 Genius Meanings
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Coldplay – Oceans
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Another desperate plea to his long lost love to “leave a light on,” the seventh track off Coldplay’s sixth studio album Ghost Stories follows in the footsteps of the previous track
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Frank Ocean – strawberry swing
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“Strawberry Swing,” the first actual song on Nostalgia, ULTRA., immediately introduces the theme of the entire mixtape – nostalgia.
Now that he’s grown up, Frank reminisces upon
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Coldplay – Oceans (Live at E-Werk, Cologne)
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Wait for your call, love / The call never came / Ready to fall, love / Ready to claim / I'm ready for it all, love / I'm ready for a pain / Meet under sun / Meet me again / In the
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DNCE – Cake By The Ocean
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“Cake by the Ocean” is the debut single by DNCE. The song appears on two projects: it serves as the lead single from the band’s debut extended play, SWAAY, which was released in
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Coldplay – Everglow
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The most personal and emotionally-charged song on Coldplay’s enigmatic A Head Full of Dreams, “Everglow” expresses memory and loss as an ever-lasting “glow.”
Most likely inspired
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Coldplay – Crests of Waves
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“Crests Of Waves” is the second song on Coldplay’s Clocks EP. It’s one of two otherwise unreleased songs on the EP; the other is called “Animals”.
Lyrically, “Crests of Waves
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Coldplay (Ft. Tove Lo) – Fun
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The sixth track on A Head Full of Dreams finds Coldplay collaborating with Swedish singer Tove Lo. Driven by Coldplay’s signature ethereal guitar work, the song reflects on the
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Coldplay – BrokEn
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On “BrokEn,” Chris Martin leads a gospel choir in a simple call-and-response structure, backed only by a piano and some finger snaps.
Coldplay dedicated this song to Brian Eno
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Coldplay – Miracles
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Official soundtrack for Angelina Jolie’s movie as director “Unbroken”, premiered on December 25th, 2014.
The band, whose leader Chris Martin identifies himself religiously as “
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Frank Ocean – Self Control
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“Self Control” is a slow ballad which features Frank describing a relationship that is slowly falling apart. Throughout the song, Frank hints the reason their relationship fell
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Coldplay – Fix You
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“Fix You” is the fourth track and second single from Coldplay’s third album X&Y. It was written by Chris Martin for his then-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, to comfort her after her father
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Coldplay – Up&Up
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In the dramatic and uplifting grand finale of Coldplay’s enigmatic A Head Full of Dreams, the band presents us with a power ballad that encourages belief and optimism in both life
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Frank Ocean – street fighter
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This introduction to Frank Ocean’s debut mixtape, Nostalgia, ULTRA, is titled after the Street Fighter game series. The first game in the series came out in 1987, the same year
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Coldplay – BrokEn (Reimagined)
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[Intro: Chris Martin] / Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm / Hmm-hmm, hmm-oh / Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm / Hmm-hmm / [Verse 1: Chris Martin] / Lord, when I'm broken (When I'm broken) / I'm in need (I'm in
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Owl City – Fireflies
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“Fireflies”, Owl City’s debut single, was an international smash hit, effectively launching the genre Twee into the mainstream. It reached #1 in the US in November 2009.
The song
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Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse
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In “Apocalypse,” Greg acknowledges the pain his new lover has suffered in her past relationships. He’s urging her to let go of heartbreak and the fear of feeling let down, and to
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Hollow Coves – Coastline
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[Verse 1] / I'm leaving home for the Coastline / Some place under the sun / I feel my heart for the first time / 'Cause now I'm moving on yeah, I'm moving on / And there's a place
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Coldplay – Humankind
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“Humankind” is the third track on Coldplay’s 9th studio album Music of the Spheres.
The song is from the perspective of an alien citizen on one of the planets in The Sphere, which
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OneRepublic – Connection
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OneRepublic’s second standalone-single of 2018, this song is unusually short – at two and a half minutes – yet lyrically dense, with a modern hip-hop influenced style.
Ryan Tedder
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Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
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“Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi” brandishes new drums behind its drain-circling arpeggios, but sounds every bit as massive in crescendoing as its live renditions suggested it might.
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Coldplay – Ink
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The emotionally scarring, yet suprisingly catchy third track off Coldplay’s sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, truly gives us an insight into the narrator’s obsession with the love
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Coldplay – Paradise
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The third track and second single off Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay makes a true masterpiece of the song “Paradise”. With its jittery synths, orchestral hooks, thunderous drumming, and
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Coldplay – Strawberry Swing
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“Strawberry Swing” is the penultimate track on Viva La Vida. It was almost left off the album, but Chris Martin was adamant that the track should be included.
The track plays with
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Coldplay – Cemeteries of London
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“Cemeteries of London” paints a haunting picture of spirits roaming through old London-town. It is the second track of Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (the first one to
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Frank Ocean (Ft. Earl Sweatshirt) – Super Rich Kids
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Continuing a major theme on the album, Frank evokes the lux and glamorous like no other (see “Sweet Life” and “Lost”). Only “Super Rich Kids” is a bit more harrowing—there’s
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BØRNS – Past Lives
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[Intro] / (Ooh, ooh, ooh) / [Verse 1] / Past lives couldn't ever hold me down / Lost love is sweeter when it's finally found / I've got the strangest feelin' / This isn't our first
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Coldplay – Lost!
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“Lost!” is an anthemic track about perseverance. It tells how people might believe one is lost when everything is actually thriving.
Fun fact: all the versions of the track have
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Kanye West (Ft. Chris Martin) – Homecoming
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Interpolating a line from Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.,” Kanye uses extended metaphor to describe his feelings for Chicago, his home, by comparing it to a lost girlfriend.
Ye
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Coldplay – The Scientist
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“The Scientist” is a very mellow song about trying to analyze a broken relationship.
The song’s melody is inspired by “Don’t Look Back in Anger” by the Oasis, especially the piano
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Frank Ocean – Pyramids
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Frank Ocean’s “Pyramids” is a nearly 10-minute-long tale of the ancient history of the Black woman and her gradual decline from a Queen in her homeland to her now degrading role in
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Dua Lipa – Homesick
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“Homesick” is a piano ballad from Dua Lipa’s debut self-titled studio album. The song is about finding meaning in your relationship with your lover when you’re apart from them. The
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Coldplay – Trouble
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“Trouble” (originally titled “Spiderwebs”) is the sixth track and third single of Parachutes. This song actually has two music videos: the first video was done in the UK, but
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Coldplay – Yellow
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“Yellow” is the fifth track and second single from Coldplay’s 2000 debut album Parachutes. It is one of their oldest and most enduring hits, continuing to be a celebrated staple of
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Coldplay – Shiver
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The lead single off Parachutes, “Shiver” (alongside fan favorite “Yellow”) helped establish Coldplay in the new millennium alt-rock scene. The song was recorded in one take.
Chris
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