True Love (Coldplay song)
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| from the album Ghost Stories | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 14 August 2014 | |||||||||||||
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| Recorded | 2013–14 | |||||||||||||
| Studio | The Bakery and The Beehive (London, England) | |||||||||||||
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| Label | Parlophone | |||||||||||||
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"True Love" is a song written and performed by British alternative rock band Coldplay for their sixth studio album Ghost Stories, where it appears as the fourth track. It was released by Parlophone as the third single from Ghost Stories on 14 August 2014. The band co-produced the track with Paul Epworth, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson, while American record producer Timbaland provided additional drums.
The song's main instrumentation consists in heavy rhythms, dancing synths and wallowing strings. It also features a guitar solo. Lyrically, "True Love" talks about heartache and how the protagonist can't bear the pain of losing his lover. The song's lyrics were addressed to be about Martin's divorce from his wife Gwyneth Paltrow, a recurrent theme on the whole album. Martin has claimed that "True Love" is the band's favorite track it has ever written.
The song garnered acclaim from music critics, who commended the song's raw honesty and its lyrics, which were seen as haunting and painfully truthful. Commercially successful in Belgium and the Netherlands, "True Love" did not chart on the UK Singles Chart. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who also directed the "Magic" video. It was shot in Los Angeles, choreographed by Blanca Li and centres around a tale of two ballet-loving outsiders, played by Martin and Canadian actress Jessica Lucas.
After the success of their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto (2011), which sold more than 8 million copies worldwide and spawned the hit singles "Paradise" and "Princess of China", Coldplay planned to release a more stripped-down record. Frontman Chris Martin claimed that the album is about "life itself and all its glorious colorfulness", while critics noted that it was inspired in Martin's divorce from actress Gwyneth Paltrow deemed it a "breakup album". Martin elaborated:
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