It also showed the unique titling where about half of the songs Coldplay would use emojis rather than names at times. That first song represents the entire album so well by preparing the audience for a more space-age sound. Right off the bat with the song “Saturn,” where they used the emoji Saturn instead of the word, they used a NASA sounding man telling the listener to get ready for the album while tunes that make the listener feel like they are about to be in space. With “Music Of The Spheres,” Coldplay has delivered on their promise to write an album on the universe and the human experience in it. With over 25 years of experience, Coldplay just released their next hit album “Music Of The Spheres.” The British rock band Coldplay is still going strong even after their 1996 debut. Get ready to space out with Coldplay in their new album “Music Of The Spheres.” (The Korean-language rap sections performed by Suga and J-Hope were pre-recorded.) Coldplay notably traveled to Korea to record “My Universe” during the pandemic.Coldplay - “Music Of The Spheres” Album Review
The seven members of BTS were featured as holograms on a backdrop as Chris Martin sang both English and Korean-language parts of the song. The bands were in two different countries-Coldplay in NYC, and BTS back home in Seoul-but came “together” on stage. Just last week, Coldplay and BTS performed as part of the Global Citizen Live event. While the visuals of “My Universe” may be intentionally futuristic, the ability to play together across vast swathes of space is not. It’s why seeing the bands find a way, despite their harsh reality, to share a joyful experience so damn inspiring. It’s a representation of the forced physical distance that has come to define much of the past few years. It doesn’t seem a coincidence that the fictional versions of BTS and Coldplay featured in this video are unable to be together in person. Personified by “The Silencers,” this antagonist can be broadly interpreted by the societal prejudices that can sometimes keep up apart, but also by a pandemic that has made the most basic rituals of togetherness more complicated.
Here, the enemy is not difference, but a mysterious, totalitarian force that has banned all music. Together, they make something beautiful and special that brings them joy despite the seemingly dismal worlds that surrounds them both. In it, BTS and Coldplay (and, OK, alien supergroup Supernova 7) are excited to collaborate. The music video doubles down on the theme of people coming together despite distance and differences. “My Universe,” on the other hand, embraces the science fiction aesthetics of working class space operas like Space Sweepers or Guardians of the Galaxy, with some (and I mean this as a compliment) Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century thrown in for good measure. Also directed by Meyers-it has a speculative fiction premise in which Styles has a literally blinding smile, falls in love with a fish, and is able to power his sailboat using the winds of his jarred yells, but keeps its visuals down to Earth to tell its fairy tale-like story. A great example of the latter is Harry Styles’ “Adore You” video. High-concept, genre-driven music videos are par for the course in the visually immersive world of K-pop, but are less common in western music videos, which (save for some outliers, like Janelle Monae’s funky, political sci-fi adventures) have more “grounded,” realistic aesthetics, even when they skew fantastical.
The “My Universe” music video/short film is directed by Dave Meyers, an American filmmaker best known for his commercials and music videos, which include MVs for artists Drake, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Normani, Ariana Grande, and many, many more. In spite of the ban, and with the help of a space DJ, the groups come together for a high-energy, galaxy-spanning performance of their new song. BTS and Coldplay went fully, gloriously sci-fi in the music video for their collaboration, “My Universe.” In the new music video, released at midnight on September 30th, the two bands exist in a futuristic reality where music is forbidden.
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