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Coldplay have released the music video for "True Love," the third single off British rock band's latest "Ghost Stories" album. The theme of that album was frontman Chris Martin's conscious uncoupling from wife Gwyneth Paltrow. The "True Love" video tells a sad, yet heartwarming story about two outcasts who find strength through their struggles and ultimately find happiness within themselves and each other. And the message behind the video is that, in spite of the obstacles blocking our access, 'anything is possible.'
This song finds Martin missing the passion they had at the beginning of their relationship and questioning if she still loves him. During an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Martin was asked directly by the DJ whether the subject of the album was the breakdown of his relationship, Martin responded, "I wouldn't use the word breakdown, this was more a realization about trying to grow up basically."
Romantic at heart: Martin shows how huge his heart is by putting on an inflatable sumo suit to portray a backstage janitor with a 'big' heart yearning in search of the bigger picture dance on stage in Jonas Åkerlund-directed video which serves as a moving representation of the song's lyrics about wanting not only love, but a love that's real. Martin sings, "Just tell me you love me/ If you don't then lie/ Lie to me/ And call it true/ Call it true love." But Martin actually isn't alone, he has Canadian actress Jessica Lucas, starring opposite him as an aspiring lithe ballerina sporting her own sumo suit and is therefore ostracized by her fellow dancers and frequently turned down for gigs.
However, the free-spirited, beautiful ballerina doesn't let it get her down, and she's proud to dance to the beat of her own drum, while Martin's more lonesome-seeming janitor goes about his daily duties and entertains his own fantasies about the corps de ballet. Mocked and chastised for their appearance, they both aspire to be dancers despite repeated put-downs by those around them. They eventually meet, fall in love and put on a dance show of their own showcasing their unique styles. The whimsical video is a sweethearted affair that disgustingly cute!

Coldplay walk down a busy city street and dressed up as some type of clownish busker in their new cheery video for the Avicii-assisted track "A Sky Full of Stars," the third single from British alternative rock band's latest chart-topping sixth studio album, "Ghost Stories." Though Coldplay already have an established presence in the EDM-world thanks to countless remixes of its hits, "A Sky Full Of Stars" is the band's attempt to get into the dance clubs on its own accord, while still maintaining the inherent chilled-outness that is its main bread and butter.
"A Sky Full of Stars" marks the band's first dance in a alternative rock track, being outlined as an EDM track with progressive house-influenced electronic music. Enlisting EDM heavyweight Avicii to serve as producer, the piano-centric track starts off as a heartfelt piano ballad that plays out in between verses before flourishes of pounding electronics take over the chorus seamlessly. While their previous singles such as "Magic" recalled their earlier catalog, this new track falls in line with the synth-heavy soundscapes of "Midnight," but with more danceable flavor.
In "A Sky Full of Stars," the frontman Chris Martin accents the track with his signature dreamlike vocals as he vows that he doesn't care if his love tears his heart apart because she is so full of love and light and the brightest star in the firmament. "You're such a gift," he sings. The big-tent uplifting EDM offering but not in such an overwhelming way is pretty satisfying in all of the ways that those things are and it's certainly the loudest, energetic, classically and most joyful dance-y cut we've heard from the album so far.
Coldplay took its show on the road and turned the Sydney streets into a wandering parade/music festival in the Mat Whitecross-directed video, which sees Martin singing about his lover being a "sky full of stars," while carrying the weirdest musical backpack ever with red tulips and a drum-kit, walking the streets of downtown Sydney to the starstruck of many. He eventually joins the rest of Coldplay bandmates, also carrying their backpacks with colorful umbrellas, balloons, bubbles and confetti for a big uplifting performance surrounded by tens of fans whooping and passers-by that wanted to record this unexpected historic moment with their mobile phones.

Coldplay have just revealed a new, high-concept music video for their more radio-friendly new single "Magic," the light-alt lead single taken from British alternative rock band's upcoming sixth studio album "Ghost Stories," which will be released on May 19th on Parlophone Records. After watching the emotional video, it definitely has us thinking it could be about frontman Chris Martin's failed marriage with Gwyneth Paltrow. In the video, he plays a magician, who tries to save a female magician from an abusive relationship as he sings about their relationship being "broken" and it's so heartbreaking!
The alternative rock song with influences of synth rock and post-Britpop, is an intimate low-key meditation on love sung by Martin over minimalist, bass heavy instrumentation. A beat consisting of a muffled snare and dusty guitar picks is repeated throughout most of the song. As the song progresses, an organ is later added to the instrumentation which is eventually swapped out for a stomp-clap beat and again for a synth beat. Following the song's second chorus, these beats are gradually combined together while Martin sings in falsetto. The song's anticlimactic portion then decreases intensity until it has eventually resumed to simply a snare and guitar picks.
"Magic" isn't a quick card trick to draw you in like some of Coldplay's previous hits, but rather a long-form spectacle that slowly allures you with its intricacies and delicate craftsmanship. The unassuming alternative single is paired with a black-and-white video with an old-timey introduction and cue cards for dialogue; the plot is also a throwback, with a hero, a damsel in distress and a mustachioed villain standing in the way of true love.
Mimicking a turn-of-the-century silent film with its full-screen subtitled video was directed by Grammy Award winning veteran Jonas Åkerlund, and stars Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi as "a beautiful young magicienne" named Cecile, and Martin plays both hero and villain as her "mustachioed husband" Claude and her lovelorn assistant Christophe in a love triangle. The stylized clip shows Martin providing a safe alternative to her abusive and misogynistic husband in turn fitting the love song with a love story. The story ends with a suitably "magical" finale.

Coldplay has unveiled a haunting black-and-white music video for chilly new track "Midnight," an atmospheric track absent of the anthemic rock elements of earlier chart-toppers, but overflowing with hints that frontman Chris Martin and company have been spinning Bon Iver records pretty hard as they prep a sixth studio album, their first album since 2011's "Mylo Xyloto," which heard them sprinkle pop electronics over their soaring serenades, but the first teaser from upcoming album No.6 strays much further beyond that. It's subdued, murky, twinkling, but definitely not lead single material on first listen.
The ethereal track's desolate feel and heavy use of vocal overdubs, along with what sounds like a vocoder, feels more Bon Iver or The Knife-like rather than U2 and Radiohead, the group's traditional targets of comparison. A far cry from the anthemic chorus of their most recent track, "Atlas," which doubled as their contribution to the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack, "Midnight" is one of the group's most understated singles. For five minutes, the British rock band maintains a slow pulse highlighted by shimmering synthesizers that have more in common with downtempo EDM than Coldplay's piano rock. It's the band at their most spacious and ambient, stripped down to a ghostly essence.
What hit us the hardest is Martin's plaintive, thoroughly treated vocals. The frontman's tone has become ubiquitous in modern soft rock, but "Midnight" hears it distorted, with any hint of recognition gently drifting away further into the darkness. Martin intones heavily affected vocals that, at times, resemble early Nineties Peter Gabriel as he sings about darkness, while the synths build throughout the track before a skittery, rave-like keyboard line flits about noisy static. The track closes with Martin asking that a light be left on. Maybe somewhere deep within the effects-heavy murk of his more incoherent lyrics is something that explains just why the song came out at a time local to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
The Mary Wigmore-directed atmospheric clip, matches the mood of the tune, is dark and chilly, full of black-and-white photo-negative images and what looks like heat-sensitive silhouettes of Coldplay's members ambling through some sort of parallel universe X-ray forest. Set primarily in a wooded area and shot in negative exposure, the trippy "Midnight" clip follows the band as they dance around to an airy electro-pop arrangement. You also get glimpses of a wandering wolf along with sped-up cityscapes. What Martin and his Auto-Tune will sound like when morning comes and they're out of the woods, we'll have to wait and see. Enjoy its subtle spookiness below.

British alternative rock band Coldplay has finally released the music video for their new single with Rihanna, "Princess of China," and it does not disappoint. The track is the fourth single off Coldplay's fifth studio album, "Mylo Xyloto," which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200. We expect rock bands to work with rappers, but cross-pollination between rockers and R&B. Singers is a little less common. The song is a hard-to-categorize pop confection that has left listeners wondering what the video would look like. Wonder no longer.
"Princess Of China" features a moody and heavy synth throughout the duration of the song with a string loop and an epic, Asia-influenced. It exemplifies the adventurous vibe that comes from an alternative-hip-hop combination that making it one of the band's less Coldplayesque tunes. Lyrically this song finds frontman Chris Martin writing from a female point of view. He told NME: "I found that with 'Viva La Vida,' I enjoyed writing from someone else's perspective to actually get out what I was feeling. That song is from a girl's perspective. I wonder what that says about me?"
The song features Rihanna duetting with Martin. The Coldplay frontman admitted to The Sun that it took him a while to finally muster up the nerve to ask the Bajan superstar to contribute some vocals on "Mylo Xyloto," and Rihanna's vocals surprised Martin. "When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it. And I think at this point, we have nothing to lose, and so we've been trying some new things and trying to break down the perceived boundaries between different types of music." Much like the characters in the song, the onscreen characters are torn up about their dying love.
Filmed at the Taiko Center in Los Angeles, the trippy clip was directed by Adria Petty & Alan Bibby, which is full of eye-burning surreal images that play on the song's references to Asia, with Martin and Rihanna donning all sorts of ninja and ninja-goddess couture. A desert, the sky and some ancient-looking Chinese palaces all serve as backgrounds. Martin dressed as a stealthy ninja, goes head to head against Rihanna's own "gangsta goth geisha." as she appears a fierce warrior princess. But then things get serious as the two star-crossed lovers kneel in the desert, forehead to forehead, and mourn the loss of their love.

Life is a technicolor fantasy, at least it is in Coldplay's "Mylo Xyloto" world. The platinum-selling band continues their latest CD's neon-hued theme in the newest video from the album, "Charlie Brown." In the just-released visuals, the lead singer Chris Martin and his British alternative rock band find themselves in the middle of a pulsating, colorful whirl of a club scene, performing for the masses as the gyrate along with the music.
According to Martin, this latest track holds a special place in his heart, "which was the centrepiece of this other record we started first." The song takes its name from the fact that it originally included lyrics inspired by the comic strip "Peanuts," whose protagonist was a young boy named Charlie Brown. It was the first song recorded during sessions for the band's then-upcoming fifth studio album, with the intention of being included on what later became "Mylo Xyloto."
The standout from their headline summer slots sounds even more monumental on record, "Charlie Brown" is one of the best things Coldplay have done. Jonny Buckland's hypnotic guitar lines lead the way, the band channeling The Joshua Tree-era, the heady holler-alongs of Arcade Fire and a teeny bit of Sigur Rós stargazing as the song launches into its adrenaline-veined climax. Whilst the music is wonderfully overblown, Martin keeps the vocals cool and calculated, singing of "taking the car downtown to where the lost boys meet," which might be about nipping to Spar on Hampstead High St, but probably isn't.
"Mylo Xyloto" is a concept album about two characters: Mylo and Xylotomy in a scary, oppressive world. The two protagonists fall in love and this song finds them running away together. Directed by Mat Whitecross and Mark Rowbotham. the newly debuted visual sensation from the album features a young man sauntering through London before meeting up with his girlfriend, and utilized footage from a collection of concerts they had performed the song amongst the crowd at throughout the band's 2011 Summer Festival Tour, after stealing a car and driving downtown to a black-light party.

Coldplay has unleashed the video for "Paradise," the second single from British alternative rock band's upcoming fifth album "Mylo Xyloto," set for release on next Tuesday. Coldplay's music may not be for everybody, but their music videos tend to be universally transcendent. The giddy new clip is a pachyderm-filled romp which features Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, dressed in a plushy elephant costume, embarking on a unicycle trip in South Africa. That's the takeaway from the sweet, whimsical video.
Influenced by listening to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, the song finds Martin singing of a young girl's dashed hopes and dreams of paradise. Martin told Billboard magazine that "Mylo Xyloto" is a concept album, which is, "loosely a kind of romance in an oppressive environment." "Paradise" is a far moodier affair than previous single "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall," whose title is even included in "Paradise"'s lyrics, with dramatic strings and chords and just the right touch of melancholy for the onset of the fall season. The new video finally explains what that was all about.
Regarding this song's meaning, it is easier to explain in the context of the album. Martin told MTV News "Mylo Xyloto" is a story, explaining: "It's supposed to be about two people who grow up separately in a very big oppressive city, and they each are a bit lost in their lives." He added that the pair meet in a gang and fall in and out of love before getting back together at the end. The singer went on to say: "'Paradise' is about a girl really, the female half of the album, just about being a bit lost in the world and escaping through fantasy."
The clip was directed by Mat Whitecross, and it retains the sort of warmth and humor he tends to bring to the table. The video is exactly as track's title might suggest: nostalgic filters, honeyed, sun-drenched shots of Cape Town, and all bandmates dressed up. The video portrays a classic break-free scenario that begins Martin dressed as an elephant escapes from a zoo in London, takes a unicycle trek through South Africa, and ends up after a seemingly hopeless wonder comes across three other elephants (the rest of Coldplay) playing the song in the fields, all set to soaring anthemic refrains and catchy beats. It's kooky, but it works.

Giving a visual taste of what's to come on their upcoming fifth studio album, Coldplay released their simple, yet colorfully rocking video for their dance-friendly new single, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall." The track was released earlier this week on British alternative rock band's just-released the three-song collection EP and also will be the lead single on their still-untitled record, due out this fall. The song itself is full of life and energy, and the music video reflects the same feel.
It's an uplifting Coldplay track with some catchy guitar riffs and the lead vocalist Chris Martin was inspired to write the upbeat song after hearing the 90's classic "Ritmo de la Noche" by Lorca during a nightclub scene in Javier Bardem's film "Biutiful." Martin's lyrics are very much about the power his old records possess; they imbue ordinary life with the extraordinary. Just like Martin sings, every siren can be a symphony and every heartbeat can build a cathedral. The track has a shaky, excited energy and the sort of optimistic, romantic lyrics that have made Coldplay one of the world's most crowd-pleasing rock bands.
Coldplay touches up an abandoned building in their stop-motion paint animation for new track, the colorful clip shows the UK rockers dancing along to the upbeat jam, playing in front of various backdrops sprayed with colorful graffiti. In the video, the band fully embraces that influence with animated tags and drawings that mark the walls and ground around them as they rock out in a bombed-out industrial zone. Eventually the band winds up in a dark room lit by a strobe light, and then finally outside the building altogether, as the paint begins to color the dingy exterior of the rundown structure.
The video is wildly colorful and decorated with stop motion, graphics, graffiti, and street art, playing off of the single's artwork. It is a recurring theme in the band's upcoming album, and is a video that shakes you to life. Though "Every teardrop Is a Waterfall" may sound like the title to a somber ballad, the song and video are anything but. With "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," Coldplay prove that they're always on message, even when they're making a glorious mess.

British alternative rock band Coldplay have unveiled the video on Wednesday for their exclusive special festive single, "Christmas Lights," released as a digital download, just in time for the holiday season, and bringing fans some holiday cheer. As previously reported, Coldplay revealed that the cheese-o-riffic new single is "in the key of G", before adding that they hoped fans "have a great Christmas and holidays." The mid-tempo track was originally thought that "Christmas Lights" would be a song from their upcoming fifth studio album, which explains why "Christmas" lights is so mellow, and not the gigantic, sweeping, Hot AC rock that they usually release.
Gwyneth Paltrow isn't the only member of the Paltrow-Martin family to make the holiday season more musical - Coldplay's new Christmas single and it's video was (seemingly) shot in one take. But that's not the most interesting part - we'd say the Elvis string quartet floating in the background nabs that honor. Though it's a Christmas song it still has that Coldplay sound, with the lead vocalist Chris Martin providing his trademark smooth vocals. The track is now available on iTunes.
The Mat Whitecross-directed video, from the colorful piano to the the "waves" and the balloons to fireworks, which was shot on the South Bank of the River Thames on last Thursday (November 25) in London. It begins with the start up of a record player, and the camera pans across a self-playing piano, and then the four members of the band, wherein Martin begins to sing the first verse. The camera pans back to the piano, and Martin has changed his position, the rest of the band nowhere to be seen. He then begins to play the piano, which is now on a stage in front of the Thames. The band play the rest of the song, accompanied with fireworks and violin-playing Elvises. 100 fans of the band also appear in the music video, where they release balloons on a boat on the Thames whilst singing along to part of the song.
with the moving water, dropping confetti, the rockets, stars and a dream-like world in the backdrop of an old time theater. The new video is definitely a lot more whimsical than the song itself. This new sweeping Christmas tune "Christmas Lights," is a reminder why Coldplay is at their best with simple Production and a nice Melody. It's tender and just wonderful. It's not what we were expecting, but it is always great to hear new music from Coldplay. Hopefully that new album comes out sooner rather than later!

Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in London, England in 1998. "Clocks" was released in the U.S. as the 2nd single from their 2nd album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Built around a repeating piano riff, the song features cryptic lyrics of contrast and urgency themes. "Clocks" won Record of the Year at the 2004 Grammy Awards, and, to date, is one of Coldplay's most successful songs.
A music video was filmed in support of the song. It was directed by British film maker Dominic Leung, and shot at Docklands' ExCeL Building in London. It features the band performing the song, with a laser show, in front of a staged audience, mostly local college students. Stage effects and blue-red light transitions give the video a surreal feel, not to mention the stoic crowd that make up the audience. Other favorite singles from Coldplay: "Viva la Vida" and "Speed Of Sound".