La verdad, por más que he tratado, no he podido pasar la música de Coldplay. En mi opinión, son una banda que tuvo demasiada suerte y pudieron mercadearse muy bien. Sus canciones son todas iguales y con el mismo tonito agueboneado -no agueblogeado-. Existen aquellos que dicen que les gusta simplemente para parecer sofisticados o trendys y por el mismo motivo utilizan una Mac, no porque realmente les guste, sino para ser unos fancys wanabe.
Para muestra un botón. Realizaron un concierto en el Madison Square Garden de NY hace un par de días y la mayoría de las críticas que hubo del concierto reflejaron lo insipidos que pueden ser y claro, como no se van a olvidar de las canciones si no se sabe cuál es cuál???
Coldplay needs more practice after free ‘Viva La Vida’ MSG show
Tuesday, June 24th 2008, 1:23 PM
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Coldplay’s free performance at Madison Square Garden was less than impressive.
Coldplay could call on a handy excuse for the slack quality of their Madison Square Garden show Monday night.
Two actually.
First: They were playing material from their new CD, “Viva La Vida,” for the very first time.
Second: the show was free (for contest winners).
Frontman Chris Martin kept joking about that last bit. “No refunds,” he said at one point. At another, he quipped, “I know there’s been some complaints about the ticket price.”
But all the jokes in the world couldn’t hide the fact that Coldplay was still gingerly finding its way through the new material, and through a whole new show as well. Martin had trouble finding the right chords for one song, and forgot the lyrics to another (“Fix You,” ironically).
Unfortunately, such gaffs and hesitancies were hardly the most disappointing aspects of the evening. The gaping Garden swallowed the band’s rich studio sound, and erased those filigrees which give Coldplay’s latest music its most fetching feature. In its studio version “Viva La Vida” excels at soundscapes, sculpted by co-producers Eno and Markus Dravs (of Arcade Fire fame). Live, the songs felt hollow and flimsy. The element most bands use to make up for such deficiencies – punch and speed – seem beyond Coldplay’s skills, or will.
The band has always had a problem with pace and velocity. For a group that aims to be arena showstoppers, they have precious few upbeat songs, and all too many deadly ballads, many of which were on meandering display last night. Songs like “42″ larded up the show, while even some prettier ones, like “Strawberry Swing,” lost the sweet lacing of guitar work that makes the song sing on CD. Even the band’s most rousing number, their new title track, lost some oomph through stick man Will Champion’s decision to play kettle drums on the song rather than a full kit.
The group tried to break things up visually by arranging themselves on different parts of the stage every few numbers in the 70 minute show. They bunched themselves up on a smaller stage towards the start, and for their early hit “Yellow,” walked out into the audience and performed the song acoustically from a second tier entrance.
As a gimmick the move clicked, but the song itself sounded tepid in this spindly form.
Ultimately, that’s the whole problem with Coldplay live. While the group means to be anthemic – boldfacing every sing-a-long choruses as they go – in the end they always seem closer to anemic.
