Chris Martin, mopey singer for the mopey band Coldplay, has stated that he's a "slave" to the corporate world, particularly to EMI. This coming from a guy who named his kid "Apple".
Well dude, you know what to do. Give up all your worldly possessions and take a vow of poverty. The rest of us folks, particularly those that are involved in music, would give our eye-teeth to be able to make the kind of living you make. Sure, you have to produce for your record label. Welcome to the real world, dipshit.
Will the sanctimony of these celebrity morons ever cease? Are they so devoid of what goes on "on the ground" that they could honestly, and without any restraint on their hyperbole, make that case that "shareholders are evil" and that they're "corporate slaves"?
I was mildly interested in Coldplay a few years back; they're not terribly innovative, but they have a nominal sense of atmosphere and melody. But that's about where it ends. What they really need is a good drummer; but more than that, they need their idiotic, self-righteous singer to shut the f..ck up and stop embarrassing himself. If being a millionaire rock star and husband to Gwyneth Paltrow renders you a "slave", what does that make the rest of us? Better yet, what does that make Christian and anamist Sudanese, or any other people that are subject to real chattel slavery?
A sense of proportion would do this guy some good. That, and a prescription of what Pete Townshend once said a drugged-up and passed out Keith Moon needed: a custard enema and a punch in the stomach.
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