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Last night in Goyang, South Korea, Coldplay brought Blackpink’s Rosé on stage to perform her song “Apt.”
The band began the cover solo, with Rosé joining in for the chorus amid a cascade of pink confetti. After the performance concluded, Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin enthusiastically suggested, “Rosé, let’s do it again!” The crowd was treated to a second rendition of the track.
“Apt” was released as a collaboration with Bruno Mars in October and is featured on Rosé’s debut album, Rosie, which launched in December. This album follows her initial solo singles from 2021, “On the Ground” and “Gone.” Announcing her debut album in October 2024, Rosé expressed her deep emotional investment in the project on Instagram, stating, “I have poured my blood and tears into this album. I cannot wait for you to listen to this little journal of mine.”
Coldplay has been actively collaborating with K-Pop artists during their current tour in South Korea. Recently, they teamed up with the group Twice, who opened for them, to perform a remix of Coldplay’s single “We Pray.” This continued a trend of collaborations that included notable artists such as Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini.
During a live debut of the remix, Chilean-Palestinian artist Elyanna joined Coldplay and Twice onstage to deliver a verse in Arabic, although this section did not make it to the final version of “We Pray (Twice Version).” However, this remix did include a fresh verse from Chris Martin, showcasing their evolving sound.
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Coldplay’s latest release, Moon Music, debuted in October as their 10th studio album, following their 2021 album Music of the Spheres, which included the hit collaboration with BTS, “My Universe.”
Chris Martin shared insights with Rolling Stone last year about their collaborative approach: “We just follow the song where the song wants to go — even if that song makes you fly to Korea to work with a boy band, knowing that in doing so you’re destroying any shred of cool or credibility and you risk upsetting their fans too. That’s the philosophy that we live by… I think with all of these songs we’ve chosen for this, they’ve all been allowed to be themselves, and the identity of the band has grown to accommodate that.”
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