D8, HW4, The Case against Coldplay

Jon Pareles, the author of the essay "The Case against Coldplay" gave a very critiquing review about the band Coldplay. Although he does mention some of Coldplay's good qualities and recognizes them as a band, he has no respect for them. At one point, he says the singer, Mr. Martin sounds 'somewhere between a yodel and a hiccup.' His audience could be the band itself, cover bands of Coldplay, fans of Coldplay, people who hate Coldplay, or anyone even thinking of listening to Coldplay. He wants it to be known that Coldplay is a terrible band. It is obvious that Pareles had negative thoughts about the band before writing the review. Sometimes it is not fair to the band getting reviewed by someone who already dislikes you. I would think it would be more fair to have someone more neutral to the band to not get such a bias view towards their music. On the contrary, Pareles is a well-respected journalist, graduating from Yale University and working for Rolling Stone Magazine, and now the New York Times, so he definitely has a background to give him the right to critique as much as he has done.