there was a q&a with the reporter lindsay hilsum in one of the papers on sunday - she quoted someone as saying 'there is no hierarchy of pain". so if chris martin is sad because he ran over a butterfly in his solar powered aston martin, he has as much entitlement to his sadness and misery as someone whose family is starving to death/buried under rubble in the 3rd world.
i think that's what it means. sounds a bit fishy though.
Hahaha I actually see what she's saying... and yes, of course anyone is entitled to their pain - if we started getting into "massive suffering is the only valid emotion" then it all gets unecessarily melodramatic and hero-worshipping and all sorts of other bollocks... god knows I have enjoyed wafty whimsical sad indie tunes all about small-scale sadness many a time - but they admit the small scaleness of their sadness, and that's what makes them so genuinely poignant - it's the ColdKeanePatrol thing of blowing up very simple sadness into stadium sized bluster that is so irritating - and even more so the phrasing it in such shitting banal 'poetry'.
well done, nice post_bianconeri_August 24 2006, 20:10:27 UTC
this is the first time i have read anyone backing up a hatred/dislike or coldplay etc with anything other than the usual 'for people who dont like music' spiel. which is more boring than mr.martin himself.
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i think that's what it means. sounds a bit fishy though.
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