According to reports, Coldplay’s new album ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’ has sold 125,000 copies during its first day out in the UK. With those numbers, the album is expected to take over the top spot on the UK album chart very easily. Why? To be honest, I’m not a big fan of the album. I think it sucks. There are even rumors that one of their songs, ‘Viva La Vida’ was actually copied off from an unknown UK band. Tsk. Add the fact that Chris Martin has gone diva on us, it just made me not like it more.
The Jonas Brothers have taken over the cover of the new issue of Billboard. In their interview, they talked about their new album, writing songs and even Jonas mania. Of the new album, they spoke of the singles being reminiscent of Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake and even early Weezer. Joe talked about writing the songs saying “Pretty much we were writing all these songs when we were on tour, and we didn’t have time to go into a studio and record. There’s a lot of time when you’re on the tour bus where there’s a lot of waiting around. We have like four hours in each day where we could really do something.” Nick adds his experience saying “When we’re writing together, we’re really open to each other’s ideas, which I think is really important when you’re writing songs. No one can be closed-minded, because then nothing is going to work. For us, it’s really just one of our passions. It’s kind of our roots.”