Lyrically, most of the band’s songs rehash the same subject matter over and over again: loneliness heartache the overwhelming hugeness of the world. “Is there anybody out there who is lost and hurt and lonely too?” “I know I’m dead on the surface but I am screaming underneath” “I want to love you but I don’t know if I can”
“Do you feel like a puzzle, you can’t find your missing piece?”
“I want to live in a wooden house where making more friends would be easy” Don’t believe me? Check out the following lines and see if you can guess which are Coldplay lyrics and which are from my high school diary: Martin is a tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed British man married to a movie star, but he spends a lot of time expressing the emotions of a pimple-faced loner. 1: Chris Martin appears to have written every lyric while weeping hysterically. Were my Coldplay complaints valid? This is what I discovered:Ĭoldplay Complaint No. Then I talked to people who truly love their music. To give them the benefit of the doubt, I tried to experience them in Coldplay-friendly situations: alone in my room (feeling lonely), on the subway (feeling lonely in a crowd), even on an early-morning run through empty city streets (feeling lonely in the world). I listened to Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head, X&Y and Viva la Vida in chronological order. But before experiencing it I wanted to revisit the band’s previous albums to see if I still found them as cloying as I recalled. Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay’s fifth album, came out this week. At this point, I can’t remember if I actually dislike Coldplay or if I just think I do.Īnd so, I decided to try them again.
If their songs come on the radio, I change the station. So I’ve spent the past decade purposefully avoiding them. Subsequent Coldplay releases, full of lush melodies and Chris Martin’s relentless need to sing his feelings, only added fuel to my derisive fire. It felt like the soundtrack to a car commercial - the kind that features slumbering children and plays up the quality of the vehicle’s airbags. When “Yellow”, the band’s first big hit, came out in 2000, it quickly became my favorite song to ridicule. Follow know I don’t like Coldplay, but I can’t seem to remember why.
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