Timbaland To Work With Coldplay?

"Coldplay are hardly ones to think outside of the box at the best of times"

Respect for that comment.

You can just see it now.. rich boy Chris Martin rapping... "oh jolly good what what, all this blimey, I already have the good spangling money, I've got it, I'm a rich limey"

I didn't even say that. Chris Martin has ALWAYS been a little rich kid... he comes from a wealthy family.... The point I'm making is that they're pathetically boring and uncreative and I know of bands who should be up there higher than them........ they weren't 'lucky'... they just wrote music that most people go 'aw thats nice isnt it...all soft an stuff', whilst other bands who really are pushing the boundaries and being incredibly inventive are pushed back. I'd like to bring Unbelievable Truth to the table if I will, as well as the wonder of Elbow and Small Victories... all pushed/pushing stuff a little bit further fowards and all very very creative.

I wouldn't give my right arm to be a monotonous band on a major who play music that's soft enough so everyone likes it, but not inventive enough so that it's actually very interesting thanks.

Unbelievable Truth were fucking awful in every single way. They weren't just as adapt as Coldplay at writing pretty acoustic ditties, they were fucking awful moaning bullshit who were only ever good at the Truck Festival in dear little Steventon because they had some beer inside of them and didn't act like nature's last remaining tall-stemmed poppy facing the combine harvester of life. The only thing they pushed was my tolerance and subsequent regret at buying the Higher Than Reason EP.

There's nothing wrong with being popular y'know. If simple pop is that easy to do and that the world is a gullible fool, then get out there and write a hit. Quit the shitty day job, one or two songs should keep you funded for a year. It's incredibly difficult to write something simple that does touch people (as Coldplay clearly have done). A Coldplay song is recognisable through Martin's vocals, something that you don't get with a lot of the current rock crowd. There's countless fantasy films yet the simplicity of the Wizard of Oz still wins through. There's room for simple touching stuff and imaginative stuff too.

The whole super-elitist indie ethic on this site is really beginning to fuck me off.
fuck off then