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The album cover features a rendition of French artist Eugène Delacroix’s historical painting known as “Liberty Leading the People”, which commemorates the French Revolution of 1830. It demands sympathy for the overthrown king.
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The song is written through King Louis point of view, as he apologizes to his people, accepting his fate. Coldplay’s song “Viva La Vida” is an interpretation of king louis’s last words before his death. There is a story that when Louis XVI was walking up to be publicly executed via guillotine, he tried to give one final speech to his people but the drums’ sounds and people’s screams were too loud so no one could hear him. The central idea of the song and album is a retelling of the French revolution and the death of the domineering King Louis XVI… It is about life, death, war, and change. It was written by all members of the band for their fourth album ” Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)”. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.“Viva la Vida” (Spanish for “Long Live Life”) is a modern classic song by British rock band, Coldplay. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SIEGEL: Well, Timothy English's book is called "Sounds Like Teen Spirit." And he was talking to us about the controversy over the song "Viva La Vida" by the band Coldplay and its strong similarity to Joe Satriani's song "If I Could Fly." Tim English, thanks a lot for talking with us.Ĭopyright © 2008 NPR. SIEGEL: The plagiarism allegation has gone platinum, is what you're saying. ENGLISH: Yeah, I noticed on YouTube over the weekend that a video comparing the Satriani and Coldplay tracks had, I think, it was almost a million hits just this weekend, which is just incredible and shows a great interest in this topic, so. SIEGEL: Is there any indication, by the way, that when somebody does sue, is there any flurry of purchases when it's getting a lot of attention in the plagiarism suit? It's now over 50 years old and, you know, the amount of originality you could have may be starting to get limited. One is there's just a very large quantity of recorded music. ENGLISH: It happens quite often for a lot of different reasons. SIEGEL: Is it a degree of similarity that strikes you as very rare, or does this happen in rock music? But when you hear the two songs together, they certainly do sound similar to my ears.
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They're kind of working in slightly different genres where almost all of Joe Satriani's music is instrumental, and of course, Coldplay working in a more pop, mainstream area. TIM ENGLISH (Author, "Sounds Like Teen Spirit"): They certainly sound very similar. Tim English, are these songs, would you say, similar? English has written a book about songs with similar sounds. Well, Timothy English joins me now from our New York Studios to thrash all this out. A little extra tension here: Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" CD is a big hit and a Grammy Award nominee. And when he didn't hear back after several months, he filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Coldplay last week. SIEGEL: Joe Satriani is a rock guitarist, and he says he tried to contact Coldplay. Now if you were listening to this and your name happened to be Joe Satriani, and you were concentrating less on the lyrics than on the music, well, it might have made you think about a song that you wrote and performed in 2004, an instrumental called "If I Could Fly." Now I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to own." The lyric made at least one magazine writer I read think of the Wall Street meltdown. SIEGEL: That string-saturated song is called "Viva La Vida" by the band Coldplay. Now in the morning I sleep alone, Sweep the streets I used to own. If you were near a radio or an MP3 player or in a bar last summer, you might have found it impossible to avoid hearing this song.ĬOLDPLAY: (Singing): I used to rule the world.