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Poor #SadBrandon: Killers singer Flowers gets the meme treatment

by John Lucas on March 8th, 2018 at 4:03 PM
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      The fact is, Brandon Flowers looks a little pouty almost all of the time. That doesn't mean he's actually sad. After all, what has he got to be mopey about? Fourteen years after breaking into the mainstream with hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me", Flowers's band, the Killers, is still thriving. In fact, the most recent Killers LP, Wonderful Wonderful, became the group's first No. 1 entry on the Billboard 200.

      Recently, though, a photo of Flowers—or #SadBrandon as he will probably now be forever known—looking a tad unhappy went viral, with the Twitterverse giving it endless witty captions, many of them drawn from Killers lyrics.

      A few examples:

      Anyhow, you can bet Flowers isn't really all that sad. After all, he's THE MAN.

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