Okay so, I think I have a pretty good love story in which Coldplay had a part...

 

One day when I was 17 and in my high school, I was sitting in a classroom with my friends during lunch, and a big guy comes in with one of my friends, but I've never met him before. He's listening to his mp3 player and I ask him what he's listening to just to start a conversation. He says he's listening to Coldplay. I automatically think it's a joke and my friends told him I love Coldplay and he's just making fun of me, because I wouldn't expect anyone in my ghetto high school to listen to awesome soft-rock such as Coldplay. But he confirms it and says he is listening to White Shadows. We spend the rest of lunch discussing X&Y (the newest album at the time) and he sings me some lines from Swallowed in the Sea (my favourite love song) and then walks out to go to class.

 

We became friends for the next two years in high school and for my 18th birthday he bought me the NME magazine from the UK that included the vinyl for A Spell A Rebel Yell. When Violet Hill was first released as a free download I woke up at around 6am to get it before leaving for school. And we listened to it together at my locker. I remember he said "Why the fuck does Chris Martin sound so angry?" and it made me laugh. We also went to go buy Viva la Vida together and listened to it for the first time together. At this time he also admitted to me that after X&Y first came out he listened to the whole album every night. And that his favourite album was A Rush of Blood to the Head and his favourite Coldplay song was Daylight.

 

Coldplay was coming to Vancouver for the Pemberton Festival and my parents had bought me two tickets. So of course I invited the guy, because there was no one else I knew who also liked them. We could have gone but he didn't have enough money to pay me back for the tickets. But because I asked him to go with me, he told me later it was the first time he ever thought I might have liked him than more of a friend. And then he started thinking about me more as a girl rather than just a huge Coldplay nerd girl.

 

We talked online a lot during the summer. And apparently that's when he fell in love with me and asked me to be his girlfriend. I told him he was about a year late but I said yes and we picked Postcards from Far Away to be our cheesy couple love song. About 6 months after I took him to his first concert, which was when Coldplay came back to Vancouver to play a stadium show. He knew I loved the song 42, so in all the cards he gave me he would write "You are my 42". Which I didn't get at first, and then he explained that he was trying to be romantic and was saying that I was his answer to life, the universe, and everything.

 

We've been together for 2.5 years now and Coldplay is still my #1 band, but he became less interested as time went on and was never "in the mood for Coldplay". Of course I was excited when Every Teardrop is a Waterfall was set to be released. 2 days after it came out I asked him what he though of it and he said he didn't bother to listen to it. Shocked and upset I forced him to, and he said it was okay. And then he told me he was pretty much over Coldplay and he's not interested in them anymore at all. He said his time with their music was done. And now I am heartbroken. We became friends through Coldplay! and he started liking me because I asked him to a Coldplay concert! and now he's "over them". So that's why I think my Coldplay love story is fading away...i guess I can still love him, but who knows really. I have lost my Coldplay friend =( Well if we get married in future, I'm going to play Coldplay during the wedding, and he's just going to have to deal with it :P

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I liked the part where you fell in love.

It's a cool story, and an interesting "problem." Thanks for sharing it. Never met anyone whose favorite song is Daylight. Would give quite a lot to hear that played live again.

Dont bother him with CP until LP5 comes out.

Then force or suggest him to listen to it...

 

;) maybe he will be amazed

Tie him down to a chair and force him to listen to every single album. :P

 

And Daylight isn't the worst song in the world. I'd argue it's better than ETIAW.

"And then he started thinking about me more as a girl rather than just a huge Coldplay nerd girl. "

 

The first time in the story i realised you were a girl...

i have a coldplay love story, which i wont be sharing with you all unfortunately (even though its way better than this one)

what does he listen to nowadays?

My favourite song is Daylight :pleased:

I love Daylight live on TOTP in 2002 :P

I love Daylight live on TOTP in 2002 :P

 

:awesome: EPIC performance