The Seeker of Good Songs
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After doing lots of overseas touring for the album Hot Fuss, Las Vegas band The Killers were happy to arrive back home in the fall and start reconnecting with America. In fact, singer Brandon Flowers says it was the music of Bruce Springsteen that helped fuel that reconnection, as well as inspire the band's new songwriting.
Flowers, who only recently discovered the music of Springsteen, told MTV.com, "I couldn't believe how happy his music made me and how good it was. He's a gift, and I didn't know. I mean, I knew 'Born in the USA' and 'Glory Days,' but I didn't know that he covered so much ground, and there was something in his music that touched what I was going through, the process of falling back in love with my America."
Flowers said that these feelings are really evident on the band's second album, which is due in September. "Springsteen touches on the American dream, and that's everybody's dream. And it's such a great idea — whether or not it's still happening today," he said. "Most of the songs are about getting to that place, of making it to the promised land. I don't think it's about getting rich; it's the idea of working hard and having your castle in the sky, and that idea runs through the record. It's very optimistic. And we're all from working-class families, and that's why our songs are good, because we don't do it half-assed. Nothing was handed to us, and so we don't settle. We're not afraid to throw a song away because it's not good enough. A lot of people won't do that."
The band is currently working on the new effort in a Las Vegas studio with producers Flood and Alan Moulder. They are recording 16 songs, some of which feature horns and strings. Flowers enthusiastically told MTV that the work is "one of the best albums in the past 20 years" and said that "nothing that touches this album. And that sounds like I'm being cocky, but I'm just so excited. I hope that helps people. I hope people hear this album and realize that you don't need to worry about the second album."
After doing lots of overseas touring for the album Hot Fuss, Las Vegas band The Killers were happy to arrive back home in the fall and start reconnecting with America. In fact, singer Brandon Flowers says it was the music of Bruce Springsteen that helped fuel that reconnection, as well as inspire the band's new songwriting.
Flowers, who only recently discovered the music of Springsteen, told MTV.com, "I couldn't believe how happy his music made me and how good it was. He's a gift, and I didn't know. I mean, I knew 'Born in the USA' and 'Glory Days,' but I didn't know that he covered so much ground, and there was something in his music that touched what I was going through, the process of falling back in love with my America."
Flowers said that these feelings are really evident on the band's second album, which is due in September. "Springsteen touches on the American dream, and that's everybody's dream. And it's such a great idea — whether or not it's still happening today," he said. "Most of the songs are about getting to that place, of making it to the promised land. I don't think it's about getting rich; it's the idea of working hard and having your castle in the sky, and that idea runs through the record. It's very optimistic. And we're all from working-class families, and that's why our songs are good, because we don't do it half-assed. Nothing was handed to us, and so we don't settle. We're not afraid to throw a song away because it's not good enough. A lot of people won't do that."
The band is currently working on the new effort in a Las Vegas studio with producers Flood and Alan Moulder. They are recording 16 songs, some of which feature horns and strings. Flowers enthusiastically told MTV that the work is "one of the best albums in the past 20 years" and said that "nothing that touches this album. And that sounds like I'm being cocky, but I'm just so excited. I hope that helps people. I hope people hear this album and realize that you don't need to worry about the second album."