Beyoncé Once Rejected an ‘Awful’ Song From Coldplay’s Chris Martin
Beyoncé and Chris Martin have been friends for years. The pair have collaborated on music and performed at the Super Bowl together. Martin once even wrote a song he hoped to hear Beyoncé record. She flatly refused to accept it from him, though. Martin shared why Beyoncé had no interest in the song.
Beyoncé rejected a song from Chris Martin
In 2016, Coldplay performed at the Super Bowl with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. He said he felt great about the performance, but soon realized that people online were not as happy with it.
“This very famous person emailed me, and she said, ‘Don’t worry about what everyone’s saying,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2024. “I was like, ‘What?’ I hadn’t looked at anything. Then I collapsed into the internet and became really down for a while.”
Still, he said he wouldn’t have changed anything about the performance.
“And that was some kind of weird epiphany for me,” he said.
Martin’s ability to move forward from criticism served him well when he tried to give Beyoncé a song called “Hook Up.” He told Rolling Stone in a separate interview that she turned it down “in the sweetest possible way: She told me, ‘I really like you – but this is awful.”
Beyoncé has been friends with Chris Martin’s family for years
Beyoncé and Jay-Z met Chris Martin and his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, in 2006. They said they all connected almost immediately.
“We all became friends. I normally don’t do that, but [we vibed] in that particular case,” Paltrow told Howard Stern in 2015, per Us Weekly. “They’re the greatest people. They are funny and sweet, and self-aware and really intelligent.”
Beyoncé also spoke glowingly about Paltrow.
“She is incredible,” she said. “She’s a great friend on every level.”
Her husband also thinks highly of Martin
Jay-Z said he spent more time with Martin than he did with many other people.
“We met at a Robin Hood Foundation dinner three years ago,” he told Rolling Stone. “We hit it off right away. The guy’s humble, and he has a lovely family. It’s rare to meet such a genuinely good person.”
He also had great admiration for Martin as a musician. He described him as a genius and said his legacy would only continue to grow as years pass.
“We are good friends — but what I got to say has nothing to do with our friendship,” he said, per Billboard. “I have been in the industry long enough to know when I’m in the presence of a genius… and Chris Martin is just that. In years to come, Britain will look back at him as a modern day Shakespeare… He is an incredible recording artist, an incredible songwriter, but where he really comes alive is performing live. If you get the chance to see Coldplay live, do it — you ain’t gonna regret it.”
