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He makes more money than her now, but overall I'd bet they're about even, back when she was acting more, she was one of the highest paid actresses in the business. Plus she comes from money so she'd be wealthy even without a lucrative career of her own.

RIAA has already certified it Platinum (which technically means it's shipped a million copies, rather than sold at a retail level). Still, from the business perspective, they've already reached a million units here.

That was also in 2008, when total record sales were a lot higher than now. That Coldplay can still post these kinds of numbers is even more impressive given how many (arguably bigger) "names" have struggled to shift physical albums these days. Plus the new album is proving to have much stronger legs than initially indicated. Couple that with live ticket demand that's the strongest in the band's career and the results are really impressive.

I thought Viva was in the singles charts for an insanely long time. Was it not?

We've had dozens of threads on this and it never gets anywhere. The sets are what they are, and nothing anybody posts on here can change that for good or bad, better or worse. As far as price, yes it's pretty steep, but it's still one of the cheapest "big act" tickets around frankly. I guess it comes down to if the show (such as it is) is worth it to you or not. Popular Band+Huge Fanbase=well oiled machine like production & expensive tickets. It's been that way long before Coldplay and will be that way after they're gone. It kind of sucks, but that's the industry.

How so? I like Travis, but they are virtually unknown over her in the US. Coldplay's initial US radio break was when one of the major television networks (I think it was NBC), used yellow in a network promo.

At their more recent gigs they've been covering I Kissed a Girl as well. :laugh3:

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Which outlandish Bono stage persona are you referring to? I can't for the life of me think of one which reminds me of the terminator.

I still say U2 has experimented with incorporating pop (especially dance/euro pop) into their sound more than Coldplay ever has. A ton of their 90's work was very heavily influenced by dance pop and club music. Their last album had a collaboration with Will.I.Am even, and that particular song when played live was performed in an even more pop style than it's original.

I know, but we gotta talk about something.

For the most part is was, as the album title covered the breasts. That said, the regular backdrop (with the breasts exposed) was used for the show in the UAE which is probably by far the most conservative country in which the band performed, so I'm not so sure all that much censoring went on.

What I meant to say was that the Beatles are widely regarded as the finest musical act of the rock and roll era, yet all the members (with the possible exception of George) have said that the primary goal of the band (especially in the earlier days) was to be as popular as possible and sell as much music as they could. I believe John's exact quote was something along the lines of telling Paul "let's write ourselves a swimming pool". No matter how pure of motive you are, there's an undeniable appeal to making tons of cash doing what you love.

I don't see how the two are always mutually exclusive. John Lennon was always quite open about the fact that he enjoyed the wealth his music brought him, yet he still made some of the best music ever.

Yep, she did the art for that. ;)

She's an artist whose work looks a lot like your Avatar. She's done a lot of Promo art for Mad Men among other things.

OT, but is your avatar a Dyna Moe thing?

Ok, now that is a bit of a weird choice for that show IMHO.

That's cool. It's just kind of weird to me that so many people (not you) feel the need to come up with long, complex, supposedly objective theories for what's probably best boiled down to "I didn't really like the new album." That's perfectly fine but it is totally subjective.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I quoted you because I mistakenly believed that what you wrote was intended to elaborate on what others had posted prior. My error.

Ok, I've spent some time with the multi quote thing and I just can't get it to work so apologies on that one right off the bat, I'm not doing it to be annoying or obstinate. 1. I assumed that by posting on a given thread your post should be taken in context of said thread's larger conversation, on whose points I thought you were attempting to build. So I guess in the end, this point applies to the thread as a whole, not explicitly to either of you. 2. People can change their minds. As for the specific example of Glee, I thought what happened there was pretty obvious. Chris probably wanted to build goodwill between the show's creative team and himself, as his wife was going to be appearing on the show. That's just my opinion, but it certainly fits the available facts quite well. Paradise and Yellow are not exactly the same type of song, but again IMHO there not as different as you apparently believe. Paradise is probably more aptly compared to VLV. 3. See reply to point #1 Even if it's not a point you made, it's fairly ubiquitous. 4. Fair enough, though the question of a particular album being sub-par or not is totally subjective. I guess my point was that (prior to the release of MX) if you were to ask any music label executive what kind of sound would be the most "mainstream", "Like Coldplay" probably would've been a common answer. It sounds to me that your main issue is that you just don't think MX is very good, which is not the point I got from your earlier posts, though It is a point I can respect, if not agree with.

I'm a fan of both since you're asking. Oasis were certainly a rock band through and through in attitude, but many of there biggest hits were pop songs structurally and aesthetically (and no that doesn't just mean a rock song that becomes popular.) Oasis even experimented a bit with dance music, and electropop. (Most notably on Standing on the Shoulder of Giants). Oasis' music had very strong roots in pop (as did that of their idols The Beatles). As for U2, they've always also had a strong pop element. (hence their album Pop) Discotheque is totally a dance pop song, albeit one with a pretty spiky edge. IMHO, Coldplay are still a "rock" band in the sense that they write their own songs and play their own instruments as opposed to a totally manufactured pop act. They just happen to like pop music.

That's the thing. For all the maligning of ETDIAW, the lyrics IMHO are classically and unmistakably Chris Martin Lyrics.

Let me take these in order: 1. Many people here (including the OP) most certainly did. I never singled you out as one of the ones who said that. 2. What you're not getting is that from my point of view, Coldplay is not now doing anything very out of line with what their identity always has been. The band (and Chris in particular) have always had an affinity for pop music. Chris has been writing songs for/with Pop artists for around a decade now. Furthermore, I don't see how Yellow is not every bit as much a pop song as anything off MX. 3. See the post on this thread where they were compared to U2, Kasabian, Oasis, and both the post Oasis offshoot bands. If you need more evidence see the countless times in other threads where Coldplay are compared unfavorably to bands like Muse or Radiohead, often for reasons that have nothing to do with their music, but with the fact that coldplay have gone "mainstream" while those other bands have "integrity." 4. I never said it wasn't different, just that the overall type of band they are and the music they play is not all that different. I'll give you that that's perhaps a fair arguement if you're using only Parachutes as a refrence point, but all of their other albums have been fairly "poppy" IMHO. As I said before, Yellow, Clocks, Fix You, The Scientist, Speed of Sound, VLV and Lovers in Japan are all more or less pop songs every bit as much as ETIAW or Paradise. That said, the breadth of change in Coldplay's sound is no more than other bands have done (80's U2/90's U2), and a good deal less than some (Aerosmith playing hard rock in the 70's and then morphing into a hard rock band in the mid 80's) I'm not trying to be contentious or to provoke a fight, I just really don't get where you're coming from at all.

Maybe not don't Panic, but Yellow definitely would fit. (better than Charlie Brown IMHO)