The last time we wrote about the Killers's "A Dustland Fairytale" (they performed it on Letterman), fellow contributing editor Nick Neyland and I were told to drop dead. Unfortunately, I am still around to write about the new music video for the song, which, maybe, just maybe, matches the bombast and pompousness of the song. The clip is a 1950s narrative that is about greasers racing cars and getting in fist fights. Then at the end a greaser is old, and he sees his old girl, and he hugs her and it is sooo sad. The lyrics still don't make any sense at all, and don't really mean anything (they're co-written by the Black Eyed Peas*), but the video could have been worse. It could have been like "The World We Live In."
The Killers' Day & Age is out now. [Stereogum]
*- Not Really
<- Loves it! (The lambasting of the killers, that is, not the ghey video)
WHY DO PREIX HATE THE KILLERS? THEY ARE THE BEST BAND ON THE EARTH. BRANDON FLOWERS IS THE GREATEST HUMAN BEING THAT HAS EVAR WALKED THE EARTH. HE IS BETTER THAN JESUS AND THE JONAS BROTHERS.
I can see Jesus, but the Jonas Brothers? C'mon, they're pretty good...
just cause you dont understand the lyrics doesnt mean they dont mean something.
theyre about his parents getting together, and his dad converting to the mormon church.
you guys are idiots.
i wish i could make a living off of ignorance too.
Hayley
What do you mean, they lyrics don't make sense? Did you do your reasearch to find out what the song is about? Because it's about Brandon Flowers' parents, how they met, and how his mom was diagnosed with a brain tumor (hence the "Cinderella don't you go to sleep" lyric).
Kelsey
Oh Andrew you poor soul. Your lost. Read this article. This person actually knows what he's talking about.
http://www.thekillersfansite.com/samstownreview.html
...from the preeminent objective source: thekillersfansite.com...
What is the car in this video?
krnwms