I was really into them when I was younger, and I still enjoy music from their first few albums. They are way more pop-oriented now though. Chris Martin is very corny, but is actually a pretty talented and creative pop musician. I don’t get the comparisons to Nickelback. I like them when I just want something low key, and easy to listen to. I also listen to a bunch of other “real” music as well, but for me it’s not an either or thing, but just depends on mood.
Was into em growing up too! A Rush of Blood to the Head is a pretty solid album and I still go back to it sometimes. Viva La Vida has its highlights too. Not wild about much since, though Coloratura was neat. But yeah like there’s far worse out there
I once wandered into a bizarro social circle where people unironically listened to Coldplay and were completely unaware that they are an internet meme, and I ended up looking like a crazy person when I tried to explain it.
Prog Rock has always been a double edged sword. Most of it is pretentious garbage, but then occasionally someone like Thom Yorke comes along who is an actual generational genius and completely reinvents the genre.
I give it another 15 years before he goes completely insane and moves to North Korea or something. Hopefully we can get at least one more album before then.
When I was in college, a guy in my lab thought he’s make some money by buying cheap Coldplay tickets and reselling them at profit. No one took him up on it.
Thanks, this story warms my heart. Anyone else got any good stories of someone who tried to be a scalper but instead ended up with too much of something they didn’t want and less money than before?
I’ll go, a coworker saw a story about one of the previous xboxes getting modded (case painted) and sold at a ridiculous markup, like something in the thousands, and bought like 4 of them to try that himself.
I’ll give him credit that at least he was trying to add value to them, but in the end he sold them at about cost to people who just wanted xboxes and didn’t care about his mediocre paint job.
Friend of mine thought he could make a quick buck on 4 tickets for a concert nearby, but since the ticket provider won’t send out digital tickets until right before the concert he might not try this one again lol
Coldplay was one of the big popular bands back in the 2000’s, and like any popular band, there were plenty of people eager to prove how cool they were by telling everyone that they hate their music. Social media was starting to get popular at the time, so people would take to Facebook to make their “Coldplay sucks” proclamations. As social media took off, the sentiment kinda got swept up with it, and so now even as Coldplay isn’t anywhere near as relevant as they were back then, it’s still a pretty common thing to see people say they suck online. From what I saw, Nickelback’s wave came afterward, and while that sentiment reached higher popularity in its heyday, it hasn’t stuck around as well.
No, Coldplay was incredibly well liked for close to a decade. The backlash against them really didn’t develop until 2007/2008 when it was discovered they straight up stole a song.
Viva LA Vida was already sort of their abandonment of adult contemporary for a top 40 sound, and of course, it was released when I heart (then clear channel) was shutting down all the adult contemporary stations, so the pivot was going to happen regardless of whether they got caught or not, but it is interesting to note that their top hits since that happened have largely been written by others.
Nowadays, maroon 5 and coldplay are essentially the same band, its just a matter of who pays Max Martin more for the better song at album roll out time.
The public hate definitely got worse in the later 2000’s, but it was definitely still popular among middle/high schoolers to tell everyone they hated songs like Yellow and Fix You to show how “sophisticated” their tastes were. It was the same for any band that got too popular, but I remember that when Facebook opened up to people without .edu emails in 2006 I saw the Coldplay hate all over the place. One of the first online arguments I ever had was because someone said that the song The Scientist sucked, and I was really into it at the time. It’s part of why I chose my username, along with my love of biology.
I feel like this is revisionist. To elder millennials and gen X, basically that entire generation of radio felt like it was formulated to pour salt in our post-grunge wounds, and Coldplay was a particularly visible example of that sanitized, focus grouped corporate influence.
Yes, but the point was, when Coldplay got big, the music scene was larger. There actually existed adult oriented pop and Coldplay was targeting those stations. There would have been a time when Fiona Apple and Coldplay shared radio time on the same station.
Fiona Apple still makes music, she just isn’t on the radio. Coldplay largely became a more youth oriented act to stay on the radio.
I feel like people who don’t have memories of the 90s miss this. Rock music in the late 80s and into the late 90s was in a Renaissance, and then Clearchannel killed Kurt Kobain, bought out the Chili Peppers and rammed a dozen Nickelback clones down our throats instead.
I know I am just clarifying that the backlash against both is mainly due to different audiences and that the backlash against Coldplay came after Nickel back, despite Nickel back coming onto the scene later. Nickel back was pretty much hated immediately while most people loved the first 2 and a half Coldplay albums.
Are you sure you just like one song? I like a number of their songs, but they all sound a lot alike…
These discussions always amuse me, and I have two responses about it. First, the customer is always right in matters of taste, and what can be more about taste than appreciating art? And second, for such hated bands, they sure sell a lot of records…
I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever heard one Nickelback song: How you remind me. And I liked it. I also find these disscussions rather curious. I understand someone liking or disliking a band, but to be frank, I don’t get people hating bands (if the members are not obvious pieces of shit).
I might regret admitting this, but I like Nickelback and Imagine Dragons. Maybe it helps that I don’t listen much to the radio anymore.
I also liked Smash Mouth until they played at that biker event during covid, the one after which cases exploded all over the US. Though in hindsight, it was probably inevitable that it would happen at some point anyways, so I don’t feel as strongly about it now as I did back then because I still do like a lot of their songs, including All Star.
And I’ve come to realize that it’s better to define your music tastes by what you like rather than what you hate. Having strong feelings of hatred just means you’ll have a bad time if you randomly hear a song. I try to let me music tastes bottom out at mild disdain these days, like “I’d rather hear something else but it’s no big deal.”
Though some of the songs on Beat Saber are difficult to tolerate. I forget which collection it is, but one of them seems to have a theme of using unpleasant noises to make music. I don’t enjoy it but also wonder if that’s exactly how previous generations felt about some music I enjoy that they called noise. Out of curiosity, is there anyone who knows the songs I’m talking about that does enjoy listening to them?
They were playing at a festival I went to back around when Clocks came out and they were getting massive. I went to the second stage and watched Feeder instead. Best decision ever. Their album at the time was Comfort in Sound and you could feel the emotion the band were still feeling after their drummer’s suicide on top of that they seemed really appreciative of the crowd watching them instead of Coldplay.
That probably explains why I hate cold play and while Radiohead is not my taste at other than a few here and there, I definitely get why people like them
I’m not a huge fan but they make some good music. I really liked their debut album but completely fell off by the time they released that Daft Punk ripoff
Side note about that track: You don’t even have to change the bpm or key. Just put the tracks on top of each other and line it up. It’s nearly the same song with different vocals
Maybe I should listen to a whole album before making a final decision, but every time I hear a Coldplay song it’s always just seemed terribly boring. Like someone doing a bad cover of a song I already didn’t like that much in the first place lol
Well, there’s pretty much no artist that appeals to everyone so it’s not surprising to hear. There’s a lot of popular artists I just can’t get into, too!
I don’t listen to Coldplay when I want to listen to something I want to jam to.
I play it on the way home so I have something other than the constant drone of tires on a highway and passing vehicles to listen to. It doesn’t have to be groundbreaking, I don’t want something that will truly distract my driving.
That said, I only have like three songs i don’t just immediately skip.
Not an avid listener, but The Scientist (2002, so… old) really sunk in for me when I heard it. His voice gets criticized but I think it fits in perfectly with that song’s subject matter as an exploration of grief and unsuccessfully trying to confront trauma with reason and logic.
Haven’t listened to anything newer that that, so ignorance is bliss over here!
If you’ve never seen the video, this is a rare example where it adds really valuable context to the song itself.
I never understood the love or the hate for Coldplay. I think the best quote I ever read about them was “Coldplay is the musical representation of the color beige”.
There are far worse songs about trying to change your partner, which is still a better theme than desperately trying to convince someone they should be your partner. But a catchy tune can make up for some pretty pathetic lyrics.
I have the same reaction to just about everything from Smashing Pumpkins and a good chunk of System of a Down’s songs. And yet, I also like classic Queensryche stuff. Go figure.
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