Craig's Blog of Destiny

Ok, so I know I’m a little behind on this, but I didn’t watch the Grammy’s and this just came across my radar this morning:

Coldplay won the Grammy for Song Of The Year for ‘Viva La Vida’ at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles

I am appalled.  I’m looking for other words that mean appalled.  The only synonym Merriman Webster comes up with is dismayed.  Dismayed is not at all adequate.  I’m appalled.  Merriman Webster says that “appall implies that one is faced with that which perturbs, confounds, or shocks.”  Oh I’m perturbed all right.  Perturb is to “disturb greatly in mind.”  My mind is definitely disturbed.  I am shocked, and sickened and revolted and aghast and disgusted and outraged.  I am appalled.

When I first heard of Coldplay, I wanted to like them.  I’m not sure why, but I did.  I then saw them on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and was disappointed in the degree to which their sound and their performance was “pop,” meaning much more concerned with appealing to the masses than with any kind of musical quality.  So, I stopped thinking I might like to like them, and didn’t think much more of them since then.

Until a couple of months ago, when this surfaced:

(Thanks to Bob and Tom Radio for the audio)

Now, I’m really not trying to judge here, and whether or not Coldplay owes anything to Joe Satriani is for the courts to determine.  What galls me is that Coldplay, specifically their front man, Chris Martin, at first ignored Joe, and then chose to vehemently deny that it’s the same song.  That’s distressing.  I’m not saying he has to admit to stealing it, but the only way anyone can say those aren’t the same song is for that someone to be an absolute, bold face liar.

And now the Grammy’s have given him the award for Song of the Year, exhibiting an unholy degree of ineptitude.  The very best thing I can say about Chris Martin is that he seems to be tailor made for politics.  (BTW, his reference to Coldplay’s outfits bearing a striking resemblance to The Beatles Sergeant Pepper look did not in anyway redeem him.  It only made his lie about the music that much more daunting and was obviously intended simply to get Coldplay mentioned in the same sentence as The Beatles, which he’s gotten me to do…  damn…)

I know I said I wasn’t judging, and the whole thing will end up decided by the courts, but I’m really hoping that the net effect of this award being given to Coldplay will be a substantial increase in the amount of damages Joe Satriani is awarded.