Coldplay

Released: October 9, 2017

[Verse 1]
There's an old song coming on the radio
Overrun they got us, let the garbage grow
Tell the kids stop feeling for the refugees
‘Cause they're not like you and they're not like me

[Chorus]
All of the boys they rock and roll
Cause they don't wanna talk anymore
All of the girls get no say in the world
Just dismissed, kiss their kids off to war
The lobby lines, the diamond mines
Don't listen to the people who won
It's a beautiful, beautiful world

[Verse 2]
There's a new song coming on the radio
Frutas florecen en todo el mundo
Let the flowers all blossom
The hummingbirds hum
We're all born equal under the same sun
Someone could be you and you could be someone
So do to each other as you would be done

[Chorus]
All of the boys they rock and roll
Cause they don't have to hate anymore
All of the girls, they’re all over the world
The sound of the four-to-the-floor
And everyone is part of the sum
Riches will rain on the poor
Say oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-whoa
It's a beautiful, beautiful world

You take the noise or you make the noise
So sing it like never before
Say oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-waoh
It's a beautiful, beautiful world
Beautiful, beautiful world

Coldplay is a British rock band, formed in 1997 by University College London classmates Chris Martin (vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Buckland (guitar) and Guy Berryman (bass), along with drummer Will Champion. The band’s name comes from Tim Crompton, a student who was in the same university as the members (University College London) at the time.

Once they issued their debut, Parachutes in 2000, many saw them as a Radiohead knock-off. No doubt, Coldplay’s sound —elegant, melodic, vaguely spacey and very dramatic — bore plenty of similarity to mid-1990s Radiohead. But the group’s hooks, sharpened by frontman Chris Martin’s ability to pull heartstrings, and the their willingness to evolve their sound, gave Coldplay staying power. The greatest examples are second album A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), which was generally considered to be musically and lyrically more mature and sophisticated, and less obviously the product of one particular influence, and the fourth one Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), where producer Brian Eno influenced the band to broaden their sound and led to various sonic landscapes. Both won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and spawned sucessful singles such as “Clocks”, “Viva la Vida”, “In My Place”, “Violet Hill” and “The Scientist”.

As a result, the band became one of the most commercially successful acts of the new millennium, with over 80 million albums sold – even if along with the acclaim came a vocal opposition, due to the supposedly derivative nature, the overtly emotional lyrics, and the fact they’re good-mannered English boys instead of wild rockstars. As a result, Coldplay are thought as either a punchline showing all that’s wrong with 21st century rock, or a really good if overplayed band with songs tailor made for stadium performances.

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