Chris the Collab King! (Well, I Guess Kanye Too...)

So I was visiting the messgaeboard today--one of the numerous times I do daily. As I scroll down, an intriguing thread catches my eye, with the title: "Kanye West featuring Chris Martin -- Homecoming". Now, the buzz for the collaboration has been around for a while. But the song actually leaked just recently, and everyone is talking about it! Well, people on the messageboard anyways. I was dying with curiosity...and it turns out, the original poster deleted the mp3 link. -__- Alas, my new Bff Youtube had multiple clips. And here tis:



Now, before listening to this, I thought that it would be similar to Chris's collaboration he did with Jay-Z earlier this year called 'Beach Chair', which was featured on Jay's 'Kingdom Come' album. Although I adore Chris, that collab was merely mediocre. Two amazing musical artists collaborating comes with great expectations, and 'Beach Chair' did not meet to them. Jay and Kanye are not the only ones that vied for Chris's contributions, for Justin Timberlake, the metro-dancing-sock-puppet himself requested Martin's vocals, but he kindly declined. Now that definitely deflated Timberlake's head by an inch or two.

Anyways, about 'Homecoming'. Although it would take me some time to get use to this, but for now, I'll say that I enjoyed it very much. The infectious, happy piano is certainly unColdplay-like. However, considering this is a Kanye song, this is really impressive. Their different, yet highly distinctive voices mesh together smoothly, creating minute edge with subtle flow, all coming together to be something new.

Hope this will be a single, and I'm sure the video will be great.

So, when you ask yourself that golden question: 'Who's album would I buy: 50 or Kanye?' Well I know is this formula: Kanye + Daft Punk + Chris Martin. Now YOU do the math.