"People of the Pride" is a song by Coldplay from their ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres. It is the seventh track on the album and was released to adult album alternative radio in the United States as the album's second promotional single on 7 March 2022, and to modern rock radio on 8 March 2022.[2] The official music video for the song was released on 15 March 2022. On the concept of the record, the track represents Ultra, the seventh planet on The Spheres solar system.
"People of the Pride" is the only track on Music of the Spheres to contain profanity and is Coldplay's fourth track overall to include explicit content, following "Trouble in Town", "Arabesque", and "Guns", from their eighth studio album, Everyday Life. Live versions of the song were included on the band's extended plays Live from Climate Pledge Arena and Infinity Station Sessions.
Background[]
"People of the Pride" is repurposed from a Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends era early demo called "The Man Who Swears He's God"; both the first verse and bridge of the song were adapted from the verses of "The Man Who Swears He's God".[3] Discussing the song and its production to Apple Music, Guy Berryman explained, “We started the song probably over 10 years ago and couldn't really finish it. Again, this was one which Max [Martin] really helped shape sonically. The way we had it before, it sounded a little bit old-fashioned, almost like glam rock. What Max managed to do was take the energy and layer in a way which preserved that feel but also made it sound very modern at the same time.”[4]
Composition[]
Speaking on the song for NME, Chris Martin revealed "People of the Pride" was musically inspired by German industrial metal band Rammstein, English rock band Muse, and English electronic music band Depeche Mode, while lyrically inspired by social movement Black Lives Matter and Gay Pride marches. He stated, “I think it's our ‘This situation is ridiculous’ song”, and added, “We're quite polite about it, though, as opposed to saying, ‘You fucking arseholes!’ But th[e song] is about human politics. This is the politics that believes that everyone on the planet has a right to be themselves. And I think whether you’re an old soft-rock superstar, or a young whippersnapper, you’re allowed to believe that.”[5]
The opening piece of "People of the Pride" was originally an untitled interlude that Beyoncé used during her performance at the Global Citizen Festival on 26 September 2015. It was played between the taped narration of Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman and Beyoncé's 2012 single "End of Time", from her fourth studio album, 4.[6] In an interview to Entertainment Weekly, Chris recalled, “I was watching her show and was like, 'Oh, my God, what song is she about to go into?' And then she just stopped and went to another song. Afterward, I asked her, 'What was that piece of music?' She said, 'I don't know, just some interlude.'”[7] The song also samples Sam Sparro's 2008 single "Black and Gold", from his eponymous debut album.
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
People on the left
People on the right
Got a lion inside
People of the pride
Let's go
[Verse 1]
There's a man who swears he's God
Unbelievers will be shot
There's a man who walks around
Like he owns the fucking lot
There's a man who takes his time
From his homemade cuckoo clock
And he makes us march around it
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
[Verse 2]
There's a crocodile cross-eyed
There's a turning of the tide
We're no longer gonna fight for
Some old crook and all his crimes
There's a sewing up of rags
Into revolution flags
Got to stand up to be counted
Be an anthem for your times
It's just work
[Bridge]
It's just work
It's not easy and we could all be blown apart
And Heaven is a fire escape
You try to cling to in the dark
It's just work, believe me
Still my beating heart
We'll all be free to fall in love
With who we want and say
Yeah, yeah (Oh-oh), yeah
People of the pride
Go!
Music video[]
The official music video for "People of the Pride" was released on 15 March 2022 in anticipation of the beginning of the Music of the Spheres World Tour. It was directed by Paul Dugdale and mixes a black-and-white live footage from the band's October 2021 performance at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena (which became an Amazon Music exclusive EP in November 2021) with a colourful dystopian animation.[8] Held by Impossible Brief, the animation takes place in a grim futuristic city controlled by robots and ruled by a robotic overlord; while Chris marches around on stage to the sounds of the song, a revolution occurs in the animated world as an army of robots prepares for action.[9][10]
Coldplay - People of the Pride (Official Video)
Lyric video[]
Coldplay - People of the Pride (Official Lyric Video)
Official audio[]
People of the Pride
References[]
- ↑ https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music/2022/02/15/coldplay-at-expo-2020-dubai-review-a-sky-full-of-stars-rainbows-and-bts-holograms/
- ↑ https://archive.ph/OaS2V
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt1R-iqofKU
- ↑ https://music.apple.com/us/album/music-of-the-spheres/1576349937
- ↑ https://www.nme.com/big-reads/coldplay-cover-interview-2021-music-of-the-spheres-3070999
- ↑ https://youtu.be/43rjMv1P9Mk?t=3339
- ↑ https://ew.com/music/coldplay-music-of-the-spheres/
- ↑ https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-coldplays-new-manga-inspired-animated-video-for-people-of-the-pride-3182898
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/coldplay-people-of-the-pride-video-1321356/
- ↑ https://www.warnermusic.de/news/2022-03-15/der-widerstand-formiert-sich-coldplay-mit-dem-video-zu-ihrem-aufruehrerischen-song
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