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They’re Muzak.
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
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.
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.
If you like mid Radiohead, how about Radiohead+ (Muse)
My favorite thing about Muse is how anti-corporate they are while also being on a major corporate label. You think they’re cool with me pirating their shit or no? 🤔
Yeah see, I put them in the same category as Coldplay. Possibly even more annoying imo
Definitely more annoying.
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.
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.
You just answered the question perfectly
They’re the mayonnaise of music
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.
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.
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
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!
All about the horsey sauce
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.
They are popular.
That’s it. Hipsters gotta hipster.
Yep. The old “I’m so cool I only listen to people so unknown that even they don’t know who they are” crew
From my perspective, their music is mediocre.
That’s why I love them.
I guess for you it is a feature.
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.
Why do people hate Nickleback?
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
Oh, I didn’t know that. Good to know.
The State was their first album released on Roadrunner Records and might have been the first internationally released album, could be why you thought that. No worries
Stomp?
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.
