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- COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
- CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
Coldplay ontman Chris Mart has opened up about the "btal" anxiety and fear he grappled wh while attendg boardg school - admtg that he held homophobic beliefs born om ep secury. "When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, 'If I’m gay, I’m pletely f**ked for eterny' and I was a kid disverg sexualy, " he said.
"[I thought, ] 'Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this. '" The sger ntued: "I was terrified and then I walked a b funny and I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, 'You’re fely gay, ' que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years. "I don't know [if I'm gay] and even if I am, I n't be bee 's wrong… If I am, I n't be, '" he said.
CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
"I start[ed] to worry about [beg gay] for sure. "While the star claims he don't "know what was" that changed the way he viewed homosexualy, he spects had somethg to do wh "jt growg up a b. ""[I had] a b more exposure to the world, thkg, 'A lot of my hero are gay, ' or whatever.
Songfacts®:The msage of this song is that everybody has a right to be themselv, whether they are black or whe, gay or straight, or anywhere between.We'll all be ee to fall loveWh who we want and sayYeah, yeah, yeahPeople of the priColdplay ontman Chris Mart lled the track "a big angry gay metal anthem."Coldplay started the song the Viva La Vida era back 2008 but stggled for years to fish . Chris Mart told NME they eventually drew spiratn om the 2020 Black Liv Matter and Gay Pri march where people said "this suatn is ridiculo."The first verse is a slightly altered versn of a Coldplay mo named "The Man Who Swears," datg om 2008.
Sam Sparro is openly gay.Directed by Pl Dugdale, the song's mic vio mix live footage om Coldplay's October 2021 performance at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena wh dystopian manga-spired animatn. Chris Mart adms he was "homophobic" as a kid. Chris Mart has opened up about growg up and admted he was "very homophobic" when he was younger.