Coldplay attack 'evil' of profits

[Ian McCracken]

What an AssClown. I've got a suggestion for you, Mr Martin. Why don't you scrap the record contract and just sell your CDs on your own thru your website? The guy is a walking cliche. Poseur.

Coldplay attack 'evil' of profits (http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/18707189?source=Evening%20Standard)
By Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard
18 May 2005

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin today launched an attack on his record label EMI and the company's shareholders.

It came after EMI, the world's third-largest music company, warned that profits would be lower because the band took longer than expected to finish their first studio album in three years.

But as Coldplay prepared for a concert in New York to promote their new album, called X&Y, Martin said: "I don't really care about EMI. I'm not really concerned about that.

"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."

[Barbara]

Who gives a ******** what some stupid rock star has to say?

[Sine Pari]

Who gives a ******** what some stupid rock star has to say?


Exactly

They suck anyway

[BlueMeanie]

EMI should attack the evil that is Coldplay's muzak.

[Claymore]

EMI should attack the evil that is Coldplay's muzak.

Repped

[Scarecrow]

I read that article and kept thinking, what a ********ing hypocrite. If he is so concerned with being a "slave" to the shareholders,.then quit the business, give back the money, and do as was already suggested here and sell your crap on your own website.

[Claymore]

I read that article and kept thinking, what a ********ing hypocrite. If he is so concerned with being a "slave" to the shareholders,.then quit the business, give back the money, and do as was already suggested here and sell your crap on your own website.
The money his wife has made in Hollywood apparently doesn't bother him.

[Scarecrow]

The money his wife has made in Hollywood apparently doesn't bother him.


I think that given his comments that EMI should release him from his contract.
He would be grateful I think. Right?

[Yankee_Blue]

Rep to who names the band:




There's unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
I tell you it was all a frame
they onl1y did it 'cos of fame -
Who? EMI

Too many people had the suss
Too many people support us
An unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out -
Who? EMI


And sir and friends are crucified
a day they wished that we had died
We are an addition
we are ruled by-none
Never ever never

And you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?


Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
of stupid fools who stand in line like EMI


Unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
That was fhe only reason
we alt had to say goodbye

Unlimited supply
EMI there is no reason why
EMI I tell you if was all a frame
EMI they only did it 'cos of fame
EMI I do not need the pressure
EMI I can't stand the useless fools
EMI unlimited supply
EMI Hallo EMl goodbye A & M

[Dan Loney]

It was either the Sex Pistols or the Carpenters, I forget which.

[Scarecrow]

Wasn't it the Osmonds? :D

[Barbara]

Rep to who names the band:




There's unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
I tell you it was all a frame
they onl1y did it 'cos of fame -
Who? EMI

Too many people had the suss
Too many people support us
An unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out -
Who? EMI


And sir and friends are crucified
a day they wished that we had died
We are an addition
we are ruled by-none
Never ever never

And you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?


Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
of stupid fools who stand in line like EMI


Unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
That was fhe only reason
we alt had to say goodbye

Unlimited supply
EMI there is no reason why
EMI I tell you if was all a frame
EMI they only did it 'cos of fame
EMI I do not need the pressure
EMI I can't stand the useless fools
EMI unlimited supply
EMI Hallo EMl goodbye A & M


Oh wait. This is a tough one....

Um.... the Sex Pistols, maybe?

From one of the top ten best albums ever?

[Barbara]

It was either the Sex Pistols or the Carpenters, I forget which.

Okay, that's funnier.

I'm humbled.

[Yankee_Blue]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dan Loney again.

[Attacking Minded]

I bought a Coldplay album, the one with "In my place" on it. I was hoping for another "Squeeze" type band. I was disapointed. The rest of the album sucked with the exception of the other song on it that got airplay.

Hopefully they used the three years between albums wisely.

PS If you immitate Mr Makey from south park (m'kay?) and sing along with "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", it's kinda funny.

[MikeLastort2]

I don't think I've ever heard a Coldplay song.

[Roel]

I don't think I've ever heard a Coldplay song.

They sound like a poor man's U2.

[speedcake]

"It's very strange for us that we spent 18 months in the studio just trying to make songs that make us feel a certain way and then suddenly become part of this corporate machine," Martin said backstage.

Suddenly? What a ********ing idiot. Of course, not really. He knows exactly what affect his statement will have on hundreds of thousands of idealistic and naive teens. They're all gonna run out and buy the new record and further inflate both Martin's ego and, most importantly, his wallet. Why? 'Because he understands man! He understands the man!'.

Suckers. God help the youth.

[Michael K.]

Chris Martin and Coldplay have done some pretty cool stuff for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign, including promoting it all along their last concert tour. I did a little leafletting for them in NYC a couple summers ago and got to see their show for free in return - not why I did it, but it was a nice little perk - and it's funny to read the "poor man's U2" comment, because from behind the stage (where I was sitting), where the bass and drums were especially loud, that's what I thought they sounded a bit like. The point is, he's not all empty words and no action to back it up.

I tend to like, not slavishly love, some of their music, and appreciate their politics (and willingness to actually talk about them). But this kind of comment is just hopeless - hamfisted, and way, way too easy to criticize in exactly the way that people are doing here. It does nothing but make him look stupid and hypocritical.

Of course I, making pretty much no money off of anyone, least of all corporate media, can say something akin to what he's saying, and be pretty right; the profits-above-people mentality, the market fundamentalism that is taking a little more control of our world outside the markets every day - that IS pretty damn sick and twisted and misguided, if not "evil". I wouldn't agitate to throw out capitalism lock stock and barrel because I don't really know what's more workable - who does?; how we organize and do capitalism nowadays, however, sucks.

Going on with the U2 comparison, I'd hope that maybe with age Chris Martin realizes that the Bono approach may work better than the parody-prone agitprop, anyway. Quit coming out with comments like these, which people laugh at, and go right to Wolfensohn and Wolfowitz, etc.

I also heard their new single on the radio tonight. First impression...blah. Not really close to "Yellow" or "Clocks" or their other decent radio hits, none of which will change music history, but are a damn sight better than most of the other total cack that passes for music these days.

[Matt Clark]

Coldplay are the musical equivalent of a persistent head cold.

And Chris Martin is a ********ing drip. I'm just glad we managed to palm him off on you lot.

Having said that - record companies with shareholders are what gave the world Avril Lavigne. So he's not wrong to use the word "evil".