Why do people hate coldplay?

They're Muzak.

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

Did I just get Cold-rolled?
- Better yet, you got Cold-played
It doesn't take a Scientist to figure it out...
Amsterdamn!
Now it's Empire of the Sun who rule the world...
https://youtu.be/hN5X4kGhAtU

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.
Pre-Imagine Dragons Imagine Dragons.

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.

https://headstuff.org/topical/love-hate-popular/

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.
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.
I’m old. Imagine if old bands got that stigma. Omg did emo culture do it?
- Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
- 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.
- I'm old, and we definitely did this in the 1900s.

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

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.

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

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.

They are popular.

That's it. Hipsters gotta hipster.

Yep. The old "I'm so cool I only listen to people so unknown that even they don't know who they are" crew

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?
- No, Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder, not Coldplay.
- It was only a tribute?

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)

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.

From my perspective, their music is mediocre.

That's why I love them.
- I guess for you it is a feature.

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.

Thanks. I don’t hate Coldplay though. I don’t follow people enough to know if they’re a twat. It’s just music for me.

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
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.

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.
- 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.

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.

They're the mayonnaise of music

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hate pineapple, why would i like it on pizza?

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.

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.

Wikipedia says it's written by all four members of the band. And I agree, they're super mainstream and unremarkable but Viva la Vida is perfect. The lyrics are epic, poetic, wise, sad and true. The instrumental is flawless, simple yet classy with these strings and the choir. The atmosphere is unlike any other song I've ever head and it's breathtaking even after listening for the 100th time. A true masterpiece.

I had no idea people hated Coldplay.

Because they're not Nickelback?

Hehe

- Well done with that quick photoshop job!
  How did their faces get so red?

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.

Music for cheaters.

All music has to be is something nice to listen to.

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?
- 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

What is coldplay?

Wait, it's a band. I thought it was some kind of streaming app. Meh.
- I actually thought it was some nuanced kind of stream. Like streaming the old recorded gameplay. Or something like that.
- Do you use many streaming apps? Old person asking
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.

I remember me and my buddy were sitting around one night drinking mad dog and smoking weed and a live company Coldplay concert was on TV so we watched it and thought it was kind of good. Then the next day we each listened to Coldplay sober on our own. I got a text from him half way thru the day that just said "holy shit dude,I don't know what was going on last night, but I just listened to Coldplay again... It's like the sound track to a woman complaining about her period.. How the fuck did this sound good last night?"

Who ?

I have no opinion whatsoever about Coldplay.

I thought that was a joke inspired by the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin:

https://youtu.be/h6iFAF55ojA

You know how I know you're gay?