All My Love

Album: Moon Music (2024)
Charted: 43
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Songfacts®:

  • "All My Love" is a heartfelt song that explores themes of enduring love, commitment, and resilience in relationships. The track uses weather metaphors to convey the ups and downs of a lasting union. The rain clouds might roll in, sure, but eventually, the sun breaks through.
  • The song comes from Coldplay's 10th album, Moon Music, which recounts a journey of emotional recovery.

    "Moon Music is kind of the story of waking up in the morning and feeling terrible about yourself, terrible about the world – depressed, isolated, separate, alone, and not able to be yourself,"
    Chris Martin told NME.

    "Through the album, it's a journey to feeling the complete opposite at the end of the day."

    "All My Love" is strategically placed as the penultimate track on Moon Music. It signals Martin's own transformation, moving from isolation and self-doubt to love and commitment.
  • Martin sings on the bridge:

    La-la, la-la, la, lay
    Whether it rains or pours, I'm all yours
    La-la, la-la, la, lay
    That's all, all I can say


    The use of "la la la" vocalizations is a recurring motif throughout Moon Music. The simplicity of "la la la" contrasts with the album's themes of emotional journey and personal growth, potentially serving as a cathartic release or a return to childlike simplicity.
  • On June 9, 2024, Coldplay was in Greece playing to a sold-out crowd when things took a strange turn. Coldplay was finishing off their set with "Biutyful" when a man wrapped in an Israeli flag tried (and failed) to make a dramatic leap onto the stage, taking some of the lighting equipment down with him. The performance was briefly derailed but Chris Martin stopped the show, made sure the guy was okay, and then sat at his keyboard and previewed this song solo.

    The song was played live by the whole band for the first time in Dublin on September 2, 2024.
  • "All My Love" was released as the third and last single from Moon Music on October 4, 2024. According to Martin, it's the final proper single of the band's career.

    "That's the last 'single' single," he told NME. "We have the musical thing, then an album just called 'Coldplay', which is the final one."
  • The Coldplay band members wrote the piano ballad with John Metcalfe of Durutti Column, along with Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's son, Moses Martin. Metcalfe also arranged the strings with Susie Gillis.

    This is not the first time Moses Martin has co-penned a Coldplay song. He also contributed to the Moon Music track "Jupiter" and the 2019 Everyday Life tune "Orphans."

    "All My Love" was produced by the Moon Music producers: Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Bill Rahko, Daniel Green, Michael Ilbert and Ilya Salmanzadeh.
  • On September 21, 2024, a disguised Chris Martin was spotted singing along to the backing track at Dino's Lounge, a famous Las Vegas karaoke bar. His undercover antics were for the filming of this song's lyric video. Shot on an iPhone, it follows Martin looking bedraggled as he hands out balloons to strangers on the streets of Vegas in an attempt to connect with people. He wraps the whole thing up with a karaoke performance in a half-filled bar.

    Chris Candy, the son of the late beloved comedian and actor John Candy, directed the lyric video.
  • Coldplay returned to Saturday Night Live as musical guests on October 5, 2024, for the eighth time. The band played two Moon Music tracks, this song and "We Pray."
  • Coldplay released a second video featuring 98-year-old Dick Van Dyke. Co-directed by Mary Wigmore and filmmaker Spike Jonze and filmed at Van Dyke's beachside home in Malibu, the clip is a heartwarming tribute to the iconic actor.
  • Chris Martin sang this for the In Memoriam segment at the Grammy Awards in 2025.
  • Who would have thought Coldplay would still be collecting VMAs in 2025? "All My Love" got the award that year for Best Rock and were even nominated for Best Group (which went to the K-pop act Blackpink).

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