COLDPLAY

COLDPLAY

Presentation

Let's go!

Contextualize your topic

Who is Coldplay?

• Coldplay is an English rock band created on 1998, in London
• The band is composed by the singer Chris Martin, the guitarist Johny Buckland, the bassist Guy Berryman and the drummer Will Champion

• Their famous singles are Clocks, Sky Full of Stars, and Adventure of a Lifetime
• The band won 7 Grammy Awards, 9 Brit Awards, 6 Q Awards and 7 NME Awards.

Continue

What they support

• The band support many charitables causes, like Amnesty International, who is an international organisation who campaignes to end abuses of human rights,
• They also donate 10% of their revenues on their tours, albums, salary, to environmental projects and charities.

coldplaycorner

Continue

Their environmental engagement

• The band is strongly engaged on the ecologist plan:
• Their album "Music of the Sphere" focuses on nature and human's connection with it and the planet.

• They've decided to make their tours more sustainable by reducing Co2 emissions. The band uses recycled materials and renewable energy on stage. They also implanted kinetic floors to produce energy when the public jumps. They encourages the fans to use bikes to come to their concerts, and plants trees for every tickets sold and works with environmental organizations like ClientEarth and TheOceanCleanup.

Continue

Their social engagement

• "Trouble in town" is a song by the band from the album Everyday Life (2020). In this song,
• The band denounces police violence and racial injustice, espacially in the United States.
• The song includes a real audio recording of a police arrest, which makes the message more realistic and powerful.

Continue

Trouble in town

Continue

THEIR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

• In this part of the song, Coldplay uses the words “my brother” and “my sister” to show that police violence and racism affect entire communities, not just one individual.
• The expressions “they cut my brother down” and “they hung my brother brown” strongly denounce racial violence against Black people.

• The music video uses animals to represent the characters, a reference to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. As Chris Martin sings, it's "the law of the jungle or the law of the street".
• The police officers are shown as violent animals, while the victim appears innocent and weak. This symbolism highlights the abuse of power and injustice in society.

Continue

Thank you!

GUETNI Rania BIKARANE Tilila

Home