It just felt like the right time to go into that,” Martin said. We’ve been heading towards this for a while. We wondered what alien musicians sound like. In the first Star Wars, there’s the scene with the Cantina Band and we’ve always wondered what their story is.
“For a while, we’ve talked about the movie Star Wars. “Then sent it to Jonny and Will and Guy and Max and then they add their colours and then it becomes a Coldplay song,” he explained.Īnd then the music video concept sorta, kinda came from the Star Wars franchise. Martin said he did “a little skeleton stick man version” of the song first. “But if you work with songs you definitely know that music is coming through you it’s not really coming from you.” “You have to be careful talking about it like that because some people don’t believe in that,” Martin warned. One day, in the way that sometimes happens – it’s maybe happened to me like 10 times in my life –a song just appeared from who knows where,” Martin explained, adding that the song “basically” came from the higher power in question. I just had the title written down on a list for a long time and was trying to write a song called ‘Higher Power’ with not much success but just loads of voice memos. “The title came first which is what happens with us quite a lot. When it comes to the lyrics of “Higher Power,” Martin said that the title came a long time before any of the rest of it.
WATCH: Full interview with Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland Then the song just went, ‘Here I am,’” Martin explained. It sounded really good so I just recorded a bit of this loop on my phone and took that loop and went and sat on the keyboard.
I don’t know why but I just started hitting it. “I was staying in a house with a big sink. Coldplay's new single "Higher Power" was released at the beginning of May and since French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (who was in space) was the first one to hear it, technically space heard it before earth.Ĭhris Martin told Etalk's Tyrone Edwards that the space-agey music video (where he dances with aliens on the fictional planet of Kaotica) was, naturally, inspired by Star Wars.īefore Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland delved into the details about the dystopian-looking planet and the inspiration behind that, they first explained how the single came about.Īccording to Martin, "Higher Power" was inspired by a huge bathroom sink.