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That They Might have Joy Sound, Scripture & Space The story this figure shows is what many critics and fans say: Nothing is quite like Hot Fuss. The Desired Effect is the most unique Visualizing the Music of Brandon Flowers of the set, similar to Sawdust, which has the b-sides and rare songs from the early Killers days. Flamingo, Flowers’s other solo album, spans the widest range of emotions. By Katie Olson How Joyful Does the Music of Brandon Flowers Sound? Based on Spotify's valence measure Wonderful Wonderful The Desired Effect Battle Born Flamingo Day & Age Sawdust Hot Fuss Song & Scripture: 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 Photo by Thomas Hawk Valence Proximity to the red line indi- The Book of Mormon cates a similar frequency in usages Flowers and the Book of Mor- What Places Get a Shout-Out? mon talk about a “strange land” This idea of promised lands and strange lands also carries over to places that are mentioned in the songs. The Killers have al- with a very similar frequency. ways spoken much of the origin city: Las Vegas. But it’s not only Vegas that gets mentioned. Many of the songs are grounded in This makes sense with Flowers’s place. Naturally, Las Vegas is still the biggest player, obscuring Henderson, which has the second highest number of mentions at experiences growing up in the 3. My favorite part about this is that is shows the random mention of North Dakota on the Sawdust album. It’s said, “We ended middle of the deseret, not unlike up in North Dakota, ” Nephi and his brothers. Utah makes the map thanks Where to an audio recording of everybody Flowers talking about when talks the he lived in Payson. same Song & Scripture: The New Testament My favorite data point here is Brandon Flowers’s usage of “holy ghost” and how he used “thou The most wast” more than the New Testa- fabulous ment. Here, we see two phrases place about Jesus hearing and sitting. These come from the song “The Call” in which passages from the book of Matthew are directly quoted at the beginning of the song..

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