When I was in college, a guy in my lab thought he’s make some money by buying cheap Coldplay tickets and reselling them at profit. No one took him up on it.
Thanks, this story warms my heart. Anyone else got any good stories of someone who tried to be a scalper but instead ended up with too much of something they didn’t want and less money than before?
I’ll go, a coworker saw a story about one of the previous xboxes getting modded (case painted) and sold at a ridiculous markup, like something in the thousands, and bought like 4 of them to try that himself.
I’ll give him credit that at least he was trying to add value to them, but in the end he sold them at about cost to people who just wanted xboxes and didn’t care about his mediocre paint job.
Well, I bought some shitcoins…😔
I can tell you one time when I scalped enough gpus to afford top of the top pc and vr. I was so proud of that one
Is Coldplay the internet’s new Nickelback?
Coldplay was one of the big popular bands back in the 2000’s, and like any popular band, there were plenty of people eager to prove how cool they were by telling everyone that they hate their music. Social media was starting to get popular at the time, so people would take to Facebook to make their “Coldplay sucks” proclamations. As social media took off, the sentiment kinda got swept up with it, and so now even as Coldplay isn’t anywhere near as relevant as they were back then, it’s still a pretty common thing to see people say they suck online. From what I saw, Nickelback’s wave came afterward, and while that sentiment reached higher popularity in its heyday, it hasn’t stuck around as well.
No, Coldplay was incredibly well liked for close to a decade. The backlash against them really didn’t develop until 2007/2008 when it was discovered they straight up stole a song.
Viva LA Vida was already sort of their abandonment of adult contemporary for a top 40 sound, and of course, it was released when I heart (then clear channel) was shutting down all the adult contemporary stations, so the pivot was going to happen regardless of whether they got caught or not, but it is interesting to note that their top hits since that happened have largely been written by others.
Nowadays, maroon 5 and coldplay are essentially the same band, its just a matter of who pays Max Martin more for the better song at album roll out time.
I feel like this is revisionist. To elder millennials and gen X, basically that entire generation of radio felt like it was formulated to pour salt in our post-grunge wounds, and Coldplay was a particularly visible example of that sanitized, focus grouped corporate influence.
Coldplay was the old Nickelback. That said, I still dig Coldplay’s old stuff.
Coldplay was an adult contemporary with top 40 cross over appeal, while Nickelback was a hard rock act with top 40 cross over appeal.
Coldplay and Maroon 5 are closer comparisons here.
“Hard Rock” means corporate Pearl Jam ripoff now.
I feel like people who don’t have memories of the 90s miss this. Rock music in the late 80s and into the late 90s was in a Renaissance, and then Clearchannel killed Kurt Kobain, bought out the Chili Peppers and rammed a dozen Nickelback clones down our throats instead.
I’m not saying they’re the same band, mate.
I know I am just clarifying that the backlash against both is mainly due to different audiences and that the backlash against Coldplay came after Nickel back, despite Nickel back coming onto the scene later. Nickel back was pretty much hated immediately while most people loved the first 2 and a half Coldplay albums.
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I never have understood what the appeal of Coldplay was lol
I never understood the love or the hate for Coldplay. I think the best quote I ever read about them was “Coldplay is the musical representation of the color beige”.
Chris Martin’s vouce annoys me like no other. “Fix you” is in my opinion one of the worst, whiniest songs ever. I can’t stand it.
There are far worse songs about trying to change your partner, which is still a better theme than desperately trying to convince someone they should be your partner. But a catchy tune can make up for some pretty pathetic lyrics.
I have the same reaction to just about everything from Smashing Pumpkins and a good chunk of System of a Down’s songs. And yet, I also like classic Queensryche stuff. Go figure.
