It turns out singing with Chris Martin brought out something incredible from Selena Gomez. When Coldplay performed the slow-burn duet “Let Somebody Go” on The Late Late Show, fans were blown away. A top commenter said, “This is easily her best performance I’ve seen since the Revival tour! She sounds beautiful.” The sound of Chris’s delicate piano playing and his husky tones combined with Selena’s airy vocals to create a spellbinding experience.
The heartache anthem was the perfect canvas for Chris and Selena to create something beautiful. Chris opened the song with a tender verse, and then Selena elevated the arrangement with the most spine-tingling vocals. Coldplay are just the masters of creating an engrossing arrangement from the most simple elements, and The Music Man has to say the four-piece were really cooking here on this stripped back cut.
When Coldplay and the Texas pop star’s duet hit YouTube, it gained 440,000 views across multiple uploads. Viewers had to agree it was an incredible showcase for Selena’s live vocals, and added comments such as “Calmer songs are just perfect for her vocals and I wish she’d show them off more cause this is just so relaxing and beautiful” and “Selena sounds so much better here than in the studio version, wow.”
Coldplay has no shortage of iconic duets from their live shows. One of the English rock institution’s finest hours came when they brought Ed Sheeran on stage to perform “Fix You.” This performance was elevated by the fact that it was given at the intimate Shepherd’s Bush Empire theatre. When Ed walks on stage at 1:40, the energy in the room goes absolutely electric. Ed sounds truly heavenly here. It’s no surprise that the collab hit 67 million views on YouTube.
Coldplay featured Selena Gomez on the studio cut of “Let Somebody Go,” which was the band’s third single from their ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres. The Music Man readers might be interested to hear that the four band members co-wrote the song with a small army of writers, with a total of nine songwriters contributing to complete the tune. It seems mega producer Max Martin, one of the co-writers, was a major contributor to the track, as he was the first producer and first non-band co-writer listed on the credits. Chris gave Selena high praise while discussing the release, describing her as “an angel” and saying that her voice fits in what he “would call ‘the Rihanna bag’, which are voices that are gifts to humanity.”