Tom: The new Hunger Games movie somehow got Coldplay to do the… well, let’s call it what it is, the Tie-In Song That’ll Appear Over The Second Half Of The Credits.
Tim: Now that there is a beautiful lyric video. It even managed to keep me going throughout the song.
Tom: It’s somewhat in the “Fix You” mould, to the extent that I suspect that a record industry exec, at some point, said “can we have something a bit like Fix You?” The slow build, the long repetitions of the title. It’s a Textbook Coldplay Track, somehow graduating from very calm and measured to becoming a wall of sound… only to fall back for the outro.
Tim: Wall of sound? Are you kidding? “I’m about to explode…” by hitting the piano a bit bit harder than I have been doing previously. Talk about a let down. I don’t want to criticise the song to much – I’m assuming it was crafted around the film (so more like film industry exec rather than record industry exec), so has to mirror it in tone and excitement, but man, I wasn’t particularly interested in seeing the film previously, and now I know I don’t want to see it.
Tom: It’s not going to be a “Fix You”. It’s not going to be a “Speed of Sound”. It’s going to be on the soundtrack CD, and everyone’ll take their money, and they’ll move on to better things.
Tim: But it does have a lovely lyric video.