After sharing the stage for New York City's Global Citizen Festival, Coldplay and Beyoncé have decided to team up for the dreamy, R&B track "Hymn for the Weekend" which showcases the "Partition" singer's interlacing wistful vocals with the group's love-ridden lyrics. Coldplay's fourthcoming seventh studio album already boasts tracks featuring Beyoncé's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, as well as frontman Chris Martin's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, Oasis' Noel Gallagher and Tove Lo.
"Life is a drink, and love's a drug," Chris Martin sings, paired with funky drum arrangements before he joins Beyonce on singing "Drink for me, Drink for me." As the track progresses it morphs into a dream-like, enchanting sound as Beyoncé ends the track with lingering lyrics of "And we shoot across the sky." The track can be found on A Head Full of Dreams, slated for release on Friday.
"It actually started off being quite a different vibe, this song," Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman explained to the BBC. "Chris was wanting to write a sort of party song. The words were, 'Drinks on me, drinks on me.' And we said to him, 'You can't say that. You can't get away with that.' Then the whole story of the song changed and then he asked Beyoncé to sing on it, and she very kindly said she would. And it was amazing. She came in. She did her thing. She's unbelievably professional. I think she was in and out in five minutes. And we are so blessed to sing on one of our songs."
Berryman further added that he approved of how "understated" Martin and Beyoncé's vocals sounded matched up. "It was never supposed to be a duet or anything," he said. Martin recently detailed the band's opposition of singing "drinks on me," as well as where the inspiration for the track came from."The original kernel was that I was listening to Flo Rida or something, and I thought, it's such a shame that Coldplay could never have one of those late-night club songs, like 'Turn Down for What,'" Martin told The Wall Street Journal.
