sam stown Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 You're not gonna like this. http://www.nme.com/reviews/coldplay/9777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majgirl Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I hate the media. I'm a fan of a lot of bands and I have never seen them go after anyone as relentlessly. This band just cant win, I mean they just got done complaining that coldplay do to many simple ballads and now their saying they should play their old stuff more because thats what they excel at?? You cant have it both ways! The jury is still out for me on whether I like this record as much as the previous but at this point it really looks like the world of the press is ready to hate them no matter what they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footyfan10 Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 i think its kind of clear that if you're not a boozing, drug addicted and suicidal band, that the music media is not going to like you. they like people who look like they could self-destruct any moment, and coldplay isnt that band. you also need to be extremely arrogant and think your music is amazing, like one of my favorite bands Radiohead (but still, Thom Yorke, you're a little pretentious). i love the band and there music, but they need to get off their pedestal. coldplay was never going to be a band like this. they dont feign arrogance, they openly talk about how crap they can be. also, chris martin married gywneth, and she seems like an extremely nice person. coldplay = no drama. media <3 drama thats basically the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookyMnstr Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Wow, what the hell was wrong with that reviewer???? like you said majgirl, they were once accused of their songs being "too simple" so they change it up a bit in the new album, and now the older "simple" songs are missed??? uhhhh, what, huh???? As soon as I read that she didn't like the acoustic version of Yellow, which is so sweet live, I knew to delete the whole review from my brain. When people here mentioned how it seems that others think it cool to hate Coldplay, I thought they were overreacting. But when I read articles like this...it totally proves that! You know what...let people hate Coldplay...so maybe less people will show up at shows and I have a better shot at front row seats!!!:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRYSTAL Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 there's something "wrong" with that reviewer definitely. :laugh3: because brixton live is absolutely awesome not just onething to complain there! who ever the coldplay haters are they suck themselves definitely.:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrot cruncher Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 This is the same nme that gave viva 8/10 by a different reviewer. I have been on the nme message board many times defending coldplay against some of the ignorant pricks but i dont waste my time now.It seems that no matter what they do some people will always hate them, more for who they are than the music i suspect.To be honest i quite like the accustic version of yellow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 coldplay = no drama. media <3 drama thats basically the answer I just think that they are jealous, too. How is it possible that a humble and simple band has this succes? They just have talent while others just have scandals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsarehardcorex Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 A bit too negative, though they do raise a few points. Where on earth was the Scientist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattypclaret Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 yer it is a tune. and i totally agree with you on the yellow issue. its amazing played like that, so intimet. and viva la vida IS EPIC what is wrong with the world today? 'sigh' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebrat Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 aren't they supposed to send impartial people to these concerts? this review is contradictory and illogical - I really would've expected better from NME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenjie Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 why has it taken her 2 weeks to write the review? surely, you would want to publish your review as close after the gig as possible. the cynic in me feels that this review was kept so it would stand out on its on and make a statement (something along the line of showing off to your mates that you're trendy too). I'd take it more seriously if she'd published it the day after when other reviewers were raving about the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenjie Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 oh, and as she was there the following night, its no wonder she didn't enjoy it when they weren't even there :laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplay007 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 that article is basically summing up what some threads were about around here. It's like, "ohh this album is not like X&Y or AROBTTH or Parachutes. It's all DIFFERENT and NOT GOOD!" :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hitcher Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 NME have made their money off Coldplay now! They used them to sell their shitty magazine by releasing the Violet Hill vinyl. Now they slag them off, typical NME, i gave up reading NME years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 From the NME, May 10th: (The Violet Hill issue) My Interpol hell Another day in the NME office, another big-name release arrives and some people's minds are made up before the CD is out of the sleeve. I wonder, are our opinions and prejudices towards certain bands so ingrained that they're never going to be shifted by actually - pffft! - listening to a new record? There was only one way to find out. I had to dive lughole-first into the musical cesspools of my most-hated bands to see if I could find beauty. I began with Sigur Ros. To me they've always represented post-rock pretension in its purest form: 30-something men in cardigans applauding the farting of dolphins. I dug out an album called '()'. I played it three times in a row. And, erm, it was beautiful - by spin three I wanted to hug a glacier. Hello, my name is Mark and I'm a Sigur Ros fan... Next, Radiohead's 'In Rainbows': a record beloved of 10 billion Nissan drivers worldwide, yet it left me cold. [ironically considered by this transcriber to be their warmest album.] Five listens later, I still wouldn't want to dance or shag to it but I do understand it - it's interestingly-constructed modern noise, metrosexual mood music. And in 'Reckoner', at 3.15, was that... could it be... a tune? Eureka! So, heartened by this success, on to The Big One: Interpol. The. Worst. Band. Ever. It was my own personal Guantanamo, but I sat through 'Turn On The Bright Lights' twice. It was agony. They try really hard to write tunes, only to prove utterly incapable. Any reviewers who gave this record charity deserve to have their critics' licences revoked, and yet, and yet... 'NYC' is quite lovely, in a Kitchens Of Distinction kind of way. Wow. But will I go to see any of these bands, buy their T-shirts, get their name tattooed on my left nipple? Probably not. Appreciation, y'see, is a long way from adoration, and at core I've found that my instincts were pretty much right. Now, excuse me, I'm off to find a good bit on The Horrors' album. I may be some time. You see? It's not just Coldplay. In fact it's three of the most popular bands around here in that particular example. And if this is this guy's idea of being open-minded, I never want to see him on a bad day. I have a love/hate thing with the NME, in turns jealous that the Brits have a magazine like it, and annoyed at how schizophrenically narrow-minded it can be. And most of the British press is like that. Quite a bit of the American music press as well. It's not even that they don't like this thing or that thing, or they're prejudiced against ____. It's just that people who stir up mud in our current culture get column inches, and people who shrug and say "it's nice, I like it" don't make any noise at all. (Especially when those people download all their music so sales don't reflect what actually gets listened to :P) I mean this for several "look a bad review" threads like this: Take a deep breath, take it with a grain of salt, and get on with your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRYSTAL Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i hate the entire press itself not this and that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam stown Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 When you really like a band you want everyone to feel the same, but that's never going to happen. Can you think of one famous band that has never been criticised? Some people think Violet Hill is the best thing Coldplay have ever done, which amazes me because I wouldn't have even released it as a single. I played Viva La Vida to someone who thought the music was great but couldn't stand Chris Martin's voice. It's surprising to us, but you can't account for taste. I agree with one criticism in the article. Chris does not do himself any favours when he starts prancing about stage. It doesn't look good, and he doesn't sing as well, whereas when he sits at his piano his voice is far better and he does their songs justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward_kingdom Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 That is just his stupid point of view... and it's definitely nothing to do with the real thing... That reviewer is such a stupid person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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