“That’s really our mission right now: we’re consciously trying to fly the flag for love as an approach to all things.”
You can’t be popular everywhere. Coldplay are also aware of this. By presenting their music to the outside world, they, like all public figures, also provide a target for the opinions of others. But the group can now deal with negative comments and haters well, as Chris Martin said in an interview.
According to Martin, the band deserved hate comments
“It would be terrible if we lived in a society where everyone had to like the same thing,” Martin told Rolling Stone on Thursday (December 19). The interview partner, Alex Morris, had previously noticed that the singer rarely mentioned things he didn’t like. Like hatred towards the band. According to the 47-year-old, Coldplay is an “easy, safe target”. He continued: “We won’t bite back. We are four middle class white men from England. We deserve to take some punishment for what our people have done. There’s a reason we play all over the world, and part of it isn’t necessarily very healthy.”
“We just follow what is sent to us”
The “Viva La Vida” interpreter is also of the opinion that Coldplay has stopped caring about other people’s expectations for a long time. “There were times when we thought, ‘Well, maybe we should try to look a little like this or talk a little like that. And now it’s just: ‘No’. We simply follow what is sent to us. And that is very liberating.” Apparently the Briton is consistently sticking to his own path. Because: “If you want a doll to sing a song, some people might not like that – my mother is one of them, for example. But what I’m saying is that this is part of my journey to say, ‘Well, I love you, and this is what we do’.”
Coldplay’s mission: convey love
Coldplay wanted to convey a message of acceptance and love to the world, as also emerged from the “Rolling Stone” interview. “It is a daily task not to hate yourself. Forget the critics from outside – there are also those from within. That’s really our mission right now: We’re consciously trying to hold up the flag for love as an approach to all things.” Martin says there aren’t many groups that can communicate this mission to the outside world. That’s also the reason why the band made this their mission. And, “I need to hear this too so I don’t give up and just become bitter and twisted and hide and hate everyone. I don’t want to, but it’s so tempting.”
The band has been on the “Music of the Spheres” world tour since 2022. For 2024, they took second place among the highest-grossing music tours with income of 421.7 million US dollars (equivalent to 405.9 million euros).