If you follow commercial music, you'll realise bands have it hard these days. They start out as indie little outfits, get signed on by record companies if people appreciate their music, release their first record, get mainstream recognition, and when their second album comes around with a different sound, they get branded sellouts.
I was listening to an acoustic rendition of Viva la Vida by Coldplay on Youtube, and reading the comments, I was surprised at how many people actually hated the song and called Coldplay sellouts. Just because the song isn't all oh-I-want-to-cut-myself-emo it means Coldplay has sold out? Damn, I guess its hard to cut yourself to Viva la Vida huh. Violin too preppy for you?
Okay, apparently they preferred songs like Yellow, The Scientist, and Parachutes. The last song is probably one of the shortest songs I've ever listened to. The first time I heard it I thought it was a bad download and went to download it again, only to realise it was really only all of 46 seconds long. Oh, did I just admit I'm a pirate? Whatever. It's more fun being a pirate. For the record, bittorrent rocks my socks too. I definitely recommend it.
That still isn't the shortest song I've listened to though. That record belongs to my cousin, who got called on stage by an overenthusiastic emcee during mid-autumn festival once, and went on to sing 3 chinese words before clamming up and refusing to continue. You can't blame the poor kid for his stage fright. He was only 6. But anyway, 3 seconds. Beat that. On second thought, don't.
I don't deny old Coldplay had awesome songs, but do you expect a band to sit around for a few years and not change? That was 2000, now its 2009. I think it's a miracle that they are still around making good music because most bands these days don't last that long. Do you still remember who was big in 2000? Backstreet Boys. N'SYNC with Justin. Britney Spears with hair. I think I've proved my case.
Anyway teens have a sad life these days. At least I had Britney Spears to listen to. Now they get Miley Cyrus. No offence, but Britney pwns Hannah Montana big time. Okay, Britney before she decided to go all GI Jane, become Paris' other BFF and marry Fed-Ex. I guess she found the perfect life boring.
I wish people who hated Coldplay would not do stupid things like load Coldplay songs on Youtube and listen to them just to diss them all over the comments pages. And they do it again and again. Like seriously, don't you have better things to do with your time? Don't like don't listen la. Seriously damn bloody bo liao.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, you really don't have anything better to do with your time do you? My sympathies. Go diss the Jonas Brothers or something. You'd find a community there.