i've got soul, but i'm not a soldier...nope, just an asshole
Ok I'll admit it. I like The Killers. The music, that is. I have the cd, and when they play 'Mr. Brightside' at Lee's Palace in Toronto, I feel compelled to jump up and down. I'm a fan of that whole revisited new wave style. What I'm not a fan of is Brandon Flowers going all Gallagher Bros. on everyone now that they've sold a few records. Today the band was on Much on Demand (which I watched because I have no life) and they were really rude during their interview plus they were jerks about answering questions that their fans had for them. The way I look at it, they've only got two singles and their album is barely a year old...thus the whole diva behaviour that Nick loves so much is somewhat premature at this point. They don't seem to show any signs of stopping either, as they've been taking the opportunity to publicly take shots at other bands in their genre, specifically The Bravery. Brandon slagged them in an interview recently by saying "They're signed because we're a band".
Excuse moi? High and mighty much?
It's prompted me to write the following open letter:
Dear Brandon Flowers,
Before you talk shit about how your holy existance is the sole reason for every other band with a keyboard, you should remember the fact that your band wouldn't be signed were it not for The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Interpol, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and this funny little movement in the 80's called New Wave. Your snooty, nose-in-the-air attitude is making other natives of Las Vegas look bad. (That's for you, Underhill)
P.S, Eyeliner doesn't make you look ironic, just weird and girly.
Sincerely yours for time immemorial,
Diadima
note the use of a single 'k'
Excuse moi? High and mighty much?
It's prompted me to write the following open letter:
Dear Brandon Flowers,
Before you talk shit about how your holy existance is the sole reason for every other band with a keyboard, you should remember the fact that your band wouldn't be signed were it not for The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Interpol, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and this funny little movement in the 80's called New Wave. Your snooty, nose-in-the-air attitude is making other natives of Las Vegas look bad. (That's for you, Underhill)
P.S, Eyeliner doesn't make you look ironic, just weird and girly.
Sincerely yours for time immemorial,
Diadima
note the use of a single 'k'
posted by diadima at 6:02 PM
18 Comments:
hahaha... I was just listening th the killers on my walk home.. Sorry to hear they are assholes!!
-L
you're right - looks like they've forgotten that they aren't the first and best band ever! i like that mr brightside song but everytime i hear smile like you mean it I just want to hurt them.
Avril Lavigne alienated nearly all of Australia when she visited here once by being rude and arrogant - little skankface.
littlemissknit: it sucks when bands aren't even remotely gracious of their success. but i still like the music. i'm a sucker.
loz: i concur that avril is a total bitch. i apologize for her poor representation of canadians in australia. i fully support your prime minister giving her a public booting.
Ahhhh, the Simpsons... Is there any cultural misunderstanding they're not responsibile for? (I believe you were referring to the episode where they come to Australia and our primeminister wanted to give him a public booting...)
I actually read an article by a journalist about the art of interviewing Avril, and he, unlike everyone else, decided that what he would do is instead on interviewing her himself, he would get his daughter to do it. He said "At the end of the day, you have to remember that she is (was) a young girl who gets the same stupid questions by middle age journalists several times a day - its hard to sound interesting and be interested all the time." Fair enough, I thought.
the booting comment was especially for you kallun and loz.
that was a great episode. as for cultural misunderstandings...they also show us living in igloos here in canada...despite the fact that we share a border. americans are funny that way.
I'm from T.O. (used to live at bathurst and bloor) and I'm now in California... Apparently i'm cool now because of miss universe... Love the pic!!!! Ugly bunch of mugs!
-L
Why do people think they get a free pass when they're assholes just becasue they have a smidge of popularity. I don't get it. They'll still be punks in February of next year.
I'll stick with Coheed and Cambria, The Darkness and Super Furry Animals, thank you very much.
On a completely unrelated note... I met a girl tonight - a friend of a friend - who is planning on doing research into TV dramas here in Japan. Anyway, turns out that she's also a fan of Buffy - he had heaps to talk to about. Its so much talking Buffy with other people - favourite episodes, best seasons... what are yours, by the way?
well kallun, i would say that my favourite season is season three.
fav episodes:
faith, hope and trick: the one where angel falls out of the sky naked (hellooo)
ammends: the christmas episode where angel is haunted by miss calender and co.
gingerbread: the sunnydale witch hunt
graduation day (p1&2) best season finale, EVER
hush: when everyone in sunnydale's voices are stolen
who are you: buffy and faith switch bodies. i like this one because at the end, we see faith as someone tormented by what she had become, not just a trashy ho.
Graduation day (1 & 2) - both supremely excellent.
Hush - Giles' flash cards are hilarious.
Once More, With Feeling - my all time fav.
Seeing Red - The emotion that Alyson Hannigan displayed made me tear up a little. Only a little, though.
once more, with feeling is a great one. i also love alyson hannigan, but i can't help feeling that she should be with oz. someone send him a telegram over at family guy and get his little ass back with willow. grr
Well it's just that Seth Green is a stone cold pimp. Idle Hands, Family Guy, Greg The Bunny, The Italian Job - everything he gets his hands into is hilarious and briliant. I do miss Oz. Although I have to say that I'm a big fan of the chicks kissing, but that's neither here nor there.
What about Seth Green in Rat Race? DAMN FUNNY!
I don't think he sould have left Buffy either - it made no sense for Willow to suddenly be a lesbian and would never have happened if Oz had stuck around.
I'ma go back to The Killers for a sec: let's not forget that the single that put them on the map, "Somebody Told Me" has a god damned *disco* bassline. So unless this asshole has given props to KC and ALL of the Sunshine Band, and whoever wrote "If You Think I'm Sexy", then he's all the much more classless for it.
annonymous: that would be rod stewart.
Rod Stewart is the Man!
oh underhill...so seductive when you're self-deprecating.
i thought the strangest part was that they STARTED their music careers in vegas. most musicians head out there at the end of their careers to die.
obviously. nothing else makes sense
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