It was like, ‘I need to be a rock star because this is no good: Being the kind of guy that everybody likes but no one wants to have sex with. I don’t want to be the person that makes everybody laugh before they go off and bang. I want to be the guy that everybody bangs.

Chris Martin [Us]

As if the ‘nice guys’ and ‘funny guys’ needed more reasons to hate themselves.

(via peterwknox)

If that was his motivation to begin with, why did he decide to play weak elevator muzak that nearly everyone within earshot finds dull?  What could be less sexy than Coldplay music?  I would expect the “nice” and “funny” guys to at least have enough personality to rightly laugh at Chris Martin’s bland songs.