Coldplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coldplayers
Etymology: From Coldplay + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Coldplay’s new album is called Parachutes. […] Most British rock bands now are happy to be a lot of people’s third favourite band. […] They have a broad, unexclusive appeal. Your mum quite likes that [Doris Eaton] Travis song — you know, the one about singing in the rain. Your dad likes the Coldplayers’ album.
ref: 2000 November 18–24, The Guide (The Guardian), page 12:
text: The fact that the other Coldplayers refuse to look at him [Chris Martin] (unless it’s to smirk derisively) while performing has been cited as evidence of a feud (although our theory is that they’re simply shoe-gazing).
ref: 2001 October, Marc Spitz, “Backstage Pass: Coldplay’s singer has “Yellow” fever; Faithless Fight Dido-sploitation”, in Spin, volume 17, number 10, page 38:
text: COLDPLAYERS: [Chris] Martin, front, is a hopeful romantic
ref: 2002 September 2, Josh Tyrangiel, “Solid Music For Softies: Coldplay makes wuss rock—excellent wuss rock”, in Time, volume 160, number 10:
text: The boyish Canadian crooner [Ron Sexsmith] is Coldplay’s opening act on this leg of their tour, and he’s been crafting the same kind of reflective and bittersweet ballads as main Coldplayer Chris Martin since 1985 — but with a lot less success.
ref: 2003 January 31, Gene Triplett, “Soothing melodies preferred”, in The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., page 1-B:
text: The band managed to leave the pressures of global fame outside the Liverpool studio while “Rush of Blood” was rushed to completion in late 2001. The Coldplayers felt confident their sophomore effort would please fans — until they got an earful of vintage George Harrison. During a brief trip to Los Angeles, the band stopped by Capitol Records and heard “Isn’t It a Pity” from Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass.” “That knocked my head off,” [Chris] Martin says. “On the plane on the way back to England, I realized we didn’t have a single song as good as that.”
ref: 2003 February 4, Edna Gundersen, “Coldplay follows in path of performers with passion”, in Tulsa World, page D 4:
text: The Coldplayers are humanists in a scientific world, crooners in a sea of techno.
ref: 2005 June 5, Evelyn McDonnell, “Coldplay’s ‘X&Y’ equals sounds of romance”, in The Miami Herald, page 8M:
text: COLDPLAYER, SELF-HATER / CHRIS MARTIN THRIVES ON POST-ADOLESCENT ANGST — BUT WITH A WORLD VIEW
ref: 2005 September 11, The Miami Herald, 102nd year, number 362, page 1A:
text: Ballads died with hair-rock, and even though our post-9/11 world loves stupefying sentimentality, it’s time for us to realize that we need to dump the Coldplayers the way we dumped rock rap and boy bands. We need dance music!
ref: 2006 September 14, Brian McGovern, “Spin it round, flip it and reverse it: Are You keen on Keane and Co.?”, in The Daily Illini, number 19:
text: According to news reports, Chris Martin, main Coldplayer and husband to Gwyneth Paltrow, has been seeing a hypnotist to help relieve the “stress of song writing.”
ref: 2008 January 10, Cary Darling, Christopher Kelly, “8 for ’08: Usher croons odes to broccoli, and would-be Jedis get their fight on”, in Star-Telegram, page 8E:
text: Coldplayer heats up / Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the “Viva La Vida” Tour at the O2 World Arena on Monday in Berlin, Germany.
ref: 2008 September 16, “The ‘A’ List: Celebrity news and sightings”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 139, number 260, page 2A:
glosses: A member of the British rock band Coldplay.