Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, I'v been reminded of a weird, beautiful quirk of musical art. A few years back, Coldplay had a thoughtful little video for their song, The Scientist, where the protagonist, Chris Martin, journeys backward, while singing forward, to the moments preceding a car crash:
When played in reverse, it is visually more sensical (despite no explanation in either as to why he walked away from the crash). But the resulting song - in reverse - is as hauntingly beautiful as the the original:
Coldplay is a brilliant live band - it's a small dream of mine to see them play The Scientist forward, and the segue right into doing it backward. Chris Martin can sing the nonsense to make it sound like the backward version, or make up lyrics that sound like the backward vocals - I'll let them surprise me.
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