Just read the new edition of Q Magazine.

 

Was initially really excited - it looked like a very long profile, including some great new pictures, and the band talking about each new track from the album.

 

After a couple of paragraphs it became clear this was all about Chris. Guy, Jonny & Will were barely given any time. They were referred to as]"The Other Three" or "The Others" (the capital letters made it look like "The Other Three" was a separate band!), and any time the interviewer quoted them, it was usually about Chris.

 

I know singers always garner more attention, and as frontmen go, Chris Martin is quite extraordinary, but in the interview he acknowledges how important Jonny, Guy & Will are and talks about how awful it would be if any one of them left. It's a shame the media generally doesn't seem to get this point and that Q wants to relegate them to bit-part players in the Chris Martin story.

 

Is anybody else sick of the constant fixation on one member? :angry:

Well, Chris is the lead singer. It's a Bono-type thing. Because he often delivers the most "interesting" comments and is the most politically outspoken, the press seems to think that he's the only one with a soul. :rolleyes:

coz the writer is not the real CP fans...

but you are;) so i don't care...

But when they were mentioned it was always in a good light!

 

"The willingly wry drummer Will champion" :lol:

"There's Guy Berryman the outrageously handsome Scottish Bassist"

"There's Jonny Buckland , beatific guitarist, smiling serene"

i dont think the other members care/cared much about their fame. i think now will be different esp guy.

Adam Lazzara (singer from "Taking Back Sunday") refused to do any intrview without the rest of the band at first for a couple of years until he said in one interview just recently in Kerrang:

 

"You know I would never do interviews without the rest of the band because it's kind of disrespectful to them, you have to realise that without the musicians the vocalist is nothing, but without the vocalist, the band is still a band. Then I realised - The media just want to sell magazines, and would you buy a music magazine if it had the bass player from Oasis on the cover? no! - I don't even know who plays the bass in Oasis anymore.. but all of that aside, Singers are role models for teenagers, kids want to be the hero, the protogé - and that's just the way it is."

 

:) - I agree with him.

 

he's also a lovely man, I met him twice :D

it's always been like that - you're right, it's a shame, but the fact is that Chris is the frontman and the other members don't really care!

 

However, I think is very important Guy, Will and Jonny start getting more attention!!!

 

Pay attention to what Chris said in the Q Magazine Interview: "I live in fear of someone leaving"

It's said with a HUGE dollop of sarcastic, it's meant to be funny ;)

 

Everyone knows that Chris is the only one that non-Coldplay obsessives know. It's nothing to do with Q not liking them and more to do with them playing on the band perception :P

Pay attention to what Chris said in the Q Magazine Interview: "I live in fear of someone leaving"

I remember reading that, too. And Chris always seems to mention he is the least important part of the band. He always admits that the other members do most of the composition and technical aspects when they're writing and recording.

 

And also keep in mind that Will is probably the most musically skilled out of them all (but no offense to the other guys, they're all incredible musicians). He taught himself how to drum to be a part of Coldplay. He was already playing guitar and piano and such, so in reality he can do it all. Haha not LITERALLY do everything without the other guys, but you probably won't see Chris trying to jump behind the drums for Square One ;)

 

So when Chris says "I live in fear of someone leaving" he most definitely means it. Don't get me wrong, he sounds lovely by himself with a piano, but that's only 25% of the Coldplay we know and love :nice:

I understand, and expect, Chris to get more attention from the likes of the tabloids - I just expected more from a credible music magazine like Q.

 

I don't even think I mind the fact that he is the journalists' main focus - what really bothered me was the label "The Other Three" - it robbed them of their identity and it seemed disrespectful.

 

They are three incredibly talented musicians in their own right and to call them "The Other Three" or "The Others" seems to completely disregard their input in the creative process and their contribution to Coldplays' success.

A lot of what Chris says is a load of crap. He dodges interviewer's questions, gives cryptic answers to questions that are quite simple!...I personally would rather hear the other 3 more often :laugh3:

im surely sick of that!!1

i don't know why everyone think Chris is so unimportant when he's really stressing his life on music?

 

really bad!

Fans of any band always have this complaint, lol. It's just inevitable.

It's said with a HUGE dollop of sarcastic, it's meant to be funny ;)

 

Everyone knows that Chris is the only one that non-Coldplay obsessives know. It's nothing to do with Q not liking them and more to do with them playing on the band perception :P

 

I guess I sort of got the tongue-in-cheek, but even if that was so, it's not like they went ahead and asked them questions like they knew there was more than just Chris.

 

I mean, I personally don't mind reading a whole interview of him. He's hilarious and extremely odd and off beat. The type of guy anyone could be friends with.

 

That being said it does seem wrong to not give the other guys there due. But like someone said, it happens with every band. Usually the guy who wants to sing is the most boisterous and arrogant one, but Chris definitely turns that on its head. He's certainly entertaining, but he doesn't provide the dynamic of a Bono type guy, who polarizes all the attention to himself (and occasionally The Edge).

 

Also what someone said is true - being that Chris is exactly the most forthright bandmate. It's hard to tell when he's giving you actual thoughts on the songs or just stuff he draws out of thin air. The other guys definitely tend to be more forward. Which is why I'm excited (I forgot who said it, but it wasn't Chris) one of them said theyve got a lot of non b-sides that theyre figuring out what to do with them.

Fans of any band always have this complaint, lol. It's just inevitable.

 

 

inevitable?

 

ok at the same time its harmfull!

 

because Chris is also a member of the band and yeah The Frontman!