![]() ![]() ![]() This brings us to "Paradise," the second single off the band's upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. This is a band that wears its heart on its sleeve so literally, you can know their intentions by what they stitch to their jackets. Do you get it? By swapping Tricolour arm bands for pink patches, they're trading militaristic beats for the brash syth-pop of the 1980s. He's dancing around an underpass somewhere covered by glow-in-the-dark, spray-paint graffiti. In the video for the first single of 2011, " Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," front man Chris Martin is dressed in a pink T-shirt, a baby-blue jacket with spiral badges, and a pink watch. ( What would it mean for death to have just one friend? How many friends does death have, anyway?) One thing is unmistakable: This is going to make a great car commercialįor their latest effort, Coldplay overhauled their color palette, again. It was believable, if you closed your eyes and didn't pay too much attention to the words. The album's most iconic songs-" Violet Hill," " Viva La Vida," " Death and All of His Friends"-strutted to the beats of marching drums and shouted choruses. It was all very weird for a conscientiously unrebellious band, but somehow the rebel theme paid off. The band overhauled their wardrobe for the neo-Revolutionary theme, prancing around with red-white-and-blue arm bands, like members of a high school production of Les Miserables accessorized by Old Navy. On 2008's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, the album cover featured white letters slapped on a Delacroix painting of Lady Liberty leading the French Revolution of 1830. But in the case of Coldplay, perhaps the least dangerous and most promotable band in the history of time-a group so lovably devoid of edge they make The Monkees look like Insane Clown Posse-there is in fact no better place to find their soul than in their marketing material. The promotional photographs and videos put out by a music group aren't always the best places to go scavenging for clues to a band's new work. ![]()
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