Coldplay: Like or leave, and WHY

[Forgotten Sanity]

Originally Posted by Jafs

It's strange, I don't feel like a music elitist, and it's not because I read sometimes Pitchfork that I'm one of those... IMO Coldplay could do a better stuff that they did with X&Y with their potential. Indeed, I like a lot of their songs, and X&Y have his number of good songs.

Believe me, it's not that I feel that anyone that reads them on a regular basis is guilty by association, I just feel that too often their reviews turn into all-out rows and pissing contests. With people like Britney Spears and Linkin Park running around, people that never played in their garage for years and years and never had to play empty bars and sleep in roach motels just to try to get their music out, when a band such as Coldplay is able to pop because of the strength of their music, I feel that they deserve at least enough respect to be permitted to do what they do.