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.
Coldplay was the old Nickelback. That said, I still dig Coldplay’s old stuff.
Yeah their old stuff was actually decent. Their new songs are absolute generic bullshit.
It sounds like it was written for the parody boy band from Bob’s Burgers, Boyz 4 Now.
Its just an album by album thing. Most “Oldplay” fans, myself included, really liked Everyday Life which was their second latest release.
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.