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    Review: Coldplay successfully turns to Max Martin for hits, but there's no helping those lyrics

    Look, there's no defending the lyrics on this new Coldplay album. In one song from "Music of the Spheres," which carries some sort of overarching concept about the citizens of a distant galaxy, frontman Chris Martin actually sings these words in this order: "We're only human/ But we're capable of kindness/ So they call us humankind." In another he compares himself to a broken record that's ...
    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2021 3 minutes

    Look, there's no defending the lyrics on this new Coldplay album.

    In one song from "Music of the Spheres," which carries some sort of overarching concept about the citizens of a distant galaxy, frontman Chris Martin actually sings these words in this order: "We're only human/ But we're capable of kindness/ So they call us humankind."

    In another he compares himself to a broken record that's "not playing right," then delivers the same line in reverse, I guess to prove it?

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