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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 the mayonnaise of music
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...
Did I just get Cold-rolled?
Better yet, you got Cold-played
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.
There's nothing more boring and generic than Maroon5. At leastI can remember some songs by Colplay. Maroon5 is just all a generic mash
This. Love. Is. Taking it's toll 🤮
Afaik that's the only song they've ever performed.
coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
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.
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.
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.
They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.
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.
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.
I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.
After that I listened to them less and less.
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.
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.
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'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.
The same reason everyone shits on Arby's. Because everyone else does, which just makes it funny to everyone but the actual fans.
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.
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.
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.