They’re the mayonnaise of music
Why do people hate coldplay?
Submitted 8 months ago by Willy@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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BuckWylde@lemmy.world 8 months ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Because they’re a poor man’s Radiohead…
Their first two albums are alright though.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I came to this thread intendending to defend them (not a fan, even if i like a few songs, I just dont like people getting unreasonable hate over anything) but this comment is just so real that I have lost the will for battle. Coldplay is Radiohead but mid and that is okay.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you like mid Radiohead, how about Radiohead+ (Muse)
anachrohack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I actually just got into glass animals not to long ago. My 5 yr old loves singing their songs, which I think is one of the reason I like em.
Are they and Coldplay in the same circles?
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
most definitely not in the same circles. I’m sure the 5 year old singing their songs is adorable aw
definitely do NOT play anything from before Dreamland around the kid though… their older stuff has a much more… sultry… vibe to it
morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They, like many other bands, stopped doing what they were good at, to experiment. It’s not as good.
I don’t hate them, but their good albums were a long time ago.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
You know how I know you’re gay?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Same reason that some people obsessively hate pineapple on pizza. They heard it before and can’t come up with an original thought of their own.
That or they are having an affair and got caught.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 8 months ago
I hate pineapple, why would i like it on pizza?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 8 months ago
They are a whiny facsimile of rock but they still got played on the rock stations. They are the opportunity cost of bands.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I have a space in my heart for their first four albums. They’re perfectly enjoyable slices of indie that somewhat stood above the landfill shit that was otherwise getting airplay (fuck you Razorlight. Fuck you Kasabian).
Its fair to say that they and I grew apart from then on, as Chris Martin became more about the celebrity than the honest music, but even then, I never had any real problem with them.
They headlined Glastonbury last year and were excellent. Made me go back and listen to some of the records I’d ignored, and found that they were still a perfectly fine band. Considerably more poppy than they were, but not cynically so, I didn’t think.
But I guess Martin comes across as a little too earnest, and his marriage to Paltrow a little too right-on, so the press kept digging in to them, as is their wont. That made people think it was popular to shit on them.
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Aww cmon Kasabian has a good album or two. I feel that about Coldplay’s first four albums. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say they fell off at a certain point and became just another group pumping out four chords and repetetive refrains over a dance beat. If anything my dislike for them is rooted in the fact that they used to be better.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
God, I hate Kasabian. Shit thick music for drunks to yell along to after the football.
I saw them back before their first album came out, supporting the Von Bondies. They were fucking dreadful. A bunch of tracksuit wearing Ian Brown wannabies.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The same reason everyone shits on Arby’s. Because everyone else does, which just makes it funny to everyone but the actual fans.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Roast beef and cheddar is the shit. That red Arby’s sauce… Mmmm. Fuck the onion bun though
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
All about the horsey sauce
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You, my friend, are a man of fine taste. I always ask for an extra side of red ranch to dunk that sammich in. However, the Arby-Q has always been their best. I found a local sandwich shop that has a BBQ beef sandwich that’s an scale version and its amazing!
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I don’t wanna talk about it but let’s just say my wife won’t talk to me unless it’s through a divorce lawyer.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why do people hate Nickleback?
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The amount of radio play they got, for me. I was a big fan of How You Remind Me when it came out, and they do have a handful of listenable songs, but the sheer amount of repetition changed things from “they’re ok” to “omg not again, fuck these guys”.
I feel similar, but to a lesser degree, about Coldplay.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Their first album The State is pretty damn good. And they have some decent singles after that.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Many of my friends really love Coldplay, so I’ve heard several of their albums played at parties. Many times. But I cannot remember a single song from Coldplay and most likely wouldn’t recognize them if one was playing on the radio.
And I have a decent ear for music, I can play a few instruments and can even find the right chords for a song after hearing it once or twice. But not Coldplay. There is nothing wrong with their music, but it doesn’t make me feel anything. It’s just so generic to my taste, I guess.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 8 months ago
That didn’t have to be the case. That was your mom’s choice.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lmao
Krono@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I don’t feel strongly about Coldplay, but I think their style is “whatever Radiohead was doing two years ago, but watered down for the masses”.
Nothing wrong with that, but it does evoke a hipster vs. normie conflict.
RBWells@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t hate them, but we have a joke, “is that… Coldplay?” when we hear an unfamiliar song, because their music is sort of unremarkable.
I don’t think they are alone in that, it’s just funny they got so famous with it. I’ve heard them in interviews and they sound like delightful people. Funny and self-aware.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.
blarghly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I really hadn’t thought about Coldplay in years until I showed up to work at one of their concerts a couple years ago. I honestly couldn’t name a single one of their songs except Viva La Vida, which - spoiler - is not one of their songs.
But all the people on tour with them were really friendly and competent and gave clear instructions, unlike the usual raging assholes who go on tour to do staging work. We got the job done quickly, safely, and with minimal angry screaming.
So now I like Coldplay. I still don’t listen to their music, but, like, I just decided I like them.
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 8 months ago
Wikipedia says it’s written by all four members of the band. And I agree, they’re super mainstream and unremarkable but Viva la Vida is perfect. The lyrics are epic, poetic, wise, sad and true. The instrumental is flawless, simple yet classy with these strings and the choir. The atmosphere is unlike any other song I’ve ever head and it’s breathtaking even after listening for the 100th time. A true masterpiece.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 8 months ago
I just find the music boring. Like listening to ambient elevator music while you’re waiting to get to your floor. It’s just there in the background but no one cares about it I’d never actually pay money to hear it live.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember me and my buddy were sitting around one night drinking mad dog and smoking weed and a live company Coldplay concert was on TV so we watched it and thought it was kind of good. Then the next day we each listened to Coldplay sober on our own. I got a text from him half way thru the day that just said “holy shit dude,I don’t know what was going on last night, but I just listened to Coldplay again… It’s like the sound track to a woman complaining about her period… How the fuck did this sound good last night?”
datavoid@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I thought that was a joke inspired by the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Who ?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have no opinion whatsoever about Coldplay.
mintiefresh@piefed.social 8 months ago
I had no idea people hated Coldplay.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From my perspective, their music is mediocre.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s why I love them.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I guess for you it is a feature.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I don’t “hate” Coldplay, I nothing them. I don’t care for their sound at all, but am routinely forced to listen to it in stores. I resent being forced to listen to music, but don’t hate the bands themselves.
The stores who play ten songs on a loop can go fuck themselves, however.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are popular.
That’s it. Hipsters gotta hipster.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Yep. The old “I’m so cool I only listen to people so unknown that even they don’t know who they are” crew
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 8 months ago
Because they're not Nickelback?
Hehe
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 8 months ago
Well done with that quick photoshop job!
How did their faces get so red?
dan1101@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Their hit song should have been Beige instead of Yellow because Yellow is too exciting.
logi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
hey I dig plain yogurt.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And they were really popular so it was like eating unflavored yogurt all the time.
Some people like that, which is why they were popular. The rest of us suffered.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re Muzak.