Famous Old Painter

Definitely sounds like it connects to the previous track (which is 🌈). Maybe the short length will make more sense when it's played back to back, time will tell. And does it flow into Aeterna or does the leak just cut off early? It sounds like someone put a filter over it intentionally to make it sound super lossy. Perhaps we'll hear it for real in a few days? Also if The Only One is Moon Music, I hope they've given it a big rearrangement like they did with Jupiter.

The video has a strong MX aesthetic, did they forget they're in the Moon Music era now?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's real, Phil confirmed it. Apparently the couple asked Phil if they could use it and he said yes.

So All My Love has to be released this month right? There are too many previews for a song they'd want to keep a lid on.

Yeah, that makes sense. I hope that's not Angel Moon in the background

If they reworked it as an acoustic A Message style song, it would explain why Camila Cabello and the crowd noises are no longer on it. It would also explain why they didn't think it was lead single material anymore.

The context is describing Jupiter as a guitar-heavy song. This description doesn’t match the leaked snippets at all

Has anything new been posted in the past, idk, month or two that's worth hearing? I haven't been paying attention for a while.

Shows how much times have changed then. Back in '08 Radiohead was easily the most popular band on Coldplaying (other than Coldplay themselves of course).

The Smile just yoinked Coldplay’s release date

I can’t even imagine how that would sound

Ehhh I’d put Higher Power above flifil We Pray wipes the floor with both though

My dumb theory is that Aeterna evolved from an attempt at doing The Race.

Huge if true. Staraflur is an all time favourite of mine

It’s when you record yourself using your phone.

Well that officially confirms the 🌈 title Glad I didn’t pre-order that edition, the tracklist looks pretty grim

Also 🌈 is actually called ALiEN HiTS ALiEN RADiO which is… a lot less poetic than The Orchestra of Rainbows