When I first heard this song, I was watching the music video that the band made with actress Zhang Ziyi. They are all part of life and we cannot escape them. I like how this first song begins on a slow start, that just like the title, “Ghost Stories”, it gives you a kind of haunted feeling about making you think, feeling the pull of various emotions that come when a person thinks, love, melancholy, sadness. Especially when I lay in bed at night, when I try not to think, I always listen to my beating heart. Many a time when I think, I grow silent to the point that I can “hear” (well mostly feel) my heart beating. Of course, we don’t know who is “Always in head”, but we know that he is always thinking about many important things.Īs the song closes, the bass part that Will plays reminds me of a beating heart. Take Martin, for example, now that he is no longer married he has a lot of things that are affecting him, his divorce, his daughter, his band, his life in general. I think that these lyrics related to the different things that greatly affect our lives, the things that always keep us up at night. Many would say that this song revolves around Gweneth Paltrow, but I think it just more than here.
The lyrics, I feel, add on to these existing feelings. It adds on a kind of melancholy and a feel of reminisce that makes you think back on things. When the drums and guitar kick in, you would think that it would break that group of feelings, but it does quite the opposite. Always in My Head- 4.5 out 5 The album opens up to a slow rhythm of the haunting vocals that kind of remind me of how the ocean sounds at night time, quiet and haunting yet soothing.
Free speech, no? Now, one to the first song!ġ. I confessing that I’m not really good at analyzing song, but hey I’m just telling you what I feel from these songs. I will give a more detailed analysis on the the album as a whole towards the end of this post.
Of course there are songs that I will or will not like, but again that’s what it goes for album releases, you can’t really like all of the songs. I really like this album as much as I do for their other previous releases. (I know this album released last week, but I haven’t had the time to complete the review because I took on a second job. Also, people have said that this album was greatly influenced by the split between Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, mostly focusing on Martin and not on the other members, Will, Guy, and Jonny.
If the new style doesn’t work for their new work, they, he, or she will learn how to compensate for their next round of music that they will produce in the future. There are people who do get tired of that, so it is important for musicians to be well-round and try new things. They can’t always stick to the same style of music.
Everyone’s a critic and I am too, but in all honesty, musicians has the right to create whatever music they want. I will also include in my review the three bonus tracks, (All My Friends, O (Part II/ Reprise), and Ghost Stories) From what I’ve already read online, there are many people who dislike this album because of its electronic aspect and the idea that Coldplay has strayed so far away from their normal style. Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories” album has officially release and I, like, many fans, reviewers, and critics, will give my honest and wholehearted review of this album.