"America's public image at the moment is really bad. And it's a bummer, because over half of Americans are the coolest people on the planet. But they've been so misrepresented."

 

bingo.

 

This was awfully kind of Martin, and to be honest..I kind of teared up when I just read that. I know America has done some stupid things, and we aren't in the best place right now, but not everyone (a vast majority actually) are bad people. We are just people working to survive, just like any other place.

 

It's just..touching, to have someone like Martin stick up for us.

This was awfully kind of Martin, and to be honest..I kind of teared up when I just read that. I know America has done some stupid things, and we aren't in the best place right now, but not everyone (a vast majority actually) are bad people. We are just people working to survive, just like any other place.

 

It's just..touching, to have someone like Martin stick up for us.

 

i felt exactly the same way. i think about 90-95% of the bad american image is because of our government, period. i get so happy when someone foreign realizes that americans are NOT their government and are NOT (always) the stereotype. to have a person that i already look up to in terms of creativity, morals, causes, personality, etc etc realize this and put it so well and perhaps get some other people thinking the same way...it means a hell of a lot.

"If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"

 

 

Anyone else find this to be a bit ridiculous? Gosh, talk about giving Brad Pitt more credit than he is worth! Good grief, I wouldn't have expected Chris to say something like that at all. It makes him sound starstruck and immature.

He's said it before, I'm pretty sure it was the last time they had the cover of this very same magazine.

 

He's kidding, chill out.

i really don't understand why,he's a big star in himself.

 

He has a world wide fan following.

 

Then why he needs to put himself in such a low stage and has to compare himself to Brad Pitt or Ben Affleck.

 

He's a big star really.

 

ok there are several A list actresses and actors getting married in Hollywood.

But they are not thinking that their husband is great or wife is great.

 

They're leading and doing their own lives,its nothing exceptional.

 

Then why he's bothering about it.

"I don't want to be the person that makes everybody laugh before they go off and bang. I want to be the guy that everybody bangs."

 

This is so funny. Shouldn't have married Gwyneth, he'd be knee deep in banging opportunities right now. Bless him, he's such a little geek :D

Haha, yeah. :lol:

 

Should never marry your first love Christopher :P

anybody got the scans of this interview? including the album review?

 

thanks!!!

Oh, lol well no I didn't mean we'd actually implement it. I was just making a statement about sovereignty. Every country should be allowed to make its own laws without interference from other countries. Every individual should be allowed to pick which country they want to live in.

 

But when America (or any other country for that matter) goes around invading other countries' right to sovereignty, it implies they are operating on a "world stage" and therefore the worlds' citizens should demand they stop.

 

The whole point of this is that people should leave each other alone and that nukes are good. ;)

 

ding ding ding ding we have a winner

This was awfully kind of Martin, and to be honest..I kind of teared up when I just read that. I know America has done some stupid things, and we aren't in the best place right now, but not everyone (a vast majority actually) are bad people. We are just people working to survive, just like any other place.

 

It's just..touching, to have someone like Martin stick up for us.

that might be rough but it is the truth.... I think 95% of the mexicans hate americans, I don't, well only someones (like bush)

I seriously just watched for the first time that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that Chris mentions in the video/audio part of the interview, lol. What a cool coincidence.

the video on rollinstone? has it been posted?

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/11/video-behind-the-chris-martin-cover-story/

Thanks Justin :nice:

Thank you, Justin. :smug2:

Wow, that was pretty cool. I love how he thinks about the line from the 40 year old virgin

 

"I would be worried if we only appealed to straight, right-winged, white men."

He's exactly right, we're all so different on here.

 

Gah, you can't help but love him. :nice:

the best interview i ever seen!

couldn't find this on newsstands today, but god help me, i WILL get it tomorrow!

 

thanks for that video, justin! :D

 

On "Death and All His Friends," there's this great topical line: "I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge."

 

That's Brian Eno's line. I had this blank spot in the lyrics: "I don't want to battle from beginning to end. Something, something, something. I don't want to follow death and all of his friends." So we were all having a sandwich, and it's like, "I don't want to watch too many episodes of Friends? No, that won't do. I don't want to listen to Radiohead's The Bends? No. I don't want to eat any Jerry and Ben's? No." And then Brian came out with the line, and he was like, "I quite like that. You should use that."

 

 

 

 

LOL! :laugh3: Chris is the funniest guy on the Planet!

Great interview! Thanks!

 

Does anyone have the scans, please?

^if no one else beats me to it and i can find it tomorrow (i damn well plan on finding it), i'll have scans up by tomorrow night :nice:

^if no one else beats me to it and i can find it tomorrow (i damn well plan on finding it), i'll have scans up by tomorrow night :nice:

 

This is nice. Thanks! :smug:

This is so funny. Shouldn't have married Gwyneth, he'd be knee deep in banging opportunities right now. Bless him, he's such a little geek :D

 

It's funny because it's true :laugh3:

 

Not that he doesn't but.. uh yeah... I'll be quiet now :laugh3:

Terribly great! :D

I had to go to 3 places to find the RS magazine but I finally got it! :) It's a great interview!

 

If I had a scanner I'd scan it for you guys, but I don't have one. Sorry. :(

i couldn't find it ANYWHERE today. i went to four different places with no results (i had to go to all 4 of those places anyway--i'm not THAT obsessed :P)

i even asked the people at the bookstore and they were like "yeahhhhh, we're sold out of the old ones and the new ones haven't come in yet." i'm getting my mom to stalk for me tomorrow, because i waaaaant it!

can somebody scan and upload???

 

PLEASE!!!

here's the rolling stone review

3.5 stars out of 5

Coldplay's fourth release� has been billed as their experimental record, as well as their political record. And it is both, relatively speaking. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends opens with an anthemic riff played not on guitar but on a Persian santur — a hammered dulcimer common to the traditional music of Iraq and Iran. The album's lead single, "Violet Hill," describes a scene in which "priests clutched onto Bibles/Hollowed out to fit their rifles." Half the album's tracks float images of war, while others evoke God, religion or death.

 

Fun, right? It is, weirdly enough. Viva la Vida is Coldplay's effort to raise the creative bar in the wake of both huge commercial success and some not-insubstantial critical drubbing. But befitting their brand, the record isn't that much of a departure: It's still about stadium-scale melodies and singalong choruses. And while the experimentation makes this their most musically interesting album to date, its political messages are too vague to be heard amid its outsize hooks.

Coldplay have toured the world, and their frontman, Chris Martin, has done outreach in Africa with Oxfam International. So it makes sense that, from the title to the tunes, the set reflects some of the diversity of the band's global fan base, which made 2005's X&Y a Number One record in countries as far-flung as Lebanon, Chile, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as in the U.S. and the U.K. "Cemeteries of London," which evokes an English country ballad, begins the journey in Coldplay's own back yard, with images of a river "where Victorian ghosts pray." The plinking melody of "Strawberry Swing" has the breezy North Pacific lilt of Japanese music. "Yes" finds Martin dropping his voice to an uncharacteristically low octave amid bracing bursts of Arabic-flavored violin in a song addressing that universal pop-song problem: lust. Producer Brian Eno also helped bring the world-music vibe. (While Eno gets top billing, Coldplay enlisted other producers, including Markus Dravs, whose work with Björk and Arcade Fire also merges the odd and the anthemic.) Of course, Eno's work on The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree, by U2 — a band Coldplay revere and aspire to be — is probably more relevant here.

There are many U2 echoes on Viva la Vida, most notably Jonny Buckland's guitar tone, which is more aggressive than ever. The album's most sublime pop moment is probably "Lost!" a song about holding on against the odds that has the breathtaking loft of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." It builds on a simple church-organ riff, a kick drum and some hand claps to a rhythmically soaring, Edge-like guitar solo. Later, the slashing chords on "Chinese Sleep Chant" are so fierce that Martin's hollered vocals are overwhelmed, the melodic outline of his phrases barely discernible before searing psychedelic riffs erase him entirely.

Which isn't all that difficult to do. One of Martin's signature qualities is his anti-rock-star persona — a big part of what allows so many fans to project themselves into his boots when he's singing about pain or yearning or hope. It's also what makes him a surprisingly excellent hook singer, as he's proved playing foil to artists like Jay-Z ("Beach Chair") and Kanye West ("Homecoming"). No way is Martin going to challenge these egos. He has an admirably Zenlike ability to get out of the way of even his own songs.

But there's something troubling about his lack of clear political messages. In "Violet Hill," he declares, "I don't want to be a soldier/Who the captain of some sinking ship/Would stow, far below" — adding later, "Bury me in armor." In "Lovers in Japan," he states, "Soldiers you've got to soldier on/Sometimes even the right is wrong." Are these peace anthems or encouragements to valiant warriors? Can they be both? Similarly, the title track seems to be about the end of an empire. But its rousing chorus — "I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing/Roman cavalry choirs are singing" — feels like a rallying cry for a Christian empire. Where's an Arabic violin break when you need one? Coldplay's desire to unite fans around the world with an entertainment they can all relate to is the band's strength, and a worthy goal. But on Viva la Vida, a record that wants to make strong statements, it's also a weakness. Sometimes, to say what needs to be said, you need to risk pissing people off.

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/21236751/review/21256424/viva_la_vida_or_death_and_all_his_friends?source=album_reviews_rssfeed

I am like wth? If I had read without knowing they gave the album 3.5 stars I would have thought they liked it a lot, like 4 or 4.5 stars