30 October 2006
♥ flower power... except not!
I think the Killers are really just ahead of their time. Now, don't get me wrong: I loved their 2004 debut, Hot Fuss. But their latest album, Sam's Town, left me in a mood almost too melancholy to write this blog.
I gave it a lot of thought on the drive to school today, and the problem is that the band has bad timing. I mean, I picture the narrator of "Somebody Told Me" as being somewhat akin to Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in Night At the Roxbury, how they, like, sandwich girls in and sort of... dance at them, you know? Kind of cornering them? Totally desperate? But think about it: when they recorded "Somebody Told Me," Brandon Flowers was an irresistable babesky. Maybe I'm speaking for fewer girls than I think, but if, at the time, he'd come up to me in a club and showed even the slightest interest in me, he wouldn't have even had enough time to get through "Hey, listen, somebody told--" because I'd be like, "Mmmm, take me, you hot piece of Mormon ass, I'm yours." Not even joking, that's how hot he was.
Now that he's married to a Mormon supermodel, though, Flowers got all... ugly-like. Now is when he'd need a line like "Hey, listen, somebody told me that you dated this guy who looked kind of like this girl I dated last February," except this time he wouldn't get through the whole thing because I would get up and walk away, leaving my drink for him to down because he needs a drink because he is too hopelessly ugly to talk to girls at clubs. Plus he should feel like a loser, because he's married and hitting on a sixteen-year-old.
So it's hard to take their stuff seriously, you know? Because it's hard for most people to relate to the idea of being hopelessly beautiful and still having to try desperately to get girls to talk to you, because stuff like that just doesn't happen. But here they are, no longer hopelessly beautiful (I'm only talking about Flowers here, because everyone knows that it's the lead singer who gets the most attention), and the days of the frustratingly overplayed "Somebody Told Me" are over.
It almost gives me an ulcer just to think it, but teenagers just don't care about social change. Give them a decade or so, and the what will then be the aging scenester generation will really begin to appreciate Sam's Town.
I gave it a lot of thought on the drive to school today, and the problem is that the band has bad timing. I mean, I picture the narrator of "Somebody Told Me" as being somewhat akin to Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in Night At the Roxbury, how they, like, sandwich girls in and sort of... dance at them, you know? Kind of cornering them? Totally desperate? But think about it: when they recorded "Somebody Told Me," Brandon Flowers was an irresistable babesky. Maybe I'm speaking for fewer girls than I think, but if, at the time, he'd come up to me in a club and showed even the slightest interest in me, he wouldn't have even had enough time to get through "Hey, listen, somebody told--" because I'd be like, "Mmmm, take me, you hot piece of Mormon ass, I'm yours." Not even joking, that's how hot he was.
Now that he's married to a Mormon supermodel, though, Flowers got all... ugly-like. Now is when he'd need a line like "Hey, listen, somebody told me that you dated this guy who looked kind of like this girl I dated last February," except this time he wouldn't get through the whole thing because I would get up and walk away, leaving my drink for him to down because he needs a drink because he is too hopelessly ugly to talk to girls at clubs. Plus he should feel like a loser, because he's married and hitting on a sixteen-year-old.
So it's hard to take their stuff seriously, you know? Because it's hard for most people to relate to the idea of being hopelessly beautiful and still having to try desperately to get girls to talk to you, because stuff like that just doesn't happen. But here they are, no longer hopelessly beautiful (I'm only talking about Flowers here, because everyone knows that it's the lead singer who gets the most attention), and the days of the frustratingly overplayed "Somebody Told Me" are over.
It almost gives me an ulcer just to think it, but teenagers just don't care about social change. Give them a decade or so, and the what will then be the aging scenester generation will really begin to appreciate Sam's Town.
10/30/2006
