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

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

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.

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.

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

Because they're a poor man's Radiohead....

Their first two albums are alright though.

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

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.

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.

Why do people hate Nickleback?

They're the mayonnaise of music

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.

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 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.

Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.

From my perspective, their music is mediocre.

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.

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

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 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 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.

Because they're not Nickelback?

Hehe