Is Jon Pareles warming to Coldplay?
That might well be a trick question, because based on the NYT music critic’s June 2005 invective against the band he certainly couldn’t have gone the other way. Still, Fishbowl noticed a definite improvement in his attitude in the past six months, based on today’s analysis of the past year in music (John thinks 2005 was “a year for unheroic, unambitious pop.” Also, Black Eyed Peas, where is the love?).
We totally disagreeed with his facile, unsupported assertion that musicians had reason to be inspired by important questions in the 2004 election year but not in the pretty–tumultuous–by–anyone’s–account
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