No new entry yet, but check this out in the meantime. Funniest SNL Digital Short since "I Ran".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7766683.stm
So apparently, Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay for the similarities found between the songs "If I Could Fly" and Coldplay's smash-hit single "Viva La Vida".
This lawsuit is pathetic. Like it actually angers me... and I can deal with fantastic musicians making stupid lawsuits (after all, I am a Prince fan) but this is just a low blow to Satriani's credibility as a person. It seems like he saw the youtube comparison and felt like he wanted to cash in on this coincidence.
The chord progression for both songs is incredibly common. Most musicians are aware of this would not make a big fuss out of it. The only two parties dumb enough to accuse Chris Martin of ripping them off are an unknown basement band and a musician whose ego is even greater than his abilities as a guitarist.
If you listen to the comparison, not only will you find that both songs are transposed to be in different keys in the video and that the similarity only lasts after... like 3 notes. It's nothing more than a passing similarity and I really doubt that Coldplay did this intentionally or had even listened to a random and obscure Satch track.
We'll see how this case ends up... I'm hoping it'll be deservedly thrown out of court.
Lately I've just felt so insignificant and small. I'm hoping that these feelings will go away, like when I saw a scary film as a child and it stayed on my mind for days but one day I wasn't even afraid of it anymore.
I will find myself going "back to normal" for a few hours every day before sinking back into total negativity. Yesterday it was so bad that I wondered if I should go to therapy. However, now I'm not sure what I should do. Hope things get better soon.