So Joe Satriani has filed suit against Coldplay for apparently stealing one of his riffs for the song "Viva La Vida." Things are getting heavy for Chris Martin and the boys: first the Creaky Boards cry plagiarism and now this.
This most recent accusation is sort of a hard pill to swallow for a few reasons:
1.) "Viva La Vida" was released in May of 2008. The Creaky Boards complaint was made a month after, which is an appropriate time to react to the supposed pilfering of one of your songs. Seven months is not an appropriate amount of time, especially when "Viva La Vida" was on TV and radio for months straight and is now finally starting to lose steam.
2.) Even if the riffs are somewhat similar, over the course of time there have been many songs that sound somewhat alike and have been passed off as simply a coincidence.
3.) That being said, these songs don't really sound very much alike. If it is that riff after the first bit, then I think Satch is just being picky.
I'm sure that this will go away just like the last accusation did. But if I'm Chris Martin, I would be proud of myself: apparently the song he wrote is so good that everyone wants a piece of the action.
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