Sniffed the Guardian: “There must be more dignified ways to stay at the top.”īut when was this group ever dignified? Since Chris Martin and his bandmates broke out more than two decades ago with the shamelessly sentimental “Yellow” - “I wrote a song for you/ And all the things you do” - the whole point of Coldplay has been voicing the big, cringe-y emotions other musicians are too cool (or too concerned with appearing cool) to voice. “Spheres” has been described as craven and desperate it’s been widely characterized as a transparent commercial ploy at a tough moment for old guys with guitars.
But if these embarrassments deserve all the eye-rolls they’re getting in largely unimpressed reviews of “Music of the Spheres,” Coldplay seems worth sticking up for in regards to another point of emerging critical consensus: that the British band’s ninth studio LP - an eager collaboration with teen-pop hit-maker Max Martin that features appearances by BTS and Selena Gomez - somehow represents a betrayal of the once-honorable Coldplay ethos.
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