ApproximatelyInfinite

Oof, if it does, it's in the part I'm muddled on, because I don't have that written down :lol:. I'm not being facetious when I say that there's a chance, but I can't say because I only have like 85% of it down from memory with absolute certainty.

Screenshot of "me and Jamie's shadows" which barely even exist :P On the left, next to Guy :lol: I said this in the other thread about the song, but in the part 2 video, when it opens with the shot of the river and the Thames South Bank walk, I thought for a split second that I was the loon running towards the camera when I went on my ill-fated toilet adventure, but it turns out it was just a late-night jogger :lol:

If you watch the part 2 video, right at the beginning with the titles of the shot of the river and walkway, for a split second, I thought I was the loon running when I went on my ill-fated toilet adventure :lol:. Turns out it was just a jogger, I think :P

Yes, there is a line from Wedding Bells in there, much as the line "now my feet won't touch the ground" exists in LITii and "Strawberry Swing" and "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground." Thanks for reminding me! :dance: It fits in the song, but I liked the way it was sung in the South Bank Show version of "Wedding Bells" better, personally. I assume you mean this LOLOLOL, I got so excited for a second too :P But hey, my shadow's on Coldplay's Ping :dance:

They're slightly changed, and there are many, many more lines that aren't in that version. But the general ideas are still in there, and some of the same/slightly altered lines :wink: I'm bursting to share them, I really am...8:01 PM GMT Wednesday, I promise :D

YEAH, JAMIE, I'M REWATCHING NOW. I'm way too easily excited :lol:

YOU'RE KIDDING! :stunned: *runs to re-watch*

Oh, I'll rate it if you'd like, I don't think that breaks contract :lol: I'd give it...7 out of 10, maybe? I think it's fantastic, and I teared up the first time I heard it. But it's very "them," very Viva-era sounding to me. It's good stock Coldplay, no question about that, but I don't think anyone should get their hopes up about clues to a new direction or anything. It's predictable, but not in a bad way. I also like that the lyrics are pretty personal and concrete, the way I think Chris writes best. Some of the lyrics on VLV were a bit too abstract and impersonal for me, and I like his lyric style of AROBTTH and Parachutes best. This was kind of a little love story, or maybe not story, but rumination on the current state of a relationship, and it sounded heartfelt to me. The next part I'm going to say because these lyrics already exist in the 60 Minutes demo we've all heard before...but I find it interesting that Oxford Street, the most commercial street in London, features prominently in the song :lol:. Maybe that'll make more sense when everyone hears the final version, but like...it just makes me laugh that he's talking about a street of shopping the way he is in the song :P

Ian, it's no secret I've always thought you looked like Simon Pegg, even before the first time I met you in person :P. *gets that off chest*

What's this about the lyrics changing by the end of the night? They were the same as they were in the version we heard twice on the boat, I'm pretty sure. And I think it was just the crappy PA system that made the song sound demo-ish on the boat, not the fact that it wasn't the final version, perhaps plus our vocals, though. That's just what I think, though. It sounded much better quality-wise at the shoot to me, but I'm no audiophile.

It's feasible they could just go back and track over the best take of our voices like they will on the video :shrug:

WHEE! I correctly identified him too! I didn't think the crew would lie to me, but I was more concerned about figuring out which one he was, and I got it right! :dance: He looked very busy and important, anyway, and he's the one that broke Chris away from our conversation about how much I had to pee :P

Late 2011 is probably better for me personally...there are too many great releases coming out this year and they're all going to hit at once right around exams :P :lol:. *waits for everyone to come kill me for saying that*

I'm pretty convinced they'll never top their first two albums for me, personally. I don't think they'll ever really revert to that kind of style, and maybe they shouldn't, but as excited as I am for LP5, I know LP1 and LP2 are pretty untouchable for me. What I really want is a back-to-basics sort of record, with two guitars, a piano, a bass, drums, vocals, and that's it. I tend to think that simpler is better, and it's so much better live when they can easily replicate everything with four people. I just feel like they've gotten really...grandiose since AROBTTH, and that's fine, but I feel like they're an entirely different band than they were. I kind of miss the simpler songs with more personal lyrics rather than the "wall of sound" kind of stuff they've had going on for their last two records with abstract ideas. I still LOVE them despite all that, and I do really like the last two albums, but if they really wanted to absolutely blow me away again, they'd examine their roots a bit and try to reinvent them simply.

Thank you! :dance: I look SO tired, oh my God :lol:. Two hours is not enough sleep.

:lol: I came here to post this and say how I have a newfound appreciation for Will now because he was so, so nice to me the other day, and I find it's already here! :P Anyway, obviously I've always loved Will just like I've always loved all the members, but he was by far the nicest and spent the most time with us outside at 3AM in the freezing cold after he'd been on set all day, and he's just my new favorite person to ever exist :wacky:.

I oddly feel pretty on top of my work despite everything: I have a presentation to prepare for Friday and two essays due in on Dec. 17 (OK, and a lot of reading, but that's easier to get away with only half-doing). It's just that my academic dedication has been rapidly going downhill ever since I left high school...and I think a good part of that is because of Coldplay and Coldplaying and submerging myself into the music world to never be seen again :lol:. O/T, sorry...can you tell I'm procrastinating?

:lol: Thank you :wacky: I have a newfound extreme love of Will after how nice he was to me. But also...it's just the best picture of the four :P

Iannnn can you post the pictures from Trafalgar Square soon? :shy: I'm just kind of bummed at myself that I didn't take many pictures the whole two days, but I guess the circumstances kind of prevented them...

I agree that the song names sound terrible, but I said the same thing about 90% of the song titles on VLV after they announced them and turned out to be completely wrong. "Strawberry Swing" sounded like the WORST song name I'd ever heard, and now that's one of my favorite Coldplay songs of all time. I don't think song titles give away that much, really, but that's just me.

Thanks for the scans! I'll try to get out to buy this today :nice: Imagine if Robert Pattinson called and asked "do you want to touch my balls?" CHRIS :lol:

It does :wink:. All of this stuff needs to stop happening when I need to sit down and do nothing but uni work. Once again, I might have to blame Coldplay for less-than-stellar marks :lol:

:freak: Why is 8PM Wednesday so far away? Wednesday itself doesn't seem so bad, but 8PM means I have to go through that whole day too...

Oh yeah, I think we'll definitely be audible in the video, but I guess my question is I wonder if they'll also track us onto just the song that you can download on iTunes/Amazon/etc.

I was thinking that too...it seems it'll definitely be in the video version, but I wonder if it'll be on the actual audio track too :stunned:. Maybe not, because we might drown out Chris in that part, but it is kind of a emptier-sounding instrumental break that we might be able to fill... Because to be in a Coldplay video AND to sing on a Coldplay track might be too much for me to handle.