Coldplay’s Chris Martin wonders if he needs to stop being flying the flag for love and peace because of all the negativity he receives from angry people. The band also admit their music is “idiotically simple” and won’t mind if they end up in the bargain bin one day.
Coldplay star Chris Martin has considered whether he should stop promoting peace and love as he gets worn down by angry people.
The singer is unashamedly ‘right on’ and flies the flag for love, positive change and understanding among all people. However, even he gets ground down by negativity sometimes.
Chris admitted: “Almost every time that I have said anything that we really believe in – in terms of equality, empathy, the things that I believe will help humans – they have somehow become viral, negatively, like a group of people are angry because I want to love all people.
“I am not angry at those people that are angry at me but I was starting to get a bit like, ‘do I have to stop saying that we welcome people from all…?”
Fear not Chris has not lost faith…yet.
“No I am never gonna stop that and if that angers people well I love those people too, so I can’t do anything.
“It’s not an empty platitude, it’s a considered position from a group of people that have met more humans in history.”
Coldplay receive as much flack as love for their music and drummer Will Champion thinks he knows the secret behind their success: “I think maybe no one else dares to be so idiotically simplistic.”
Nevertheless Chris wouldn’t care if their music flopped: “I don’t mind if we’re just in the bargain bin in the service station in ten years.”
Next year marks 30 years together and despite talk of only having a few records left in them, the band will never retire as a live act.
Chris told a Hits Radio special: “I am in my soul place, meaning I am doing what I know I am supposed to be doing. When you feel like you’re doing your purpose, even if there’s so much craziness in the rest if your life, you feel like ‘well at least I am doing what I am supposed to be doing today’.”
He went on: “I am so privileged to have that, so many people in the world never get a chance to even find their true calling let alone do it. I am so aware of how lucky I am and I am in the right place. That’s what we do, the songs that come to me or come to us, come through and they need to be performed so it all feels like, ‘OK I am not wasting my time’.”
Chris hopes, besides the haters, the band’s music offers the wider public an uplift in their lives: “If you’re given a gift which we all are, but if you’re lucky enough to be able to do it like we’ve been able to do, you hope that it will reach the people that it’s meant to reach and will help them or make them feel something that improves the day a bit.
“Or makes them feel happier to be themselves and therefore more accepting of other people being themselves.”
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