Post by chipotle on May 5, 2014 17:43:37 GMT
One review of the Zane Lowe interview. Read the longer review, this is just the Chris part:
Woman's Hour Takeover; Zane Lowe interviews Chris Martin – review
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Woman's Hour Takeover; Zane Lowe interviews Chris Martin – review
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Last week, Zane Lowe broadcast his lengthy interview with Chris Martin from Coldplay. This was spread out over four nights, but you can hear the whole thing in one go on iPlayer – better, I think, than having it jump in and out of Zane's usual upbeat Zane-iness. It was a strange interview, mostly because it was clear that Chris wanted to tell the truth as much as possible, but also had to consider that everything he says would be tweeted/mocked/splashed across the Sun and the Mail's front pages. This meant that he was talking in code for much of the time, trying to make us understand without being specific, as though the Gestapo were listening in.
"I don't want to go through life being scared of love, being scared of failure," he said at one point. And: "Is there a way of opening yourself right up to life? You might get to a more open place."
Chris and his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, are going through a divorce – a "conscious uncoupling" – that's already somehow been turned into, if not a public joke, then a kind of shorthand for smugness. (It's a divorce! No one feels smug about a divorce.) This interview revealed, in its sideways way, that he's also been going through a process of change, in his music and way of approaching life. As he said at one point, he has an odd life, trying to combine the small ordinariness and big emotions of having a young family with the enormous, non-specific euphoria of performing. "Very different skill sets," he said.
Anyway, listening to him made me remember the few months when I interviewed Coldplay as they prepared to release their third album, X&Y, in 2005. X&Y was, admitted Chris to Zane, the time when he went a bit diva: Brian Eno, who played backing synthesiser on the album, kicked him out of the band for a few weeks, and even Coldplay's famously good-natured guitarist Jonny Buckland was pushed to the limit. "He's only lost his temper with me once, in 2004. He said: 'I'm sick of your s**t!' "
This made me recall two events. One, that during the mixing of the album, Chris – generally considered as the most vanilla of frontmen – came into a room in such a foul mood that I jumped. It was like Mr Tumble had been replaced by Darth Vader. And two, that I got hammered in New York with Jonny on Valentine's Day, because we were both away from our beloveds.
Jonny was an excellent date, as was Chris for Zane. I do realise that few people want to hear that Coldplay can be interesting, but if you're in the market for honesty wrapped in cryptic, plus a few jokes, then this is the interview for you. "I'm never going to be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z or Morrissey but I can be completely open and honest." He's trying, at least.
Last week, Zane Lowe broadcast his lengthy interview with Chris Martin from Coldplay. This was spread out over four nights, but you can hear the whole thing in one go on iPlayer – better, I think, than having it jump in and out of Zane's usual upbeat Zane-iness. It was a strange interview, mostly because it was clear that Chris wanted to tell the truth as much as possible, but also had to consider that everything he says would be tweeted/mocked/splashed across the Sun and the Mail's front pages. This meant that he was talking in code for much of the time, trying to make us understand without being specific, as though the Gestapo were listening in.
"I don't want to go through life being scared of love, being scared of failure," he said at one point. And: "Is there a way of opening yourself right up to life? You might get to a more open place."
Chris and his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, are going through a divorce – a "conscious uncoupling" – that's already somehow been turned into, if not a public joke, then a kind of shorthand for smugness. (It's a divorce! No one feels smug about a divorce.) This interview revealed, in its sideways way, that he's also been going through a process of change, in his music and way of approaching life. As he said at one point, he has an odd life, trying to combine the small ordinariness and big emotions of having a young family with the enormous, non-specific euphoria of performing. "Very different skill sets," he said.
Anyway, listening to him made me remember the few months when I interviewed Coldplay as they prepared to release their third album, X&Y, in 2005. X&Y was, admitted Chris to Zane, the time when he went a bit diva: Brian Eno, who played backing synthesiser on the album, kicked him out of the band for a few weeks, and even Coldplay's famously good-natured guitarist Jonny Buckland was pushed to the limit. "He's only lost his temper with me once, in 2004. He said: 'I'm sick of your s**t!' "
This made me recall two events. One, that during the mixing of the album, Chris – generally considered as the most vanilla of frontmen – came into a room in such a foul mood that I jumped. It was like Mr Tumble had been replaced by Darth Vader. And two, that I got hammered in New York with Jonny on Valentine's Day, because we were both away from our beloveds.
Jonny was an excellent date, as was Chris for Zane. I do realise that few people want to hear that Coldplay can be interesting, but if you're in the market for honesty wrapped in cryptic, plus a few jokes, then this is the interview for you. "I'm never going to be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z or Morrissey but I can be completely open and honest." He's trying, at least.
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. I think we are all just very protective of Chris. 
