Lead singer of British band Coldplay, Chris Martin, recently revealed in an interview with Maxim magazine that he had written songs and sent them to Beyonce and Rihanna, and that Beyoncé’s people rejected his song.
When asked how the Rihanna collaboration Princess of China came to be on the new Coldplay album Mylo Xyloto, especially since Martin had talked up Beyoncé so much, Martin explained that his song for Beyoncé was rejected.
“Well, I did write a song for Beyoncé, but it got rejected by her A&R people. And the one I wrote for Rihanna didn’t get rejected. It was when she [Rihanna] was doing ‘Rated R,’ but it took so long…
“…There’s still this tribalism in music where we’re rock and you’re pop and you’re hip-hop, and it sometimes takes a while to get across those barriers; whereas, a 14-year-old doesn’t even see those barriers. So once we started thinking like that, it was, ‘Who cares if we used to be shelved in different places in Tower Records?’ She’s f—— rad, and I love listening to her. It’s my favorite real singing on the album, ’cause it isn’t me.”
Just prior to the album’s release, Martin’s wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, posted a naughty Tweet: “Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new @coldplay album? I mean, really.”