Coldplay given up on princess of China?

[coldplay♪♫♪]

They might not have liked the the song so they given up on the song performances...
I love the song too bad if that's what's really happening ...

[86Timewarp]

They might not have given up on it yet. I believe it will be on LP5 bit they're just tweaking it.

[Guppywarlord]

The Oracle answered this question a while ago, putting it off on how it didn't fit with the setlist they wanted. So it'll probably still be on LP5.

[Coldplayer1317]

IT will be on LP5

and check out this better quality version in youtube, in has the voice more clear...

YouTube - ‪Coldplay-Princess of china‬‏

[the_escapist]

I am sure they like the song a lot. They just don't want to spoil many songs before LP5 comes out.

[ShotsIntheSky]

IT will be on LP5

and check out this better quality version in youtube, in has the voice more clear...

YouTube - ‪Coldplay-Princess of china‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xoXKsb8lxA)

Thanks for the link :laugh3: I think its a pretty good song.

[Coldplayer1317]

Thanks for the link :laugh3: I think its a pretty good song.

Your welcome, i made it :D PD - your avatar its aswome!

[ShotsIntheSky]

Your welcome, i made it :D PD - your avatar its aswome!

Thanks I didn't make it though, cold_love23 did :P

[hux90]

I have a feeling part of the reason they're not playing it anymore is because of the animation that played in the background during the live shows... that little clip could contain information that they don't want released yet... :)

[Abracadabra]

I have a feeling part of the reason they're not playing it anymore is because of the animation that played in the background during the live shows... that little clip could contain information that they don't want released yet... :)

Lol,we kind of agreed they could've just kicked out whatever it was in the background and still play the song :smug:

[admnistramation]

No, they're probably pissed that everyone saw the "M Xylobrytes" on the screen and pulled it. Or they might be saving it for the states. :)

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

I hope they don't drop it :uhoh:

I imagine the guys have scratched it from their concert setlist for reasons other than the fact that they don't like it. As another poster said above, maybe they're just tweaking the fine details a bit.

Or maybe they just thought it didn't fit well with their setlists? :shrug:

[S.@.m.]

it did fit the setlist very well :dozey: i hope it is just because they dont want to play all the hits of the new album before the release.

[Stv]

I asked the Oracle about why they didn't play it anymore and if they disliked the song, 2 times, and he has not answered. Then I remembered someone asked which were their favorite songs from LP5 era, and the oracle answered "Princess Of China" and "Major Minus". Maybe it's because everyone saw the M xylobrytes. If WE shutted up about the M-Xylobrytes, maybe Coldplay would still be playing it, or I think so.

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

it did fit the setlist very well :dozey: i hope it is just because they dont want to play all the hits of the new album before the release.


I thought it fit the setlist nicely also :nice: but maybe the guys didn't see it that way (after all, they did just add ENL and Shiver back into their setlists :dance: )

But this is Coldplay we're talking about, so it could be any number of reasons :laugh3:

[MosesTheMarshmallow]

I think it's most likely because they haven't nailed the specifics of how they want to perform the song for two main reasons that I can think of - 1. Chris might not yet be confident with his vocals. You guys know how Coldplay can be so perfectionist and self-critical. Maybe Chris doesn't know all the words yet for all we know (or hasn't written them :p). 2. They might not have agreed on what Jonny will do. He seems to be switching, a little randomly, between acoustic guitar and synthesizer. Maybe he's thinking about playing electric guitar on the song too but hasn't got that 100% ready to go.

Part of why I thought of this is that if you watch the Gothenburg performance of Major Minus, Jonny switches up the way he plays the interlude harmonics - he makes the rhythm a lot more complicated (like the drums/acoustic guitar strum rhythm) which suggests to me that all of these songs remain works in progress. Which is okay, because they'll all sound really good live and on album. :)

[S.@.m.]

I thought it fit the setlist nicely also :nice: but maybe the guys didn't see it that way (after all, they did just add ENL and Shiver back into their setlists :dance: )

But this is Coldplay we're talking about, so it could be any number of reasons :laugh3:

well that was a good thing to add two more parachutes to the setlist :nice:



maybe they just wanted to play something special for me in nuremberg only :smug2::p

[andrea25]

my opinion:
Rock im Park was the first comeback concert of the Lp5 era. They decided to play new songs, but the next day it turned out that people had uploaded pretty decent quality video of these songs on Youtube, and you know how this works, these videos have begun to circulate very fast around the web. The only new song that surprisingly didn't have a good video recording was Princess of China, and maybe they seized the opportunity to take a step backward and not spoil another new song of LP5.
just my 2 cents.
last thought: maybe, like you've said, they're tweaking some details, maybe the lyrics are incomplete (i.e. where chris sings "You sing Love, la la la la la la la la etc.")

[S.@.m.]

no. from the first gig (@ rock im park) there only exist bad quality videos.
the good quality videos are all from the next day (@ rock am ring).
they could have solved that bad quality problem easily if they would care about that!
they still could solve that by just playing it again^^
but you are right: maybe they just don't want to spoil too many songs of the new album..

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

maybe they just wanted to play something special for me in nuremberg only :smug2::p


Then we're going to expect some high-quality recordings :whip:


:P

[S.@.m.]

Then we're going to expect some high-quality recordings :whip:


:P

they made sure that i dont have any recording devices with me. they searched my bag and stuff :rolleyes:

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

they made sure that i dont have any recording devices with me. they searched my bag and stuff :rolleyes:


:phu: WELL.

[S.@.m.]

:phu: WELL.

i also would like to have something to refresh the feelings of that gig - it hurts like heaven :bigcry:

EDIT: + i would have liked to have some good quality material to share with the CPing world :phu:

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

^ :hug:

[cackyy]

Hahahahaha They did it on purpose. It's not a coincidence that poc wass played at rock Im park which also wasn't televised meaning no great tv recording, leaves it somewhat mystique

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

^ Of course they did it on purpose . . . . Torturing their fans is one of their favorite recreational activities :awesome:

[Jack Bauer]

Hahahahaha They did it on purpose. It's not a coincidence that poc wass played at rock Im park which also wasn't televised meaning no great tv recording, leaves it somewhat mystique

The Oracle?????????????????????????????????????????

[Abracadabra]

^ :hug:

D'awww, your signature just rocks. I just had to commend it somewhere :P

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

Aww, thank you! :blush:

[howyousawtheworld]

I'd be surprised if this wasn't brought back sooner rather than later

[Juper]

I think it makes nosense that Coldplay have stopped playing PoC just because of the "spiring" mural behind them in The Rock am Ring Festival. They won't have finished it yet. As "Bach" says, they will probably want to change some things from the song and try new experiments.

But don't worry beacuse in the new album Princess of China will have the best quality of all!!!!!!!!!

[The Duke]

They're just holding back so the new album isn't spoiled. The release date would be kind of anti-climactic if everyone already knew all the songs on the album. They saw how the videos went viral and knew anything they played at any venue was going to be out there in a big way.

[azkaazkaazka]

I am sure they like the song a lot. They just don't want to spoil many songs before LP5 comes out.

totally agree with you!

[Open, Politik]

It will most probably be on the album, Chris seemed excited about it. But maybe they thought 7-8 new songs is a bit too much considering they don't want to spoil everything on the album

[howyousawtheworld]

It will most probably be on the album, Chris seemed excited about it. But maybe they thought 7-8 new songs is a bit too much considering they don't want to spoil everything on the album

For sure. Especially to festival crowds who aren't there just to see Coldplay. Only hardcore fans want to see Princess of China again with other new songs but if you were in Coldplay's shoes dropping old classics for new songs at festivals would seem like a very silly thing to do. They've found the perfect balance between satisfying harcore fans who want to hear new stuff at every gig and more casual fans who just want to sing along to the likes of In My Place and Yellow at these festivals.

[Open, Politik]

For sure. Especially to festival crowds who aren't there just to see Coldplay. Only hardcore fans want to see Princess of China again with other new songs but if you were in Coldplay's shoes dropping old classics for new songs at festivals would seem like a very silly thing to do. They've found the perfect balance between satisfying harcore fans who want to hear new stuff at every gig and more casual fans who just want to sing along to the likes of In My Place and Yellow at these festivals.


Or they just like Germans and hate the rest of us:P

[Stv]

^lol

[InATelescopeLens]

Are you crazy!? They haven't given up on it! That'd be suicide!!!

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

Or they just like Germans and hate the rest of us:P

:lol:

[PrimaryJoe]

Well if it's not on LP5 then hopefully it'll be on a single.

[Major_Love]

Well if it's not on LP5 then hopefully it'll be on a single.

Come on guy, listen to the better version. If this song isn't on LP5 I personally will find I way to punish them! :inquisitive::veryangry2::laugh3:;)

[Ronnie O Sullivan]

I love that song so much and i dont hope they played it just on time at Rock im Park to see how it WOULD have worked live :cry::cry::cry:

[macky]

It's crazy how everyone is going nuts over a song that they didn't even hear correctly. I don't and can't understand why it has become some people favorite new song.
Let's wait until we hear it the way it should be heard not these crappy Youtube videos. It make you lose all music credibility.

[Major_Love]

It's crazy how everyone is going nuts over a song that they didn't even hear correctly. I don't and can't understand why it has become some people favorite new song.
Let's wait until we hear it the way it should be heard not these crappy Youtube videos. It make you lose all music credibility.

You can hear definetely some little details which will be clearer on the studio version. But the melody, the chinese-touch, the lalalala-parts...I love it! I imangine a great studio version which is really different to all the pop songs in the radios.

[Ronnie O Sullivan]

I´m just wondering if the album is about a Space/Future-Story, in which way PoC would fit into it ?!? Does anybody got an idea ???

[Blue Glisten]

It's crazy how everyone is going nuts over a song that they didn't even hear correctly. I don't and can't understand why it has become some people favorite new song.
Let's wait until we hear it the way it should be heard not these crappy Youtube videos. It make you lose all music credibility.
I'm agree, the intrumental seems to be very beautiful :heart: but I think the lyrics is average, maybe the original of album will be different than the live version :)
I would have prefered Princess Of Kingdom for title than Princess Of China but I think they've chosen this title because on every album they chose a country theme...

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

^ Princess of Kingdom? :thinking: No offense, but I think Princess of China fits better with the context of the song :)

[Mark]

The first song that comes to mind when I hear it (and I've only heard it once) is Yes. I may be way out on that, but I'm sure the band are looking for more of a Viva La Vida vibe this summer, with say Charlie Brown and Hurts Like Heaven. When Coldplay fans are paying especially to see Coldplay, they'll drop the favourites in the set, but at Glasto etc, they have to crowd-please, let's be honest.

As for the screen theory, I don't buy it. I would let nothing stop me from playing a song I enjoy live.

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

^ :nod: It seems to me that it's like a cross between Yes and Viva la Vida


But I think the guys dropped it from the setlist simply because it didn't fit very well with the other songs :shrug:

[Skin&Bones]

^Yeah I hardly believe they dropped it from the set because it wasn't good enough. Everyone seems to really like it! And the quality of the videos suck (except laxwatcher's version :) )!!

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

I love it :wacky: (and that synth scream is possibly more epic than the end of Viva la Vida :dance:)

[Skin&Bones]

I KNOW!!!! :o

[S.@.m.]

why do all the "good quality" versions not include my wonderful scream at ~0:55 anymore? :dozey::p

[Stv]

Did anyone notice how the stuff in the screen during PoC was the artwork?

[admnistramation]

Clearly, we saw the M, xylobrytes, luminous poem... :) too bad there's no UFO or golden arrow. :\

[GTskilled]

Now that this Rihanna-News is there I can easily answer:

Yep, Coldplay has given up PoC :D

[Blockflote]

Now that this Rihanna-News is there I can easily answer:

Yep, Coldplay has given up PoC :D

LOL
But I think the same.

[Famous Old Painter]

I almost wish they had scrapped it now.

[Jack Bauer]

coldplay has absolutley given up on Princess of china. Basically we get Chris Martin's beautiful voice, and then we get a computer singing (or dare I say rapping...) to us after that. They don't care enough about this song to make it intelligent or soulful

[Megalomania]

I almost wish they had scrapped it now.

I was just about to post that. :P

[Strawberry Swinger]

Now that this Rihanna-News is there I can easily answer:

Yep, Coldplay has given up PoC :D

brilliant post.