (was always something between casual and super before I saw them live last year). So I am finding waiting in the hiatus years really sucks and it has not even fully been 6 months yet. Help!

I agree that Chris seems to be the type who would be super private and go through private channels to express condolences. I wouldn't be surprised if a song came of this and other tragic, untimely deaths of late.

I have gotten back into Beck somewhat again. Also, I recently discovered The Temper Trap.

Right??? My stomach totally dropped. Too too young!

All these are so good! This is so hard for me, too, because too few songs to make it "album" length! Maybe impossible. Amazon also made a "Best of" playlist but no b-sides, which is unfortunate. This is 50 songs. I think no particular order? [MEDIA=amazon]B075822FXD[/MEDIA] Mobile Link: https://www.amazon.com/Best-of-Coldplay/dp/B075822FXD/ref=pd_sbs_15_30?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B075822FXD&pd_rd_r=47W41TD79P0RP5BCYV0C&pd_rd_w=kynsp&pd_rd_wg=XtPPW&psc=1&refRID=47W41TD79P0RP5BCYV0C