kindly signed each piece in Southampton before their headline show on May 30th 2022. a musician, is actually in favour of the potentially dangerous precedent it sets.Īlready, we’ve seen a dispute over Mark Ronson’s ‘Uptown Funk’ settle out of court, with one of the stakeholders admitting that the ‘Blurred Lines’ verdict has made the music industry extra nervous about such matters.īut hey, if Flowers reckons artists should be sued for borrowing a song’s “vibe” then we’re sure he’ll be chuffed when he gets a call from David Bowie’s lawyers, or Bruce Sprinsteen’s, or Joy Divison’s, or Duran Duran’s, or… well, you get the idea. Original Soundwaves Artwork created from the sound waves The Killers 'All These Things That Ive Done,' one of the lead singles off their debut album Hot Fuss in 2004. While all of this makes Flowers look like something of a hypocrite, the bigger issue at hand is the fact that one of the people most affected by the ‘Blurred Lines’ trial, i.e. Many outlets noted similarities between the band’s 2012 song ‘Runaways’ and Bruce Spingsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’, as well as The Killer’s ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’ and Richard Marx’s ‘Hazard’. Indeed, The Killers have something of a long track record of plagiarism and alleged plagiarism. And that’s not the only time The Killers have sounded oddly similar to another artist. Just for context, there was a three-year gap between ‘Slow Burn’ and ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’, the gap between ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘Got To Give It Up’ was 36 years. “We also took the bassline from a David Bowie song called ‘Slow Burn’, from Heathen, although enough time has probably passed now that I think he probably won’t sue us!” Flowers said back in 2013. Have you forgotten how you openly admitted to biting the bass line from David Bowie’s ‘Slow Burn’ for The Killers’ 2005 hit ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’? And no, you didn’t say that you just ‘took inspiration’ from it. I wanna stand up, I wanna let go You know, you know, no you dont, you dont I wanna shine on, in the hearts of men I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand. It’s at this point that we have to make like Seth Meyers and ask, “Really?” Seriously, though, Brandon Flowers, really? You’re sick of hearing people steal and think that there are “so many bands who should get sued”? When theres nowhere else to run Is there room for one more son One more son If you can hold on If you can hold on, hold on. I won’t because I don’t wanna start a whole thing.” “I hear it all the time, but I’m not gonna tell you which bands.
I hate it,” said the frontman, who releases his second solo album this month. Flowers added that there are “so many bands who should get sued”. In the interview, Flowers claimed that he “agrees 150 percent” with the verdict, which unlike most copyright infringement cases, was decided by a jury.
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