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Coldplay Learned to Fill Stadiums Without Leaving the Committee
Four students found one another in London, survived their own earnestness and turned private yearning into a public utility. Nearly three decades later, Coldplay's brightest trick is still collective: make the enormous feel oddly intimate.
Nxdia
Nxdia (born Nadia Ahmed) is an Egyptian-British alt-pop and pop-punk artist based in Manchester and London whose bilingual English-Arabic songwriting, queer identity, and confessional lyricism about obsession, desire, and self-discovery have made them one of the most exciting emerging voices in UK indie music. Known for hooky, pulsating tracks like 'She Likes a Boy' and 'Jennifer's Body', Nxdia's debut mixtape 'I Promise No One's Watching' surpassed 100 million Spotify streams by August 2025, and their 2026 single 'Cool' cements a more confident, genre-blurring new era.