I think this ends all music debate. Let's be honest, Coldplay brings together the best of music everywhere. If there's anybody who should lead this brave new world, it's Chris Martin. All hail King Yellow.

Wut?

Rofl.

I don't mind Coldplay at all, but they're a really good example of how fame can mess up your head if you're not up to dealing with it...

Fuck off and leave country and rap alone Martin. Haven't you wrought enough wrongness on the world of music already? Keane? Snow Patrol? Feeder? These are war crimes.

Does that mean CM will be singing live Steven Adams?

Hmmm.

Three words.

"Rattle and Hum"

One more....

Cunt

Woo… Judgement Night soundtrack, that ruled that did

i think this could be a biiiig mistake for everyone...
coldplay, the label... and anyone who wud listen to it...

Hmm, "electro" album claims = 3 month delay and
a track that ripped off a kraftwerk riff,
wow c-u-t-t-i-n-g edge boys!!!

Obviously what martin means here is they are going to steal a garth brooks chorus and take 11 years to record.

They do bland MOR very well, I find them hummable but ultimately throwaway due to any real lack of exitement, why cant they just be honest about it and stop pretending they are capable or even ALLOWED to do anything else.

what

wut?

Daily Star, tongue, cheek?

What an uncharasmatic, boring, annoying twat. PS Coldplay could quite possibly be the most unoriginal band ever, but I've found out why they are important. Everytime they are on the radio or tv, I turn it off. If Coldplay was on more, the tv would be on even less, so in reality, I am saving electricity. See. There is a use for them.

plus, "a very sleeping beast" doesn't make grammatical sense.

It sounds like one of the following to me

a) shock factor for it's own sake - of course country and rap would be ok for you to do - making it sound rebellious is ridculous and really showing off their middle class roots.
b) a Coldplay realisation that their turgid, boring, trite music might continue to sell, but that they will get fucking bored of continuing to make bland indie schmindie for the rest of their careers
c) Consequently they are scrambling around for ideas - what can we do so we don't get bored? Pick a genre from a hat? Country comes out first, then next rap. Sorted.

A final thought: that comment he makes about the ultimate album and 'bringing music together' sounds so wet it is untrue. Don't bring your liberal politics into questions of making music. Keep it to the lyrics *snigger* and your hands. I can't think of anything more boring than trying to create some kind of homogenous whole out of all the varied artists and styles out there. It does sound universalising and power crazy. Then again, it sounds just like the comments they made about re-inventing the wheel prior to their last album. And that turned out to be true, didn't it?

Look at it this way. It can't be worse than the stuff they normally do. I'd like to see a more experimental Coldplay, if only because it would make them slightly interesting.

they should cover some Extreme Noise Terror in the style of Mika Bomb - then I would respect them. a bit

"Rap? Straight up: Martin continued by saying, "I think the only future for music is if you bring together the most disparate worlds. That would be an album between Garth Brooks, Coldplay and Kanye West and produced by Timbaland."

I do beleive he is taking the piss. Not that I care, he knows the reaction he'd get (he'd only have to look here) and why not? When you've made money and sold loads of albums why not piss on and laugh at the people who dislike you.

I would.

xMx

He just sounds arrogant. It'd be fine if Coldplay had actually displayed any inclination towards redefining themselves and experimenting, as Martin seems to be implying, but they haven't. None whatsoever. The next album will be the same as the rest: Watered down radio-friendly Indie. And multiple variations on the same guitar riff, again, and again, and again...

He was only joking. Anyone who 'knows' him will realize Chris always make off the cuff, random remarks. Maybe he's amusing himself, but whatever, they're not really making a country album.

Anyone who thinks all Coldplay's albums are the same obviously isn't listening. If you think Parachutes is in any way similar to X&Y, you're wrong. Either way, this is just another of Chris' ironic, self-deprecating remarks. If you've seen them live, you'd understand. He says stuff like that all the time and the crowd laughs and its cool. Everyone calm down, its only the fucking Daily Star anyway

The last two have been very, very similar, and they're not a million miles away from the first either. I'd like to believe that they need to change direction if they wish to retain their appeal, I'd like to believe that there's only so far you can go making the same music, but bands like Oasis and Coldplay are testament to the contrary.

I cannot believe you people are taking this story seriously when it is so obviously a fake / joke (it's sourced from the Daily Star!).

And yet, I knew I'd read on to find you'd all ignored that fairly obvious fact in the face of another chance to slate Coldplay. Because, let's face it, that's what "real" music fandom is all about.

There is more than country and rap that Crapplay cant do.
They cant do:
math rock
electronica
drum and bass
metal
jazz
folk
synth pop
emo
prog rock
innovative music

Let's face it. If you or I were to become whiny, miserable pricks and then proceed to make whiny miserable music out of key and charged someone £15 to listen to it would we be successfull? Hell No, so why are those wankers given shed loads of cash for being miserable? And he's knobbing Gweneth Paltrow so how miserable can a whiny twat really be???