Coldplay’s new music video features an otherworldly new band!On Wednesday, the British pop-rock group released the visual for “Biutyful,” a dreamy mid-tempo track from 2021’sMusic of the Spheresalbum, which sees the band members give up their spotlight to The Weirdos, an alien puppet band fromJim Henson’s Creature Shop.The clip takes place in a world built for “Humans Only” and finds the Muppets creator’s puppets Angel Moon, Sparkman, Donk, The Wizard and Bruce Cakemix down on their luck, as no one will take them seriously.The Weirdos.Courtesy Atlantic RecordsAngel Moon (the song’s opening vocalist) attends a singing audition and receives low scores from human judges, drummer Donk gets arrested for busking, guitarist Sparkman attempts to teach human children who won’t listen, The Wizard performs in a studio session to snickering sound engineers and Bruce Cakemix loses his job in an office for humans.Each of the characters follow various “R U Weird?” signs leading to an underground bar full of other puppets, which features drink specials titled “We Are Alone in the Universe,” “Everyone Is an Alien Somewhere,” and “We Are All Made of Music.“The Weirdos.Courtesy Atlantic RecordsAfter seeing them each practice their respective musical crafts, Bruce Cakemix decides to launch The Weirdos and act as the band’s manager.In trueThat Thing You Do!fashion, The Weirdos become the “most popular band on earth” in seemingly no time. Soon enough, the band’s headlining a stadium concert with Coldplay membersChris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion dancing and singing along from the crowd.The music video’s message of finding a group of accepting individuals mirrors the track’s uplifting lyrics: “When you love me… / I’m nowhere else / I’m on top of the world, man… / And it’s so beautiful.“Coldplay.Coldplay/YouTubeColdplay’s been performing with The Weirdos since March 2022 on the band’s Music of the Spheres World Tour, where Angel Moon’s provided live vocals on “Biutyful” at every show.Last month, The Weirdos weresigned to Atlantic Records— though which Coldplay’s released music in the United States since 2014’sGhost Storiesalbum. Both bands also appeared together onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthe same month to perform “Biutyful.“In a recent interview withBillboard, Martin spoke about Coldplay’s collaborative relationship with The Weirdos.The Weirdos.Coldplay/YouTube"The Weirdos are a band who we’re trying to help out,” the 45-year-old singer-songwriter told the outlet. “They have one song at the moment [‘Biutyful’] and we’re on it with them.““The way I discovered them was we were working with Angel Moon, this lady… creature,” said Martin. “I think we thought that we’ve sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay.“He continued, “We can’t go more poppier or single-y [than"My Universe” with BTS] and that felt good and we’re a bit older now. So we do have songs we want to bring some attention to, but with this we asked the Weirdoes if they would do the song and front it and we would feature.”
Coldplay’s new music video features an otherworldly new band!
On Wednesday, the British pop-rock group released the visual for “Biutyful,” a dreamy mid-tempo track from 2021’sMusic of the Spheresalbum, which sees the band members give up their spotlight to The Weirdos, an alien puppet band fromJim Henson’s Creature Shop.
The clip takes place in a world built for “Humans Only” and finds the Muppets creator’s puppets Angel Moon, Sparkman, Donk, The Wizard and Bruce Cakemix down on their luck, as no one will take them seriously.
The Weirdos.Courtesy Atlantic Records
Angel Moon (the song’s opening vocalist) attends a singing audition and receives low scores from human judges, drummer Donk gets arrested for busking, guitarist Sparkman attempts to teach human children who won’t listen, The Wizard performs in a studio session to snickering sound engineers and Bruce Cakemix loses his job in an office for humans.
Each of the characters follow various “R U Weird?” signs leading to an underground bar full of other puppets, which features drink specials titled “We Are Alone in the Universe,” “Everyone Is an Alien Somewhere,” and “We Are All Made of Music.”
After seeing them each practice their respective musical crafts, Bruce Cakemix decides to launch The Weirdos and act as the band’s manager.
In trueThat Thing You Do!fashion, The Weirdos become the “most popular band on earth” in seemingly no time. Soon enough, the band’s headlining a stadium concert with Coldplay membersChris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion dancing and singing along from the crowd.
The music video’s message of finding a group of accepting individuals mirrors the track’s uplifting lyrics: “When you love me… / I’m nowhere else / I’m on top of the world, man… / And it’s so beautiful.”
Coldplay.Coldplay/YouTube
Coldplay’s been performing with The Weirdos since March 2022 on the band’s Music of the Spheres World Tour, where Angel Moon’s provided live vocals on “Biutyful” at every show.
Last month, The Weirdos weresigned to Atlantic Records— though which Coldplay’s released music in the United States since 2014’sGhost Storiesalbum. Both bands also appeared together onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthe same month to perform “Biutyful.”
In a recent interview withBillboard, Martin spoke about Coldplay’s collaborative relationship with The Weirdos.
The Weirdos.Coldplay/YouTube
“The Weirdos are a band who we’re trying to help out,” the 45-year-old singer-songwriter told the outlet. “They have one song at the moment [‘Biutyful’] and we’re on it with them.”
“The way I discovered them was we were working with Angel Moon, this lady… creature,” said Martin. “I think we thought that we’ve sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay.”
He continued, “We can’t go more poppier or single-y [than"My Universe” with BTS] and that felt good and we’re a bit older now. So we do have songs we want to bring some attention to, but with this we asked the Weirdoes if they would do the song and front it and we would feature.”
source: people.com
