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100% agree with your first point, but also... Time goes by for everyone, and even if you fill stadiums around the world, that doesn´t necessarily mean your new music conects with massive audiences. You got your fans, you got a tour that looks really attractive, emotional and fun on tiktok (and live, of course), and you got your old hits. That´s all you need, doesn´t matter if you play six new songs from the last record or none at all.
It´s really hard for an "old" band like Coldplay to have a song on the radio that gets massive, and it´s possible that the only way to do it is together with bands like BTS or so.

Yeah, the tour itself, not the songs on those albums, at least not strongly.
We live in an era when everybody sells and fills everything. Here in Spain it´s easier to sell a full stadium for a concert than waking up early on a Saturday.

Yeah I don't agree at all. Viva is by far their most varied album, part of the fun is not knowing what the next track is going to sound like. They should lean into the variety more.
Also, Coldplay are playing one of the most successful rock band tours of all time. Clearly something about MOTS and MM appeals to the audience, even if critics and fans are dismissive.

I completely agree. I don’t think they realise their aesthetic of stadium pop just isn’t popular anymore and doesn’t connect with young audiences. I bet if they made songs like warning sign or strawberry swing now they could be more popular than flifil. Even when their songs chart people aren’t really talking about them.
Look at Olivia Rodrigo, one of her biggest songs now is the cure, which is like a long slow burn alt rock song. People want authenticity and experimentation.

not at all! Defend what you love.
100% yes. The defining issue of the last two album cycles is that Coldplay seems to be doing exactly what people accused them of doing in the 2010's when they actually were still experimenting with different types of pop music. They're playing it safe. And even then it wasn't necessarily original -- Ghost Stories wasn't all that original. Clearly the band had been listening to a lot of IDM music and synth-pop and bedroom pop. AHFOD clearly had some lean towards Daft Punk's RAM mixed in with other modern hip hop elements and some britpop worship. Sure those albums were polished and maybe too mainstream sounding to appeal to many alternative rock fans, but at least they took some artistic risks and tried mixing lots of inspiration. It's just weird to think that at this point, MX was their last actual rock album.
The Max Martin era is defined as polished & safe. Take Moon Music: a dreamy piano intro that's kind of a diary song -- they did that Everyday Life. A dancy pop song with a disco guitar lick? They did that on AHFOD. A shifting shoe-gazy song that melts into spoken word and soft instrumental -- that's just a mix of AHFOD and Viva. A futuristic sounding EDM song with a fun beat -- well that's just MOTS again. And of course, All My Love is the most Coldplay-sounding song ever. If anything, We Pray might be the most unique song on the album purelly because Coldplay has never gone full hip hop. I think it's why Moon Music is a good album for Coldplay fans, but not really anyone else.
The solution to me keeps being the same two things. 1) Write better songs with more interesting lyrics. We don't need a chorus 5x in a song like We Pray and "la la la la la's" in literally ever song. 2) Find a sonic pallette that you can work around (one planet, not 10 seperate planets). For Viva, they stuck with a specific guitar tone the whole album. For MX, they stuck with a specific type of wobbly eno-produced synth sound. For AROBTTH, they stuck with specific guitar and piano sounds. Make an album that sounds consistent so we can actually focus on the flow and not get distracted by the constant switch ups.

One thing that I've been thinking about recently and wanted to share with you guys is that ironically, the most prominent Pop stars the band became obsessed with and tried to emulate, which resulted in the decline since 2010, have themselves now moved on and are increasingly exploring sounds beyond the formulaic, radio-friendly pop that Coldplay embraced.

Taylor Swift, Beaver and Harry Styles are all basically trying to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in Alternative and more unconventional sounds. So basically when they were making Pop, they were better at it than Coldplay, and now that a band like Twenty One Pilots are infusing the most interesting elements of both worlds, they're also better at it than Coldplay.

That leaves us with more than decade of music that has been as long-lasting and sonically/thematically relevant as one of those ringtones from early Nokias! And, again, we're back to the infinitely discussed argument that they shouldn't have done it to begin with.

Anyway, my millionth rant on this forum now over, I do hope they give genuine thought about their legacy beyond being a stadium band, and finish their last two albums with sonic grace and maturity, especially LP12. But let's see...

Says who?
Fingers crossed!

Tour news coming

I’ve heard that Adele plans to release a new album next year, and a single within the next month. Furthermore, I’ve noticed that whenever Adele releases an album, Coldplay also releases one that same year. This also fits in with the idea of the “end times, 2027.”

No, there will be a second european leg in 2028.

The U2 European tour is in 2027.

U2 is coming in France in 2027. Not 2028. Didn't know about a 2028 tour.