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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 213 points 1 month ago

So Coldplay sucking isn't just a meme...

[-] Townlately@feddit.nl 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I always wondered why they got hate, I guess I know.

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Their older stuff was good, but after a few albums the music just sounds like generic pop.

Also the type of people that listen to Cold Play are either not that into politics, or definitely aren't Charlie Kirk fans. That venn diagram is just two separate circles.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 171 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Curious how he doesn't send love to the families of children killed in the school shooting that very same day. What did they mean by that? Logically it can't be he's just sending out good feelings because of a tragic situation otherwise he would have mentioned the school shooting, so that means that Coldplay must specifically endorse Charlie Kirk and his rhetoric. That's The Logical conclusion I draw.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 162 points 1 month ago

Kirk was a man full of hate. Why should I feel any obligation to send any love to him?

[-] SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 month ago

He was pro gun violence and anti empathy. It goes against everything he believed and stood for to send love. These jackasses pretending to care are just masturbating their own ego to make themselves come off as some paragon in divided times. Kirk died for what he believed in while doing what he loved. We should all be glad he did. Even those foolish enough to listen to him and support him should be able to see that.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Nuance: Martin's request concerned Kirk's family, not Charlie himself. Let's not stray from the facts. The other side does that enough.

For all we know, they might be lovely people (unlikely, but hey.)

Still, weird request, and I would have joined the booing in the moment, I think.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

Well, his wife said that the movement didn't stop with his death and that "if you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before you have no idea, you have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world" so probably safe to say she's a horrible, minority-bashing white nationalist as well.

[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Still, no one mentions the families of the kids murdered, why is he special? Why is his family special? Him and his hateful wife who are probably brain washing those children.

Honestly, hearing his views, they both seem much better off without him. ESPECIALLY if either of them are queer.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

he spread and fomented hate, on impressionable college age students, to recruit them into the right wing manospheres. which is why conservative groups are trying to elevating him as some kind of saint.

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago

oh my god, as someone who hated Coldplay with passion for a quarter century, I feel so vindicated. thank you.

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Seriously, to think that for years I was wrong about why I hated fucking Coldplay. Only Coldplay could make me like Nickelback

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Wow, let's not use this as an excuse to try normalizing Nickelback

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

ok just because we agree on Coldplay doesn't mean I'm gonna tolerate Nickelback apologia.

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[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Wow, let's not use this as an excuse to try normalizing Nickelback

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

As someone who resisted the internet “cool” thing to shit on this band, please allow me to be extremely disappointed by this article. Holy shit.

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[-] shads@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

I miss Never mind the Buzzcocks. Can someone reach out to Noel Fielding for a comment on this news?

[-] trk@aussie.zone 70 points 1 month ago

All that goodwill(?) from the cheating CEO hilarity ruined by pandering to the cheer squad of some dickhead.

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

Sending love to his family? That sounds awfully like that New Age empathy shit, don't you know how much damage that causes?

Best I can do is sympathy, sending tots 'n pears.

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

People in the back.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 month ago

Fuck Coldplay.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Why are Coldplay concerts suddenly this relevant?

[-] Patches@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their new album, HotTakes, is wild

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] ssfckdt 45 points 1 month ago

Looks like the corporate rock fans are mad that their band is a corporate rock band

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago

It's like how Jack Black had to pretend to be mad at Kyle bc he's in so many big budget movies.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I hated how he reacted to that and people were defending him. Over a joke. Black has done some dirty shit, but supposedly got so upset over that joke he cancelled a tour. Fuck him too. #teamkyle

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I assumed it was less that he was mad and more that he didn't want to get shot by some right-wing nut.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Actually the opposite. He's hoping to continue getting shot by right wing nuts. That's why he can't be controversial or they won't cast him.

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[-] lowleekun@ani.social 16 points 1 month ago

And i think thats a good thing. You should be free to like whatever kind of music, even if its the worst garbage imaginable to my ears.

Does not mean you have to accept political shit-takes from the creators.

[-] romanticremedy 40 points 1 month ago

His death helped the world see who's far right. Very interesting

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

I've never liked Coldplay, the singer always came off as douchy.

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

And now we have empirical confirmation.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 25 points 1 month ago

I guess you don’t get to choose family, but not sure how this was a high priority for Chris Martin given everything else going on at the moment.

[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Unless you adopt.

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

On the face of it, I don't have an issue with saying this, as his family weren't the ones preaching hate. But choosing to single out this particular person's family rather than all the other recent shooting victims is a bad look.

[-] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Everyone grieves differently, but his wife literally turned around and used his corpse for Instagram content before he was even in the ground! Add it to the list of videos I wish I hadn’t watched this week

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Plus that wonderful speech she gave about how her husbands death was a rallying cry to the right to take care of the libs, so, like fuck her too.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It's pretty much a given that anyone who would marry him must be an awful person.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

It's cause Charlie Kirk was rich and famous; those kids and any other faceless poor has no value or meaning to these folks even though the only reason these fucks are rich and famous is because of the fucking faceless poor. I hate it here.

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[-] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

eww, he's normally chill, what happened

[-] Marshezezz 16 points 1 month ago
[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago

Hell no, Tool is awesome (as a band, i'm not so sure on their views).

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

He should be knowing first before making such statements pertaining to peace and coexistence. Especially if the subject matter happens to be an extremely vile personage with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Wow, if I didn't have a reason to not like them before, I sure as hell do now.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Whenever this happens I can't help feel like said public figure is literally just autopiloting sympathies. Like, 9 times out of 10, yes, that's the right thing to say but like, but c'mon.

I blame the fact that "liberal media" MSNBC is sympathetic to Kirk, and in the absence of critical thinking and, well, existence in online spaces, that's probably the go to response. Coldplay is mostly Gen X, ya? I've had to explain this situation to Gen Xers to not be surprised here.

[-] Patches@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As my gran used to say

If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.

That's all cold play had to do

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

all the current media, are conservative owned, there never was a liberal media in the first place.

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