{"id":21224,"date":"2014-05-04T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2014-05-04T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:45:27","slug":"watch-coldplay-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-05\/watch-coldplay-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Coldplay on SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coldplay-snl-2014-608x342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coldplay-snl-2014-608x342.jpg\" alt=\"coldplay-snl-2014-608x342\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coldplay-snl-2014-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coldplay-snl-2014-608x342-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coldplay-snl-2014-608x342-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have recently played hot and cold with <strong>Coldplay<\/strong>.\u00a0 After initially being nonplussed by most of the songs off of their impending new album, <em><strong>Ghost Stories<\/strong><\/em>, we have since felt a global <strong>Coldplay<\/strong> warming (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-04\/watch-coldplay-perform-new-song-oceans-for-bbc-radio-1\/\"><strong>this performance helped the most<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 We melted more last night when they performed on <strong>SNL<\/strong> and brought two new songs to life.\u00a0 This, combined with\u00a0<em><strong>Magic<\/strong><\/em> having now been beat into our brains (it now sounds more simplistically-genius than strictly-insipid), leaves us feeling more encouraged about<strong> Coldplay&#8217;s<\/strong> new offerings.\u00a0 Time will tell the ultimate placing of these songs and album in their discography.<\/p>\n<p>Check out below the band on <strong>SNL<\/strong> performing the languid and spare <em><strong>Magic,<\/strong> <\/em>followed by the more kinetic and anthemic <em><strong>A Sky Full of Stars<\/strong><\/em> (which the band co-wrote with <strong>Avicii<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>On May 18th, the night before <em><strong>Ghost Stories&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> release, the band will have a hour special on NBC called <em><strong>Coldplay: Ghost Stories<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x1sxf5t\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=7czqocnwszdlj12ljqizzg&amp;partner=wenner&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F631151\" width=\"612\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently played hot and cold with Coldplay.\u00a0 After initially being nonplussed by most of the songs off of their impending new album, Ghost Stories, we have since felt a global Coldplay warming (this performance helped the most).\u00a0\u00a0 We melted more last night when they performed on SNL and brought two new songs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}