Originally posted by jaden101
well...i hate coldplay...simply because chris martin is a pretentious overbearing prick who needs to stop lecturing people about the benefits of "fair trade"sorry chris but now everyone can afford to pay more for their food...unlike you who doesnt have to count the pennies like the rest of us
keane are overplayed now...im not usually a musical snob but the fact that i went around for most of 2003 saying to people "keane...keane are gonna be big...trust me"...and most people gave the response "who the **** are keane" or "keane are shit" mostly because if they arent popular then they arent good
now everyone is practically licking their collective bumhole
so to put it bluntly..neither
It doesnt matter if they arent popular, i like them because i thought they had a good sound and i can understand if someone doesnt like them but that doesnt give them the right to shit-talk them to other ppl who might like them. what chnged your mind? just the fact that they were overplayed?
perhaps...musically i dont like them...but the political points i feel quite strongly about in relation to chris martin...he really gets up my nose as most celebrity charity workers do...
he is the type who does his work in the full glare of the media which seems to me like he is trying to promote his own image more than the cause itself...and preaching to people like me who dont have 2 pennies to rub together (im a poor uni student) and asking me to pay 50% more for my goods...well i struggle to get by as it is...where as im sure the extra 50p on a pack of bananas doesnt make much difference to him
i also beleive that if the celebs who feel that strongly about issues like these bothered to give up just half of the huge amounts of money they earn from our already battered pockets...then that would make far more difference than i ever could
so in that sense i really REALLY dont like the guy at all
for keane is just pure old fashioned "played to death" syndrome
perhaps i brought it on myself because i listened to the album alot when i got it at first....then going into work and "everybodys changing" never being off the radio for more than 5 minutes...and watching all the people i had been telling that keane were great and who had said "who the ****?"...watching all those people going around singing the song...
you know how it is...it just got over played
i'll probably still buy there next album...
Originally posted by Placebo_fan
sorry, but if youre a celebrity, then how can you not do everything in the full glare in the media?
you dont need to make your best intentions a media circus...i know there have been massive donations made to charity by celebrities and buisness men that they wished to remain anonymous
its not like the coverage of chris martins charity work is stumbled upon by a papparazzi photographer...they are organised press junkets that are more about his image than the cause he is promoting
Originally posted by Placebo_fan
okay, but obviously just becoz you like the song doesnt mean you have to listen to it all the time. i think for you it was just a case of everyone else changing their minds about keane that made you change yours. Does that make sense?
i can see why you would think that but its not...it really is just a case of song fatigue...hearing it when i want to hear it is one thing...but it being blasted out of every jukebox in every pub or on every radio constantly for weeks on end just gets on my proverbial thrupenny bits