{"id":1433,"date":"2005-06-08T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2005-06-08T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:00:24","slug":"parales_the_cas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Parales: The Case Against Coldplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Pareles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/05\/arts\/music\/05pare.html?ex=1275624000&#038;en=2fe5cbda6333a58d&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">takes it to Coldplay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>HERE&#8217;S nothing wrong with self-pity. As a spur to songwriting, it&#8217;s right up there with lust, anger and greed, and probably better than the remaining deadly sins. There&#8217;s nothing wrong, either, with striving for musical grandeur, using every bit of skill and studio illusion to create a sound large enough to get lost in. Male sensitivity, a quality that&#8217;s under siege in a pop culture full of unrepentant bullying and machismo, shouldn&#8217;t be dismissed out of hand, no matter how risible it can be in practice. And building a sound on the lessons of past bands is virtually unavoidable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Pareles takes it to Coldplay: HERE&#8217;S nothing wrong with self-pity. As a spur to songwriting, it&#8217;s right up there with lust, anger and greed, and probably better than the remaining deadly sins. There&#8217;s nothing wrong, either, with striving for musical grandeur, using every bit of skill and studio illusion to create a sound large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}