The title of the song was first announced as part of the track listing release of Music of the Spheres in July 2021 without any mention of the song featuring BTS. The official music video, directed by Dave Meyers, was released on 30 September 2021 and features both groups performing on different futuristic planets (Floris, Calypso, and Supersolis) alongside a fictional band named "Supernova 7" via the "Holoband" technology developed by DJ Lafrique, set in an era where music is banned around the universe. The track also reached number one in Hungary, Malaysia and Singapore the top ten in Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, Ireland, and South Korea and the top twenty of twelve other countries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, and New Zealand. It premiered at number three in the UK Singles Chart, claiming the second-biggest week of the year in downloads, and eventually becoming the most downloaded song of 2021 by a group in the country. "My Universe" received positive reviews by music critics. The single is also the first track by two co-billed lead groups to top the chart and the first song by a British group to debut at number one in the United States' history. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming BTS' sixth US chart-topper and Coldplay's second after 2008's " Viva la Vida".
It was released on 24 September 2021, through Parlophone and Atlantic Records, as the second official single from Music of the Spheres, the former group's ninth studio album. While preparing for the shoot, Chris told the waiting crowd, "When you're not as attractive as Beyoncé, you have to do what you can for videos." Īs of May 2012, the video has over 115,000,000 views on Youtube." My Universe" is an English and Korean song by British rock band Coldplay and South Korean pop group BTS. The concertgoers were encouraged to cheer as if they were really performing. After performing this song live, the band donned their elephant heads and gloves, wearing them as partial fursuits, and pretended to perform as the last minute of the studio recording played. The concert segment was filmed at the end of a live show at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, on 8 October 2011. The bike shop shown is Woodstock Cycleworks in Woodstock, Cape Town. The music video was shot on location in London, Cape Town, the Klein Karoo in the Western Cape and Johannesburg. The video was released on 19 October 2011. The suits had to be as lo-fi and spontaneous as possible in fact, the suit worn by the bassist, Guy Berryman, doesn't even have footpaws. The unicycle and elephants suits had to be found in a hurry. The band's frontman Chris Martin created the video's concept storyline. The band called Whitecross just a day before the shooting and the video's concept was finished just hours before the director traveled from London to South Africa. The elephant finally finds his friends, all played by the band.Ĭoldplay initially announced that the single's music video would be directed by Hype Williams but that version was scrapped after shooting and the band decided instead to record a new version directed by long-time collaborator Mat Whitecross. The shopkeeper only agrees to part ways with a unicycle for that price. There, he finds a bike shop, and plunks down the money he has left, hoping to purchase a bicycle. Eventually, he gets enough money to make it to Johannesburg. In Cape Town, the elephant engages in street performing to beg for money, switching between dancing and showing the lyrics to the song on cardboard placards, similar to Bob Dylan's " Subterranean Homesick Blues" or INXS's " Mediate".
During the interlude for the first verse, he lands in Cape Town, South Africa, where he breaks out of the trunk and makes a run for it. He manages to board an underground train, and eventually makes his way to London Heathrow Airport, where he stows away in a trunk on a jet. He rides to a London Underground station when the first verse starts. He breaks the lock and escapes, chased by two police constables (really two children in police costumes) before commandeering a bicycle. Initial shots show he is missing three friends, and has been imprisoned for 50 days. After titles, it shows an elephant fursuiter stuck in a cage at a zoo. The video is presented in the format of a nature documentary. At two points of the video, the elephant is shown displaying placards with the song's lyrics
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