Glastonbury 2024: Why do I sometimes feel like I am the only person in Britain who loves Coldplay?

The occasion: the London launch of the first smartspeaker, which I was attending as a technology journalist. I just can’t shake it, even when I like some of their songs.” So, with another Coldplay appearance at Glastonbury on the Pyramid stage – their fifth headlining slot – and an album, Moon Music, coming out soon, I’ve been trying to analyse my own love for both the music and the band – and also understand Coldplay phobia. Nice, normal crowds brimming with positivity and heartfelt emotion are seen as snobby and emotionally constipated; dullards awash with mawkish sentimentality “Once a band gets huge, a weird thing happens,” says Bob Bradley, a musician turned music PR in the States. “Coldplay offered catchy and inoffensive music, it was this association with the latest corporate sound and, of course, Chris Martin’s public romance, which unfortunately dimmed earlier interest in their music.” Ah yes, the Gwyneth Paltrow thing should not be underestimated in trying to understand why so many people have such an aversion to Coldplay. Coldplay’s latest Glastonbury appearance will only make their haters’ eyes roll again, But the signs are that the band might have come full circle among some hipsters, who, granted, have also made fleeces cool again.