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I’m with you, Jill. I detest Coldplay.
Ha. I thought I was the only one that didn’t like coldplay. This makes me happy.
:( I likes them.
thank you! i hate coldplay so much, everyone’s all on about that stupid viva la vida song, and i find it so annoying! ugh!
Word.
I was also sort of disappointed that the Krauss/Plant album Raising Sand won Best Album. I mean, it’s nice, and Please Read the Letter is a great song, but it’s just a little thing compared to In Rainbows or The Carter III – seems more like a Lifetime Achievement award for the artists rather than a recognition of the album itself.
YOU’RE BANNED!
Yes, I hate them, too.
But that’s what makes it so hilarious that they beat out Metallica. In the ROCK category. It wouldn’t have been nearly as awesome, or nearly as much of a payback for their complete destruction of Napster (yes I am still upset about that!!!), if Coldplay wasn’t so completely horrible and pathetic and . . . Coldplay-ish!
But…isn’t that The Grammys we’re talking about??
Of course, they will elevate the suckage over the true….they wouldn’t be the freakin’ Grammys if they didn’t.
And they beat out METALLICA?!?!?! In the ROCK category?!?!?!?! Typical.
The MTV Music Awards have more credibility right about now.
Anthony
I never got into Coldplay only because they basically sound like Ride, who came about a decade prior. Except Ride had more originality and talent.
I am very cynical about awards and am sure the labels pay out for their particular artist to win.
Do any of you remember the Coldplay / cheese windows thing? Maybe the Brits do – Chris Moyles interviewed him for Radio 1 and Moyles said something along the lines of people loved Coldplay so much if they sung about cheese it would still be a number 1 hit. The cheese song is here somewhere in this interview if any of you are truly dedicated enough to want to hear it! Think they actually remixed that, made it into a proper song.
(Can I just say, I’m not a Coldplay fan, I just happen to remember that interview?)
Well, Milli Vannilli won a Grammy too, so giving awards to ripoff artists is nothing new. At least the Grammy committee has recognized that Joe Satriani writes award-winning songs!
Commence with the wailing from devoted fans.
I agree that Coldplay blows.
But MIA is terrible – her stupid rap songs sound like some annoying 13 year old trying to be cool and edgy.
I liked Adele–she was new to me before Sunday night. These female English vocalists are my new music interests. Last year it was Amy Winehouse.
Also, I loved the Robert Plant/Allison Krause collaboration.
Will people stop comparing Coldplay to Radiohead. Even when Radiohead annoys me they are at least experimenting with their sound. Every fucking Coldplay song is sound like new age music with vocals. I am glad Coldplay let Andrew Sullivan sit in and play drums last night.
Fuck that noise. I love Coldplay. It’s so en vogue to hate on them these days though.
why are people even watching the grammys? it’s the worst of all award shows.
I never liked U2. Whoops, I mean Coldplay. Wait a second…
Totally agree. Coldplay sucks.
… And the lead singer’s face is SOOOOO photoshoped in that photo he looks like he’s made of plastic.
This made me laugh. A lot.
Still, they may suck, but are they really assholes?
And actually, I don’t really know if they suck; their music is inoffensive enough, and can set the right atmosphere as background music in some situations. The problem is that they’re clearly marketed and consumed as soulful, “artistic” popular music, the heirs to…well, I don’t know who. So, yes, for all practical purposes, they suck.
Still, let’s face it, we wouldn’t be so anxious to insist on that if it weren’t for a priggish/snobbish desire to prove that we have better taste than a certain subset of our peer group (“Say, you’re one of those educated, liberal people who eats sushi and wears black…you must like Coldplay!”).
A friend on Facebook told me Coldplay dresses like the children’s rock band the Wiggles.
Re: How Much Coldplay Sucks
A friend of mine once wrote a brilliant short story in which his narrator wrote a letter to Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone, lamenting the magazine’s complicity in the death of both rock and hip hop. In addressing the prime example of the horrible taste of Rolling Stone, he writes:
“Coldplay, Mr Wenner? Coldplay? Really?”
Which is exactly what I think of whenever someone tells me how much they love that bunch of third-rate U2 pop BS wannabees.
Coldplay shouldn’t have won because they’re being sued for copyright infringement or whatever for the song that they won for. I think Coldplay is getting kind of old, but I do like their first two albums. M.I.A. is good too.
Jill: Word. I can’t stand ‘em.
Worst Grammys moment, though, hands down? John Mayer playing on the same stage as B.B. King. That is just *wrong.* I mean, couldn’t they *at least* get Eric Clapton or something? John Mayer is a pathetic singer/songwriter who has no business playing beside blues legends.
Oh, and Alison Krauss? I heard she’s won the most Grammys of any female recording artist. I liked that album. And, frankly, I was just glad that they beat Coldplay.
I’m not a Coldplay fan at all, but I will concede that the song “Lost” off their most recent album is catchy as hell. Still far short of anything on Raising Sand though, that was a well-deserved win.
I’m so cool I don’t know what Coldplay is.
I actually really like the song Viva la Vida, but maybe that’s because I don’t listen to the radio, and thus I’ve only heard it four or five times. For the most part though, Coldplay never interested me. I think I’ve probably only heard two or three of their songs.
No comment on how M.I.A. was to be like “the Grammys are my due date, but fuck it, I’m performing!” I thought that was kick. ass.
Huh, that sentence made sense when I first wrote it…
I now longer hear Coldplay as I ripped off my ears and stuck knitting needles into the bleeding mess on hearing Yellow for the 3rd time in the same half an hour, way back when.
What does this have to do with feminism again?
There is very little of today’s music I like. Most of the bands I like formed in the early 1990s at the latest. Coldplay formed in 1998, therefore I’ve never heard of their music. Jethro Tull won the Grammy for Best Metal Album in 1989, and I found that extremely funny (this is the 20th anniversary of that upset).
I’ve also haven’t watched the Grammys in a long time.
Brown Shoes, you are factually incorrect. Milli Vanilli had their Grammy stripped from them on November 15, 1990. As a result, the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon edited out their song when it was syndicated.
All there is to say about Coldplay is that they ripped of Joe Satriani. Joe Satriani. Let that sink in for a second. Coldplay looked at the entire world of music and chose to steal from Satriani. Thats like copying a Thomas Kinkaid painting. It’s suck squared.
Absolutely nothing. Did you have a point?
Hey!
I thought I had missed the point of the post, but apparently there just wasn’t one.
I think the point, Maidden, is that Jill has the right to spend 30 seconds writing precisely eight short words on her own blog about something not related to feminism — even if just for her own fun! — if she so chooses. And if you have an issue with it, you’re more than able to skip the post.
What does this have to do with feminism again?
Feminist and beer drinking guys both hate Coldplay. Hatred of Coldplay and Ben Affleck movies is the two things that unite people (except Gwyneth Paltrow.)
Now if I can get Cara to renounce Lost. The show has a freaking magic wheel and a smoke monster. Enough said.
I second the “Grammys are a ridiculous show that bows at the feet of complete junk over real talent any day.” I don’t listen to rap or hip-hop and hate most pop; give me some gorram System of a Down or Apocalyptica. And even better, let me unwind with Tchaikovsky. Ugh. Coldplay is garbage, and their songs are so darn sticky it’s like, “must…tear…speakers…out…of…car…before…song…sticks…in…brain…”
i really want to hate coldplay, chris martin annoys the hell out of me, but i almost always love their new albums.
then i get sick of the music.
but they get me. every. single. time.
I thought most of their albums prior to the last one were pretty good, but yeah, I don’t think they deserve to be compared to Radiohead. I’d take Coldplay over most ‘indie’ crap anyday. Also, MIA’s first album was way better than her last one.
Off topic, but didnt anyone catch that Jessica Lea Mayfield tip in the last Gossip Girl episode? Fantastique!
I know I’m kind of an outlier here, but I think the comparison is fair. I hate Radiohead, and I hate them for a lot of the same reasons I hate Coldplay. Sure, Radiohead has superior (if somewhat narrow) technical talent and takes more chances, but both bands play a relatively unoffensive brand of post-rock/pop music that other people have either done earlier, better, or both. Both bands are fronted by obnoxious hipsters. Both bands get played to death by major radio stations. Both bands seem to release albums that are calculated to be big mass market hits with enough cred to satisfy your average rock critic. Both bands use slick production and old tricks to cover up a lack of emotional depth. Neither band really tries for much in the way of lyrical substance. The difference between them has always struck me as one of degree, not substance.
Then again I listen to Charles Mingus and Black Metal, so I’ve got glass houses of my own to worry about ;)
“What does this have to do with feminism again?”
Duh. It’s on feministe. And Jill wrote it. Jeez… Stupid stupid questions.
What does this have to do with feminism again?
Real feminists hate Coldplay.
“Real feminists hate Coldplay.”
Totally. Drop off your cards at the door.
I’ve been calling Coldplay “Radiohead for dummies” for years and will continue to do so. And that’s still the case even though Radiohead haven’t made a decent album in years. They’re just so bland – of course everyone loves them, there’s nothing interesting enough to really hate. Picking up the cheese metaphor, they’re like the bland wax-encased Edam of pop music (certainly not rock – were they serious with that category?).
The new ipod song is particularly annoying, though. How many bland content-free vaguely uplifting and yet curiously emotionless songs can one band produce? And then there’s the dancing. Every time I see Chris Martin performing there’s a brief moment where I wonder if he’s having some sort of seizure.
As much as I agree with alot of you about Coldplay, I really don’t think they deserve as much hate as they get…I mean you may not like their music, but millions of other people do. I mean if you don’t like a certain band, or a certain genre of music, you’re obviously going to classify it as bad, while another person could say the same about your type of music. Who’s to say who’s right and who’s wrong? I love Metallica, plenty people don’t. I hate all these “emo” bands, many people do (albeit suicidal teens). But whatever.