Entertainment Music Pop Music Coldplay's 'Biutyful' Music Video Stars The Weirdos, an Alien Band from Jim Henson's Creature Shop "The Weirdos are a band who we're trying to help out," Chris Martin recently told Billboard of the Muppets creator's latest puppet characters By Jack Irvin Jack Irvin Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE since 2022. Jack started in the industry with internships at Rolling Stone and Entertainment Tonight, and he worked as a freelance writer for publications including Bustle, MTV News, Shondaland, L’Officiel USA, Ladygunn, Flood and PopCrush before joining PEOPLE. In his current role, Jack covers daily music news and has interviewed both up-and-coming and established artists including Dolly Parton, Michelle Branch, Ashanti, Cyndi Lauper, Normani, Carly Rae Jepsen and Coco Jones. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 6, 2022 12:50PM EDT Coldplay's new music video features an otherworldly new band! On Wednesday, the British pop-rock group released the visual for "Biutyful," a dreamy mid-tempo track from 2021's Music of the Spheres album, which sees the band members give up their spotlight to The Weirdos, an alien puppet band from Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The clip takes place in a world built for "Humans Only" and finds the Muppets creator's puppets Angel Moon, Sparkman, Donk, The Wizard and Bruce Cakemix down on their luck, as no one will take them seriously. The Weirdos. Courtesy Atlantic Records Angel Moon (the song's opening vocalist) attends a singing audition and receives low scores from human judges, drummer Donk gets arrested for busking, guitarist Sparkman attempts to teach human children who won't listen, The Wizard performs in a studio session to snickering sound engineers and Bruce Cakemix loses his job in an office for humans. Bruce Springsteen Joins Coldplay for 2 Songs at New Jersey Concert: 'My Hero,' Says Chris Martin Each of the characters follow various "R U Weird?" signs leading to an underground bar full of other puppets, which features drink specials titled "We Are Alone in the Universe," "Everyone Is an Alien Somewhere," and "We Are All Made of Music." The Weirdos. Courtesy Atlantic Records After seeing them each practice their respective musical crafts, Bruce Cakemix decides to launch The Weirdos and act as the band's manager. In true That Thing You Do! fashion, The Weirdos become the "most popular band on earth" in seemingly no time. Soon enough, the band's headlining a stadium concert with Coldplay members Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion dancing and singing along from the crowd. The music video's message of finding a group of accepting individuals mirrors the track's uplifting lyrics: "When you love me... / I'm nowhere else / I'm on top of the world, man... / And it's so beautiful." Chris Martin Says Coldplay Will Release Their Final Music in 2025 Coldplay. Coldplay/YouTube Coldplay's been performing with The Weirdos since March 2022 on the band's Music of the Spheres World Tour, where Angel Moon's provided live vocals on "Biutyful" at every show. Last month, The Weirdos were signed to Atlantic Records — though which Coldplay's released music in the United States since 2014's Ghost Stories album. Both bands also appeared together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon the same month to perform "Biutyful." In a recent interview with Billboard, Martin spoke about Coldplay's collaborative relationship with The Weirdos. The Weirdos. Coldplay/YouTube "The Weirdos are a band who we're trying to help out," the 45-year-old singer-songwriter told the outlet. "They have one song at the moment ['Biutyful'] and we're on it with them." Chris Martin Recalls the 'Stressful Journey' That Led to BTS Collaboration 'My Universe' "The way I discovered them was we were working with Angel Moon, this lady… creature," said Martin. "I think we thought that we've sort of come to the end of doing singles as Coldplay." He continued, "We can't go more poppier or single-y [than "My Universe" with BTS] and that felt good and we're a bit older now. So we do have songs we want to bring some attention to, but with this we asked the Weirdoes if they would do the song and front it and we would feature." Close