--- title: Watch Coldplay Cruise Around Mexico City in New Music Video description: "A Head Full of Dreams" gets the music video treatment in the latest release, as Chris Martin and his band take a tour of Mexico City. canonical: https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-19T16:06:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:41.170Z og:title: Watch Coldplay Cruise Around Mexico City in New Music Video og:description: "A Head Full of Dreams" now has its own music video from the rock band. og:url: https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Coldplay Cruise Around Mexico City in New Music Video twitter:description: "A Head Full of Dreams" now has its own music video from the rock band. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let Coldplay Take You on a Tour of Mexico City in New "A Head Full of Dreams" Music Video > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 19, 2016 4:06 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 19, 2016 4:06 PM UTC Perennial hit-making band [Coldplay](http://time.com/4383205/coldplay-glastonbury-viola-beach-tribute/?iid=sr-link2) released a new music video for “A Head Full of Dreams,” the earnest titular song [on their latest (and last) album](http://time.com/3621918/chris-martin-coldplay-last-album-head-full-dreams/) on Friday. The video harkens back to an era of grainy found footage photography, taking us through scenes of Mexico City while sampling a voiceover from Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film [_The Great Dictator_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/). “We all want to help one another — human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate or despise each other,” the narration goes. “For those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.” It isn’t until over a minute into the video that Chris Martin and his cohort appear in the arty, vintage-style shots, cruising on bicycles through the Mexico City streets as the song (and life outlook) picks up. It’s no [Viva la Vida](http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1807150%5F1807261%5F1807029,00.html?iid=sr-link1), but it is a nice pick-me-up of a tune, [in classic Coldplay style.](http://time.com/4387576/prince-harry-dancing-coldplay/?iid=sr-link1) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/"},"headline":"Let Coldplay Take You on a Tour of Mexico City in New \"A Head Full of Dreams\" Music Video","datePublished":"2016-08-19T16:06:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:41.170Z","description":"Cruise around town with Chris Martin","url":"https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4459185/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams-music-video/","name":"Let Coldplay Take You on a Tour of Mexico City in New \"A Head Full of Dreams\" Music Video"}}]}] ```