Every aspect of Coldplay’s monumental show puts the audience front and centre.
There is more Donald Trump to Coldplay than meets the eye: neither overestimates their audience’s appetite for complexity and both deliver their simple message forcefully. But that is where the similarities end.
Coldplay’s message of love and unity is delivered with a sincerity that gives hope light will prevail in the end. Even in addressing the day’s US election results, frontman Chris Martin resists dark, divisive condemnation but rather encourages his audience to send love to America so they can overcome their differences.That transcendence is of a piece with the band’s current fixation with the cosmic: planets, spheres, moons and aliens are the show’s unifying theme.
Certainly, the circle of their inclusivity knows no bounds: sign language interpreters dotted around the stadium, admonishments to tall people not to block the view of shorties in the crowd, improvised serenades to individual fans spotlighted on screen and more rainbows than a Pride parade are just part of Coldplay’s overwhelming effort for universality.That ambition extends also to their music, channelling a diversity of influences into their distinctive unifying sound.
Every note, every piece of confetti, every achingly thoughtful word and gesture Chris Martin musters has the audience’s entertainment - the collective euphoria of a stadium bathed in warm love - as its target. It is a target they unfailingly hit: even the hardest, cruelest heart would melt tonight.
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