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Coldplay, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends"
"Wanna know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay."
Sure, we can't possibly ignore legions of swooning female fans and "straight" guy listeners, but that zinger from "Year-Old Virgin" couldn't be truer than true. And with orchestral flourishes, melancholy muses on love, war and peace – and lest we forget Chris Martin's goose-bump-igniting falsetto – the quartet's latest wordy-titled album doesn't seem hard-pressed to gay-down their rock.
Which means more of the same, but with a fresh, edgy sonic twist. Gone are many of the familiarities that turned their last hit-or-miss disc "X&Y" into a recycled effort; here they become sound surgeons (think bombastic Arcade Fire), lining "Lost!" in a drum-circle/handclap/organ groove. Martin's Slinky-ish voice strays from that orgasmic upper-register, relying on a lower, tad-unfamiliar style.
Though "Viva La Vida," their fourth album, is built on weighty statements – most glaringly on the genius set-closer "Death and All His Friends," which swells to a killer cres
Chris Martin Admits He Was 'Very Homophobic' While Discovering Sexuality
Coldplay's Chris Martin has come clean about his homophobic past in a modern interview.
On Tuesday (December 3), Rolling Stone published the video discussion with the pop crooner, 42, who has been a vocal LGBTQ alley for years, where it sees him admit that he was "very homophobic" as a boy growing up in England. "When I went to boarding school I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit and I was also very homophobic because I was like, 'If I'm gay, I'm completely f**ked for eternity' and I was a kid finding sexuality," he told magazine founder and editorial director Jann S. Wenner. "'Maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm this, maybe I’m that, I can't be this.'"
Martin went on to reveal that he had some rather straight forward interactions with classmates, who told him that he was "definitely gay." "I was terrified and then I walked a bit funny and I was in a boarding academy with a bunch of quite hardcore kids who were also gone for their thing and, for a several years, they would very much speak, ‘You're def
During a recent video interview with Rolling Stone, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin opens up for the first time about struggling with his sexuality as a young man, homophobic bullying he experienced as a kid, and realizing he carried some homophobia of his own.
“When I went to boarding school, I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit,” said Martin. “And I was also very homophobic, because I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m completely f*cked for eternity’ and I was a kid discovering sexuality.”
“‘Maybe I’m homosexual, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I can’t be this,’ so I was terrified,” the year-old added.
He described his classmates at boarding school in the UK as “a bunch of quite hardcore kids” saying “for a few years, they would very much say, ‘You’re definitely gay,’ in quite a full-on manner, quite aggressively telling me that – and it was weird for me for a few years.”
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Chris Martin reveals childhood fight with discovering himself: 'I was terrified' of creature gay
Coldplay's Chris Martin is organism frank about his childhood struggles.
In an interview with Rolling Stone published on Tuesday, Martin shared he went through a tough time as a teen because he didn't fit in with the boys at his boarding school.
"I don't know, I was just going through some stuff with religion and sexuality and everything … like most kids at that age," Coldplay's frontman said.
In explaining his partnership with religion, Martin revealed he struggled with his sexuality for a bit when he was younger.
"When I went to boarding school, I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit and I was also very homophobic because I was like, 'If I’m lgbtq+, I’m completely (expletive) for eternity,' and I was a kid like discovering sexuality," Martin said. "I was terrified."
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