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

coldplay broke up my family after my dad was caught cheating with one of his subordinates.

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.

I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.

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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.

They are popular.

That's it. Hipsters gotta hipster.

From my perspective, their music is mediocre.

Why do people hate Nickleback?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.

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

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.

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.

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.

I had no idea people hated Coldplay.

Because they're not Nickelback?

Hehe

Music for cheaters.

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.

Because after clocks/scientist they just sold out to mainstream garbage styled to the masses and the money and not the music.

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.

I really hadn't thought about Coldplay in years until I showed up to work at one of their concerts a couple years ago. I honestly couldn't name a single one of their songs except Viva La Vida, which - spoiler - is not one of their songs.

But all the people on tour with them were really friendly and competent and gave clear instructions, unlike the usual raging assholes who go on tour to do staging work. We got the job done quickly, safely, and with minimal angry screaming.

So now I like Coldplay. I still don't listen to their music, but, like, I just decided I like them.