Coldplay is--utterly--derivative. It certainly is not the worst pop (Coldplay is SO pop!) music ever produced, as the Music Money Machine insists that the most tiresome efforts be well produced these days, so two stars for production values. But Coldplay is simply uninspired, bland, boring, dull, simple-minded and, yes, juvenile. I can only pity the legions of fans who, raving about Coldplay, therein reveal profound lack of exposure to, now, 35 years of notably disaffected and alienated balladeering going back to, at least, as another knowledgeable reviewer noted, the great but ephemeral Tim Buckley. Need depressing music? The Smiths/Morrissey, anyone? Sigur Ros? Too challenging, I suppose. Ahh, forget it. Just go back to sleep and forget these pointless criticisms.