Because after clocks/scientist they just sold out to mainstream garbage styled to the masses and the money and not the music.
Why do people hate coldplay?
Submitted 10 months ago by Willy@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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kikutwo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Music for cheaters.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All music has to be is something nice to listen to.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Pre-Imagine Dragons Imagine Dragons.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
This. Love. Is. Taking it’s toll 🤮
Afaik that’s the only song they’ve ever performed.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 months 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.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Was it the best album ever?
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 10 months ago
It was only a tribute?
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder, not Coldplay.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 10 months ago
I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.
After that I listened to them less and less.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It doesn’t take a Scientist to figure it out…
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Amsterdamn!
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 10 months ago
Now it's Empire of the Sun who rule the world...
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 10 months ago
What is coldplay?
solrize@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Wait, it’s a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Do you use many streaming apps? Old person asking
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
No, start with Clocks. That’s best.
UNY0N@linux.community 10 months ago
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Chris Martin may not have a cult island like Leto, but he did name his kid Apple.
hisao@ani.social 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
dumbass@quokk.au 10 months 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 10 months 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.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months 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 10 months ago
You just answered the question perfectly