Coldplay

From a New York Times article about karaoke killings in Asia.

Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay’s “Yellow” after criticizing his version.

I know people have died and there should be an appropriate measure of grief in any commentary about it, but kudos to the Seattle woman who punched the guy for singing Coldplay. First of all, I love that it was a woman who punched a man and secondly, it's a real service to Seattle's musical heritage to assault anyone who forces Coldplay upon a public audience. This should be the law everywhere...you know, except for the Philippines.