The Killers $cash$ in on the death of a 14 year old girl

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"We don't want the family to think the band are cashing in on it or commenting about what happened"
You will make money from it. You are cashing in.

"They don't want to drag it up again and create bad memories for her family."
I read about this on BBC News. You are dragging it up again.

YOU ARE CALLED THE FUCKING KILLERS FOR CHRISTS SAKE

FUCK OFF

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And before anyone comes in with the defence about art and what-not - The Killers make Big Mac music for a MacDonalds record label, they're as close to art as Harold Shipman was to Help the Aged.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

waving the red rag to the bull [c-man]

http://www.nme.com/media/images/thisweeksnme_cover.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

MUPPETS!

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kasabian bottled off stage"

Warms the heart doesn't it :-)

― nelson munce, Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and Bob Geldof was obviously cashing in with "I Don't Like Mondays."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus Christ, that cunt even looks like Brian Molko as well as making music that sounds like him now.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post: it is astonishingly tasteless from a band called the killers, though. they haven't really thought it through. i mean, fine, they're artists, they have the right to etc etc etc, but ... sometimes there should be a little voice at the back of your head that says "let this idea go, eh?"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Frog Chorus. Think of those poor little things. Bastard McCartney.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but there's only a fuss about this because they're called 'The Killers'. If it was Paul McCartney, or, say, Franz Ferdinand, doing this, there wouldn't be a fuss and the coverage would be all 'ooh, it's just like Live Aid'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

er, yes. so? they are called the killers, and they are being insensitive fucking dickwits.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

James- nobody minds when Brandy does a tribute song to Aaliyah. If Jetplane Landing did, I'm sure people would complain.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Complain" might be the key term. And I wonder the extent to which all of this has to do with the fact that people who are complaining didn't like the Killers in the first place. The real point would be whether the family finds the idea objectionable or not.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So I gotta ask, did the Killers actually announce this from the stage or talk about this elsewhere or mention the names specifically in the lyrics or...? (It seems to me that the simplest way around this would have been for them to never specifically talk about the exact inspiration for the song.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15488598%26method=full%26siteid=89488%26headline=song%2dfor%2djodi-name_page.html

― Andy Jay, Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Its on the front page it seems. I don't get the daily record so i can't check the full story on page 11. But i don't get the impression anyone is complaining about it (Yet).

― Andy Jay, Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is She?
Note: these lyrics are still being worked out, and Brandon's been adding new verses, so this is not the final copy.

Where is She?

A police car
Was outside your house today
I haven’t seen you in a couple of days
They knocked on your door
And then they went away
Your mother looked scared
But she didn’t cry
She didn’t cry

On one hand I've got myself to blame
But on the other it’s always the same

Follow suit, shake your head
Tell me that is a lie
I don’t want you to death
But I want you to die
Without a good friend
On a sunshine
I know I want survival
But you don’t know why

Where is she
Where is she
Where is my baby girl?
I’ve seen you
You’re crazy
What have you done with my whole wide world?

On one hand I've got myself to blame
But on the other it’s always the same thing

Follow suit, shake your head
Tell me that is a lie
I don’t want you dead
But I want you to die
Without a good friend
On a bad day
Without a soft surrender
Now what do you say

All of these tears that we’ve cried
All of these tears that we’ve cried

Where is she
Where is she
Where is my baby girl?
I’ve seen you
And you’re crazy
What have you done with my whole wide world?

Where is she
Where is she
Where is my baby girl?
I’ve seen you
And you’re crazy
What have you done with my whole wide world?
What have you done with my whole wide world?
What have you done ...?

He doesn't mention any names...yet. He could change it.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

good fucking god

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody told me
You had a daughter
And she got murderered
Though I would ca-a-a-sh in . .

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeh and Morrissey is a paedophile and loves Myra Hindley and Jarvis Cocker wants to sell drug to kids and Snoop Dogg eats babies.

― Gary Bushell (elwisty), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

aww

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Where do you go my lovely
Where do you go - I wanna know
My lovely I wanna know
Where do you go?
I wanna know
Where do you go?
I wanna know
Where do you, where do you go?
Where do you, where do you go?
You leave without a word
No message no number
And now my head is poundin’ like rollin’ thunder
You left me with a heartache
Deep inside
Girl you should see me
Cry all night and I wonder
Everybody says what a shame
What is wrong
They don’t like the game you play
Heard you’re hangin’ round every night
Until dawn
And waiting for you night and day
Where do you go my lovely
Where do you go - I wanna know
My lovely I wanna know
Where do you go?
I wanna know
Where do you go?
I wanna know
You gotta break the silence
Don’t keep me waiting
Just like ariver flowing to the sea
You’re running back to me
Girl, hear what I’m saying
Where do you go my lovely
I wanna know
Where do you go?
I wanna know
Where do you, where do you go?
Where do you, where do you go?
Save me
Come back and dry
The tears I cry for you baby
You gotta stop this heartache
Deep inside
You gotta help me make it through the night
Save me - come back and save me
Where do you go my lovely
Where do you go - I wanna know
My lovely I wanna know
Where do you go?
My lovely where do you go?
I wanna know
Where do you, where do you go?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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It's not confidential
I've got potential

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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But heaven ain't close in a place like this . . .

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Where do you go my lovely

I was pretty sure I was the only person in the world who remembered this song. The rest of the world was probably better off that way.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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PINK POWER IS BIG BORE May 1 2005

The Parents of murdered teen called bingo caller Brandon Flowers "a little poofter". "Cut the queer stuff," she said, "And give us some respect."

― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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And it’s all in my head
But she’s touching his—chest
Now, he takes off her dress
Now, let me go

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it really necessary for them to claim this was Inspired By A Specific Case? I mean, shit, was "Plush"?

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Plush" was about something?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't read the article, but did the Killers at least offer to donate charity of that song to the family members of the murdered girl? That would at least be some gesture.

Otherwise, I'm with the "what the fuck are they thinking?" camp.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Admittedly most of "Plush" is gibberish but I assumed the stuff about dogs finding and smelling her had to do with a corpse.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it really necessary for them to claim this was Inspired By A Specific Case?

See, Miccio's called it! It's not whatever they were inspired by that's causing me surprise here, it's the fact that apparently they went on about it and then got all, "Well gee, we're not trying to upset anybody!" when reactions occurred. Not a smooth move!

"All characters in this song are purely fictitious; any similarity to persons living or dead..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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"Smile Like You Mean It"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Admittedly most of "Plush" is gibberish but I assumed the stuff about dogs finding and smelling her had to do with a corpse.

Even assuming this is true, I don't think that qualifies it as being about something.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Look I'm sorry I cast the accidental (believe me) aspersion of "being about something" to an STP song, I'm just saying that there's no reason to imply that vague imagery is about a specific event.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind that they're gay, but I do mind that their songs are ill-conceived, poorly-executed garbage.

― Gary Bushell (elwisty), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They're no Queen, I tells ya.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But Freddie Mercury was bi.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeh and Morrissey is a paedophile and loves Myra Hindley and Jarvis Cocker wants to sell drug to kids and Snoop Dogg eats babies.

Remind me again -- did Johnny Cash literally shoot a man in Reno, whether or not to watch him die?

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been wondering if he stole that from Camus.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

*exhales on cigarette, scratches temple* "Non."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: "Killing An Arab" vs. "Folsom Prison Blues"

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Killing an Arab IN Folsom Prison"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like the Negativland/David Brom thing, except The Killers aren't pulling a hoax.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

well, almost like it.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Next up on the Universal Media Website, the Killers with selections from their new album, Helter What The?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey guys, go easy--check out this spirited defense of the Killers

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

He likes Placebo, clearly that person is a fine soul.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Which TMBG songs should The Killers cover?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I say "Minimum Wage"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh sorry, you have to scroll down for the acutal spirited defense part.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Killers are lame, though I am impressed by how well he can pull off that pink leather blazer.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But see, you can't hate a band for going mainstream. I've known about the killers longer than most people; I heard "somebody told me" back in august.

I feel better already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't their first song about murder, for what it's worth . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

irl that Killers NME cover photo is so airbrushed the singer looks like a little china doll.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 7 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I say "Minimum Wage"

OTMFMLOL

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

While calling out the Killers, let's not forget to point the finger at the Daily Record. A girl is killed, then they print stories to sell papers and MAKE MONEY. And the BBC, cashing in by running stories about a band called the Killers who wrote a song about a killing. Will the cycle of insensitivity never end?

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

TOM DOOLEY
This death-row ballad was already by 1959 an almost "century-old Blue Ridge Mountains folk tune, originally titled `Tom Dula.'" The song was inspired by the trial and execution of a twenty-two-year-old veteran of Company K, Forty-second Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, who was convicted in October 1866 of murdering Laura Foster, "a poor girl, 21 years of age at the time of her death." The prosecution in the case convinced a jury that "a criminal intimacy had existed" between Dula and the deceased, as well as "between the prisoner and Ann Melton, a married woman" and the third party to the "fatal triangle."
Ann Melton was apparently the last of the trio to contract syphilis; amid the ensuing acrimony Dula allegedly murdered Laura Foster.
Melton was similarly charged, but, despite self-incriminating remarks she had made about her part in the killing, she was acquitted when, on the eve of his hanging in 1868, Dula declared himself solely responsible for the deed.

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Killers singer reacts to news of girl's death:

― Amon (eman), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41119000/jpg/_41119263_killers203.jpg

― Amon (eman), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Quick, ring up my McDonald'$ record label -- I feel a Big Mac comin' on!"

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

that's even funnier after the fact of having just watched Super Size Me

― Amon (eman), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The Killers next album "She Looked More Like Holly Than Jessica But I Fucked Her Anyway" now avaliable in regular, large or SUPERSIZE from selected Tesco outlets!

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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Ba ba ba ba baaaaa

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

DI-ANE
DI-ANE
DIIIII-IIIIII-ANNNNNNNNNNNNNE

― kingfish, Sunday, 8 May 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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