They may be earnest and self-effacing and quirky, but that doesn't make their music great. Coldplay is right up there with The Postal Service in my "music that makes me fall asleep nigh-instantaneously" category.
Hey, Postal Service is soooo much more energetic and up than Coldplay (but to be fair, that is damning them with faint praise)! I don't need those guys to be earnest and self-effacing and quirky to give their music more of my time!
I saw that interview with my parents (my mom looooooooves Coldplay; she had "Clocks" as her ringtone for many years, and now wants to reinstate it but fears that it's "too old"), and we all loved the "shadows in the exits" line. I was really struck by how funny and charming Chris Martin is; I don't recall ever seeing him interviewed before. My one complaint with the interview was that Steve Kroft should have mentioned the band's activism; the one line wasn't enough to understand a large portion of why they're so beloved, why they dress like they do. I'm not a big Coldplay fan but I did like their current album quite a bit more than I have their earlier stuff. (And John, OF COURSE you're not going to like Coldplay, you only listen to music that's energetic and usually filled with a lot of horns! Coldplay is the complete opposite of that. As Chris Martin put it last night at the Grammys, he plays "limestone rock.")
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They may be earnest and self-effacing and quirky, but that doesn't make their music great. Coldplay is right up there with The Postal Service in my "music that makes me fall asleep nigh-instantaneously" category.
Hey, Postal Service is soooo much more energetic and up than Coldplay (but to be fair, that is damning them with faint praise)! I don't need those guys to be earnest and self-effacing and quirky to give their music more of my time!
I saw that interview with my parents (my mom looooooooves Coldplay; she had "Clocks" as her ringtone for many years, and now wants to reinstate it but fears that it's "too old"), and we all loved the "shadows in the exits" line. I was really struck by how funny and charming Chris Martin is; I don't recall ever seeing him interviewed before. My one complaint with the interview was that Steve Kroft should have mentioned the band's activism; the one line wasn't enough to understand a large portion of why they're so beloved, why they dress like they do.
I'm not a big Coldplay fan but I did like their current album quite a bit more than I have their earlier stuff.
(And John, OF COURSE you're not going to like Coldplay, you only listen to music that's energetic and usually filled with a lot of horns! Coldplay is the complete opposite of that. As Chris Martin put it last night at the Grammys, he plays "limestone rock.")
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