Coldplay, Jay-Z Premiere New "Lost+" Video

With the release of their Prospekt's March EP only a week away, Coldplay have unveiled the updated video for the remixed Viva track "Lost+," featuring Jay-Z. The new-ish video pretty much takes the original video of "Lost!," recorded live at Chicago's United Center, and digitally adds Jigga to the performance via black-and-white television. Watch the original, Hova-less version here. Surprisingly, the band didn't utilize any of the entrants in that "Lost?" video contest they launched last month. Prospekt's March features six new songs from the Viva sessions plus two remixes, while Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 will be arriving some time in early 2009.

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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