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Rihanna: “ Turn me round and give me some. Martin: “ Am I sailing a crystal sea? Is this where I want to be?” Rihanna: “ Have you got a big one? Could, could you put it up one?”

Martin: “ Am I lost in a world I cannot know? Oh I’ve got nowhere to go.” A co-write between Martin and Dr Luke finds him trading verses with singing dollar sign Rihanna thusly:

A truly harrowing piece of 21st Century storytelling.Ĭhris Martin’s desire to write thematic songs with big extended metaphors at their heart along the lines of ‘The Scientist’ reaches an apex with this cheery little ditty about elementary maths: “ I multiply the you in I/So many times/We’re divided, but we are one/Major Minus, won’t you solve my heart’s true sum”, he sings, again plangently.Ī largely instrumental track featuring a simple collection of lute, Jew’s harp, mandolin, vibraphone, and vuvuzela, it also features samples taken from Martin’s favourite Paolo Coelho books.Īkin to Alex Kapranos’ experiments with Xenomania, Chris Martin embraces the world of pure pop, and it, in the form of Rihanna, embraces him back.

“ think twice, t-t-t-twice“, and an echoing hip-hop beat, Chris Martin follows up his ‘Viva La Vida’ experiments in imaginative identification with street sweepers by guessing what it’s like to be homeless. Taking a sample from Phil Collins ‘Another Day In Paradise’, this is new model Coldplay at the peak of their new creative powers.

Inspired by producer Brian Eno’s famous ‘oblique strategy cards’, the band drew from a pack of words at random in the studio, replacing every fourth word in Martin’s lyrics at random, to come up with verses like: “ And you made MUTANT way / Well there’s RAINCOAT thing I got STERILISATION say / There’s only EGGTIMER and only me / BINARY here and the SEPTECEMIA blue sea”. Described by Martin as about ‘How when the pain of love is just too much, love itself is not enough’, ‘Hurts Like Heaven’ is new model Coldplay, featuring the full force of their rampant creativity.

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