His wife was shocked when she saw that picture because she had no idea he's a Coldplay fan.
Maybe this is why they thought nobody would ever find out.
Don't know what's worse, being caught cheating and becoming a national meme because of it, or having it happen during a Cildplay concert.
Meh. There’s by far more mediocre bands with some fame than Coldplay. At least Coldplay isn’t one of the “hype” entertainers like Bieber that need constant press coverage to stay relevant or a band that will play anything and have no real sound of their own like OneRepublic.
I don't get why this is so big, wouldn't anybody be that embarrassed to be caught at a cold play concert?
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 know, it brings shame on you and your family. I can't blame them
People don't like Coldplay??
It’s basically a meme to dunk on Coldplay. Like with Nickleback.
I'm absolutely sure people don't like Nickelback.
Sure and plenty of people also don’t like other bands. But for some reason people are very vocal about their distaste for Nickelback and Coldplay. And it’s always people who think they have some sort superior music taste.
You can add Imagine Dragons to that.
And Fall Out Boy who are Imagine Dragons for people with an eyebrow piercing.
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.
Idk why people shit on Coldplay, they sound fine
"Fine doesn't mean fine. The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine." ~ Max Black (2 Broke Girls)
You're quoting 2 Broke Girls to give cultural critiques to Coldplay?
Cut Coldplay some slack, this was the funniest thing that's happened in a while. Plus, Parachutes is...fine...A Rush of Blood to the Head has a couple of good tracks. Everything after that is pretty trash, but those first two albums were good to mid.
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.
That's certainly how I feel about Parachutes. Solid little album, even if it's not reinventing the wheel. I feel more mixed about A Rush of Blood to the Head. Some of their best tracks are on that album (The Scientist may be their best song), but a lot of it is forgettable, and Clocks just sucks, don't know how that became a big single. I thought X&Y was pretty meh, and then I stopped listening.
I'd generally agree, definitely consider XY completely forgettable. That said, I think Rush of Blood is a great album as an album. Parachutes is a better collection of songs but Rush feels more comprehensive to me. Even clocks, in the context of the album, works. The only other album I enjoy is viva la vida, because while it's not perfect, I like what they were attempting with that one. I'd like other bands to experiment with those kinds of concepts so even if I don't think they exactly hit the mark, I appreciate the attempt
Coldplay good. Fight me
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.
Certainly not worth fighting for.
Or getting a divorce for.
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.
Coldplay was termed Radiohead for your parents. I think that was accurate for their early career but now they're more like EDM for your parents or U2 for your great grandparents or something.
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).
"This song is not a rebel song. This song is Sunday, bloody Sunday" or, better: fuck you and your mother. I will say what I want when I want.and call you fuckers out for all the bullshit you put us through. But, since these are the eighties i will do it somewhat politely.
Boy. October. War. Under a bloodred sky.
Somewhere along there they got lost and made the unfo. Still good but.. fuck Eno.
Then it all exploded with the Joshua tree. They became the biggest band on earth, almost imploded under their own weight during/after R&H. Reinvented themselves with Achtung Baby and Zooropa and became what we have nowadays.
But that glorious beginning, the rage, the pain. The angst of our entire generation in those three albums with bloodred sky as the magnificent encore. The Magnus opus.
It was nothing like them now. I can't even name their last albums.
Radiohead has been parent music for awhile now gtfo
Radiohead is 10 years older than Coldplay so i really don't understand this
Of course, the arrow of time remains unchanged.
But what did change is the type of music Coldplay made. They went from Radiohead-lite to whatever you want to call that crap now.
Coldplay is for people who think they enjoy high art because they watch period costume dramas about the Victorian Age. Because that's what high art is, isn't it? Stuffy settings and dialogue, delivered in a bygone accent.
From what I understand, Coldplay was what played in suburban minivans 20 years ago when the drivers were driving their kids to taekwondo practice.
Also, apparently they’re the one band that’s not officially Christian Rock that’s huge with US Christians.
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.
Why are they so big with Christians? I've seen that too and can't explain it
Because they are generic and don't curse.
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
For sure
There are billboards on the road using the event as advertisement fodder.
I liked old Coldplay. The new stuff is just generic pop music.
Coldplay thinks they are club music?
My boy Goro Majima doesn't visit such boring ventures.
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