In a new interview Killers frontman Brandon Flowers whines about anti-Americanism.
UK magazine The Word featured an interview with Flowers, who is promoting The Killers new album 'Sam's Town'. The new album, while still influenced by the new wave synth sounds of '80s Britain, has been roundly panned by critics as a ham-fisted attempt to capture the feel of small-town America which defined the career of one Bruce Springsteen. Flowers has been declaring his love for The Boss over the last six months, and now he's irritated at global anti-US sentiment.Regarding Green Day recording their new DVD in Britain, Flowers saw, "A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot'" as "a very negative thing towards Americans." Duh. He continued, "I'm sure they meant it in the same way that Bruce Springsteen meant 'Born In The USA' and it was taken wrongly, but I was really offended when I saw them do that."
As his Springsteen obsession reaches a disturbing zenith, he huffed, "Americans are getting a bad rap right now...It's because of the war and everything that's going on. It's understandable, but to an extent it's not fair because we're just people that were born here."
