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i just found an interesting article regarding Raging Fire in relation to Coldplay's Magic. LOL :D :D There's a curious thing going on with the major new singles out this week. Phillip Phillips' latest "Raging Fire" sounds a bit like Coldplay, while Coldplay's latest single "Magic" doesn't sound much like Coldplay at all. http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/248613581.html

"A Sky Full of Stars will be released on May 5th. It will be the second single from #GhostStories (via @coldplayzoneit)" https://twitter.com/ColdplayAtlas/status/452383115701682176

"A Sky Full of Stars will be released on May 5th. It will be the second single from #GhostStories (via @coldplayzoneit)" https://twitter.com/ColdplayAtlas/status/452383115701682176

american artists always prefer covering coldplay songs on the BBC Live Lounge. I dont know why :D lol,

^^ if this was heavily promoted by Coldplay, in a U2 fashion, this song would have smashed :D

i wanna know too!!!!

yep, thats what the review said, lol, :) maybe anyone who got to hear it during the concert confirm this? :D :D :D

^^ this is the link to the article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/26/why-is-it-cool-to-hate-coldplay-a-first-listen-for-new-album-ghost-stories.html

From the dailybeast.com The new album, played in full for the first time, struck me as one of the finest pop releases so far this year. (It also struck me, even before I heard about Martin’s impending divorce, as an obvious breakup album.) Opener “Always in My Head” was a dreamy lost-love song with a chiming, circular guitar line—the perfect slow dance for Prom 2014. “Magic” and “Midnight” were both excellent as well, replacing stadium bombast with a newfound sense of simplicity and restraint. The daft, ecstatic EDM stomper “A Sky Full of Stars,” meanwhile, seemed destined for club ubiquity. Best of all was “True Love,” which married Coldplay’s loveliest melody to date—a vertiginous, asymmetrical, absolutely exquisite piece of writing—to a soul-baring set of lyrics by Martin. “Say that you love me,” he pleaded again and again, presumably to Paltrow. “If you don’t, lie to me.” These songs weren’t created to compete with Animal Collective’s or The Knife’s in the integrity sweepstakes; they were designed, like Rihanna’s and Lady Gaga’s, to activate our brain’s primordial dopamine pathways as quickly and painlessly as possible. That Coldplay (a real, live band) is able to reach these reptilian pop pleasure centers without the help of professional songwriters or backing musicians is a rare (and rather admirable) feat these days.

i'm hyped for a sky full of stars, lol, :p

A Review coming from trojanchick99(from u2interference.com, a U2 forum): I just got back from seeing Coldplay film for an upcoming DVD and NBC special. They are making a Ghost Stories DVD of live performances of each album track. It's being filmed over 3 days so I didn't hear every song, but did hear Magic, Midnight, Another's Arms, Always in my Head, True Love and Sky Full of Stars. The best tracks for me were Midnight which is a live highlight. Guy played bass on the lasers again, and I'm not sure what Will was playing but it was super cool. My other favorite was Sky Full of Stars which was the biggest song. It was everything Paradise tried to be but couldn't. It has a great piano hook, then builds, and resolves into a huge hook where everyone in the audience goes nuts. Almost no one had ever heard that song and yet it instantly connected. Were the lyrics a smidge cheesy, yes, but that's Chris. True Love is a ballad and lyrically is a bit on the dark side. It's pretty and it like just about everything I've heard off of Ghost Stories is better than anything off of MX. It has the same restraint as the other songs we've heard. Magic, Always in my Head and Another's Arms were performed similarly to the iTunes festival. I love, love, love the direction they have gone. As for the actual DVD, it's got a concept and there will be some bits that aren't live performances. The set itself was completely in the round. I was from row behind Will. Chris even went airborne in a harness, a la Pink. Lastly, he was just great throughout this. Since it was a taping, we arrived at noon, waited to get seated for 3 hours, then they started and stopped for some shots periodically. Chris essentially became the audience warm up comic, and was pretty amusing. He was so sincere, and joked about how uncool they all were, except for Guy. It was a great experience and I cannot wait for this album to be released.

thanks for the reviews!!! ur all awesome :D

that was a very well written review :) very vivid and very emotional. thank you for the review, now we're more hyped for the album than ever before :D :D

i think O is the climax of this album... this album slowly builds and builds tension and until... ahhhhhhhh, climax... O :D

which do you think will be the official second single ala viva la vida or paradise? :D

which do you think will be the official second single ala viva la vida or paradise? :D

i like it

this album is generating more excitement than MX to be honest.

BROMANCE, lolololololol

For those who don't think Magic is a great song, read this :D http://www.stereogum.com/1669500/the-week-in-pop-its-time-we-all-agreed-that-coldplay-is-great/franchises/the-week-in-pop/

i think both always in my head and another's arms are still UNFINISHED. it can be seen in their performance at the ITunes festival. it was like the time when they introduced new songs at the ROCK AM ring back in 2011. When Chris martin performed Princess of China, it has a different lyrics than what was in the studio version, ... i think theyre just testing the new songs right now,

For all those who hate cheesy/ simple lyrics, here's what the great Sir Paul Mccartney has to say about that: "You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that?" -Silly Love Songs- LOL :D :D :D :D :D

well, this goes to show that we cannot please everybody. thats why coldplay needs to ignore whatever people say and just do what they want to do. What's good about coldplay fans are the fact that they are not pretentious and they dont pretend to like every bit og music coldplay churn out (unlike other bands) cough* cough* radiohead* cough* cough*

there is a prediction in some music websites that it's sales will be 145 thousand in the 1st week. :D great news

i will give it an 8.. it is a great song. it is more minimalistic than their past 2 albums. it is more alternative and less poppy for me. i think coldplay is at their best when they scale back a bit and it is evident here in this song.