Coldplay is a band that most people would recognize and would acknowledge as artists - whether they cared for their music or not.

Other than that, there was a crop of "early twenties male singer-songwriters" that flew into town a few years ago, names like John Mayer, Gavin DeGraw, James Blunt, Jason Mraz. For the most part, they were all pretty tame, acousticy, sensitive teary-eyed players but they were all talented and the girls seemed to like them