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No band in the last twenty-five years has been more casually dismissed by people who own at least three of their albums. Coldplay is not cool. Coldplay is also brilliant. It is time to say it without apology.
La La Land is one of the most visually beautiful films of the last decade. It is also, on honest inspection, a film about two people who are so consumed by their own ambitions that their relationship was always going to be a casualty of those ambitions. The tragedy is not that they could not be together. It is that neither of them genuinely tried.
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist has sold over 65 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and is regularly described as a life-changing work of spiritual literature. It is also, on honest inspection, a self-help book wearing a shepherd boy's cloak. The disguise is thinner than people admit.