(For BTS, it was the boy band’s first trip to the top since, uh, July.) The singer unloads more declarations of interstellar devotion - one presumes he’s singing about actress Dakota Johnson, whom he’s been dating for four Earth years - in “My Universe,” the cut with BTS, which recently gave Coldplay its first No. “ Humankind” and the vaguely Weeknd-ish “ Higher Power” are zippy electro-rock tracks with sharp hooks and lots of crisp digital detailing the mellow, love-dazed “ Biutyful” pitches up Chris Martin’s vocals to an unintelligible chipmunk squeak - not a bad move given that he turns out to be telling somebody, “I hope they name you a rocket and take you for a ride for free.” Notwithstanding that heightened motivation, “Spheres” is in reality no more - or less! - on the nose than Coldplay’s earlier albums that the band never before titled songs with emojis, as it does several times here, was almost certainly a function of technology rather than taste. (This week the group announced it will return to the road in 2022 with a “dance floor that generates electricity when fans jump up and down,” as the BBC put it.) Thanks to the pandemic - and to Coldplay’s avowed commitment to figuring out how to travel in an environmentally sustainable fashion - “Everyday Life” also came and went without one of the band’s global stadium tours.
So it’s not quite clear why the two Martins’ meet-up on “Spheres” is being viewed as especially brazen, except that the new album follows a relative bomb from Coldplay in 2019’s experimental “ Everyday Life,” which dabbled in African and Middle Eastern music and failed to spin off any monster singles. Quite a few people have been asking for the official lyrics for Paradise (which you can download from Coldplay’s iTunes page).And soon enough they were recruiting folks from beyond their guitar-band milieu: Rihanna for “ Princess of China,” Avicii for “ A Sky Full of Stars,” the gosh-darn Chainsmokers for “ Something Just Like This,” which remains Coldplay’s most-streamed track on Spotify with more than 1.6 billion plays.
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