British band Coldplay have released their new music video, the new video is for the group’s new single ‘Higher Power’ released on 7th May 2021. The single was recently performed for the recent ‘Live at Worthy Farm’ event and this year’s Radio 1’s Big Weekend against the apt setting of Whitby Abbey, the inspiration for the 1992 horror film, ‘Bram Stocker’s Dracula’.
The new video features a heavy theme of an Intergalactic fantasy world, the video’s premise sees the ‘Yellow’ performers embark on a journey to the fictional planet Kaotica, described as a “colourful trash planet”. The group are accompanied by dancing aliens. Playing the group of dancing aliens characterised as a street gang, is the Ambiguous Dance Company, a modern dance act located in Seoul. The band are also joined by a gaggle of otherworldly characters such as robot dogs.
Throughout the video giant holograms are also at play, further confirming the video’s fantastical theme. The resident aliens featured in the video communicate with a make-believe language, this language is also a component amid the artwork. The Mercury prize nominee’s new video exists within a science fiction world akin to films within the same genre. The video itself references such films as ‘The Terminator’, ‘Blade Runner’ and 1997 film ‘The Fifth Element‘ which stars Bruce Willis also on an intergalactic journey to find a cosmic weapon.
See below to watch Coldplay’s new psychedelic video.
The music video was directed by Dave Meyers, an American director responsible for such videos as DMX’s 1999 hit ‘Party Up (Up in Here)‘, ‘Adore You’ by Harry Styles and the smash hit ‘Bad Guy’ by Billie Eilish. With an impressive list of work from 1995, Meyers has accumulated a lot of accolades during his career. The director’s most recent being Best Video from MTV Europe Music Awards for his work on the music video ‘ME!’ by songstress Taylor Swift.
Meyers had this to say concerning his recent collaboration with Coldplay: “The video is a metaphor for how, right now, we all feel alienated, far removed from our world, almost like we’re on an alien planet. And ultimately we find love in the streets and that euphoria shoots us off into the stratosphere of our own energy and higher power.”
The single ‘Higher Power’ is one of the singles from the band’s upcoming ninth studio album and is the first instalment in a three-part musical journey entitled ‘Music Of The Spheres‘. This will be the name of the band’s ninth studio, a release date has yet to be confirmed.
