Coldplay – fellépés Shakirával és egy új Brian Eno-kollaboráció +FRISSÍTÉS: közös dal Big Seannal

Az A L I E N S jótékonysági dalként is funkcionál, bevételeivel a Földközi-tengeren hajóval Európába érkező menekültek kimentésre szakosodott máltai székhelyű Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) munkáját segíti, míg a gyermeki dalszöveg és ehhez igazodva a klip is azzal játszik, hogy az angol alien (idegen) szó a jogi értelmezése (olyan személy, aki egy adott országban nem annak állampolgáraként tartózkodik) mellett földönkívüli lényt is jelenthet: a veterán kliprendezőnő Diane Martel kreatív direktori segédletével a Bob Burger Falodája sorozatot is jegyző Bento Box animációs stúdiónál készült szöveges videóban egy idegen bolygóról menekülő űrlénycsalád kálváriáját követhetjük.

We were just about to lose our home
Diamonds ate the radio
Moving in the dead of night
We took photographs just some just so
History has some to know
We were moving at the speed of flight

Kids cry
If you want to
That’s alright
If you want to
Hold me
Hold me tight

Just an alien

We were hovering without a home
Millions are UFO
Hovering in hope some scope tonight
Sees the light and says

Fly if you want to
That’s alright
But if you want to
Call me
Call this line

Just an alien
Just an alien
Oh, we just want to get home again

Tell your leader
Sir or ma’am
We come in peace
We mean no harm
Somewhere out there
In the unknown
All the E.T.’s are phoning home
Watching my life
On the skyline
Crossing your eyes
For a lifetime

Just an alien
Moving target
Target movement
A patch, a corner
Of the spacetime
Just an alien
Turning toward it
Turning pages
Over Asia
Crossing ages
Just an alien
Oh, we just want to get home again

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FRISSÍTÉS: a július 14-én megjelent Kaleidoscope EP-ről a korábban nem hallott számhoz, a detroiti rapper Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, 1988) társaságában rögzített Miracles (Someone Special) című dalhoz készített videó szintén bevándorló tematikával indul, majd az USA kulturális sokszínűségét és az amerikai álmot ünnepli!

My father said never give up son
Just look how good Cassius become
Mohammed, Mahatma, and Nelson-
Not scared to be strong

Now you could run and just say they’re right
No there’ll never be no one in my whole life
Or you could turn and say no wait they’re wrong
And get to keep on dancing all life long

My father said never give up son
Just look what Amelia and Joan done
Or Rosa, Teresa their war won
Not scared to be strong

Now you could run and just say they’re right
No I’ll never be no one in my whole life
Or you could turn and say no they’re wrong
And get to keep on dancing all life long
Yeah you could be

Someone special
You’ve got bright in your brains and lightning in your veins
You’ll go higher than they’ve ever gone
In you I see someone special
You’ve got fire in your eyes and when you realize you’ll go further than we’ve ever gone
Just turn it on

Look I paid my intuition I couldn’t afford tuition
My funds was insufficient and it felt I’m in prison
And suddenly I realized I had to set my mind free
I was trusting statistics more than I trust me
Get a degree, good job, 401k, but I’m tryna change k’s to m’, what does it take?
And maybe I could be the new Ali of music prolly
Instead of doing it just as a hobby like these boys told me to
I guess you either watch the show or you show ‘em proof
Prove it to them you prove it to yourself but honestly its better if you do it for yourself
Never complacent till we hit the oasis
One life don’t waste it feel my heart races, success I taste it, ah
Ah we on the verge of getting every single thing that we deserve

Yeah you could be someone special
You’ve got fire in your eyes I see heaven inside you’ll go further than we’ve ever gone
In you I see someone special
You’ve got bright in your brains you can break through those chains you’ll go higher than we’ve ever gone
Just turn it on

In you I see someone special
Don’t go to war with yourself
Just turn, just turn, just turn it on and you can’t go wrong

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Chris Martin és Big Sean (és köztük a rapper producere, Amaire Johnson) egy zongoránál:

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az új EP számlistája és borítója:

Coldplay: Kaleidoscope (EP, 2017)

1. All I Can Think About Is You
2. Miracles (Someone Special) feat. Big Sean
3. A L I E N S
4. Something Just Like This (Tokyo Remix)
5. Hypnotised (EP mix)

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a Coldplay és Shakira a múlt éjszaka Hamburgban rendezett Global Citizen Festivalon:

Paradise
Viva La Vida
Adventure of a Lifetime
Fix You
Something Just Like This
Yellow
Chantaje
Me enamoré
A Sky Full Of Stars

a közös számok külön is:

Yellow

Chantaje

Me enamoré

A Sky Full Of Stars