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I mean doing 100+ 2 hour long shows surely takes its toll on a voice, but I much prefer a set that's 1h30m instead of 2h if it means everything is live.

For clocks, most performances during the AHFOD tour had at least partial lipsync. For church I think all live performances had lipsync.

They're definitely different. The "I'm like a broken record" is drawn out more on the american idol version.

I assume that's because it's going to have a music video as well, not just the official audio. WMG logo would probably be on that thumbnail.

Very interesting. I was thinking fireworks and confetti would be one of the first things to be left out of shows becuase of their push to be environmentally friendly. Maybe it doesn't count for music videos, or maybe they'll be back to usual extravagant shows like AHFOD and MX

Who knows at this point. Like they said at the end of AHFOD tour: "From now on we're full of surprises". Maybe they've come up with a different or unusual format to releasing/promoting music. Personally loved the MX era because of all the colourful and vibrant shows, just like with AHFOD. They do share the same producer though. Them saying it was written early 2020 sound like this certainly wasn't the first song they've written for this release.

Not entirely true, considering we've had the twisted logic tour, so it could be a very plausable theory.

even the spotify playlist has been renamed to just Coldplay - Higher Power

For everyday life, they at least announced the album together with their single. This is just a single sided single, no b-side, no other information. It could still be announced later, of course, but why not announce you're working on a new album and give it a release frame together with your first single.

What if literally all of this would be for that single, and after the single, they go back into hibernation.

The same video was posted to twitter as well

The Ghost Stories version of The Race leaked months ago if I recall correctly

coldplay.com has also been changed

They changed their twitter account.

Whilst looking at some pictures again, I noticed that the billboards in I believe new york shows an extra symbol, and in a differrent order. EDIT: upon further inspection, all billboards / ads have the extra symbol. except for the picture posted of the football ads, I don't see it on there.

What is it with everybody commenting "really? This is disappointing coming from Coldplay. Hate to burst your bubble but there are no aliens in outer space, no aliens in any universe. The Earth is special and unique, whether you believe it or not. Yeah, our Earth, we got the good stuff right when it all started and..." Just bots? Or have i missed something?

95.790 mhz and 77.510 gives me a dutch dialog from alice in wonderland

It's going to be a collab between Chris Martin and Brittany Howard.

3.42 is just the length of the complete song though. If this length was deliberate, it was deliberate back in 2008/9 but not in this screenshot.

I've also spotted something less positive in all these trademarks. Apparently Music of the Spheres trademark on Justia (which was filed back in 2018) is going to be suspended, or they've been requesting suspension? I'm not very knowledged in trademarks, but suspension to me never sounds good. https://trademarks.justia.com/880/46/music-of-the-88046174.html

Look at the Date Registered, 1994, I doubt this has anything to do with Coldplay.

Whilst that's true, the show for the VLV tour started with an overview of earth from space. During the intro for Life in Technicolor they started zooming in on where the concert was being held, ending on being completely zoomed in, and switching to the crowd cam. So the space background during glass of water could also be hooking into that. This can kind of be seen here, albeit missing bits in the beginning.

That livestream certainly was after they released it on Amazon.

on the trademarks.ipo.gov.uk website, it does list some things like clothing, footwear, headgear, as well as things like live performance, flyers, magazines, and the very general Entertainment. Just a thought about MYLO, maybe they're going to be using the xylobands again, or they're going to be rebranded? I don't really see them doing that, as they haven't done it with any other album.

I managed to find another trademark they applied for, according to this website around the same time as they applied for Music of the Spheres and MYLO, all december 2020.