We would like to clarify something: it’s not been easy liking the Killer’s new single, “When You Were Young”. We’ve been teased, we’ve been mocked by friends and colleagues, its occurred to us we might be fired for demonstrating such poor rock judgment, we’ve even started seeing someone to help us cope. So when we say that Brandon Flowers’ relationship with Bruce Springsteen has gone way past ‘influences’, into ‘imitates’, and is veering dangerously close to ‘impersonates’ you know that we mean that in a totally loving and supportive way. In fact, we’re just here to help! Based on recent photos, Brandon’s transformation is nearly complete. We have just a few directives for the pseudo Boss:
1. Must not be photographed again until hair is appropriately shaggy. Bruce doesn’t do male model crew cuts or angular new wave hair.
2. Must invest in jeans costing less than $100. Must wear them in yourself, doing manly things like fixing cars or drag racing. Must stop accepting Dior suits from Hedi Slimane.
3. Already sporting the scruffy facial hair, nice work, but must ditch the black eyeliner and lip gloss. So Ziggy Stardust, so not Greetings from Asbury Park.
4. Must continue writing songs about young girls’ dreams, name-checking the devil, and using nature-oriented metaphors: “They say the devil’s water it ain’t so sweet you don’t have to drink right now but you can dip your feet every once in a little while.”
5. Must hire very large horn player then frequently lean against him on stage.
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