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Sideways:
It is pretentious, but seriously guys... you think they're in charge of every marketing move that is made on their behalf?  You don't know much about record labels and general promotion, if you honestly believe that.

"Hating" them for their music is strong, and downright immature, you bandwagon-jumpers.  Disliking their music is fine.  Disliking comments they may have made from time-to-time, and thinking them asshats for saying these things, is fine too.  Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.

heretic:
i don't hate the members of the band personally. i hate the public entity that the band is. that consists of the music, the member's public image, thier marketing strategies/moves and everything else that comes from that band. i don't care if it was thier idea or not, it's their band i hate because it is their band's crew what's doing it.
i don't think hate is too strong becasue this serves as a very poignant symbol for everything i hate about the music industry.

hating them for thier music is not immature and i think that's a pretty inflammatory thing to say. i don't think nayone here would honestly put fist to one of thier faces were we to meet them in person, but to the entity that we call coldplay, i would like so sodomize it with a rusty spoon. not that i'd do this to any of the guys in it, but saying it sounds wierd and it is comprised of people so we say "they" or "them."


--- Quote from: sideways --- Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.
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hate is a personal thing. it's not your place to say what's aappropriate for others to feel, or how they may use the word hate.
in what way is that ignorant? what makes you think that this hate is uninformed? there's no way you could know how much any of us know about coldplay or thier mareting strategies. you assume that becasue we hate thier marketing practices or thier music that we are uninformed? That, sir, is ignorant.

Switchblade:
I know this is a thread derailment, but I'm siding with Sideways here. This really does smack more of the whole "OMGWTFLOLBBQ Coldplay did something pretentious, let's all say how much they suxx0r!" bandwagon. Only without the 12-year-old AOL-er speak.

So they're now connected to a marketing strategy and attention-getting technique that you find distasteful. Okay, even I'm mildly surprised and irritated that they seem to think they have to stand further above the parapets, or would actually put something that selve-serving into action, but the sheer extent of the reaction I'm witnessing here seems out of proportion to the incident itself.

So you don't like what they've done? Feel they're a bit too big for themselves? Like to shoot them down every chance you get? Well, who said you had to give a fuck in the first place? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them, nobody's tying you down and playing "Trouble" at you 24/7 for a month, please don't subject those of us who actually like them to the constant stream of vitriol. In short, if you don't like them, why not stop talking about them and discuss somebody else?

And, so as to heed my own advice, I am now getting out of the kitchen. It's too hot for me in here.

Cpt.Fantastic:

--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---About sp2, check his last post, he said he would be gone for a few weeks.
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... phew.

Kai:
Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?

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