Arabesque is an Ed Sheeran song?

 

Arctic Monkeys comparisons i can get but really really really not Ed Sheeran :lol:

 

Coldplay have never been too experimental with their music, sure the odd track they release is different to the rest but they aren’t a band known for often invigorating their sound. I don’t see why people have a problem with them doing the same thing theyve been doing for nearly 20 years tbh

It is though. It's just a calculated and very poor track. It's jsut Ed Sheeraning music.

 

there's ed sheeran focus group calculated which feels bad, and then there's a band doing literally the same thing they've done for getting on for two decades because people like it. That doesn't feel bad. And that's my gut feeling for whether it's the bad kind of manipulating an audience commercial trash or just a naturally popular sort of commercial trash.

If more artists could start calculating their music to be 6 minute multilingual jazz rock epics and that becomes mainstream that'd be wonderful tbh.

 

The other two songs, to be fair, are very much standard Coldplay formula but that sound isn't exactly particularly popular at the moment, it's just Coldplay being Coldplay xx

 

Aside: if it is actually true that the album's 2 discs are a 'safe' disc and a 'more experimental' one (which seems to be the case based on 'Arabesque' being on the opposite disc to the other two), it's interesting that the more experimental one is actually disc 1 meaning it'll be the one that theoretically will get the highest streams and the charting album tracks when the album comes out. Unless a lot of people clock onto this and just skip straight to disc 2 having no interest in the more experimental stuff.

I mean I get the sellout thing if you just go by the singles (and you can't blame them when that's what makes them money), but really, if you listened to their albums, they've experimented a lot in sound over the years, or a lot more than their given credit for. Viva la Vida and Ghost Stories (well, Midnight :kink:) in particular have some pretty unconventional sounds in there, and Arabesque clearly shows they're still willing to do that (I wish all Ed Sheeran songs sounded like that :lol: ), it just isn't given a lot of attention because it unfortunately doesn't sell that well.

yes but for every Arabesque they have a song like Every Teardrop is a Waterfall or Adventure of a Lifetime, which imho, are worst and a biggest sellout than Ed Sheeran

Preview of Guns

 

Quite late to this, but 'Orphans' sounding good from them. Hoping that it can manage to hold up in the chart and not drop down the charts.

 

 

Had a listen to the whole album today and apart from Orphans, Everyday Life and Champion of the World, the rest of the songs don’t really do much for me on first listen.

I take it the album leaked :D

 

looks like Daddy is the next single with a super spectacular video out on album release day

Yeah the video for Daddy is from Aardman Animations!

Guns is pretty decent!

Been hearing lots of positive things about the leaks, looking forward to it on Friday!

I'm going to hold off the leaks and look forward to buying it properly on Friday.

funny how they've change the story this time around

with the last couple albums they were saying it's the final album and they were calling it a day

but now they're saying a new album will be out next year already

‘Daddy’ has just been released along with the video

 

:wub: :wub: Video and song are wonderful, could be straight off Parachutes or Ghost Stories (quite the eclectic album this is looking!).

easily the best of the lot so far

It's alright, not something I see myself coming back to. Orphans is still my fave, then Everyday Life.

I still find Orphans such a mediocre and disappointing song, it's b-side material imho, can't believe Max Martin was involved and this was the result

Now Champion of the World I *really* like!