{"id":805018,"date":"2020-03-09T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=964289"},"modified":"2020-03-09T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T11:18:16","slug":"watch-coldplay-cover-princes-1999-in-npr-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-coldplay-cover-princes-1999-in-npr-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Coldplay Cover Prince\u2019s \u20181999\u2019 in NPR Tiny Desk Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-11.03.09-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coldplay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coldplay\" data-tag=\"coldplay\">Coldplay<\/a> used their NPR Tiny Desk Concert as an opportunity to cover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prince\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince\" data-tag=\"prince\">Prince<\/a>\u2019s \u201c1999.\u201d The band, who also played their own \u201cCry Cry Cry,\u201d \u201cViva La Vida,\u201d \u201cBroken\u201d and \u201cChampion Of The World,\u201d was joined by the nine-piece For Love Choir. See the full concert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/09\/811857679\/coldplay-tiny-desk-concert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCry Cry Cry,\u201d \u201cBroken\u201d and \u201cChampion of the World\u201d come off the band\u2019s recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/coldplay-everyday-life-918255\/\"><em>Everyday Life<\/em><\/a>, which dropped in November. Some of the For Love Choir members joined Coldplay in the studio to record the album, causing single Chris Martin to note during the NPR clip, \u201cIn a very real way, they\u2019ve Photoshopped our songs to be much better than they actually are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coldplay recently released a music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coldplay-champion-of-the-world-video-957490\/\">\u201cChampions of the World,\u201d<\/a> directed by French filmmaker Clo\u00e9 Bailly and filmed in Los Angeles. Previous singles from the LP include \u201cOrphans,\u201d \u201cArabesque,\u201d the title track, \u201cDaddy\u201d and \u201cCry Cry Cry,\u201d&nbsp;which was accompanied by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coldplay-cry-cry-cry-video-952689\/\">music video<\/a> co-directed by Martin\u2019s partner, Dakota Johnson, along with Cory Bailey. Shortly after releasing&nbsp;<em>Everyday Life<\/em>, the band announced that they have put a pause on touring the album until they can feasibly tour with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coldplay-pause-tour-environment-carbon-emissions-915764\/\">zero carbon emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coldplay-prince-1999-npr-tiny-desk-964289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coldplay used their NPR Tiny Desk Concert as an opportunity to cover Prince\u2019s \u201c1999.\u201d The band, who also played their own \u201cCry Cry Cry,\u201d \u201cViva La Vida,\u201d \u201cBroken\u201d and \u201cChampion Of The World,\u201d was joined by the nine-piece For Love Choir. See the full concert here. \u201cCry Cry Cry,\u201d \u201cBroken\u201d and \u201cChampion of the World\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 12:23:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}