Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
Why do people hate coldplay?
Submitted 20 hours ago by Willy@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 40 minutes ago
Now it's Empire of the Sun who rule the world...
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
Roast beef and cheddar is the shit. That red Arby’s sauce… Mmmm. Fuck the onion bun though
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 6 hours 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!
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 hours ago
They are a whiny facsimile of rock but they still got played on the rock stations. They are the opportunity cost of bands.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Hate is probably a strong word, but I don’t really care for their music. There’s nothing technically wrong with it, they’re competent musicians, but it all feels boring and generic to me. It’s bland and inoffensive, like it was written to play over a grocery store PA at a barely liminal volume for a middle-aged housewife to absent-mindedly hum along with as she compares laundry soap.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
There’s nothing more boring and generic than Maroon5. At leastI can remember some songs by Colplay. Maroon5 is just all a generic mash
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 6 hours 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.
dan1101@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
hey I dig plain yogurt.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours 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.
UNY0N@linux.community 20 hours ago
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
hisao@ani.social 18 hours 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.
jonathan@piefed.social 20 hours 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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 15 hours 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They are popular.
That’s it. Hipsters gotta hipster.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 14 hours 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
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
Hate is too strong a word I think - I nothing them - but they produce the sort of soulless indie/pop ballad that you know will end up in the soundtrack of Hollywood paint-by-numbers romcom that would've gone straight to DVD a decade or so ago. The unending radio play rotation would force the song (and we could be talking about any and all Coldplay songs here) into your brain and then five years later you'd find yourself humming it as you suddenly realised a longe bar version of it is playing in the lift (elevator USians) you're in.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
You just answered the question perfectly
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Why do people hate Nickleback?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Their first album The State is pretty damn good. And they have some decent singles after that.
Jarix@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Curb
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 15 hours 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.
RBWells@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 9 hours 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.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 10 hours 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.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
From my perspective, their music is mediocre.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s why I love them.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I guess for you it is a feature.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.
After that I listened to them less and less.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 13 hours 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.
foggy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Because they once said they were taking a hiatus from music until they wrote the best album ever written. Then, had the audacity to release an album.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago
Was it the best album ever?
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 38 minutes ago
It was only a tribute?
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
No, Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder, not Coldplay.
dumbass@quokk.au 20 hours ago
They're boring, he's a bit of a twat, they've been accessed of stealing songs, radio/tv/movies won't stop playing them.
this is just why I hate Coldplay tho, feel free to share your own reasons why you hate Coldplay.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Thanks. I don’t hate Coldplay though. I don’t follow people enough to know if they’re a twat. It’s just music for me. I’d say I should follow them closer but that seems like self defeating.
Krono@lemmy.today 10 hours 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.
blarghly@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 10 hours 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.
mintiefresh@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I had no idea people hated Coldplay.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Music for cheaters.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
All music has to be is something nice to listen to.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Because they're not Nickelback?
Hehe
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 20 hours ago
What is coldplay?
solrize@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Wait, it’s a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 19 hours ago
I actually thought it was some nuanced kind of stream. Like streaming the old recorded gameplay. Or something like that.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Do you use many streaming apps? Old person asking
Willy@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It’s a band that has been in the news lately because at one of their concerts there was some dude having an affair that got caught real be on the Jumbotron. But otherwise they saltarted in the late 90s or slightly later and just seem like good dudes to me.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
No, start with Clocks. That’s best.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 19 hours ago
They are the epitome of the adage that their earlier stuff was better. For me, they jumped the shark when Roman Catholic bells were ringing.
kikutwo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Because after clocks/scientist they just sold out to mainstream garbage styled to the masses and the money and not the music.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
lmao