Anyways, VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS is fine. Coldplay really does just hit a lowest common denominator of artistic appreciation they seem to represent a more complicated force in a some people’s playlists. Weird, right? I just couldn’t, and really still can’t, move past that correlation. As I was discovering The Smiths, The Cure, the Pixies, Blink-182, and more artists that I felt truly tapped into my adolescent angst, a bunch of jock-y dudes were walking around proclaiming Coldplay as the deepest or most emotional stuff they had heard. You know, I think part of the effect for my revulsion or general unease with a lot of Coldplay music is my association with its fans. They technically have proper, written character names, but by scanning the track list on the streaming service, I’m told to absolutely not care about those songs because I don’t even know what to call them. There are tracks named with emojis, at least on Spotify. The result is a record with strained hooks and loose, pointless interludes signified by, that’s right, emojis. The attempt to be heady is once again painful, as MUSIC OF THE SPHERES is a concept album of a kind, focused on the dreamlike influence of space. There are so many features on it, like Selena Gomez and BTS, and the whole thing is full of the most annoying pop choral tropes, as opposed to the annoyingly catchy pop choral tropes. MUSIC OF THE SPHERES is a “return to form” of arena pop boredom, a record that channels Maroon 5 to the worst possible degree. EVERYDAY LIFE was an exciting, good experiment that was a bold departure from the sound that has defined Coldplay for the better part of a decade. 1 From Earth with Love” (great, there’s more of this coming), is an incredible step back from Coldplay’s previous album, EVERYDAY LIFE.
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