and while we're slate-bashing
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posted by tom / June 14, 2005 / 
Check out the concluding paragraph from this article on Coldplay:
It's strange for a man as morally outspoken and well-meaning as Martin to defer to such generically pop instincts—to retreat to the ambiguous power of crying "Aaahhh." But it's almost stranger for him to offer a collection of songs infected with the same low spirits as 2000. The State of Coldplay has never been stronger and Martin, with his celebrity wife and new child, has cobbled together a pretty good life. If it's not the sadness of worldly affairs that gnaw at the aching heart of Coldplay's songs—and the lyrics suggest not—it can't possibly be his own life, either. Maybe it's those bastard shareholders. Worse yet: Maybe it's nothing at all.
It's just... stupefyingly banal. How can successful bands write sad songs? Why does Randy Newman hate short people? How can the tiny actors on CSI live in all of our TV sets at once?
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oh jesus. that was incredibly stupid. i declare a moratorium on all coldplay articles.
Now we just need a fictional movie where a band says this and the producer at the record company urges them to go farther (in the name of selling more records, of course). "please, next time don't hold back... call me an asshole or something... mention that I personally called you about hurring up with the record and you personally told me to go F myself..."
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