On Saturday night, Coldplay trotted out R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” and I’m guessing you can imagine how people reacted to the cover (SPOILER ALERT: They enjoyed the shit out of it).
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Not my favourite REM song but it beats the hell out of any Coldplay song. Some tween audience members probably didn’t even know who REM was and thought it was a tribute song written by Coldplay. Goddamn tweens
Tweens? Ever been to a Coldplay show?
I agreen with ComehomeNow…. coldplay’s fans aren’t generally tweens…..I’m sure everyone and their mother have heard “Everybody Hurts,” it’s a classic. I think it’s an excellent cover, not my favorite song either but I think they did a great job with it, definitely something they would have sung in another age.
What hurts more is the videography here. For the love of dancing donkeys, could people please pick a vantage point (not zoomed up to the nose hairs), hold the camera steady, and resist the temptation to scan back and forth while zoomed. We are getting dizzy here!
I always thought Coldplay kinda rewrote this song with “Fix You.” There are so many similarities between the two, both musically and lyrically.