Playgerism: The next big thing in music?
Brooklyn band Creaky Boards member Andrew Hoepfner must have been stunned when the new Coldplay commercials appeared on TV.
He popped a video on you tube of his song titled “Songs I Didn’t Write” which he claims to have performed by his folk-punk duo and friends at the CMJ festival in October 2007, claiming Coldplay’s Chris Martin was present during the New York show.
He has been quoted saying:
“We were flattered when we thought we saw Chris Martin in the crowd that night. He seemed pretty into it. Maybe too into it.”
Coldplay’s new song “Vida La Viva“, a methodically similar backward version of “Songs I didn’t Write“, now happens to have a second sister!
Take a listen to Joe Santrini’s awesome version of a similar tune…So what really happened there? One mother, three children? Who is the eldest and most rightful heir to the throne?
After the numerous claims on online blogs and in print where Hoepfner is supposedly accusing Martin of stealing his song, I heard differently from the horses mouth today:
“I’m not sure if we saw him at the show, after all, now that I’ve heard Chris’s alibi.”
Hoepfner jokingly adds:
“It’s so hard to tell British people apart. We are influenced by Brian Wilson and M.I.A. Perhaps Joe Satriani and Chris Martin are too.”
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I’m not sure who copied who, but it was probably inadvertent. It’s stupid to think in this day and age that someone won’t notice; I don’t think anyone, especially Coldplay, would try to pull it off.
Even if it’s a ripoff, Coldplay’s not the first one to do that.
How about Timbaland?
Or even more crazy: Nickelback. They ripped off one of their own songs for another. (Yes, they divided by zero, no, the world is alright, thanks for your concern)
Besides, at some point one song will always sound similiar to another, because there’s a limited way of making music. It’s our own fault though that we had to “dumb” music down to around 3 minutes in a fixed basic construct.
Bands that fall out of that continuum (eg Pink Floyd) have a quality that won’t be reached ever again, because they always try to play a song as long as possible.
If they did actually steal his song he is a Very Big fool to not take them to court. Their making millions from his song not simply as a song on their cd but a single. Out of the blue he’s just like “well, he might now have been at the concert and it could be just a concidence that the songs vocals,music and video is the same as mine. please just sign me if you like coldplay i got more songs you can ripe off”