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I don't have any problem with Chris's friendship with Z and Beyoncé, as long as he understands that they have an style and are awesome at it, and Coldplay had its style and was awesome at it. Lost+ was nice, but the Rihanna collaboration is a bit too much, I think. Hopefully, it will be awesome.

I wonder whose idea was this.

loving the youtube video!

Shake It Out is AMAZING! Incredible song! Kudos to Florence.

Yep, I thought the same thing after I read it. Up In Flames has to be AMAZING! BTW, I really hope that the album is better than ETIAW and Paradise, since they will be competing with Florence + The Machine and what I have heard from her until now, her new album is going to be INCREDIBLE.

Coldplay - 'Mylo Xyloto' (10/24) Longtime collaborator Brian Eno set the ground rules for Coldplay's fifth LP, recorded over the past two years in London. "He wrote a list of 10 commandments on the wall to keep us from treading the same ground," says drummer Will Champion. "One was 'Thou shalt make music like an Italian cook, with simple and strong flavours.'" The first two singles – "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" and "Paradise" – amp Coldplay's Imax-size ballads with massive synths and trunk-rattling drums. "We deliberately tried to embrace new instruments and techniques, using elements from dance and hip-hop and bringing them into our world," says the drummer. Elsewhere, guitarist Jonny Buckland steps up, playing nimble runs on "Hurts Like Heaven" and wailing on "Major Minus." "He's become the guitarist that we always knew was in there," says Champion. "Chris [Martin] wrote a fantastic song called 'Up in Flames,' but then Jonny added a gorgeous riff, and now it's one of my favorite songs we've ever done. It kills me." The album has a loose concept about art in troubled times, but who the hell is Mylo Xyloto? "He could be the protagonist – but it's deliberately ambiguous. It forces you to use your imagination." By Austin Scaggs (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/fall-music-preview-the-seasons-hottest-albums-20110914/coldplay-mylo-xyloto-10-24-0267157)

want to watch this! did they something else that it is relevant?

If you think the Oracle, who works for the band, is going to talk bad about their music, I guess you're wrong.

Vulture Imagines the Plot of Coldplay’s Rock-Opera Album, Mylo Xyloto In an interview last month, Chris Martin explained the concept of Coldplay's forthcoming album, Mylo Xyloto, as an album-long love story, "a kind of romance in an oppressive environment." What might that environment be, Vulture wondered, and would it involve a GOOP dinner party? This week, finally, some more details from Martin: "The album is designed as a whole piece. It has boy and girl lead characters and top of our list for the girl part was Rihanna." Believe it or not, Rihanna actually agreed to be on the album. Even better? The track list, released this week, indicates that her song is called "Princess in China." A Coldplay rock opera starring Chris Martin and Rihanna, set in China! We can't bear to wait until October 25 for this masterpiece, and so, with the help of the track list and a few early album previews, Vulture has divined the plot of Mylo Xyloto. Read on for romance, intrigue, and teardrops of unnatural size. 1. "Mylo Xyloto" Mylo, the boy protagonist played by Chris Martin — and named, surely, from Gwyneth Paltrow's leftover Baby Names list — is a lonely teenager who dreams of taking risks and finding acceptance and other ambiguous happiness. Given his last name, he probably lives in the future, where they name people based on trades (the future is like the past in that way), so we'll assume he's a xylophonist. 2. "Hurts Like Heaven" Coldplay debuted this song at Lollapalooza in August, and while the audio isn't great, we can make out a few lyrics, specifically: "You use your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven." Aha! Mylo has met the girl character. It's hard to make out much else from the video, other than that (a) it's upbeat and (b) there's a Homer Simpson–y looking light guy doing the running man in the background. So we'll guess that Mylo meets his lady love in a Future-Teen Discotheque, where Simpsons Dancing is all the rage. He falls hard. 3. "Paradise" From the album's second single, released yesterday: "When she was just a girl / she expected the world / but it flew away from her reach / so she ran way in her sleep / Ooooooooo." Enter the Rihanna character, as yet unnamed, but obviously very unhappy. Why won't you open your heart to Mylo, Unnamed Rihanna Character? 4. "Charlie Brown" Oh dear: Mylo's love is totally unrequited. And he can't taste peanut butter. And he made an ill-advised trip downtown to hang with "lost boys" who metaphorically smashed his heart and maybe actually smashed his head into the pavement. Still, Mylo believes that his love for Unnamed Rihanna Character (URC) will set him free. 5. "Us Against the World" Mylo remains pretty certain that his love for URC will set him free. He plays some xylophone to convince her. 6. "M.M.I.X." Being a citizen of the Future, Mylo can time travel; he takes a trip back to 2009 to distract himself from URC, who was totally unpersuaded by that xylophone. He sees Avatar and realizes that the real 2154 is a nice time to live, despite his crappy romantic situation. 7. "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" Reinvigorated by his time travels, Mylo returns home, puts on "I Will Survive," and dances around his living room. (In the future, Gloria Gaynor sounds like Coldplay.) URC "can hurt him bad," but still he "raises the flag," etc. He plays some more xylophone. 8. "Major Minus" URC has fallen in with the wrong crowd — specifically, the Disney version of Captain Hook and his pirate gang, who have fallen through a worm hole, landed in 2154, and are now releasing "ticking crocodiles" (that's in the song, we swear) into the wild. URC, entranced by the magical ticking sound, follows one such crocodile away from town and toward a haunted lagoon. But fear not: Mylo is close behind and will save his beloved. 9. "UFO" The pirates kidnap URC and take her into space. Oops, Mylo. 10. "Princess in China" (Featuring Rihanna) URC, who will henceforth be known as the Princess, awakes in an unknown time and land (spoiler: the land turns out to be China). She is frightened but also slightly enthused, because China resembles her Para Para Paradise and she woke up with a cool crown on her head. 11. "Up in Flames" Mylo, distraught and alone at the haunted lagoon, sets fire to Captain Hook's pirate ship. More xylophone, but this time with sadness. 12. "A Hopeful Transmission" Suddenly, Mylo sees a flash through the sky and correctly assumes it to be the UFO that abducted the Princess. He follows the trail all the way to the Great Wall, where he finds the Princess … who is dying of a broken heart, because Mylo took so long to find her. She loved him all along! 13. "Don't Let It Break Your Heart" Reunited atop the Great Wall, Mylo sings a tearful goodbye to the Princess and vows to honor her memory by living his life to the fullest. 14. "Up With the Birds" Martin claims that Mylo Xyloto has a happy ending, so, here goes: The Princess, reincarnated as a bird, comes to find Mylo after many years. Mylo recognizes her instantly and, unable to adopt her given the strict anti-pet laws in 2154, builds a magnificent treehouse in China, where he and Princess live the rest of their days in perfect bird-man harmony. Final xylophone. (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/mylo_xyloto_plot.html)

Poor Will. Again with that incomplete set of drums.

Pretty interesting Paradise review from The Atlantic Coldplay's 'Paradise': The New Single From the Great Guardians of Treacle By Derek Thompson The band has changed its clothing and sonic palette, but its wonderfully wimpy sensibility remains The promotional photographs and videos put out by a music group aren't always the best places to go scavenging for clues to a band's new work. But in the case of Coldplay, perhaps the least dangerous and most promotable band in the history of time—a group so lovably devoid of edge they make The Monkees look like Insane Clown Posse—there is in fact no better place to find their soul than in their marketing material. On 2008's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, the album cover featured white letters slapped on a Delacroix painting of Lady Liberty leading the French Revolution of 1830. The band overhauled their wardrobe for the neo-Revolutionary theme, prancing around with red-white-and-blue arm bands, like members of a high school production of Les Miserables accessorized by Old Navy. It was all very weird for a conscientiously unrebellious band, but somehow the rebel theme paid off. The album's most iconic songs—"Violet Hill," "Viva La Vida," "Death and All of His Friends"—strutted to the beats of marching drums and shouted choruses. It was believable, if you closed your eyes and didn't pay too much attention to the words. (What would it mean for death to have just one friend? How many friends does death have, anyway?) One thing is unmistakable: This is going to make a great car commercial For their latest effort, Coldplay overhauled their color palette, again. In the video for the first single of 2011, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," front man Chris Martin is dressed in a pink T-shirt, a baby-blue jacket with spiral badges, and a pink watch. He's dancing around an underpass somewhere covered by glow-in-the-dark, spray-paint graffiti. Do you get it? By swapping Tricolour arm bands for pink patches, they're trading militaristic beats for the brash syth-pop of the 1980s. This is a band that wears its heart on its sleeve so literally, you can know their intentions by what they stitch to their jackets. This brings us to "Paradise," the second single off the band's upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. A pretty flourish of strings lays a bed for a grand display of stomping synthesizers that are practically begging for Kanye West to speed and spice up with an 808. When the chorus comes—complete with a jubilation of far-away, melismatic "ohs"—the melodies have closed their circles, and one thing is unmistakable: This is going to make a great car commercial. Whether it makes for a great song is more difficult to say. At its heart, "Paradise" is a typical Coldplay tune with the chorus reduced to a word and the orchestration put on polyphonic steroids. The classic C-Am-F-G chord progression is there, somewhere, swimming in the synth swells, waiting to be discovered and remixed with "Fix You." The melodies are still symmetrical, two steps forward, two steps back, nimble enough to stay ahead of a first listen, and disguised enough to surprise a 10th. Under the stitched spirals and sleeves, Coldplay is really all of a piece. A doleful, melodramatic piece. "All of us are done for," Martin sang on the first song of Coldplay's first LP. Ten years and 20 million albums sold have done nothing to dissuade his downheartedness. Every teardrop is still a waterfall. "Life goes on, it gets so heavy," he sings in a torpid interlude on "Paradise," "the wheel breaks the butterfly, every tear, a waterfall, in the night, the stormy night, she closed her eyes." This is maudlin crap. And guess what? Chris Martin doesn't give a flying fuck. He's a candy factory of melodies, and his heart is a suspended orb of caramelized goo. His veins run cold with treacle. And he's basically the richest piano player in the world. Subjecting Coldplay's lyrics to Talmudic exegesis is breaking the butterfly upon a wheel, to borrow a lyric. Some bands use their music to start a polemic. Others prefer make a statement. Some are happy to pose a question. Coldplay, a band that closes every chord and writes lyrics that would embarrass a Girl Scout's diary, might have nothing to say. Well, nothing except: "And here's another pretty one." Are you okay with that? OK, then. Me too. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/coldplays-paradise-the-new-single-from-the-great-guardians-of-treacle/244951/ Discuss!!!

Also bought it. Disappointed with Paradise, but I still love Coldplay.

What? How come? Can someone point well the differences...

This.

Well said.

Precisely. Excellent point.

BTW, for those of you who think that us who don't like so much Paradise are exaggerating, just wait and see, because I think that for the tour of LP6 they won't play Paradise. Precisely because it is not a great song.

I bet this song will be played during the MX Tour, but that's it.

I voted for ETIAW. Apparently it is on the lyrics of every song. Just joking!

This is not responsibility of Brian Eno or EMI. I have no doubt that Will, Guy, Jonny, Chris and Phil make the calls inside Coldplay.

You're right in some sense. However, it's not about condemning the band forever. It's just that in the personal opinion of many Coldplayers, Paradise is the weakest single of Coldplay's history. The lyrics are horrible, in my opinion. I celebrate the fact that they are evolving and making something different, but I guess that this is not what Coldplay fans were expecting. As stated by NME while reviewing Paradise: ‘Paradise’ feels both slightly listless and muddled. The “hip” new sonic treatments sound out of date (there's a mid-noughties vibe about the whole thing) and the chorus comes off as a weak facsimile of what Coldplay have done effortlessly in the past; specifically that people-uniting aspect. Whilst Coldplay’s pop makeover may be - for them at least- quite revelatory, it feels like Chris Martin’s populist songwriting tendencies have been clipped. Ultimately it feels like a few steps back rather than forward. Coldplay was amazing, precisely because they made GREAT songs which ended being commercial because they were GREAT, not the other way around.

This.

where's the article? can you provide a link please?

Well let's go. Don't get me wrong, I like the song. It's COLDPLAY. I like everything they do. However, I think this song is too "pop". It is not the best Coldplay song. Not even close. The lyrics are horrible. Way too repetitive. Way to much oooooohssss. I concur with the opinion that they are appealing to a way too mainstream audience, which has been reinforced by the fact that Rihanna will feature in the album.

I really don't believe that the boys receive instructions for EMI. What we have heard until today is the band's decision.