Hi, I just learned that this is Coldplay's MotS era and this year BTS ended their MotS era. Both have history of space themed songs. That's so cool, this sounds like the collab of the decade if not century! Will there be an album later?
You're completely right, this collab is indeed huge and both of them really have space-themed songs before and now!
Coldplay's "Music of the Spheres" (Vol. i) will be out pretty soon, October 15th, it does contain "My Universe" with BTS! The album has an official (and visually wonderful) teaser where you can hear short snippets of all the songs:
The sneak information about the album was in their previous work's ("Everyday Life", 2019) booklet:
The promo campaign for "Music of the Spheres" is pretty huge with billboards, hints in the code of the special alienradio.fm that contained signals in various foreign languages hinting about the songs and overall's album topic, I talked about it in recaps [here, and here, and here too].
Each song on the upcoming album's tracklist has a special created by the band and Pilar Zeta in collaboration with Victor Scorrano. Planets' names are Neon Moon I, Kaotica, Echo, Kubik, Calypso, Supersolis, Ultra, Floris, Neon Moon II, Epiphane, Infinity Station, Coloratura.
Each planet has its own language represented on the website in an animation just above it. The message at the top in every language is the same and says “Everyone is an alien somewhere” (graphics of it and translation taken from Coldplaying):
The upcoming collaboration with BTS "My Universe" is sitiated on the planet called Epiphane the official language of which is Spheric! Here's a a picture of this planet and a graphic with the planet's alphabet by @C_ian_y on Twitter:
We knew about this planet coming and its language from the accidentally left papers all over the places after fililming something (maybe, music video for it) in Spain with the full-blown prints of the languages that's where we also deciphered BTS on one of the papers before the demo's leak Phil's tweets from back in June/July and the month for this single was teased by Chris in his handwritten album announcement!
If you haven't seen this quote yet, the meaning behind the song is prety important:
“We really don’t believe in any boundaries or separation of anything really, and so the song My Universe is about someone being told they can’t love a certain other person, or can’t be with this race, or they can’t be gay - whatever it might be.
And we thought, it would be good to sing this with BTS because maybe we’re not supposed to be together. And it turned out to be one of the most fun things ever. I went to Korea to be with them, it’s been amazing.”
Chris Martin on “My Universe” single and collaboration with BTS at The Kelly Clarkson Show
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