2. Chris Martin Is A Plonker
They don't use the word plonker. They use something a lot stronger and a lot more offensive, but What Culture frown upon expletives. Plonker will therefore have to do. Yes, of all the criticism levied at Coldplay, I have the greatest difficulty in understanding this one. Usually, I can at least see where people are coming from, but in this instance I'm left dumbfounded. I cannot even begin to grasp in what universe Chris Martin could possibly be considered to be anything less than genuine. Some might attack his involvement with charities such as Oxfam. Apparently, in using his fame to draw attention to political issues, Chris Martin is nothing more than a sanctimonious hypocrite. I can guarantee, though, that the sort of people who make this argument are exactly the sort of people who'd also argue that the charts are vacuous; that nobody has anything of any substance to say. If you read
any interview at all, Chris Martin never comes across as anything other than humble, sensitive, down-to-earth and human. Go and see Coldplay live and marvel as he makes a point of trying to make every single one of the thousands upon thousands of people in the arena or stadium feel welcome and included. The impression's always given that he's genuinely pleased that so many people took the trouble to come out and see his band. It's always seemed to me that he's felt somehow unworthy of such attention and adoration and what, really, could be more human? In any case, even if you're convinced that Chris Martin is actually a terrible, terrible man, so what? If you limited yourself to listening to bands whose singers didn't raise the hackles from time to time, you'd have no choice but to perform a mass cull on your entire music collection.