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The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has criticised Green Day for being unpatriotic.
Flowers has admitted that he finds the group's hit song American Idiot offensive and is also unhappy about their decision to film DVD Bullet In A Bible in the UK.
"You have Green Day and American Idiot. Where do they film their DVD? In England. A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot'. I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. It really lit a fire in me," Flowers told The Word magazine.
"You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to write about, and 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."
He added: "I just thought it was really cheap. To go to a place like England or Germany and sing that song - those kids aren't taking it the same way that he meant it. And he [Billie Joe Armstrong] knew it."
Flowers has admitted that he finds the group's hit song American Idiot offensive and is also unhappy about their decision to film DVD Bullet In A Bible in the UK.
"You have Green Day and American Idiot. Where do they film their DVD? In England. A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot'. I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. It really lit a fire in me," Flowers told The Word magazine.
"You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to write about, and 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."
He added: "I just thought it was really cheap. To go to a place like England or Germany and sing that song - those kids aren't taking it the same way that he meant it. And he [Billie Joe Armstrong] knew it."
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