So what 'Ghost Stories' means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point. If you don't let love in then you can't really give it back. Up to a certain point in my life I wasn't completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. 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'. 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.Īfter 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. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who also directed the ' Magic' video. Commercially successful in Belgium and the Netherlands, 'True Love' did not chart on the UK Singles Chart. 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.

Martin has claimed that 'True Love' is the band's favorite track it has ever written.

The song's lyrics were addressed to be about Martin's divorce from his wife Gwyneth Paltrow, a recurrent theme on the whole album. Lyrically, 'True Love' talks about heartache and how the protagonist can't bear the pain of losing his lover.

The song's main instrumentation consists in heavy rhythms, dancing synths and wallowing strings. The band co-produced the track with Paul Epworth, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson, while American record producer Timbaland provided additional drums. It was released by Parlophone as the album's third single on 14 August 2014. ' True Love' is a song by British rock band Coldplay for their sixth studio album Ghost Stories, where it appears as the fourth track. Alternative cover for the version remixed by Davide Rossi

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