Today's raging rumor: Coldplay is breaking up

The online music community, the great galaxy of (mis)information, was hit with a meteorite of non-truthiness today: Coldplay, as NME posted earlier today, is breaking up.

This right after we had caught our breath from reading that LCD Soundsystem is breaking up and then, um, not really at all, within the span of one blog entry.

The item is no longer up on NME, but the detectives at Prefix Magazine dug up one possible source for NME's speculation, an interview with Apple Dad Chris Martin:

"I'm 31 now and I don't think bands should keep going past 33," BANG Showbiz quotes him as saying.

"So we're trying to pack in as much as possible. Up until the end of next year, we'll just go for it in every sense. I don't believe in time off.

"We've still got our own hair, we can still fit into our musical trousers and we've got to make the most of that."

First of all, Pop & Hiss loves the phrase "musical trousers" and wants it to be used all the time, but secondly and most important, it seems fairly obvious that Martin is having a laugh, channeling the kind of jockish bravado that would be used in complete earnestness by a band of whippersnappers such as the Kooks.

A Coldplay representative tells us that "this rumor was started out of a lighthearted interview" Chris Martin did with Entertainment Weekly for the magazine’s 25 Entertainers of the Year issue and that it's "definitely not true." Indeed, a quick perusal through the article turns up a similar quotes, though repackaged in a much less alarming order.

For instance:

EW: You've been promoting the hell out of this album. Are you looking forward to time off?

CM: I don't believe in time off. We've still got most of our hair, and we can still fit into our musical trousers. We have to make the most of that!

Martin makes jokes throughout the interview, saying at one point, "the reason we're the biggest band in the world at the moment is because the others are on holiday."

Context is king, people.

-- Margaret Wappler

Photo by Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times

Comments

[Mimi]

OH THANK GOD
I was sooooooooooo freaked out
cuz i actually thought it was true

[Lisa]

Thank-you so much for clearing that up. You seem to be the only news source anywhere that actually did any homework before reprinting this story. Kudos. :)