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

Why do people hate Nickleback?

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.

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.

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 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.

Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.

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.

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.

From my perspective, their music is mediocre.

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.

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.