Chris Martin advocating for world peace during Glastonbury set

[HelloHangoverz 15,542]

we beg and plead for popular artists to join this conversation, then the minute they do, we start talking about the absurd expectations we place on these people and think it gives black mirror vibes. 

[PartySick 144,790]

What absolutely miserable ways of thinking in this thread.

"Pray for peace"

"Shut up, white man"

[RadioIsOurs 13,835]

45 minutes ago, HelloHangoverz said:

we beg and plead for popular artists to join this conversation, then the minute they do, we start talking about the absurd expectations we place on these people and think it gives black mirror vibes. 

What exactly is he adding to the conversation though? What is his stance? This is absolute minimal effort.

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1 hour ago, RadioIsOurs said:

What exactly is he adding to the conversation though? What is his stance? This is absolute minimal effort.

They've literally had iranian singers performing protest songs in their own shows at the height of the Iranian conflict, they just brought a Palestine artist to sing with them at Glastonbury. I think their stance on these kind of topics is pretty clear

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[TEANUS 12,380]

We’ve now made it to 2024 - where somehow people try to find a way to make even Coldplay, a pinnacle for progression, humanity, and peace in rock/pop music over the last 20 years, problematic, performative, or offensive lol

[Pennywise 35,841]

1 hour ago, HelloHangoverz said:

we beg and plead for popular artists to join this conversation, then the minute they do, we start talking about the absurd expectations we place on these people and think it gives black mirror vibes. 

Saying “peace 😍💕” is NOT joining a conversation. We do not live in a world where such statements do ANYTHING at all. 

[HelloHangoverz 15,542]

4 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Saying “peace 😍💕” is NOT joining a conversation

I mean to me this looks like they opened up a window to reflect on the needless suffering. If you're frustrated it's because you're expecting what they never promised you in the first place. Look elsewhere

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3 hours ago, River said:

lol a british is talking about world peace, occupation and genocide..

 

umm  girl this ain't it

[Future Lovers 6,437]

2 hours ago, River said:

 

It's nice that some calls for peace, some calls to free Palestine, but you can't solve the horror that happening in gaza like that, they need to stop their governments from selling weapons to israel

But how exactly is Coldplay supposed to stop their government from doing anything? 

I just don’t fully understand what the goal is anymore. If celebrities say nothing, then they’re silent and complacent. But if they make a call for peace, its, as someone put it here, “liberal bullshit”?

The band, Chris especially, has been pretty clear what their stance is on specific matters and I can’t see how a general call and message for peace all over the world somehow invalidates that.

Nor do I see why an attempt at trying to get people to think about something going on on another shore, think about the feeling and need for peace, and feel the heaviness that comes with thinking of such thing is something worth ridiculing. 

He didn’t do an “all lives matter moment” like some people in here wanna say, all he did was try to get his audience to take a moment to think about the plight of someone else if only for a moment. 

[Future Lovers 6,437]

1 hour ago, RadioIsOurs said:

What exactly is he adding to the conversation though? What is his stance? This is absolute minimal effort.

They have made their stance EXPLICITLY clear MULTIPLE times. 

[Future Lovers 6,437]

36 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Saying “peace 😍💕” is NOT joining a conversation. We do not live in a world where such statements do ANYTHING at all. 

Not to sound like a broken record, but again they HAVE been in this conversation, and honestly were having it before a lot of of people were. Coldplay, Chris Martin especially, has long been an advocate and supporter of various causes and many times through this tour, including just recently, have made an effort to platform Palestinians and their plight.

What he was doing here was not some attempt at making some statement on any specific event, it was an attempt to make this audience in the midst of an event that is so steeped in their privilege as free and unopressed people which allows them to attend to take a moment to reflect on the suffering of someone else. I don’t see how that is a bad thing? 

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51 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

Saying “peace 😍💕” is NOT joining a conversation. We do not live in a world where such statements do ANYTHING at all. 

Inviting a Palestinian singer to share the stage with them, headlining one of the biggest music festivals in the world, is a bit more than just saying "peace". 

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4 hours ago, PunkTheFunk said:

It's giving

The video is not loading but I bet you 20 dollars is David Guetta isn't it 

[Didymus 34,379]

13 hours ago, River said:

That's kinda different, Germany post war did everything to fix that damaged from the war, especially for Holocaust survivors. but some countries still pretend that they didn't commit a genocide in their past

Actually, Germany's fascist level support for Israel nullifies this statement

I appreciate you speaking on this. It's tough to hear but important to ponder.

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10 hours ago, Future Lovers said:

They have made their stance EXPLICITLY clear MULTIPLE times. 

Not really true. Their support for Palestine has never been paired with a targeted rejection of Israeli politics. It's always been an all lives matter thing, except when they promoted the controversial Freedom for Palestine video, but even there they didn't mention anything about their own stance; the controversy came from the song's lyrics, and Coldplay's involvement was never clarified (and when the post got deleted and attracted negative press, they never bothered to clarify it).

There's nothing wrong with calling for peace but it is literally the most basic white ass move you could pull out of your ass. It's fine, but also completely unworthy of any praise. It's literally a beauty pageant cliché lol, this isn't about "when celebs do say something it's also not good!!!!" at all. There's just the status quo numbing out of popular culture that makes us feel better about doing nothing because we're all good people who want peace. Except that's a lie and there's easy things we can do to hold those accountable who don't want peace, and we somehow never hear about those.