{"id":5852,"date":"2011-06-09T20:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T01:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2015-03-29T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:48:44","slug":"on-coldplays-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5852","title":{"rendered":"On Coldplay’s New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, Coldplay released a new single from their forthcoming album, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.”<\/p>\n

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It’s the band’s first song since their Christmas release, “Christmas Lights,” which I liked<\/a>. “Christmas Lights” had to grow on me, true, because it was so atypical of where the band’s last albumw as — “Christmas Lights” sounds muchly like the brother to A Rush of Blood to the Head<\/i>‘s “The Scientist.” And once I understood that, I loved it.<\/p>\n

What of “Every Teardrop,” then?<\/p>\n

Well, it’s noisy. I’ll give it that.<\/p>\n

It’s a happy Coldplay song. This is weird to me — I listen to Coldplay because they’re morose.<\/p>\n

Actually, that’s not entirely true; since Chris Martin found utter bliss with Gwyneth Paltrow, the band’s music has taken a decidedly non-morose turn. Some think this is a good turn. Some think this is a bad turn. I, personally, think this is a bad turn. I utterly adore the morose piano-based ballads that comprise the band’s first two albums. And give me Coldplay’s version of “Gravity” any<\/i> day.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, a happy Coldplay song has a high hurtle to reach before I’ll give it the time of day.<\/p>\n

X&Y<\/i> was a happy album, but the songs I love from it are the morose songs. Yet, I enjoy the album because it has a mixture of both happy and morose, and this becomes just like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup — two great tastes that taste great together.<\/p>\n

Viva La Vida<\/i> was also a happy album, but it was also a curious album, because it felt so unfinished<\/a>. I like it, but I like it far<\/i> more when I play it back-to-back with Prospekt’s March<\/i>, which finishes the album in a way.<\/p>\n

I’m avoiding talking about “Every Teardrop.” It’s because it’s just… so… unmemorable<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It’s not a terrible song, but it sounds like the love child of “Speed of Sound” and “Violet Hill,” with a liberal dose of “Strawberry Swing.” It’s a happy song, it’s like the sun coming out, but I don’t get a feel for what the song is about<\/i>, and it doesn’t make me feel<\/i> anything.<\/p>\n

Even after forcing myself to listen to it, I can’t remember a thing about the song. I don’t remember the riffs, guitar and synth. I don’t remember a lyric. I don’t even know what the song’s about.<\/p>\n

As songs go, it’s just… there<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Maybe it will grow on me. Maybe in the context of the fifth album, due in the autumn as I understand it, the song will make more sense. Maybe.<\/p>\n

But honestly? It just makes me long for the halcyon days of Coldplay moroseness, when Chris Martin wrote gutbucket blues songs and wrapped them in the veneer of Britpop.<\/p>\n

I guess we all grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, Coldplay released a new single from their forthcoming album, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.” It’s the band’s first song since their Christmas release, “Christmas Lights,” which I liked. “Christmas Lights” had to grow on me, true, because it was so atypical of where the band’s last albumw as — “Christmas Lights” sounds muchlyContinue reading “On Coldplay’s New Single”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[804,394],"class_list":["post-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-chris-martin","tag-coldplay","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}