Twice have kicked off their six-date run of shows opening for Coldplay on the Music of the Spheres tour in South Korea. For night one, both groups treated the audience at Goyang Stadium to a treat with the premiere of their new collaboration, a remix of the Moon Music single “We Pray.” The K-pop supergroup is the latest act to join the band for a version of the record, following original collaborators Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini.
Twice’s Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu join on the second verse of the record with a performance entirely in Korean. With each member trading off on lyrics, the verse translates to: “Even if not a single thread of light falls down in the darkness/Even if not a single bit of warmth is given/Even if no one looks at me/May I bloom alone, may I shine through/When dawn arrives/Will we be smiling at the end of that road?/At the edge of the cliff, will we be holding each other?/Tell me the answer/Will we disappear or last forever?/So we just pray.”
During the live premiere of the record, Chilean-Palestinian musician Elyanna joined both groups on stage to perform a verse in Arabic, but it doesn’t appear on the final cut of “We Pray (Twice Version).” The record does, however, feature a brand new verse from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
“Lights are on but there’s nobody home/It seems like it’s dark in there/Guess I’ll have to face it all alone/It looks like the world don’t care,” he sings. “Somewhere there’s the strength to go on/Feel like you walk on air/So we listen for the angel song/Talk to someone out there.”
Moon Music arrived in October as Coldplay’s 10th studio album and the follow-up to their 2021 album Music of the Spheres, which featured their BTS collaboration “My Universe.” “We just follow the song where the song wants to go — even if that song makes you fly to Korea to work with a boy band, knowing that in doing so you’re destroying any shred of cool or credibility and you risk upsetting their fans too,” Martin told Rolling Stone last year. “That’s the philosophy that we live by … I think with all of these songs we’ve chosen for this, they’ve all been allowed to be themselves, and the identity of the band has grown to accommodate that.”
