Honest Coldplay Fan

Reasons why Coldplay are one of the Greatest of All Time: - Top 5 selling tour all-time - 8 top ten charting songs - First band since 1987 to reach 100 million album equivalent sales - Most Grammys of any 2000s band - 17th most all-time Spotify streams - 20+ years of popularity

@CyanCity1 @educatedandfree @sfmcguire79 @TedJoy71 That combined with the fact that college is the optimized social life, and that college allows people to follow their passions and learn purely for the sake of passionate knowledge (rather than, again, being a transactional economic cog) — it's peak self-actualization.

@CyanCity1 @educatedandfree @sfmcguire79 @TedJoy71 I said "transactional cogs" to denote that a person's place in adult life, even in "good" careers, is completely replaceable by other people and is purely economic, whereas a true community a la college, you specifically mean something to your peers, AND it is not just economic.

These Harvard students…did not react well to the report on grade inflation: “The whole entire day, I was crying. I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best. It just felt soul-crushing.” “What makes a Harvard student a Harvard student is their engagement in extracurriculars. Now we have to throw that all away and pursue just academics. I believe that attacks the very notion of what Harvard is.” “I can’t reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning the material because I’m so anxious about the midterm, so anxious about the papers, and because I know it’s so harshly graded. If that standard is raised even more, it’s unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.”

@Mark1989Taylor @milaasversion You guys are the cheap Chinese phone. The McDonalds of music. I don't even bother arguing with Swifties anymore because it's obvious the market has decided Taylor is total slop for Tumblr dorks, and Coldplay & Charli will go down as the greats of the era x.com/GOATplay_Fan/s…

@GOATplay_Fan @milaasversion Cheap Chinese phone wanna compete with IPhone series?

Let's be honest, the only reason to not release tour numbers is the gross isn't as high as expected Prob didn't/barely beat Beyoncé for ‘23 & not on track to beat Coldplay all-time or first to $1B No shame not coming in 1st, but slimy to deny other artists their records if true

@naurbabyy Tweet is from 2 years ago and she still hasn't released the show by show gross numbers which is sketchy. I have conceded they are likely not too fudged, although it is weird that she isn't releasing all the numbers like everybody else does.

LMAO

@The_Weco @Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO Fair, but those comments surely come in reference to the kitschy emotional crutch chorus jump version of key changes, which I would wager is almost all the key changes most people are aware of.

@GOATplay_Fan @Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO I'm not commenting the graph, I'm commenting the two users saying "key changes suck" and "key changes were a cheap fix...run out of ideas".

chart of the day

@The_Weco @Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO Because as it is, you are mixing a sign of particularly sophisticated melodic ability (seamless key changes that are actually different from the main section) with a sign of particularly weak melodic ability (kitschy key jump for emotional crutch in final chorus). Noisy data.

@The_Weco @Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO Some key changes are good, but I'm just saying the graph tells us almost nothing. Would be interesting to see if someone (or AI) did a new graph using the same data but taking out any song that is just a last chorus modulation or similar. The spike in the 90s would drop heavily.

@The_Weco @Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO This graph ignores the reality that most of them have only ever been "modulation at the final chorus," though, and that's one of the tackiest tricks in melody.

@Postwatch @scottastevenson @CoorsLightCEO What on earth? You do understand key changes are more than "modulation at the final chorus". They are pretty much the most interesting part of musical analysis.

@price0fwoke @colemanjspilde Yes. Artists should have good taste, rather than contributing to the dumbing down of culture.

@GOATplay_Fan @colemanjspilde Holding someone accountable…for having bad taste? Your this upset o er a random painting in her house?

her monumental lack of personal taste never ceases to flabbergast me and it speaks deafening volumes that she’s reached peak popularity during an era when the monoculture happily consumes mass-produced, poorly made, cheap garbage in every sector from clothing to food to art

@ChordDean @lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde If you say so

@GOATplay_Fan @lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde she’s name dropping aristotle because he is one of the most well known philosophers that they teach in high school and she’s name dropping Patti Smith in a song to talk about how she is actually a nobody, how she’s not PM, and how her and her partner are just self aware idiots

@Not_the_Bee @jarvis_best Out of touch elder millennial doesn't know that Coldplay hate is uncool now and that the tasteful people among Gen Z now listen to them. TikTok opened the free market of ideas for music, and Coldplay, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, and The Smiths are all cool now for young people.

@jarvis_best Looking out closed windows is more fun than attending a Coldplay concert. She’s upgraded.

From yesterday’s profile of the Coldplay kiss cam chick: (1) sweater, looking out a window (2) defiantly walking in a field. I swear to god this stuff is so easy.

@Efedete7 @EcoVibeExplorer @Globalstats11 Not being able to appreciate the great pop-rock albums that are Viva La Vida, Mylo Xyloto, and Ghost Stories is a great litmus test into whether someone actually knows all music or is just a rock fan. That said, as an Honest Coldplay Fan, their last 2 albums are pretty dang bad.

@EcoVibeExplorer @Globalstats11 If they retired after their first 3 records they would be on the list

Rating of Best Music Bands of All Time: 1. 🇬🇧 The Beatles 2. 🇬🇧 The Rolling Stones 3. 🇬🇧 Led Zeppelin 4. 🇬🇧 Pink Floyd 5. 🇺🇸 The Eagles 6. 🇬🇧 Queen 7. 🇺🇸 Nirvana 8. 🇺🇸 The Beach Boys 9. 🇬🇧 Fleetwood Mac 10. 🇺🇸 Metallica 11. 🇺🇸 The Doors 12. 🇺🇸 The Ramones 13. 🇬🇧 The Who 14. 🇦🇺 AC/DC 15. 🇺🇸 The Grateful Dead 16. 🇺🇸 Red Hot Chili Peppers 17. 🇺🇸 Aerosmith 18. 🇬🇧 Black Sabbath 19. 🇺🇸 Pearl Jam 20. 🇮🇪 U2 21. 🇨🇦 Rush 22. 🇬🇧 Genesis 23. 🇺🇸 Guns N' Roses 24. 🇬🇧 Deep Purple 25. 🇬🇧 Radiohead 26. 🇺🇸 KISS 27. 🇺🇸 The Strokes 28. 🇬🇧 Oasis 29. 🇺🇸 The Velvet Underground 30. 🇮🇸 Sigur Rós 31. 🇺🇸 R.E.M. 32. 🇨🇦 Arcade Fire 33. 🇫🇷 Daft Punk 34. 🇺🇸 Green Day 35. 🇺🇸 The Allman Brothers Band 36. 🇺🇸 The White Stripes 37. 🇺🇸 Lynyrd Skynyrd 38. 🇺🇸 The Supremes 39. 🇺🇸 The Temptations 40. 🇬🇧 Iron Maiden 41. 🇺🇸 Foo Fighters 42. 🇬🇧 The Clash 43. 🇨🇦 The Band 44. 🇦🇷 Soda Stereo 45. 🇺🇸 The Byrds 46. 🇳🇴 A-ha 47. 🇬🇧 The Police 48. 🇬🇧 Blur 49. 🇺🇸 Panic! At The Disco 50. 🇯🇵 X Japan Sources: - Rolling Stone’s Greatest Bands of All Time - NME’s Top Music Bands - Billboard's Band Rankings This list spans a variety of genres, from rock and metal to punk, alternative, and electronic, showcasing bands that have left a lasting legacy in music history. Note: This ranking is subjective, not exhaustive, may be outdated and not fully accurate. Compiled list based on multiple reputed sources and user polls.

@Tom_cohen432 As an Honest Coldplay Fan, Moon Music is mid and probably their worst album, and it makes the fanbase look delusional to call it a masterpiece.

Fuck the Grammys, EL & MM are masterpieces by Coldplay But the Grammys are going for what it’s trending and not for music

@ChordDean @lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde Most people today don't know Patti Smith, but that's not the point. Aristotle is considered among the greatest thinkers in history, & Patti Smith among the most poetic songwriters, and TS awkwardly name drops them without significant context just to leech off their cultural clout

@GOATplay_Fan @lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde how is she trying to appear cultured by naming patti smith or aristotle as if those are not one of the most know names out there 😭

@price0fwoke @colemanjspilde Holding one of the biggest artists in the world accountable for having bad kitschy taste in art, & thus helping lower standards for art in society, is more important than just mentioning that the piece is ugly. Also, it corroborates the fact that her music & writing is total slop

@colemanjspilde You couldn’t just say you think it’s ugly?

@ChordDean @lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde Taylor is the pretentious one. Pretentious means PRETENding to be smart/cultured when ur actually not. Namedropping great works/writers like R+J, Ophelia, Aristotle, Patti Smith to appear cultured, without actually understanding or building on the works, is pretentious as it gets

@lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde all of that is just your opinion. I don’t think she’s the best songwriter to ever exist. but just the way people try to act like she’s horrible at writing when she’s very clearly not it’s when (to me) it shows people say she sucks because it’s pretentious and cool to say that.

@lithivia @mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde And this is because she name-drops them on purpose solely to subliminally associate herself with great works. Same reason she called her albums "folklore" & "torturted poets" (wants to be thought of as a folk poet) and why she stole Joni Mitchell's haircut x.com/GOATplay_Fan/s…

@mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde she doesn't correctly reference the plot of either play, doesn't weave their true characters as written into her lyrics. beyond the names, there's not a hint of the original works in either song. lazy, sloppy, hollow

@mahwashajaz_ @colemanjspilde She references classic art pieces to leech off of their prestige in a failed attempt to associate herself with greatness, but does not really understand the classic art or build on it interestingly. And all her writing is cliche, stylistically regressive, shallow slop.

Lol she literally references classic art pieces and mixes them with modern musical anthems with deep themes of anxiety, depression, loneliness, love and longing and here you are judging her entire existence and her art from a tiny glimpse of some corner of her property that she probably doesn’t even acknowledge fully. Peak internet analysis.

@akivafr123 @gmiller @jonathanbfine Honestly can't tell whether this is an insult or a compliment, but I'd argue that being willing to admit Coldplay's first few albums are good is a sign of intellectualism, especially if you DO include Mylo Xyloto despite being pop. That said, Velvet Underground is my actual GOAT

@GOATplay_Fan @gmiller @jonathanbfine Spoken like a true Coldplay fan. :P

the mistake so many people make is seeing university professors as intellectuals when they’re actually employees at a combination hedge fund and healthcare conglomerate that operates a small luxury resort/sports franchise where student-customers occasionally take classes

@Neorio12321 @jonathanbfine I am a big advocate for higher education (see my other replies to tweets in this thread), but it's true that the bottom 20-40% of students (in terms of standardized testing) who attend college do not really benefit as much as the students at a top 50, 100, or even 150 school.

@jonathanbfine Half of all "student-customers" in college in the last 25 years are actually scam victims because data shows the bottom 50% in IQ who have been accepted into colleges had an almost completely hopeless chance of A) graduating or B) using their degree.