In the eyes of the music press, Yes! There has been a kind of backlash against Coldplay over the last 12 months, because some people resent the success they are experiencing.
It's very typical of the British media to build someone up then try to tear them down.
Ok, well, I don't know what the British media is like. But I guess this is all about money, as everything else is.
First they hype someone to get as much money as possible and then after squeezing them out, they look for another band. Business. That's all.
I know only about what the situation in Hungary is like. I don't want to bore you with it, but it's not any better than the British one. It's different but still shit.
although they havent succumbed to the evil that is advertising (i.e. selling their songs to commercials), their music has become very very commercial sounding. parachutes and arobtth were unique and no one but coldplay could have done them...X&Y could have been done by any band with talent and a big production budget (save for a few songs...fix you and maybe till kingdom come)
i still love the album but coldplay has gotten so big so fast that they feel they need something to prevent them from deflating (this was alot of the critics criticism too and they have a point)....i dont know how much bigger they can get. there is a limit and i hope they dont approach it anytime soon.
their music needs to go back to the basics...no more expensive over produced albums...go back to arobtth...it was unique...X&Y has headed them in the wrong direction. they have said they will go darker next time around...that'll be interesting for sure.