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21st November 2023
02:26pm GMT

"I had this idea that I wanted to do a story that's tragic but starts off happy and ends happy, and the video is about rewinding to that happy ending.Reportedly, it took over a month for Martin to crack singing the track in reverse with the Coldplay frontman even demonstrating the ability in a resurfaced interview below: Commenting on the interview clip, fans were full of praise - with one saying they were "blown away". Another wrote: "Damn, the dedication to have learned the whole song backwards just to bring that idea to fruition! "Must have taken weeks of trial and error. Mad respect." Someone else, meanwhile, said: "He can even sing his songs backwards, so beat that every other celebrities." Read more:"The original idea was a straight narrative without the lead singer in the video but Chris wanted to be in the video and he was really excited to learn how to sing the song backward. "He got a tape of the song recorded backward and he listened to it over and over. He's a very passionate guy, so he got really into it. "What we learned later on is about the problems with phonetics, because you have to be very careful with the lip movement so that when you end on a sound your mouth is formed in the right way."
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