• kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 天前

      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.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 天前

    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.

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1063·
    3 天前

    Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn’t gold, it was all yellow

    • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 天前

      I actually just got into glass animals not to long ago. My 5 yr old loves singing their songs, which I think is one of the reason I like em.

      Are they and Coldplay in the same circles?

      • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 天前

        most definitely not in the same circles. I’m sure the 5 year old singing their songs is adorable aw

        definitely do NOT play anything from before Dreamland around the kid though… their older stuff has a much more… sultry… vibe to it

        edit: actually how to be a human being is fine it’s really just ZABA (their first album) that I would be worried about a 5 year old singing lol

        • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 天前

          Oh ya, I definitely vetted em before letting them listen. It’s funny, I think of a lot of the music I was allowed to listen to growing up. I listen now and I’m like “Why would my folks let me hear this?”

  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
    651·
    3 天前

    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.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    82·
    2 天前

    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.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
    26·
    2 天前

    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.

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    392·
    3 天前

    They are so completely soft and bland. They are the unflavored yogurt of music.

    • Logi@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 天前

      Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 天前

      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.

  • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 天前

    The same reason everyone shits on Arby’s. Because everyone else does, which just makes it funny to everyone but the actual fans.

      • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 天前

        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!

  • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    2 天前

    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
      2·
      2 天前

      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.

      • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        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.

  • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    30·
    3 天前

    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.

    • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
      232·
      3 天前

      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.

    • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      3 天前

      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
        2·
        3 天前

        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.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 天前

      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.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      07·
      3 天前

      I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma. Omg did emo culture do it?

      • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 天前

        Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.

        • Willy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          5·
          3 天前

          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.

          • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
            16·
            3 天前

            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.

          • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
            3·
            3 天前

            iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.

      • vaguerant@fedia.io
        4·
        3 天前

        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.

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
    114·
    2 天前

    They are a whiny facsimile of rock but they still got played on the rock stations. They are the opportunity cost of bands.