The Decline of Coldplay
and why being artistic matters.
In 2008 Coldplay released an album called Viva La Vida. The cover uses a painting of the French revolution and contains songs reflecting on resistance and the spectre of death. The album was sufficiently lyrically interesting one BBC interview even asked Chris Martin if he had a “ongoing morbid fascination with death”, causing him to walk out of …
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