Trouble (Coldplay song)

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"Trouble"

Single by Coldplay
from the album Parachutes
Released	October 26, 2000
Format	CD, cassette, 7" record
Recorded	March 2000
Genre	Alternative, Piano rock
Length	4:30
Label	Parlophone R6549
Producer(s)	Ken Nelson Coldplay
Chart positions
#10 (UK) #20 (Latvia) #28 (US Modern Rock)
Coldplay singles chronology
"Yellow" (2000)	"Trouble" (2000)	"Don't Panic" (2001)
Parachutes track listing
"Yellow" (5)	"Trouble" (6)	"High Speed" (7)

"Trouble" is the third single from Coldplay's debut album Parachutes. This was the band's second Top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart. Regional singles were released for UK/Europe, Norway (Live EP), and Australia (Double A-side). Promo releases included the UK, USA, and Taiwan.

"Trouble" is a piano-based ballad that underwent many stages of development. In September 1999, the song was dominated by fast guitar riffs and aggressive vocals reminiscent of Supergrass. [1] This version can be previewed on the Tour Diary of the Live 2003 DVD. By November, live performances of "Trouble" began to incorporate the piano. At the final recording sessions for Parachutes, the song was slowed down to its current form with the new guitar and percussion pieces.

[edit] Track listing

"Trouble" – 4:30
"Brothers and Sisters (New Version)" – 4:50
"Shiver (Jo Whiley’s Lunchtime Social)" – 4:23

[edit] Music videos

The original UK/European version of "Trouble" was directed by Sophie Muller, a frequent collaborator with artists like No Doubt, Eurythmics, and Blur. The video featured lead singer Chris Martin as an apparent prisoner in the dark. He is tied with ropes to a chair, alone in the freezing cold. The other members of the band are seen in a slow motion sequence where Jon Buckland and Will Champion tie up Guy Berryman to another chair and force him to look in front.

In October 2001, a newer version of "Trouble" was created for US audiences and it featured the entire band. The video is directed by Tim Hope and follows the motif of "Don't Panic" by showing the band as two-dimensional cut-outs. The band are aboard a horse carriage that cruises along a forest. On the top of a mountain we see a woman inside a house, watering the plants. A little crow flies from the carriage up to the house, where it transforms into a more menacing bird. It flies over the house and turns into a black cloud, which pours rain onto the land. The rain burns little holes on the things it falls into, and crow feathers protrude from the holes. Finally a tornado grabs the house and lifts it from its foundations placing it along others in a more suburban setting.

Its lush visuals earned Tim Hope an MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction in 2002. It was also nominated for Breakthrough Video.