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You Can’t Out Earnest Coldplay


Which Chris Martin lyric is the most disgustingly sincere?

Since the band’s fourth album, 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,Martin has introduced established themes in his lyrics: birds, water, space, what it really means to be human, man. The Maya Angelou–sampling “iAAM” checks off numerous Coldplay boxes — a title that reads as the declarative “I am,” lyrics about the sea, a defensive posture — while also sounding like something written explicitly for Minecraft. The ur-text of Martin and Coldplay’s “can’t everyone just get along?” ideology, a line that would sound right at home in a pot-smoke-filled freshman dorm, coming out of Bill and Ted’s mouths, or uttered by a precocious child.

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