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Coldplay Releases New Song, Says Album Inspired By Old NYC Graffiti
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Jen Carlson
Published Jun 3, 2011
Modified Jun 3, 2011
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Just the other day Gwyneth Paltrow joined Twitter and promptly Tweeted that the new Coldplay songs were "genius", as she listened with her kids at their dad's secret New York City show. And now the band has released the first single, titled "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall." It sounds like this:
Last year Chris Martin explained, "The ideas come from graffiti art of the 70s in New York, where people were expressing themselves with paint. I've spent a lot of my life playing it a bit safe or conforming to something, even though I didn't agree with it. So I have respect and admiration for people who don't." The new song doesn't really sound like anything inspired by old school New York graffiti, nor does it sound like "not playing it safe"... though as you can see in the above photo, they are embracing the image by holding a spray can.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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