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If it´s the real version, and not something taken from the live version and filled/faked, I find it empty somehow, the first part with the eternal repetition of the line "oh one world, only one world", and when the song is expected to change, expand, explode or whatever they want, comes the strings, which for me lead nowhere. For me, if it´s the album version, it´s a lost opportunity.

I like the funny perspective and I´m so happy you love their latest style, but I don´t get the need to ridicule whoever dislikes it. Music is so great it is not defined by any magazine title, tickets sold or number 1s on any paid list. Music is something that opens up our feelings, lets us carry on a little easier with our lives, and you should respect if anybody had a better time or felt somehow more touched with any other era from Coldplay´s career. As long as that person respects your love for things like MOTS, it should be ok to express it.

Ok, I just found the post with the .rar, thanks! Forever Held didn´t really catch my attention, nothing close to Mylo Xyloto for example, beautiful EL reminders anyway. We pray may not be my cup of tea, but surely it´s something different, and away from the latest easypoppy singles.

Is there anywhere I can listen to Forever Held and We Pray from Glastonbury? Thanks!

Did they get to listen to Aeterna too?

Doesn´t make any sense to play I am a mountain to some people right now, and not put it in the album. When did anybody listen recently to the studio version of Aeterna? It is confirmed by Chris to be a b-side, and I bet I am a mountain will finally be in the album.

I just read it will be broadcasted worldwide. Do you think this saturday we´ll listen to any more new songs?

No you can´t. You can now, completing the setlist with Paradise, ASFOS, My Universe, etc.

Well, we already heard the Orange song, if I´m not wrong.

Well, you´re completely right and of course they follow the direction they just want to. In my case, it´s not that I´m expecting something like Coloratura, what I´m expecting is anything away from everything that was not Coloratura or POTP. For example, I´m not a big fan of Higher Power, but they had never done a song like that one, with that rhythm on the verses and a (too much for me) catchy chorus. But this one is not different or new at all, and when you get to the first chorus, you´ve heard the rest of the song already. But of course, I´m glad you enjoy it!

Two possible explanations: 1) Because being more alternative you don´t fill stadiums all over the world. 2) Because they don´t like/want to be alternative, they really like the music they´re writing. I guess both are true.

Checking your list, there´s no way FLIFIL is nearly close at all to any of the previous first singles. No way.

I only agree with you on the first paragraph, but it´s nice to read such a deep explanation about your thoughts. Thanks!

That´s true, and I hated for a couple of weeks ETIAW because I found it too commercial (well, it really was, but it has become a joy anthem for me along the years). But you can find it hard to get the new style of a song, or the group´s different direction, but that´s not what I´m saying here. Magic, Violet Hill or ETIAW were challenging, were something different.

I can´t see why it wouldn´t work, it has the easiest chorus they have ever done, everything in the song is directed to be heard without any effort (and without any emotion neither, in my opinion). I think it will work on the radio and in the stadiums as well, but it´s not the kind of song I would like to hear.

I find it shocking how he has decreased over the years his lyric level, he has never been Dylan but...

I find it a little boring, flat, not exciting at all. Which in a group like Coldplay it´s really surprising. And I understand that somebody coulds say it´s like a mix of "My Universe" and "Higher Power", and as I feared, for the bad reasons. It´s an extremely easy-to-listen song, I expect much better things from Moon Music.

I would find it strange to publish the album in October and don´t tour Europe and/or USA with it. The only option I can think of, if they don´t, it´s because they think the album doesn´t have more than 3 songs suitable for the tour, but that would be really unlikely.

I guess the video will come out some days or even weeks after tomorrow, it usually goes that way.

My guess is that in the small board are written the discarded songs.

If the album is announced, probably they got all those details completely sorted out.

Where does that video where you hear the different tracks (or at least you´re talking about track 3) come from?

I don´t like it too much, the chorus is very simple and obvious.

It´s amazing being able to say that without listening to 10 seconds of the whole album😂

Thanks for the video, you´re completely right, they did great. Are we sure that guy was pro-Israel and not anti-muppets? Also, how do you know they came around to check he was ok, and not to give him the bill of the broken stage elements?