Chris Martin Gushes About His Love for BTS: "We Genuinely Love Those People”

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin stopped by The Ellen Show on Wednesday (Jan. 26), and gushed about his love for BTS.

 

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“Someone said to me, ‘BTS asked you to do a song with them. … At the time, I was like, ‘That’s never going to work, ever. How are we going to fit these two things together?’ Then the idea started to seem really attractive in its weirdness, and then one day the right song arrived and I just knew at time, ‘OK, this is the song I’m supposed to do with BTS and it’s about people who can’t be together or told they shouldn’t be together or forced to live in separate places.’ Then it felt really natural,” Chris tells Ellen.

 

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He joked, “It’s quite a bizarre … We look like their gym teachers, but we love them. For something that could have seemed so artificial, it turned out being one of the most real feelings. We genuinely love those people.”

My Universe, Coldplay and BTS’ first collaboration hit No.1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, marking it as BTS’ third No.1 (following Butter and Permission to Dance).

 

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Chris then shared Coldplay’s future retirement plans, telling Ellen, “That’s what feels right to us, we’ll keep touring and we’ll always be together as a group of musicians and friends, but I think the story of our albums ends then.”