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They’re the mayonnaise of music
Because they’re a poor man’s Radiohead…
Their first two albums are alright though.
I came to this thread intendending to defend them (even if I like a few songs, i wouldnt call myself a fan; 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 mid Radiohead and that is okay.
When I worked at harris teeter stocking shelves they would play a handful of songs over and over. And Coldplay’s paradise was one of them. The song is entirely chorus. Imagine working for a job you fucking hate and theyre also playing
PARAAA PARAAA PARADISE
On loop 500 times in a row.
Also lady gaga’s alejandro
However, I recently saw glass animals live because my wife bought tickets. I was not a fan of their music before this show (sort of disliked “heat waves”) but their live show was really really good, with incredible stage design, vfx, and their songs sound much better live than over some crappy car speakers. And the band, I think, really adores their fans.
So maybe Coldplay is a much better experience live
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?
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
edit: actually how to be a human being is fine it’s really just ZABA (their first album) that I would be worried about a 5 year old singing lol
Oh ya, I definitely vetted em before letting them listen. It’s funny, I think of a lot of the music I was allowed to listen to growing up. I listen now and I’m like “Why would my folks let me hear this?”
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.
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.
They are a whiny facsimile of rock but they still got played on the rock stations. They are the opportunity cost of bands.
coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
That didn’t have to be the case. That was your mom’s choice.
lmao
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.
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.
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.
The same reason everyone shits on Arby’s. Because everyone else does, which just makes it funny to everyone but the actual fans.
Roast beef and cheddar is the shit. That red Arby’s sauce… Mmmm. Fuck the onion bun though
All about the horsey sauce
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!
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.
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn’t gold, it was all yellow
It doesn’t take a Scientist to figure it out…
Amsterdamn!
Now it’s Empire of the Sun who rule the world…
Did I just get Cold-rolled?
Better yet, you got Cold-played
This is the most epic comment I’ve read on lemmy so far 😩👌
You mean comment chain right :p
I’m here to confirm your setup was essential to provide the secondary setup for the epic punchline.
Why do people hate Nickleback?
The amount of radio play they got, for me. I was a 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.
Their first album The State is pretty damn good. And they have some decent singles after that.
Curb is their first album, their first EP was Hesher
Stomp?
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.
Pre-Imagine Dragons Imagine Dragons.
There’s nothing more boring and generic than Maroon5. At leastI can remember some songs by Colplay. Maroon5 is just all a generic mash
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.
hey I dig plain yogurt, however I cannot think of a single Coldplay song.
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.
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.
