“Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love” by Coldplay, Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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In college, one of my literature professors made the argument that people either tend to subscribe to classicism or romanticism. After taking several classes for my major with that professor, one of my classmates analyzed the aging professor based on his own claims, and that classmate said that Dr. Sylvan was a Romantic at heart repressing his romanticism with stoic classical form. And at the time that I was in college, one of the biggest records was Coldplay 's Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends , an album that I would argue is " The Scientist " trying to experiment with romanticism and yet only being no more than 75% convincing. DREAMING OF THE OSAKA SUN. “ Lovers in Japan ” is the fifth track on Viva La Vida, sharing a track with the shorter song “Reign of Love.” Coldplay’s lead singer, Chris Martin, said of the song in 2008 to Entertainment Weekly : “ No one associates romance with Japan…Everyone thinks Japan is just about Hitachi and neon signs, but ever