a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service. 2. the aggregation of persons, parties, states, etc., associated in such a covenant or compact; confederacy. 3. an association of individuals having a common goal. 4. a group of athletic teams organized to promote mutual interests and to compete chiefly among themselves: a bowling league.
This disconnect causes a lot of cognitive dissonance. Coldplayâs ostensible genre, alternative rock, is intrinsically cool ânot cool in the high-school sense, but cool in the way that Lou Reed or Miles Davis was cool. Aloof.
âSomething Just Like Thisâ. Coldplayâs downfall can be traced back to a specific time and place: Glastonbury 2011, when they bested fellow headliners U2 on one of the worldâs biggest stages. The torch-passing moment was well-deserved, but it left the band nowhere to go; these wonderfully sappy losers had won.