
“In the night, I lie and look up at you,” Martin sings over a shimmering disco groove, “When the morning comes, I watch you rise.” Drippy, as usual, but this is not a song that should scandalize anyone not scandalized by “ Adventure of a Lifetime” in 2015, back when Martin was working with Stargate and writing sappily about dating Jennifer Lawrence. (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.)
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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.
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Coldplay has very intricate lyrics, and I thought I would share what I really believe he was trying to sing about.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. They spun a web for me (maybe he believes that they did this to him on purpose, because he keeps falling in love with spidery women?)Īnyway, thats my interpretation.

Here am I in my little bubble (she spun him into a bubbly cacoon on her web) So I twist and turn (he knows he is caught, and he twists and turns so he can lodge himself in her web) Oh no I never meant to do you harm ( maybe he believes that hes been so much trouble to her)


The thought of all the stupid things I've done (hes no longer just said things, he has done things like kissing or loving someone who didnt really want him)Īnd oh I never meant to cause you trouble (hes sorry for wasting your time on him)Īnd oh and I never meant to do you wrong (he really meant to the best for you)Īnd oh well if I ever caused you trouble (spitefully admitting that he loves you so much that if he caused you any disturbance then he is heartfully sorry for it, basically turning himself into steps that she walks on) So I turned to run (he thought he had better get away before he gets hurt) Oh no what's this (no longer just sees it but feels the web)Ī spider web and I'm caught in the middle (he is in the middle because of struggling so much)

The thought of all the stupid things I said (he regrets wasting your time telling you how much he loved you) Song MeaningOh no I see- (impending understanding of the situation)Ī spider web it's tangled up with me ( caught in his emotions for something)Īnd I lost my head (erred and got seriously emotional with love, afraid of being trapped)
