Oh dear, I hope Chris Martin doesn't read the CMU Daily (fortunately, it's not very likely he does).
Anyway, the Coldplay frontman has admitted he is affected by negative reviews. He told the New York Post: "The truth is it really does affect us". Apparently a bad review in Rolling Stone and a scathing write up in the New York Times were particularly hard to take. "The Rolling Stone review knocked us sideways. And this is the first time that we've responded to it. That's why we're having trouble knowing how to answer. There's no harm admitting that you're human and these things bring you down. That New York Times thing, yeah, it was fucking devastating for us".
Still, that dull, bland, unimaginative nonsense that Coldplay make sells very well, so who cares what the critics think?