coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
Why do people hate coldplay?
Submitted 3 months ago by Willy@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 months ago
That didn’t have to be the case. That was your mom’s choice.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
lmao
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 3 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.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 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 3 months ago
This. Love. Is. Taking it’s toll 🤮
Afaik that’s the only song they’ve ever performed.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Pre-Imagine Dragons Imagine Dragons.
UNY0N@linux.community 3 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.
jonathan@piefed.social 3 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 3 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.
hisao@ani.social 3 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 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 2 months ago
Chris Martin may not have a cult island like Leto, but he did name his kid Apple.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
logi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 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.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
hey I dig plain yogurt.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their hit song should have been Beige instead of Yellow because Yellow is too exciting.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 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 3 months ago
You just answered the question perfectly
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 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.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are popular.
That’s it. Hipsters gotta hipster.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 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
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 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.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 3 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.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 3 months ago
From my perspective, their music is mediocre.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s why I love them.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I guess for you it is a feature.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Because they’re a poor man’s Radiohead…
Their first two albums are alright though.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 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 3 months ago
If you like mid Radiohead, how about Radiohead+ (Muse)
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 3 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 3 months ago
Roast beef and cheddar is the shit. That red Arby’s sauce… Mmmm. Fuck the onion bun though
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
All about the horsey sauce
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 3 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!
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 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.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 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 3 months ago
Was it the best album ever?
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder, not Coldplay.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 months ago
It was only a tribute?
dumbass@quokk.au 3 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 3 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.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 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 3 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 3 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.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why do people hate Nickleback?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Their first album The State is pretty damn good. And they have some decent singles after that.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 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.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 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.
BuckWylde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re the mayonnaise of music
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 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.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 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.
Krono@lemmy.today 3 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.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 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 3 months ago
I hate pineapple, why would i like it on pizza?
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 3 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.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Music for cheaters.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All music has to be is something nice to listen to.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 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.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 months ago
What is coldplay?
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Wait, it’s a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 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 3 months ago
Do you use many streaming apps? Old person asking
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 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 3 months ago
No, start with Clocks. That’s best.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did I just get Cold-rolled?
kresten@feddit.dk 3 months ago
Better yet, you got Coldplay’ed
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It doesn’t take a Scientist to figure it out…
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Amsterdamn!
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 months ago
Now it's Empire of the Sun who rule the world...
https://youtu.be/hN5X4kGhAtU?si=VIpaXKm-VMF7kibV