Brandon flowers is gay
I’m a Father, a Husband, and a Rock Star. And I’m a Mormon.
Today in Slate, Christopher Hitchens writes about the “weird and sinister belief system” of Mormonism; among the religion’s troubling attributes, Hitchens claims, is that its followers “can be ordered to rotate upon and shun any members who show any signs of backsliding.” William Saletan, meanwhile, argues that the church’s adherents are a more diverse bunch than Hitchens gives them credit for, citing the differences between Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Harry Reid—as adequately as a New York Times story from yesterday about Romney’s past as a church chief. Not “all Mormons are alike,” Saletan writes.
Depending on where you dwell, you may acquire immediately thought of an ad campaign the Mormon church rolled out in nine cities in 2010—and in 12 more this year. In each detect, an ordinary American tells you about his or her life—her family, career, quirky habits and so on—and then, as a gentle of kicker, says, “And I’m a Mormon.” The ads, far slicker than the church’s 1980s efforts (which seemed corny even then), were hailed as “savvy,” and received a good deal of media attention. The church was credited for stressing Mormons
Four years ago, a colleague of mine at a newspaper in the Pacific Northwest had to attend a dating event for single Mormons. The mixer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s 22nd Annual Portland Regional Single Adult Conference was held on a boat on the Willamette River and, though readers had sent him there to write about his Worst Night Ever, he had a perfectly pleasant evening. One observation that he made has stuck with me. Under the header, “Some Overly Generalized But Still Fairly Reliable Things You Might Not Have Known About Mormons,” Erik Henriksen wrote: “They are prettier than you. They don’t drink alcohol or coffee. They don’t smoke. They proceed to bed at reasonable hours. Those are three things that have an incredible affect on one’s physical appearance.”
I assume of this every so often. At least part of my job involves blogging about Brandon Flowers, who is an Extremely Handsome Mormon. Despite 14 years of touring, playing shows, making records, travelling endlessly, and creature surrounded by vices, Flowers looks younger than me, a gentleman ten years his junior. I admire this in him, the same way that I regard an
Humanizing The Vacuum
For a couple years I got more hate mail for this piece than anything I’d written to date. I was happy to be proven right: Brandon Flowers’ queer envy and talents finally meshed on the daft and intermittently powerfulThe Desired Effect, and he shaved the mustache.
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The Killers
Sam’s Town
10-02-06
More than a few critics include knocked The Killers for recording a soupy version of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, but they haven’t suggested which Springsteen albums the band should have been emulating. I suggest Born in the U.S.A., 12 synth-anchored nuggets which get down to basics instead of shilly-shallying with poesy as unfathomable to Springsteen as it is to Brandon Flowers. Face it: “She’s the One” and “Jungleland” are silly songs no matter whose neck veins are straining at the mic. Whatever Sam’s Town’s scant merits, the album reminds artists to be more careful about their role models—and to avoid Bono’s phone calls.
While promoting 2004’s Hot Fuss, Flowers’ interviews proffered a hermeneutics of Mormonism acceptable to Teen Beat subscribers and fans of Duran Duran’s firs
Inside The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers' kind relationship with wife Tana Mundkowsky
The Killers play an explosive headline set in Hyde Park
The Killers are currently wowing fans on their tour which will hit Leeds and Reading Festival this weekend before continuing on to the Electric Picnic Festival in Ireland next weekend.
The band's frontman Brandon Flowers has a larger-than-life, outgoing stage persona but that is worlds away from his quiet, happy abode life with his wife Tana Mundkowsky and their three children.
Although the Mr Brightside singer has brought his stunning other half out on stage on occasion, she prefers to remain behind the scenes and little is acknowledged about her. Nevertheless, he has written many songs about her and their relationship, including 2018’s Rut.
The couple met in a thrift store called Buffalo Exchange in Las Vegas when she was just 20 and he was 21.
This was before he found fame with the band, and he was actually shopping for an outfit for the group's first-ever gig.
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