It is absolutely impossible for me to have a "favourite band" I love them all too much to put one over the other, and I was never one to choose favourites anyway. I usually go through cycles of obsession, and The Killers are currently bring me to full on tears and ripping my vital organs to shreds so I'm going to rant about them for a while.
Their new album comes out in two days and I have just been watching old music videos and interviews and crying over the infallible perfection that is The Killers and I'm remembering when I first properly started listening to them around late 2010 (not very long ago I know but you'd be amazed at how invested I've become) I remember staying up until literally 5 AM watching live videos and interviews. I remember the first album I bought of their's was Day & Age because that was the only one Best Buy had in stock and then listening to it on repeat for weeks. I remember one time falling asleep with it playing on my iPod and then waking up in the middle of the night to my neighbours drunkenly singing Mr. Brightside (which was one of the best moments ever) . I remember that buy the time I bought Live at the Royal Albert Hall I had already watched it about 20 times on youtube. I learned absolutely every song by them that I possibly could on guitar and slaving away for hours on them. I remember almost bursting out of my skin with intense emotion whilst listening to a Killers song, and then breaking down into tears because I couldn't express how I felt to anyone (this was pre-tumblr). Having an obsession (for me at least) is literally the best and worst thing in the world, you care about something or someone so much you just want them/it to be the happiest being in the universe and you wish for all of their dreams to come true because they are the most inspiring and perfect beings you have ever encountered in this cruel and depressing world. Even when it's not two days before the release of their new album, I can still be brought to tears by a Killers song. But it's like that with all of my favourite bands. Their melodies and lyrics are so breathtakingly beautiful and their voices are on another planet my heart and soul just begin to disintegrate.There is absolutely nothing as good as music in this universe. The way that it makes you feel and it violently tears away at your insides is the most suffocating and wonderful feeling in the world.
Another thing is when I'm watching old(er) videos n stuff and I think about how wow these guys are actually people and yeah I'm watching them and thinking beautiful music and amazing videos they're actually people and experienced that like I can't even imagine myself getting to do the amazing things that they do and I think that's why there's typically a disconnect between celebrities and non-celebrities we forget that they're actually people. Every so often I'll remember the music that I'm escaping into was made by an actual person with an actual life and a pet and bills and it'll it will just make me love them more. Like, when I'm watching a Killers music video and I think "they actually were there with cameras and things making this" I imagine what was going through there heads while they were standing in front of the cameras and I also think about how they have no idea of the life that lies ahead of them and all that is going to be written and all the people they;re going to meet and then the ripping of vital organs becomes more severe as I love them more.
Instead of feeling less stressed after finishing this I am probably just going to go back to crying over music videos. So long for now,
-Adrenaline Revolutionxo
