Video: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Video Official Alternative Version (2008)

Coldplay released their official video for the single ' Viva La Vida .' At the same time, they also put out another version they shot that was more Coldplay-esq . As usually, I prefer the weird stuff . Come on, who wouldb't love Chris Martin as a king? Maybe not the common people but at least he's got 3 followers!

Coldplay is having a hard time deciding what videos are good and what they should scrap. This is the second time they have decided to release original and alternate videos for a song off the new album-"Violet Hill" being the...

Monday morning brings two new videos for the title track from Coldplay's Viva La Vida . The official version, with its painterly colors and jerky, disorienting motion, is directed by Hype Williams. The alternate version (remember they did two for lead single " Violet Hill " as well) is directed by Anton Corbijn and goes for a more absurd approach. Official (directed by Hype Williams) Alternate (directed [...]

Yes, "videos" plural. If you're like me, you assumed the iTunes commercial was the official video for Coldplay's "Viva La Vida." But no, there are two new videos to absorb as part of Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends 's revolutionary snore. The official clip, directed by Hype Williams, is basically the iTunes commercial, but longer. In the alternate Anton Corbijn-directed take we see Chris Martin sleeping on the street again, awaking in his royal crown and cloak to survey his fallen kingdom. The text at Youtube says it was [...]

Anton Corbijn alle prese con la cover di se stesso. Featuring Chris Martin.

Not content with the fact that the title track from Viva La Vida already kind of has a video—albeit one that's for a truncated version of the song —the gents in Coldplay have commissioned not one, but two videos for it. And they got big-name directors, just to show the world that they're that good: Hype Williams was behind the camera for the above clip, which swaps Williams' normal fisheyed worldview for Photoshop's "cracking paint" filter; Anton Corbijn took charge for the clip after the jump, which references a video that will probably be familiar to [...]