Today is World AIDS Day, a day to raise awareness of HIV AIDS in the real world by instilling compassion and preventative habits in our everyday routines, and on the internet by using #red to turn your tweets red. Also there is (RED), the organization that raises money for the Global Fund through the power of good music, and also through the power of the annual Killers Xmas song (JK Brandon, you make good music too)(also this is for charity so of course I would say that whether I believed it or not)(but I do)(sometimes!). For their first two installments, in 2006 and 2007, the Killers offered up the original jingles “A Great Big Sled” and “Don’t Shoot Me Santa.” Last year they collaborated with Elton John and Pet Shop boy Neil Tennant on “Joseph, Better You Than Me.” Episode IV of the Killers holiday/HIV tradition is another collab, this time incorporating the band’s 2009 tourmates Wild Light and Mariachi El Bronx aka the Bronx, the hardcore outfit who put out the mariachi album El Bronx this year because it is 2009 and that is a thing to do. Picking up on those Mexican vibes, and the Killers love for deserts, here is the song and video for “Happy Birthday Guadalupe,” which features much sand and the actor Luke Perry (the famous actor from The Fifth Element) along with many Mexican angels and salutations both for a joyous Christmas time and a happy birthday because ’tis the season.
Buy the track at iTunes. All proceeds go to the Global Fund.
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even after listening to this, im aware that all signs point to this being a terrible song. it just…isnt. its so damn catchy. viva los killers!
That is some joyful music, the lyric are almost there, but still I hope it sells millions for RED.
This video has succeeded in showing me that apparently life is hard…and it’s Guadalupe’s birthday.
Dang, considering it’s for a “Global” fund, would be nice if I could buy this on the Australian iTunes
Still, a really nice song.
The Killers did a really great job with this year’s Christmas single
get some bronx coverage up in this bitch for 2010
agreed 100% i’m still not sure why they aren’t bigger than they are. If bands like Fucked Up and Pissed Jeans get love from the indie rock crowd, why can’t The Bronx?
because this site just can’t keep up with other great artists
even though, you know, we need 6 spoon updates in one week
…Did he just marry a balloon?
what a cheesy song
Absolutely cheesy. That’s what they’re about right now – look at everything surrounding Day & Age. That said, this is a pretty legitimately good song, Christmas/charity single or not.
how did (red) allow such an insulting song to attempt and raise funds i will never know….. but what keeps bothering me is, why the fuck do WE allow mediocre songs/bands like this one right here. It just shows how Brandon Flowers and the rest of the killers know jack shit about mexican culture, holidays and what la virgen de Guadalupe represents. if they knew, they would’ve tried to be more respectful instead of turning her into a pop song where they try to portray her as a contemporary mexican girl who will make coffee and tortillas to console his stupid ass