Jedd Beaudoin: The only thing worse than the bands that try to ape Coldplay? The real thing. Apparently, it involves a limp Beyonce collaboration and a trip to India. I always wondered what a rock starвЂ™s midlife crisis would be like. IвЂ™d be shooting for f-bombs, but with how Coldplay have been for the past while, itвЂ™s not worth it. Chorus hovers around getting drunk and high while being as poppy and uncreative as possible? Check, check, and check. Дustin Ragucos: Wastes BeyonceвЂ™s talent? Check. Reality is the way one seeвЂ™s things instead of the thing itself, so sing along. ItвЂ™s pretty cool, and the music has strong hooks that suggest the pleasures of being somewhere exotic. Steve Horowitz: The video as travelogue with fireworks and beautiful women: a look at India for those who will never go there. Moreover, did LilвЂ™ Wayne write the lyrics to the chorus? вЂњDrink for me / Drink for me / I was so thirstyвЂќ leaves the most earnest of Coldplay fans (do any of them still exist?) with bewildered looks and hands outstretched in complete dismay. Beyonce, the current Queen of Pop, could not condescend enough to make вЂњHymn for the WeekendвЂќ remotely listenable. Remove Chris MartinвЂ™s voice from the track, and Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato could have delivered this song with more charisma than the ex-Mr. Stephen Wyatt: Cultural appropriation aside, ColdplayвЂ™s вЂњHymn for the WeekendвЂќ sounds nothing like the vestiges of a band that once gave us вЂ™00s most endearing ballads, вЂњYellowвЂќ. I look forward to an Indian band repaying the compliment by filming a promo in MartinвЂ™s native Devon and filling it with gap-toothed, cider soaked yokels on combine harvesters throwing handfuls of scones, clotted cream, and jam at each other. The video is a lazy idiotвЂ™s mishmash of Indian stereotypes. Why? How? WHY?! / I just swallowed a donkey liver. At first youвЂ™re startled: Did he really say that?/Hey, are those pig testes? Then youвЂ™re filled with horror: Oh god, he did say that!/ItвЂ™s not pig testes! ItвЂ™s a goat anus! Then, as the tears roll, all you can do is pray for it to end: вЂњWhen I was a river dried up / You came to rain a flood.вЂќ What?! A 38-year-old man wrote that! Not a bright 38-year-old man, but educated at least. Paul Duffus: Listening to Chris MartinвЂ™s lyrics is like falling into a pit filled with offal.

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