The act of stealing a song from a guitar god, and not giving him any credit for it. Usually ends in a lawsuit after the plagiarist ignores months of repeated attempts by the original songwriter to resolve the issue out of court. Coldplagiarism is commited by over-rated douchebag musicians who are not talented enough to write a decent song of their own. Typically the stolen song will be renamed after a Spanish painting, the guitar chords are usually replaced with a crappy synthesized version, and the guitarmelody is replaced with whiny vocals sung by a talentless hack.
Whether or not the courts decide to crack down on the growing problem of coldplagiarism remains to be seen.
Chris Martin : "Writing music is too hard, I'll just steal a song from Joe Satriani and do a cheap knock-off of it. Nobody will catch my attempt at coldplagiarism.
Reflecting nostalgically on the relative value of money way back when to today’s prices. Generally used with the validation that the sum was much higher than it now sounds.
“Talking of costalgia my first house cost me £35,000 which was a lot of money in those days”
“I don’t wish to sound costalgic but a pint of beer used to cost £1:60 which is a lot more than it sounds”
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”