The track explores male and female perspectives of human emotion, Martin and We Are KING’s Amber and Paris Strother sharing their own experiences with each other. Two more Grammy-endorsed collaborators appear on ‘Human Heart’ – sister duo We Are KING and British jazz musician Jacob Collier.
“ That it hurts like so to let somebody go.” The Texan pop star replies with her own beautiful perspective on love lost: “ When I called the mathematicians and asked them to explain / They said, ‘Love is only equal to the pain’.” “ Now turn off all the stars cos this I know,” Coldplay’s frontman sings. Selena Gomez duets with Martin on the sombre, sorrowful ‘Let Somebody Go’, her soft vocals adding an extra dynamic to the heartbroken ballad. The world-conquering pop group aren’t the only big names to team up with Coldplay on ‘Music Of The Spheres’. “ We are made of each other, baby,” BTS singer Jungkook declares as the track enters its final cosmic throes. Like that Instagram announcement and the kinship of ‘Humankind’, the glittering song also subtly reminds us we are one. It’s an optimistic ode to the indefatigable power of love, even when the world tries to halt it with hateful or closed-minded barriers. ‘My Universe’, the rousing collaboration with Korean wonders BTS, continues that buoyant streak. They’re sometimes a bit on the nose, but still deal us reminders of the positive sides of our species: “ Capable of kindness, so they call us humankind.” Despite the album’s space setting, the lyrics deal firmly with humanity – no ET analogies here. It’s a song that rushes with so much brightness and euphoria it will likely have the unifying effect he sings of when the band perform it on their eco-friendly tour next year.
“ Today I had the strangest feeling that I belong,” Martin exclaims on the galactic stomp of ‘Humankind’. One metaphor that seems integral to the album’s message popped up online months ago – “Everyone is an alien somewhere” read one corner of the handwritten album announcement the band posted on Instagram in July. “We were trying to zoom out a little bit use the universe and the cosmos as a metaphor for the difficulties and wonderfulness of life on Earth,” drummer Will Champion told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview.
HUMANKIND COLDPLAY LYRICS FULL
The album is full of soaring pop melodies that take you high enough to enter orbit and touching sentiments that makes the universe around you glow ever brighter. Instead of hunkering down in glitchy sci-fi sounds and noodling electronics, Coldplay (with the help of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin on co-production) do what they do best. The title and concept that encompasses the record comes from the ancient philosophical notion that the movement of celestial bodies is a form of music, setting in motion a metaphorical journey to outer space. On the band’s ninth album ‘Music Of The Spheres’, the four-piece are taking his two-decade-old advice. “ Look at the stars / Look how they shine for you,” instructed Chris Martin on Coldplay’s classic 2000 single ‘Yellow’.
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