Coldplay Reveals Meaning Behind New Song ‘Let Somebody Go’ Featuring Selena Gomez
Coldplay revealed new details of their latest single Let Somebody Go featuring Selena Gomez. Lead singer Chris Martin explained how Gomez didn’t write the song. Instead, they wanted a female vocalist once the song was done. He revealed this during an interview with Apple Music.
“Just a really lovely ballad. And quite early on we realized it needed a female counterpart to the vocal. And we were very grateful that when we asked Selena to sing on it, she loved the song and was happy to do so. Collaborations in general are something that we’ve done more of recently. We never really used to do it before. When we were younger, we kind of locked ourselves in a room and felt we had to prove everything ourselves. But I think as time has gone on, it’s become more interesting for us to work with other people from different parts of the world, different genres. It just adds color and character to the music.”
Let somebody go by coldplay and selena gomez slapped so hard omg pic.twitter.com/0uoTVMspG4
— Rose✨ (@selena4nation) October 14, 2021
During another interview with Ryan Seacrest, Martin praised Gomez’s singing and her personality.
The Selena Gomez x Coldplay song has me almost in tears. Its just so beautiful, so glad she did this and the fact they invited her and wrote it for her to sing. Could care less about charts. This is soooo BEAUTIFUL!!!
— Tara 👑 (@wehavethetea) October 15, 2021
“First of all, Selena’s personality inside, she’s just an angel. I’ve got so much love and respect for her. She’s such a good, kind person. and then her voice for me is in like what I would call ‘the Rihanna bag’ which are voices that are gifts to humanity.”
As fans suspect, the heartbreaking, emotional ballad is about loving someone but having to let them go. Both Martin and Gomez have experienced love and heartache in their pasts. In fact, on Coldplay’s new album, the song My Universe is dedicated to Martin’s girlfriend, actress Dakota Johnson.
selena gomez and coldplay’s voice mixing together is EVERYTHING
— ana 🦋 (@withluvselena) October 15, 2021
#LetSomebodyGo by coldplay and selena gomez is easily one of my favorite songs released this year, like it’s so dreamy and beautiful #MusicOfTheSpheres
— alonso ogalde (@alonsogalde) October 15, 2021
Both songs are on Coldplay’s new album Music of the Spheres which is available on all music streaming devices.
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