10 Most Paused Music Videos
4. Coldplay - Up & Up
Coldplay's video for "Up & Up" is undeniably one of the most brilliantly inventive and visually astonishing ever made, such that practically every frame of it could be a painting hung on your wall.
The video seamlessly combines scenes of everyday life with the huge-scale beauty of nature, while periodically interspersing the band themselves into said scenes.
The result is both intensely surreal and visually stunning: where else can you see people parachute into a bowl of pasta, a gymnast backflip through a military bombing run, or a packed party cruise trapped in a bathtub?
Every second of the video offers up something new and surprising worth fixating on. No matter your opinion on the song itself, it's a stonking visual treat.