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cynical behavior
6/15/05:
I can’t stop listening
to the new Coldplay, despite the New York Times convincing me of how bad
Chris Martin’s lyrics are. Well, many bands have bad lyrics and
the fact that Martin’s are so simple makes them easily memorized.
I’ve finally gotten to where I can sing along in the car, a habit
previously acquired from and applied to their two prior albums.
The thing I noticed about
“X&Y” today is how filled with soundtrack-ready music
it is. Not surprising, I must have heard their song “Clocks”
in a number of films not to mention trailers. I can find at least 6 songs
off “Parachutes” and “A Rush of Blood to the Head”
credited on the IMDB for having been licensed, some more than once, to
movies and television shows. Thems some big endorsements from a band that
proudly denied rights to GAP (I hear they’re in a new iTunes ad,
though). Well, at least I don’t feel bad now about downloading their
songs; Martin will be a millionaire from royalties alone.
I wouldn’t be surprised
if studios had already paid the band premature fees similar to how they
buy rights to acclaimed authors’ unpublished books. Had any of them
known how celestial the themes would be on “X&Y”, they
could easily have assigned science-fiction pitches to screenwriters that
could easily include a song like “Square One” or “Speed
of Sound”. If Wes Anderson can revolve a movie around an old song,
surely someone can do the same with an unwritten one. There’s already
someone out there looking to place “Talk” at the head of their
movie. I know it.
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