![]() In "People of the Pride," Coldplay take the three aforementioned musical strands and unites them with a sound heavily owing to the glam-like space rock of Muse. It's not unheard of by any stretch for a band to look back to a demo for inspiration, but the fact that we as listeners are able to listen to its original form makes hearing what it became so much more gripping and hard to believe. Having known "The Man Who Swears" and other Viva la Vida-era demos, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard "People of the Pride" as its first live videos trickled onto the internet. The lyrics, melody, and chord progression to the demo's verse - including a somewhat rare curse from Chris Martin - remain nearly fully intact in "People of the Pride." Multiple elements of the demo's chorus also made it to the final track's bridge, including about half of its melody and the lyrics of of "Heaven is a fire escape / You try to cling to in the dark." In addition, the final song's aforementioned triplet feel and Jonny Buckland's last guitar riff both come from "The Man Who Swears" Chris Martin can be heard humming the latter on three occasions during the demo. The earliest starting point of "People of the Pride," its truest genesis, was a demo from Coldplay's Viva la Vida era in the late 2000s known as "The Man Who Swears," which leaked onto YouTube in the early 2010s alongside others of its kind. While one could also argue that Sparro's triplet feel was also taken by Coldplay for their track, that quality actually comes from the track's first stage of development, which occurred before "Black and Gold was released." The bridge also contains the clearest indication of another of the song's starting points: Australian singer Sam Sparro's sorely underrated 2009 song "Black and Gold." The second half of the chord progression from "Black and Gold" is very closely mirrored in "People of the Pride"'s bridge. Beyoncé's musical director Derek Dixie composed the introduction Coldplay used, and he furthered those ideas in the bridge - which occurs in an interesting spot in the track, between the third verse and the second break. The intro can be heard in a slower form as a transition piece and intro to "End of Time" in Beyoncé's performance at Global Citizen Festival 2015, a festival Chris Martin curated. The brass and trumpet intro began its life not with Coldplay, but with their A Head Full of Dreams-era collaborator Beyoncé. I'll start with the most recent one, because it's heard in the song's first moments, and work backwards in time. ![]() It can be easy to confuse them though because 12/8 time can have a feel like 4/4 if you count it as 4 triplets of eighth notes (3 eighth notes per 1 beat with 4 beats in a measure).The making of "People of the Pride" has three distinct starting points. Most songs occur in 4/4 time (4 quarter notes per measure) but if you look at its sheet music “Uprising” is in 12/8 time (12 eighth notes per measure). Who.Ī piece of music’s meter is the way that beats are organized in a song. ![]() I’m not the only one who thinks this too, in his BBC review, Chris Jones likened the song to the popular sci-fi show Dr. For example, to me the overall tone of “Uprising” has a mysterious synthetic quality reminiscent of the kind of music you’d find in a sci-fi movie. I personally think that the message that they are trying to send with the song is to me to be free and do what you feel like you should do without worrying about what others think.įor those of you who may not have encountered this term before, timbre is the quality/characteristics of a piece of music’s sound. ![]() If taken literally, the song’s lyrics along with its title Uprising clearly depict a story of rising up against an oppressive government. The first element that we’re going to discuss is the lyrics of the song and what message they are trying to send. (I’ve put a link to the song’s lyrics below to avoid cluttering the post) In this post we are going to look at and discuss three musical elements of this song: lyrics, timbre, and meter. I’m a big fan of this song because it fits a lot of different moods for me I can listen to it when I’m happy, sad, or even when I just want to get pumped up for something.
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