coldplay - viva la vida (slowed + reverb)

The French Revolution is a lot more chill than I remember.

This song makes me so nostalgic you wouldn’t even understand 😭

I’m literally crying. This song brings me so much happiness and nostalgia that you don’t understand. It brings me back to a time i was actually happy.

This reminds me of being a kid. Happy. Carefree. Innocent. Blissful. Hearing this makes me cry, it’s painful to think me being happy is just a small memory. Makes me think about me thinking I could be anything, do anything, go anywhere. Now I feel like wanting to curl up in a ball every second of every day.

This is one of those songs you wish you could hear again for the first time, just hearing from 3:27 onwards fills me with so much emotion and nostalgia that not many other songs have

'slowed and reverb' is literally the nightcore of this generation

this song has such deep, profound tunes wich just send you flying back into childhood makes you feel all those emotion basically makes you drown in the mariana trench of nostagia

Every action you made in life has led you to read this comment.

this is the best slowed reverb song i ever heard.

minecraft players : crying in the corner

Me: * watches this video * Also me: *has Minecraft flashbacks* Me again: *smiles sadly while silently crying alone in my room*

When I was a kid, I cried to this song because I thought it was about a regular man. I imagined he "had everything", but as he got older, he realized it didn`t make him happy. I would always cry at "I know Saint Peter will call my name" because it felt like he knows he can`t fix nothing. He got older and his time`s ending. Turns out this song is about The French Revolution which makes more sense, but I guess everybody has different interpretations.

Takes me to another world. Especially that the song itself brings old nostalgia

I don't know man, sometimes I wonder why I'm even alive

Old coldplay songs are a nostalgic vibe. I can never get enough

Anyone 2024? ❤

This is part of a music project I did analysing the music elements of this sonf, for anyone interested. From a musical perspective, the beginning of the song is pretty unique, with a very distinctive rhythmic pattern played on what sounds like a cello or an instrument similar in tone to a cello. It is very staccato and carries a gentle melody as well as its primary rhythmic function. The staccato adds an element of fleetingness and urgency to the song, certainly apt considering the nature of the song.   Another thing that I find interesting is that the only percussive element used consistently throughout the whole song is the kick drum, which is quite important in maintaining a solid, rhythmic thump throughout the piece to ground all the other elements. It is fascinating, however, that there is no snare drum or hi-hat like in standard Coldplay songs and Pop songs in general. There is, however, a big heavy bell noise like a cow bell (in the music video it is like a bell the size of a dog being struck. But that probably isn’t realistic), and a symbol at the start of the chorus to (literally) set it off with a bang. This kick drum starts at the first verse and continues throughout the rest of the song, stopping only at the minimalist outro. So quite an important element, and I think the reason it is used as such is because a) it helps maintain rhythmic integrity and stability, b) it is a noise made by traditional instruments, consist with the song’s time era and themes, and c) unlike snare drums and hi-hats, it is quite a low noise and can resemble a heartbeat in its thumping nature, suggesting the protagonist’s quick beating heart as he is being led to his uncertain eternal future. It’s low pitch also helps keep other elements in the starlight and doesn’t confuse or drown out other instruments whilst maintaining the timing.   After the first verse there is an instrumental, where the kick drums, and cello continue through, as well as a really weird instrument that sounds like it is woodwind and a violin simultaneously. The instrumental is eight bars long, and I think the melody might be played by a different instrument for the second half than in the first half. The instrument in the first half, which I suspect is a recorder, has a blowy, sharp tone and passive qualities, whereas in the second half, which I think is played by a violin, it is more wailing and belligerent. Dynamics are used here to tie the two noises together, so it sounds like they are the same instrument, both instruments gradually getting louder so the loud recorder meets the quite violin at the start of the fifth bar and they sound surprisingly similar (but not similar enough to fool me). Now more importantly, why is this? I think to change the tine and feeling of the song which was previously urgent due to the staccato cello and the heart-thumping kick drum, to a more saddened, depressing, wail-like timbre, which is appropriate for the song once the idea of the monarch’s collapse has already been established. The wailing noise of the violin also continues into the second verse and chorus, sustaining the eerie timbre initiated in the instrumental.   The chorus is really not that dissimilar from the from the previous verses: there is the kick drum, violin(s)in the background, and some extra percussive elements such as the symbol and the cowbell type thing. Since the song is so interesting, the chorus doesn’t need anything to set it apart, unlike in “Fix You”or “Paradise”. A reason for this is I think the lyrics are pretty obscure and unrelatable. Like I can totally relate to the themes explored in the other songs because theory is fundamentally about human nature and anthropological interactions, whereas this song is about the French revolution, an event that few people are well versed in and even fewer people can relate too. Therefore, the lyrics don’t have as such a significant effect in the audience in this song and there needs to be musical complexity to make up for the lyrical deficiencies.    After this chorus, there is the wackiest instrumental section in the history of Coldplay songs (this is my opinion but jeez it is pretty unorthodox). Like I can’t even place the instruments in it. It sounds like bells definitely, and some whistles with some extreme reverb to create a distinctive echo effect, and some extremely high, jarring noises. Maybe there are like wind chimes as well? Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those noises in that cacophony is wind charms, as the next line in the third verse directly after the instrumental is “it was the wicked and wild wind”. Wind chimes. “wind”. I really am pulling at straws here. But the instrumental is inarguably incongruous and jarring, which I think prompts ideas about the rapid decline from power the French monarchy (and King Lois XVI) faced during the French revolution, and the “jarring”, “incongruous”experience it was for the nobility, as well as French citizens who were faced with having terrifying and immediate choices to support the revolution and risk the French military’s wrath (remember, they had the most potent military in the world at the time), or resigning themselves to aeons more of hard work and unjustifiably large taxes.    In the third verse, there is a slight change in that the iconic rhythm is played by an instrument that is not a cello - possibly a viola. This change helps to elevate the atmosphere to a slightly more muddled place by introducing a new sound in the same (or an adjacent –it’s pretty close but can’t tell exactly) octave as the vocals. There is also like a violin introduced as well to for similar reasons in the first verse. Another key difference is there is what sounds like a harpsichord (I know, what on earth right?). It is quite similar to piano but lacks the tonal depth and sounds slightly more “plucked”than “struck”. This is not very obvious and I’m not sure as to why it was included but I think helps contrast the other elements, mainly the violins with their tragically beautiful quality.    There is a theme arising with most of the instrument noises used: they aren’t electronic. Usually, Coldplay will have an electric guitar, or some synthesisers, amongst more standard instruments. This song doesn’t, instead using violins, recorders, cellos, traditional percussion (bells kick drum symbol), and a harpsichord?! I mean, this could just be a coincidence, but seeing as the song clearly has historical implications and is likely about the French revolution, it seems deliberate. The classical nature of the instruments clearly nods to that era in time where instrumentation and music was advancing with the rise of several deific composers, the consequent sound being simultaneously developed and natural. The use of several old instruments that have been in use during and since that era (and before but in many cases the instruments only gained popularity in that period. I don’t really know the detail, I’m not a music historian. But you get (hopefully) where I am coming from) helps to root the song’s meaning back to that epoch, hinting at the song’s true value and significance.

this gives me like the vibe to have deep conversations with myself

If your still a child (1-17) Stfu saying "I miss the old days 😢" YOUR STILL IN THE NOSTALGIA DAYS Just like me ❤ Go out there and live your childhood days to the fullest!!

this is gen z’s anthem, the song of the decade.