As a big Coldplay fan – I’m talking really big here – I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of their new album, ‘Viva La Viva’. You could compare my anticipation to that of a child coming home from school wanting to see a present that his parents’ had promised him for weeks.
Shortly before the album’s release on June the 12th, the strangely addictive ‘Violet Hill’ was available for download - for free - on their official website. ‘Oh great’, I thought. ‘It’s so bad they’re flogging it off for the grand price of…nothing’. However, I was pleasantly surprised. And just moments before, I’d given up on any hope of it being even a slightly decent tune. So, when I pressed the play button on my computer, I felt almost a sigh of relief when it finally dawned on me that they’d been able to churn out yet another horribly good track. That, though, was the free download. The sheer horror and disgust was still yet to come. Who would’ve thought that my opinion of one of my favourite bands could change in a matter of weeks? Not me. I was sure that Coldplay’s ability to convey the strangest of emotions through song would last until the end of time, but it appears I was wrong. 'Viva La Viva' is quiet possibly the biggest pile of nonsense to hit the music world in a long time. In fact, I wouldn’t put it past Chris Martin himself to publicly announce that the songs will be involved in the next Eurovision Song Contest. Monotonous tones, strange lyrics and a whole host of vocal tragedies make 'Viva La Viva' the largest musical letdown of 2008. My loyalty to this band has, sadly and unfortunately, been lost to this latest disaster from a band I thought would give the charts yet another reason to be thankful that there are still talented home-bred musicians in this country.
How sad it is that a free download gives more musical delight than an album that was classed, before release, to be the biggest hit of the year.
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