Famous Old Painter

It's such an earworm. Probably the catchiest melodies of the whole album.

I'm just gonna do a 3am brain vomit so feel free to scroll past this I've been thinking about what Chris has been saying recently, about how everything will make sense once the 12 album discography is completed. How Moon Music isn't overly commercial outside of a handful of songs, how it wasn't promoted that much, and how the final two albums won't have any singles (of course, whether Parlophone will go along with Chris' promotional vision is another question). MOTS was despised by the fanbase pretty much from the get-go because of what it represented. The quick abandonment of the EL era. The fifty kazillion remixes, music videos and live performances of Higher Power. The blatant pandering to a mass audience by hooking up with BTS. The fact Max Martin has a production and co-writing credit for everything. And of course, the supermassive colourful world tour which has continued to this day. But then I think back to the 12 album plan, which Chris claims to have had in his head all along. So I wonder, perhaps having an album as blatantly commercial as MOTS was always a part of the plan. Because like it or not, Coldplay have a pretty sizeable audience who only care for the more basic pop stuff. And they wanted to give them one final gift before they go, along with having an excuse to have one final supermassive world tour. It's the farewell album for the fair-weather fans. I know they're going to keep playing live, but the MOTS tour is one of the highest grossing of all time. They're not going to beat that without a new record to promote. It reminds me of Queen's Magic tour, although under far less tragic circumstances. MOTS happened because, secretly, the band felt it was their last opportunity to make a record and tour like that. And for as much as Everyday Life is the greater artistic triumph, the MOTS tour would be a lot more fun to take part in. With that in mind, it makes me hate MOTS less, knowing it was the band getting all that pop stuff out of their system before the final stages of their recording career. Of course this could be totally wrong, and LP11 could be a garish Max Martin jackhammer of rainbows and guest stars. But given how 🌈 was intended as a preview, and how no singles are planned, it feels different this time.

All My Love music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfawgZ5bfBQ Potentially their last if CM's being honest about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfawgZ5bfBQ The (final?) music video

Added the unreleased songs that make up 🌈 as Chris said it was a “preview of what’s yet to come” although what that means in practical terms remains vague. I’m uncertain if 2 Aliens has a future as it’s technically a part of Jupiter now, but I’ll leave it on the list for the time being.

I kiiiiiind of get it. I think the album is fantastic but I've also had my expectations lowered by MX, AHFOD and MOTS. I just imagine if songs like We Pray, feelslikeimfallinginlove or Good Feelings came out right after Viva, I'd be horrified. I'd probably even be disappointed by songs like iAAM or All My Love if I was comparing them to Death and All His Friends or Strawberry Swing or whatever.

The One World hidden track has to be proof he does, right?

According to the official booklet, 🌈 is made up of The Karate Kid, Neon Forest, Sunshine, Opus 5, Man in the Moon, M.U.S.I.C. and Angelsong. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1fv1t36

Notebook edition pics for those who are interested. Confirms A Moon Song and iAAM are the same after all - https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1fv1yn1 Also, looks like the All My Love video will be released tomorrow. If Chris is telling the truth (big if), then that's it for Coldplay singles.

Ah, found out what Will said. “we have a little bonus record coming out soon and one of the tracks on it is a version of We Pray where you can write your own verse.” Based on that I doubt this little bonus record contains anything we haven't heard before.

The Voice Memo disc from the Notebook edition? That was the first thing that came to mind.

So I suppose we can add Shine On to the list of potential tracks?

It was the animated album cover (see here) with lyrics on the screen

Roughly 4:58

Orange is a hidden track, with all the lyrics replaced with la la la. I'm not joking.

This really, really should've been 5 minutes. It was THIS CLOSE to being the perfect closing track 😕

Does it flow with the rest of the album? Probably not. But good lord it BANGS.

This is a lot closer to the Everyday Life sound actually, with the acoustic guitar and African choir and everything. Not a million miles away from something like Eko. I could see Chris performing this in Jordan. Not at all what I expected after the demo.

When the album comes out properly I'm gonna make an edit of 🌈 where the MUSIC section goes on longer, like in the demo.

I was just informed the hidden track at the end of One World is Orange, but all the lyrics are replaced with la la las. I shit you not. That is some epic trolling I have to say. And we all thought it would be A Wave!

Knee-jerk track ratings BRILLIANT Moon Music (holy fuck) Alien Hits Alien Radio One World VERY GOOD Jupiter (I’m surprised, but this is great) iAAM (it’s grown on me) Aeterna All My Love MEH feelslikeimfallinginmeh We Pray Good Feelings Overall, much better than AHFOD and MOTS, and fuck it, I prefer it to MX. Time will tell how it holds up next to Everyday Life. We Pray and Good Feelings hold it back from being Ghost Stories level for me but man it's a lot closer than I thought it would be.

Uploading individually tagged tracks now Will upload a zip of them too

As much as songs like We Pray and Good Feelings really disrupt things, this album really feels like the low-key continuation of Ghost Stories/Everyday Life I was hoping for.

That's probably a better comparison than mine tbh

As sad as I am to lose Shine On, I’m glad it’s not the title track or 🌈 as those songs are perfect as is Could’ve swapped it with We Pray though…