Coldplay - disappearing up their own @rse?

[Steve_Luts]

Before I post this question, I would like to say I own all their albums, have seen them live three times, and think they are immensely musically talented.

However, am I not alone in thinking there is an immense smugness about them? Specifically Chris Martin? What was all that "I'm so flexible" rolling on his back business at the Brits about? when I just sat there thinking 'stop looking like such a ****** mate!'

I'm just watching them on C4 now, musically excellent, but an apparent shallowness to them. I don't buy the "I love the earth" line when CM was recently seen bumping his BMW X5 SUV gas guzzler into another car, and the whole 'don't photograph me' when him and his wife seem to take lots of oppotunities to get their faces in the press. Am I alone in thinking Chris Martin is a bit of a fraud?

Is it a case of "great tunes, but shut your gob?"

[jamesy boy]

Can't believe it's taken you this long to work it out to be honest.

He also sings like Little Denis Waterman off "Little Britain."

Having said that, most pop stars should keep thier gobs shut when it comes to serious issues. I mean YOU, Bono!

[souldriver]

I've always thought that about coldplay, also thier music makes me feel suicidal... Its very depressing.

[littleoldme]

When I was watching the Brits, I found myself thinking "My God, Chris Martin's turning into Bono"...and I don't mean musically. Not so much his propensity for commenting on weighty issues, but things like starting his song standing up but hunched over, apparently singing to the floor. Come on CM, keep it "real", maaaaannn. :-)

[andy-hughes]

The bigger a band becomes, the higher the proportion of people who dislike them, and their appearence, their way of conducting themselves and so on.

I have always hated Coldplay with a passion you can only dream of, and I simply avoid looking at them, or listening to them when ever possible, so I don't have to worry about why Chris Martin puts different coloured plasters on his fingers, or bakes vegan cakes for his baby daughter, or any of the pronouncements he makes in the press or from the stage.

There are sixty million people on this island of ours - one million of them think Coldplay are the Second Coming, and the other fifty-nine million think they are a bunch of trendy left-wing tree-hugging sixth-form-poetry-writing cable-knit-sweater--wearing terminally-earnest bed-wetting lentil steamers who are taking up valuable oxygen.

Do the math - ignore them.

[rugeleyboy]

i have always thought chris martin was a pompus idiot, also i was bemused why anyone should care that we wont see them at the brits for a while............ i have nothing left to say other than i agree with andy-hughes.

[Wasted Talen]

Yes!!! I love Coldplay's music, but I couldn't agree more with you

[shoegal-nyc]

well said, andy-hughes

[sunflower68]

All that hopping about on stage drove me nuts on the Brits. Annoying man, great songs (though quite a few, including the one they did, are dire.)

...I wrote the theeeme toooon, sing the theeem toooon...

[Steve_Luts]

Thanks everyone - possibly a first in that everyone generally agrees with me!

AH - I didn't even ask about the different coloured plasters, I couldn't face whatever lamentable bullsh!t it would be about...

lentil steamers - LOL!!!