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Earlier this week, Coldplay unwittingly stepped into some kind of Romanian cultural divide while playing two shows at Bucharest’s Arena Națională. Coldplay are in the middle of rolling out new music, and they’re also in the middle of a seemingly-endless global stadium tour. They debuted the new song “All My Love&a...