What always confused me about Coldplay’s newest album was that North America got Violet Hill first and Europe got Viva La Vida first, when it was clear that the latter was the superior song by virtually every metric. Does it deserve to be Song of the Year? Well, I’ve been sort of away from the music world for a while so I’m not going to pretend to have a strongly held opinion on this. But at the same time, I have to wonder if a song whose greatest strength, at least with respect to me, is that it reminds me of a fantastic promo video for NBC’s upcoming show Kings is really deserving of Song of the Year? Maybe it’s just me and my dangerously growing obsession with all things TV. Regardless, congrats to the Coldplay boys; it’s still a pretty good song.