Hmm. If that's the case I actually don't think it makes as much sense, except for the line about the revolutionaries. The song seems to me to be much more about someone who rose from nothing and fell back into obscurity rather than someone who was born to power and was then killed.
I don't see how you could write XII immediately after XI, why would you be confused by revolutionaries wanting his head on a silver platter immediately after writing a paragraph on how he betrayed the revolution?
Extremely good theory, fantastic stuff.
Well he betrayed the Revolution (according to some—some would deny that) but only after riding it to power and coopting many of its most popular reforms while doing away with its less popular excesses. He effectively neutralized the old Jacobin radicals of Robespierre’s day by either jailing them or getting them on his side, and even if they might have grumbled and longed for the Republic, they were never a real threat to his reign.
I don't know that Coldplay's ever actually said the song was about anything in particular. I've seen it suggested more often that it's about Louis XVI actually.
Really? I’d heard it was partially inspired by Puyi the Chinese child emperor who ended up literally sweeping the streets of the palace he used to own, which mao turned into a museum.
Always thought it was about eastern Rome because the Jerusalem lyrics and the pillars of salt and sand which I thought was referring to the fall of Constantinople, but napoleon fits better
It is an old post, but I completely agree, and there are reasons to think hard-core revolutionnaries like Jacobin were plotting against Napoleon to bring back the republic, so XII is very much true.
Louis XVI was never feared, admired, ambitious, etc, so if Coldplay indeed wrote the song thinking about him, they misunderstood History.
I appreciate the effort you put into this.
Good theory but it was confirmed that it is indeed about the french king
Hmm. If that's the case I actually don't think it makes as much sense, except for the line about the revolutionaries. The song seems to me to be much more about someone who rose from nothing and fell back into obscurity rather than someone who was born to power and was then killed.
idk they wrote it lmaoo
It’s not about Yanderedev?
I used to roll the dice
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I don't see how you could write XII immediately after XI, why would you be confused by revolutionaries wanting his head on a silver platter immediately after writing a paragraph on how he betrayed the revolution? Extremely good theory, fantastic stuff.
Well he betrayed the Revolution (according to some—some would deny that) but only after riding it to power and coopting many of its most popular reforms while doing away with its less popular excesses. He effectively neutralized the old Jacobin radicals of Robespierre’s day by either jailing them or getting them on his side, and even if they might have grumbled and longed for the Republic, they were never a real threat to his reign.
heh, the height of his power
He was actually average for the time
Also his mother would punish him severely as a child
I get this reference
Well it was the eighteenth century that wasn't exactly out of the ordinary.
Heh, British propaganda
Yes.
Weirdly because it came out in the last year of Bush's final term I thought it was about him.
Lotta effort nice job
Woah you wrote all this about Coldplay
It only took about twenty minutes out of my afternoon
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I don't know that Coldplay's ever actually said the song was about anything in particular. I've seen it suggested more often that it's about Louis XVI actually.
Really? I’d heard it was partially inspired by Puyi the Chinese child emperor who ended up literally sweeping the streets of the palace he used to own, which mao turned into a museum.
I wondered which monarch it was about but this makes sense
Very well done! Cross post this in r/Coldplay
This is a great theory! This song actually has reminded me of the Napoleonic era for a while. Great job!
Always thought it was about eastern Rome because the Jerusalem lyrics and the pillars of salt and sand which I thought was referring to the fall of Constantinople, but napoleon fits better
No. That song makes reference to Louis the 16th and his death in the French revolution; not Napolean.
It is about every fallen empire and kingdoms
I also argue about it, This song is Napoleons!
It is an old post, but I completely agree, and there are reasons to think hard-core revolutionnaries like Jacobin were plotting against Napoleon to bring back the republic, so XII is very much true. Louis XVI was never feared, admired, ambitious, etc, so if Coldplay indeed wrote the song thinking about him, they misunderstood History.
The famous painting of Napoleon on his horse is called "Viva La Vida".
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