Comment on Why do people hate coldplay?

UNY0N@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• hisao@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  anything that is very popular is by definition bad

  More like, it’s the lowest common denominator type stuff. In other words, average at best.

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• jonathan@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you're sort of right. It's not simply because they're popular, it's because the popularity means they get inescapable radio play. Over time you resent it more and more.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know if he went worldwide or if he’s just a British thing, but Lewis Capaldi is the worst offender for this in my mind. There was about 3 months where Somebody You Loved wasn’t being played by at least 2 stations at a time. 2 or 3 times an hour, every hour, every station, every day.

    It was a great song the first 5 times. The next 5000 not so much.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Generally it is a reaction to having the popular stuff forced into their spaces. Pop music like Coldplay makes its way into movies, shows, and store music so it is always there to cause annoyance.

  Like I hate Jared fucking Leto because he keeps getting into movies I would otherwise want to enjoy. If he was only in movies I don’t want to watch then I wouldn’t think of him at all, like the other actors and actresses that don’t ever think about.

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• Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.

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    • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m just a little too young for that. Mid 40s lol. Probably the last time it will be seen as radio doesn’t matter much. Speaking of which, maybe it was “iloveradio” bullshit that made it overplayed. I’m not even in a small area and I miss my local radio stations.

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      • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.

        They’re all very popular, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.

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      • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.

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