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They’re the mayonnaise of music
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.
Was it the best album ever?
It was only a tribute?
No, Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder, not Coldplay.
I don’t, but if it is being served in a playlist or anything, I’ll skip it. They are so bland, it’s almost like easy listening.
From my perspective, their music is mediocre.
That’s why I love them.
I guess for you it is a feature.
They’re Muzak.
coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
lmao
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
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.
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn’t gold, it was all yellow
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.
Amsterdamn!
It doesn’t take a Scientist to figure it out…
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
Their hit song should have been Beige instead of Yellow because Yellow is too exciting.
Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.
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.
hey I dig plain yogurt, however I cannot think of a single Coldplay song.
Who ?
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
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
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.
Chris Martin may not have a cult island like Leto, but he did name his kid Apple.
Apple is not likely to fall far from the tree.
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.
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.
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.
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma. Omg did emo culture do it?
I’m old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.
There were definitely backlashes to big popular artists of prior decades, like Elvis and the Beatles. Partly it was couched in that “They’re corrupting the youth” conservatism, but also anything that’s popular with tween and teen girls tends to catch a lot of flack regardless of whether or not it’s deserved. Think Twilight or One Direction. I don’t care for either, but they both became out-sized hate figures for weird adult men. There was no shortage of enraged nerd hot takes when that sparkly vampire guy was cast as Batman.
I think Coldplay is kind of on the same page. Which is obviously faint praise, but they have a sort of inoffensively palatable sound which is both the reason they’re so successful and the thing people dislike about them. But it’s probably not worth getting angry about.
Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
I’m just a little too young for that. Mid 40s lol. Probably the last time it will be seen as radio doesn’t matter much. Speaking of which, maybe it was “iloveradio” bullshit that made it overplayed. I’m not even in a small area and I miss my local radio stations.
iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
Gotcha. I was just happy to be able to skip eventually. Never hated.
The great thing about Coldplay is they’ve changed over the years, which of course pisses some off who liked one style and now expect it every time. I don’t like some of their songs, but the songs I do like I enjoy. The era of Clocks and Speed of Sound and Scientist were solid. There have been a few later ones I like too, but the songs either click for you or not. That’s how music should be, eclectic and not formula.
I think the last song of theirs that hit me hard was All I Can Think About is You. May not be everyone’s type of song, but it felt like the Coldplay I like. And there’s the sleeper The Hardest Part.
What is coldplay?
Wait, it’s a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
Do you use many streaming apps? Old person asking
No, none unless you count newpipe.
I actually thought it was some nuanced kind of stream. Like streaming the old recorded gameplay. Or something like that.
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.
If your serious start with yellow search on YouTube.
No, start with Clocks. That’s best.
