Jajaja! At the Coldplay-cabana, they fell in love...

I think a little part of me is weeping in the corner.

While I'm all for experimentation of bands, etc... WTF. "Hispanic" music is not like a shoe! I mean, you can have influence from a certain source - Ben Folds was influenced by a lot of early RnB artists (though his fans are notoriously racist) and he didn't try to invade it or anything by being obsequiously black.

Fuck la cultura de eeuu!!

Well I'm not sure if you heard the remix of Coldplay's clocks. It's got this interesting salsa latin jazz sound to it and it worked pretty well. Unfortunately, I don't see a song like "Yellow" being done in the same way. I can see it if they bachata'd "The Scientist." So we'll see. As long as we don't hear that they invented salsa 50 years from now in the history books, then I'm fine ...

Everyone knows that it was the Beatles who invented salsa, Jose. (Or was it Gloria Estefan?)

Great first Pat Boone sings Metal and now this. What's next Vicente Fernandez doing Techno.

"Fuck la cultura de eeuu!!"
What cultura de e.e.u.u.?? That's the problem, we have no culture, at least nothing meaningful (by "we" I am referring to those who are descended primarily from northern Europeans). That's why we take little bits of everyone else's and "make it ours." For centuries, our governments, elites, and religious institutions have waged war on our own culture, obliterating dances, festivals, seasonal observances that our euro ancestors once held dear. Not unlike the cultural wars we've waged against the indigenous worldwide. We are a sad people, lacking those cultural ties that bind a people together. I apologize if this seems a bit random, but it's something that bothers me a lot, and to me, "culture of the U.S.A." is a total oxymoron.

LOL

That's all English is, an amalgamation of bits and pieces from every language we've come across.

Ah, Coldplay, the band you can invite home to meet your mother for weak tea and cucumber sarnies, but what will Grandmama make of the sombreros and Zapata moustaches now? Someone fetch the vicar she has fainted dead away, I can only pray she doesn't hear of Blur's new reggae album. Lawks a mercy.

Hell I like Coldplay (I also like Radiohead), but I don't like gimmicks. if they can pull it off, then fine, but if you want to freewheel it, let Nelly Furtado do it, she is way hotter...

well, one small comment, RickB: (and your comment is hilarious, by the way). Blur has always been ultra eclectic, from the start, an album easily containing ten different styles. So from them, a reggae album seems much less calculated and contradictory.

I could make one of my long tedious comments about all of this reaction as to who makes what kind of music, but I will cut it very short today. Latin America is full of very successful bands that produce Rock en Espanol from Mana to Terciopelados, so I fail to see why Coldplay {though hard to believe, I have never heard them -- of them, yes -- but they don't make into my soundscape somehow} can't vaccuum up some Latinicity, whatever that might be.
Aren't those Coldplay guys British?
Are we to be upset that Jose Feliciano sang "Light My Fire" and Santana made Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" into a Hammond B3 Rockin' Tune? That Dizzy Gillespie twisted up a whole lot of sounds and then blew them around the world? And this was 40 years ago.
As to the US, particularly descendants of Northern Europeans, not having any real culture left, WRONG on a hundred counts. If Nez lets me take over his blog here for a month, I will set that straight, but it is an erroneous statement, surely.
Gotta go now. Reggaeton is blasting out of radios in cars that drive by as I write this. What's up with that? Every country has rap artists. Know where Orchestra La Luz is from?
The international Salsa Dance Festival and Competition was last week in San Juan and there were couples from all over the world there, celebrating a sound that is DEAD in PR. Salsa artists can barely get work in PR.
It's a crazy world.

yes, not having heard Coldplay would definitely tend to leave one "out in the cold" on getting what i'm saying here.

Guilty, Nez. I have no great need to find out about Coldplay either. This week a movie starring Marc Anthony and JLO opened in San Juan. They play Puchi and La Voz, I can't wait to hear that album. Hector Lavoe {the movie is about him}, the Sonero y Salsero, is closer to my general taste.
In the background right now I have Italian opera playing, speaking of Culchah.
Somewhere, somehow, people are crazy about Coldplay. Others are insane about Salsa played by Japanese bands that sing phonetic Spanish.
Thousands and thousands of both delightful and dreadful musical concoctions are recorded and released to the world every week.
We never get to hear 99.999 percent of them. Life is too short.

cleary not too short to defend Coldplay's appropriation of The New Hispanic Theme! salud!

I think the US culture is the act of appropriation. I don't know if that makes sense... like a gluttonous fool. We even appropriate ourselves - you can see this in country music.

I knew I should of said Oasis! Or William Shatner, now his albums are awesome.

GOLDENTHROAT SHATNER!!

Amen to that, I love Futurama's respectful tribute-
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3QzYBpP8btg

Had to run out and fix a pump. Well, Nez, we will have to see if Coldplay gets some airplay in Puerto Rico when the new album comes out. I'll keep you posted.
I think expropriation is pretty endemic in pop music. I can't understand why anyone would care. In fact, expropriation has been the history of music all around the world. That and wild innovation and invention.

well, as i implied above, i really think to understand the oddness of their sea change, the prerequisite of being familiar with Coldplay's sound and audience must be in place. i dont deny that crossover and influence is a ubiquitous, vital, and enjoyable part of the ever-evolving world of music. i am a musician and have been for 22 years. my style has not stayed the same, and everything informs everything else. crossover, influence, and evolution of sound is not what this post is about...timing and trend is. but again, i'm being redundant.

let me know how the New Caliente Coldplay goes over in PR, I'm sure they will be all the rave. just like when David Carradine played the Green Hornet.