---
title: >
  The Weirdest Part
date: 2006-03-31 19:07
status: published
description: >
  Another one bites the dust

tags: music, Coldplay

links:
  - url: http://www.last.fm/music/Coldplay/_/The+Hardest+Part
    title: >
      The Hardest Part on Last.fm
    rel: related
    type: text/html

---

<p>
When I heard that Coldplay would be releasing <cite>The Hardest Part</cite> as their next single, I thought they'd decided they didn't want a pop career any more — there are far better, single-material songs on <cite>X&amp;Y</cite> than <cite>The Hardest Part</cite>, principally <cite>White Shadows</cite>. (Since the artwork for <cite>Talk</cite> turned out to be white I'm assuming that <cite>White Shadows</cite> isn't planned as a single.)
</p>
<p>
I've <span title="No pun intended, seriously.">softened my opinion</span> on <cite>The Hardest Part</cite> since then - it's a pleasant, reasonably catchy song, albeit just a strum-along. But then just now I saw the video, via the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/listen/playlist.shtml" title="bbc.co.uk">6 Music playlist</a>. Coldplay <em>really</em> don't want to be troubling our airwaves.
</p>
<p>
It's just... wrong. And weird. And wrong. And they'll be hearing about it for the next ever. 'Cos it's not a good idea at all.
</p>
<p>
On the plus side, they haven't edited the song, but that's about it. Four-and-a-half minutes of a still picture of Johnny Cash would've been better and more suited. And would've killed their career less.
</p>