No nobody. All the massive crowds and millions of albums they’ve sold aren't real. Haven’t you read the comments in this thread which represent the limits of awareness?

They're kind of soulless. But I think most people just don't like Chris Martin.

Only those that like music.

It’s basically a meme to dunk on Coldplay. Like with Nickleback.

Only now because they inadvertently outed a CEO having an affair via a Kiss Cam at one of their recent concerts. Cheaters and corporate bootlickers everywhere hated that.

I would say at the time they were solid good. They weren't technically very complex but who cares - half the bands at that time barely even played instruments, just banged out power chords and yelled into a mic. As far as pop music goes those albums were great in my opinion. Wouldn't talk about them in a music theory class, but we were lucky to have such solid albums getting radio play.

I know, it brings shame on you and your family. I can't blame them

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, so I'm gonna answer genuinely:

The two people in the pic are having an affair, that's the Astronomer CEO Andy Bryon and his Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot on a kiss cam, and they hid their faces once they were on the Jumbotron.

I don't like Coldplay at all, and never have. But I also know music taste is entirely subjective, so it is a pretty pointless thing to fight about.

I dont love them, or ever even hit play on them myself, but that is true of a lot, if not most good music. And when I hear them on the radio, yea, its def not bad music.

Meme still funny tho. They are suburban mom pop.

U2 was for your great grandparents lol.

Jk. It's impossible for people in 2025 to appreciate this, but when U2 first hit the scene, they were a fresh air alternative to the stale late '70s disco scene. And for kids like me with a burgeoning political awareness, they were heroes. Also, mullets. It's very difficult for me to accept how they turned into a bunch of tax-dodging cunts who produced a fucking Spiderman musical, of all things (probably as a tax dodge).

Early Coldplay was pretty good the 3rd and beyond is when he married a crazy person and named their kid apple.

"Fine doesn't mean fine. The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine." ~ Max Black (2 Broke Girls)

Um… what the fuck. This is literally how I was initially exposed to Coldplay.

Out of touch, suburban mom driving kids around on errands and dropping them off at their extracurriculars.

Yeah, imagine finding out your spouse cheated on you and not being able to go online without seeing it everywhere. Gotta suck for both of their partners