Chris Martin was inspired to write the upbeat
song after hearing the dance track "Ritmo de la Noche" by Lorca during a
nightclub scene in Javier Bardem's film Biutiful. The track is based on "I Go To Rio," hence Allen and Anderson credits as writers on this tune.
Speaking to Mojo magazine Martin explained: "There's a scene (in Biutful)
where he walks through a club, and I'm thinking, 'This is the best
chord sequence I've ever heard! I've got to find out what it is and make
a song out of it!' So I traced it back… I used those two chords and got
in touch with his people. It felt very fresh - we'd never sounded like
that before."
Chris Martin explained the song's meaning in an interview with Music Week: "The central theme of the record – 'Paradise'
is kind of about this as well – is trying to turn bad things into good
things somehow. We as a band have been through some funny incidents in
terms of people being aggressive towards us or whatever. And a lot of
the record is fuelled by a kind of fire which comes from turning that
negativity into positivity. And I think everyone in their life has
something like that."
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