“We look at what other people are doing and try and steal all the good bits,” Coldplay’s Chris Martin recently said. “We steal from so many different places that hopefully it becomes untraceable.”
Hmmm.
We know that Coldplay will always be down for swiping a token or two from U2’s bag of tricks, but recent online buzz suggests Coldplay sampled from other sources on their newest release, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
American indie band Creaky Boards have just launched a cyberspace attack on Coldplay’s latest single, “Viva la Vida”. The Brooklyn-based group posted a YouTube clip arguing that the melody from Coldplay’s track was stolen from one of their songs, and that Martin caught one of their live shows last year.
Ironically enough, the title of the original song is “The Songs I Didn’t Write”.
Coldplay has since denied all allegations, blah, blah, so on and so forth. Although I don’t really think the claim has much merit, it sheds some extra-sketchy light on a band that has a number-one selling album and likens themselves to be the next rock messiahs.
It has long been known that Coldplay plans to be the “next U2”; Chris Martin recently revealed that he actually dreams about having Bono’s babies secretly murdering Bono being Bono Bono.
Anyways, the band just released their fourth attempt at a rock revolution, which Martin compared to U2’s 1984 album, Unforgettable Fire. Interesting. Coldplay also recruited legendary producer Brian Eno (responsible for U2’s 1987 masterpiece The Joshua Tree) to reinvent their sound on Viva. Coincidence?
To be honest, I’m not really feeling their first single, “Viva La Vida”, or much else of the CD at all. Despite the fact that the album flew to the top of the charts in mere days, I am sufficiently convinced that Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends will never be Unforgettable Fire, and Coldplay will never be U2. And rumors that the band is swiping from obscure indie rock acts definitely doesn’t help.
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