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Mylo Xyloto is a mystery

Coldplay names its album Mylo Xyloto and Twitter does a collective head scratch.

 

Fernando Alfonso III

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Posted on Aug 12, 2011   Updated on Jun 3, 2021, 3:25 am CDT

The Grammy Award winning group Coldpay has just released the title of their fifth studio album and Twitter has let out a collective, “what the heck?”

The album is titled “Mylo Xyloto” and is due out Oct. 24, according to groups official website.

Over the last 24 hours, the album title has been mentioned on Twitter more than 15,000 times and has become a worldwide trending topic, according to statistics from Topsy, a Twitter search engine.

Many Twitter users, including @scooterbeanbag, @absolouteradio, and @samhumf, have no idea what the new title meant while others had some pretty good explanations.

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*First Published: Aug 12, 2011, 5:02 am CDT