When it comes to reviews of the new Kings Of Leon track, there shall be none greater than commenter orton1227‘s, which read: “‘Sex On Fire’??? Sounds like they wrote a song about their struggles with STDs.” And when it comes to sounds, there shall be none sweeter than hearing Caleb scream just before the “YOUR SEX IS ON FIRE” line, all with orton1227 in mind. You should really maintain that superimposed misconstruction of the hook throughout the video. It makes the closeups of Caleb’s confessional stares and painful writhing all the more special.
Did he just belch out the smoke monster? Only By The Night is out 9/22 in the UK (where it will sell) and 9/23 in the States (where it won’t) via RCA. Please stop ruining their concerts.
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I’ve tried to stay away from the whole “KOL” suck so bad now argument for awhile; but damn.
This sucks.
This song, this video, and their whole change to “New”2 are just terrible. I’m not one to pine for a band’s glory days after they go south, so I’m just done.
D U N done.
Spilken.
Exhibit A as to why you are a hater. You’re band is all ugly.
Also, you’re music is D U N done, and terrible. Which is why you are UNSIGNED.
Well, that’s just great. When insulted by someone with such excellent grammar on the internet, I get all worked up.
But really, KOL have gone to crap. I never said my band was any good.
“new”2!
Love it!
spilken8r you are a moron I have been listening to music for 40+ years, I was at the beginning with the beatles, stones, kinks etc & you don’t know a good thing when you listen to it the K of L have got more talent in their little fingers than idiots like you can know. Grow up & get a life
this video has a shockingly large absence of sex, or girls for that matter. when you make a video for a song called “sex on fire” you’d expect a little bit of at least one of those.
god they look slutty.
still a fun band though!
So do these guys have one big mirror they all jerk off in front of, or do you think each band member gets their own?
Whoever writes stereogum has no musical taste whatsover. But I guess that’s why you people are blog writing critics and not creative professional musicians… I know which i’d rather be. KOL has changed from the southern style they started out with sure, but the music they produce now is better than any song any other bands are putting out in the genre you feel to pigeon hole them in. Maybe you really dislike KOL’s music. or maybe you’re just pissed off that you’ll never be that goodlooking.
The “critic as failed artist” has got to be the most tired and most incorrect cliche in the book. But now I’m totally scared to admit how much I think KOL’s gone downhill (though they’ve still got us beat in the looks department). It’s just too bad that the sizeable amount of press they get on Stereogum doesn’t allow this site to make even the slightest mention of how they feel about any given song, band or album. It’s just a shame really…
And down swoops Stereogumsucks to bitch slap all the haters…shitty grammar and all. Way to be a hero, kiddo.
I love the song, but the video reminds me of “Losing My Religion.” It could’ve been better, but, that’s what you get.
Oh, and KOL do not suck. Their sond is changing and that is good thing. I love their southern fried songs as much as the next dude. But, their new shiz is good too.
Their looks have become a problem.
someone explain the difference between these guys and kid rock
Kid Rock used to be married to Pamela Anderson.
Officially the worst video ever made.
CREED.
Wow, I really didn’t care for this band before, but now they sound like generic crap. Actually, even when they went through their “indie” period, it sounded like every other indie band at the time…
KOL will be eventually married to various Pamela Andersons
I’m sorry, but I dig em. Am I not cool enough or something?
I’ve loved em since youth, and continue to love them, this song included. Aha was their best yet, but still love em. just some solid rock songs. i even like the guys (as much as someone could like them w/o knowing them). they sort of harken back to that day of pompous, dirty, sex/drug-obsessed rock & roll, and i think that’s sort of refreshing nowadays.
but i guess they’re not for everyone.
their videos, however, always seem to be pretty lackluster. usually just videos of them playing.
I’m not hearing any pompous, dirty, sex/drug thing through this song. It sounds more Kenny Loggins than Rolling Stones, not that there’s anything wrong with Loggins.
most people hate on KOL because the band is good looking, wear nice clothes, and gets lots of ass. it really has nothing to do with the music MOST of the time. Sorry not every band has a Bradford Cox-esque ugly, gay, child porn appreciating fuck that you people consider more interesting than dudes who like to do drugs, get drunk, and fuck chicks. average stereogum commentator: “One time i heard a frat boy listening to a kings of leon song, so fuck that band! I’ve never heard anyone cool listening to *insert random band here* so they’re better than KOL” Drop your inferiority complex that you developed because you got swirlies in high school and never get laid.
things i love about this comment:
- your lil pic
- umm, it’s dead on.
- use of “swirlies”.
This comment wins. Dead on brother.
good looking? funny, lead singer has a combover, im totally jealous. as for being alt-redneck, your comments are pretty spot on. are the chicks youre talking about fucking your mom, sister?. oh wait, cousins are the acceptance. as for the gay comment, are you just upset the closest youll ever come to suckin on a mic is commenting on stereogum? where did you get this insider information that bradford is into child pornography? just curious, because i like deerhunter, but not child porn.
ps, the video doesnt fucking work anymore
Unfortunately the video still works.
The good news is your computer is more discerning than you.
CREED.
if you want to see a similarly awful video, you should check out their song, “on call.” although, to its credit, it didn’t have a shot of some guy fully embracing a shower in a tank top. this is the kind of thing that makes you go back and check if the old stuff was any good.
i can’t fucking wait for this album
Kings of Leon are great, eff the haters.
This video is terrible though. I couldn’t even finish it.
This video is not very good. And the lyric “your sex is on fire” is not very good. BUT with that said, I actually think this is a pretty damn good pop song! I really think they’ve come a long way as a band. I don’t really hear more than a vague U2 similarity, and either way I’d take this over their old stuff any day.
Im with jdubs, flush the chocolate swirlie haters down. Hating life doesn’t make you more discerning. You’re miserable. What’s wrong with a little accessible pop melody?
I can think of a million bands that suck, I don’t know why you’d waste your time stating how much bands suck.
Bands shouldn’t be judged by their videos either. Videos are made on $10 budgets these days because no one pays for the music
i’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.
YES.
I like the song, the video is a little weird but most videos are stupid, and I’ll take the drummer taking a shower any day over some of the music that is promoted on this site. Most of the bands on here aren’t half a good as KOL. Somebody, apparently, is just a little jealous of their looks. That’s why this site hates them so much.
Kings of Leon-Music for Alt Rednecks
This isn’t something I normally would complain about, but they seem to be taking themselves way too seriously. I miss the Kings of Leon that was all about kick ass rock.
it definitely must be because you guys are jealous of how good looking they are. couldn’t be that someone was uninspired by the averageness of the music.
Most of you so called critics are all a bunch of tossers. You go online and bag out any band you have a distatse for. You only do this because you think the music you listen to is the only good sound on the planet. Everyone has got their own taste and everyone is entitled to their own taste. I hate seeing people argue over who’s music is better. You are all a bunch of stuck up faggots who need to pull their noses out of their own ass and appreciate all music, or if it aint your style than dont bloody listen to it. That simple
the drummer = i’d hit that hard with my vajayjay, oh yes i would, but I don’t care get into their music, what i’ve heard seems boring, just another band in the endless stream of bands that exist, and i don’t like (“Bradford Cox-esque ugly, gay, child porn appreciating fuck”) that gentleman either. Maybe in 10 years when no one cares i will listen to them, who really knows.
Hey jdubs guy, a question: Is the Of Montreal dude in that same category as that Bradford person? Weird, i think i like him (his music) and i also like the Black Crowes a bit, not intensely, i stopped listening to them years ago but they would be in the “dudes who like to do drugs, get drunk, and fuck chicks” category, right?
SO yeah I don’t have a point.
americans just dont get kings of leon
surpassing the strokes.
that’s right.
Oh ? I’m sorry ? did I just walk into the ladies room?
IT’S CALLED TOUGH LOVE PEOPLE!
And not the kind of tough love Kings of Leon experience; rubbing themselves raw giving each other facials. I enjoy an accessible pop melody, not as much as the Kings of Leon enjoy rubbing themselves raw giving each other facials, but I definitely do enjoy a good pop melody. It’s the painfully insipid lyrics, lack of creativity and lame faux rock posturing that I do not enjoy.
I’M TRYING TO HELP YOU!
If you want to continue being bottom feeders / knuckle draggers / New Jerseyans rock on to the Kings of Leon. If you want to be part of “Team Awesome”… yeah that’s right TEAM FUCKIN’ AWESOME!!! I suggest you expand your music tastes beyond the southern rawk Jonas Brothers you blindly kowtow too.
John 3:16
fail
I’m not even going to apologise, this is so weak. As previously stated, its just boring and shit. There are too many people that think just because they’ve changed their sound, its amazing. Yes, they have changed their sound and its crap.
I FEEL BAD… oh wait, why I’m I yelling again? Anyways, I feel bad for picking on Kings of Leon and their dim witted pre pubescent cultural cave dwelling fans, but it’s amusing, entertaining and satisfying. It’s a guilty satisfaction; entirely too easy to do and the recipients rarely know what’s going on… but you are starting to catch on (slow loud sarcastic clapping). I don’t care what your parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, girlfriends/boyfriends, BFFs, neighbors, coworkers, therapist, doctors, teachers, barbers, lunch ladies, pastors, priests, rabbis, hot dog vendors, bodega owners, dog groomers, bus drivers, multiple personalities, nail technicians, mechanics, dry cleaners, landlords, bosses, talking parrots say… THERE IS still hope for you.
On the other hand it’s too bad the Kings of Leon were not born nine months premature. Then they would be just a menstrual stain instead of the sonic shit stain they are now. I believe the scientific term for Kings of Leon is protodouche; the model that all douches are based on.
In all seriousness I’m just fuckin’ with ya cause it’s more fun than work.
It’s beautiful outside! Eat a yummy cupcake! Pet a kitten or puppy! Make sweet love to your girlfriend/boyfriend (just not to Kings of Leon).
Have a good day!
Hasta!
what is wrong with you?
mcnutt – your posts are far less entertaining than you think.
Methinks this dude’s missus might have been the inspiration for this song!
i drank titty milk this morning
I loved their first two albums, they were fun rock and roll.
I like this song, but think the lyrics are ridiculous and the music not sexy in the slightest, which is another reason why the video looks so repulsive.
funny, haha!
I can’t believe this, I mean, come on, you guys!!!
If you don’t like a band, just don’t write about them, I think its pretty funny and kinda stupid and sad how you people can hate so much a band just for being pretty, are you fucking kidding me???
for fucks sake, this is one of the many reasons why I usually feel like I don’t ever want to visit that country even though I know there are -probably- a lot of good stuff there…
Its all about the intolerance you guys cant beat…, you guys need to open your eyes and your minds.
I don’t even give a damn if you like or not the band, that’s not the point, but your behavior is fucking childish, stupid and sad, I feel bad for you, its not your fault you were born like that, with those crappy ways of thinking…. I guess its because of your culture…
and well, it’s not their fault their pretty, I even feel bad for you.. its not your fault you were born/raised with those crappy ways of thinking…. I guess its because of your culture…
and well, it’s not their fault their pretty, I even feel dumb for writing this but, they’re pretty, big fucking deal!
Live’s “Lightning Crashes” video x REM’s “Losing My Religion” video + douchebags + that scene from Flashdance..
lazyconfessions:
“[...]I feel bad for you, its not your fault you were born like that, with those crappy ways of thinking…. I guess its because of your culture…
and well, it’s not their fault their pretty, I even feel bad for you.. its not your fault you were born/raised with those crappy ways of thinking…. I guess its because of your culture…
and well, it’s not their fault their pretty”
what’s going on here?
For some reason the chorus of this song reminds me of space age love song
For some reason the chorus of this song reminds me of space age love song
best video ever
I only like videos with puppets or cartoon bears or that one with the weird people dancing to “Phantom Pt. II” but mostly because the house looked like the place I grew up, and I kind of wish I could go back there and do that one day.
Apparently, Caleb randomly said “Your sex is on fire” to someone and they told him that sounded like a good hook (*don’t know all the facts, but read that, so look it up). He is still skeptical about it, and thinks it sounds silly.
I’d like to learn of the reason behind the video first before being too critical, though it was quite off. If there was a specific meaning, it wasn’t clear. Although, when the title line of the song was originally meant to be a joke, then making a video with some sort of deeper meaning is quite hard to do. I do think it is quite hilarious how all the girl teenyboppers are like “He’s singing about sex, that’s hot” when it really started as a joke.
And Aha Shake Heartbreak is still their best album in my eyes.
The video is bad but I do like the song. I like the band material, not all of it but some of it yes.
Wow that song sucked. I feel like it should be played next to hedley or the pussycat dolls. They completely miss any sort of originality especially in the drum beat…
What was once potential has been traded in for album sales, except they don’t make those anymore.
These guys were a manufactured boy band from the very beginning. They could barely play their instruments when they first started and their producer did most of the writing and guitar work on the first couple records.
their first two albums were so rad….. however, they’ve traded in their great songs
for terrible u2 esque guitar tones, ridiculous drumming and extremely boring lyrics. they sound like generic alt rock, whatever that is.
you guys can all suck your moms dick. kol rule.
The comments are so much more entertaining than the music. Yeah!
I saw these guys at the Bowery Ballroom a while back and they were
not very interesting.
This new song is better. i might have liked it even more had i just heard the tune
and not seen the vid. And like someone said, where’s the girls?!…
(huh?) I thought you guys were cool… guess not
I love this song, the video is great too, at last a band that doesn’t need sluts hanging off them – it’s a good one for the ladies -yay for us, I don’t mind watching!!
WHY ARE THEY EATING CHICKEN????!!!!????
I have to say I love the song. Calebs voice is so sexy! Not sure about the video – but who cares? I love Pearl Jam but most of their videos are crap.
i used to really enjoy some of kings of leon, like red morning light and what not, but this is just bad. i want them to do well, but i mean, this video looks and sounds like a crummy post-grunge band in the 90s. Like, the verve pipe or something stupid.
Hey all, how many have listened to the whole album yet…? i don’t think its fair to badmouth them before hearing it, for all you know it could be exactly what you’re looking for (except sex on fire). i’ve heard the album and thought its god damn addictive. can’t get myself to stop listening… anyway peace out. love y’all. play nice
i love the video and lyrics, the song is so sexy im glued to the t.v every time its on and although i love there old stuff im loving their new style too, they changed and that ladies is what you call guys turning into men! how hot are they pwhaorrr! His voice complements the lyrics, i like the fact they havnt got ladies in outfits swanning in thier video balencing on thier balls thanks i see enough of that on MTV. I like the fact you have to use imagination for this video which btw lads girls love!
I love this – it’s been playing non-stop on my stereo for weeks now. And, no, I’m not a “teeny-bopper” or into whatever everyone else is listening to. Fast approaching 30 and plenty old enough to form my own opinions based on my “own” personal likes and dislikes. I’ve loved KOL for a while now and it was their sound I fell in love with and not the sexy men! lol. Actually, this video is the first time I’ve actually “seen” the band and they are seriously hot!!
Seriously, what’s wrong with just saying “Nah, don’t like it” ?? They rock, get over it.
Well said Kristy!! I couldn’t agree more. They Rock and they are seriously HOT
Look…I as much as anyone have had my doubts about Kings Of Leon for YEARS now, ever since their first fucking album. HOWEVER, you dudes need to loosen up. This really isn’t generic, I could see how one might think so at first but it’s a really special song. It wouldn’t be special in 93, but for today it is. And what’s wrong with the video? Who doesn’t want to see a group of phenomenal looking guys writhing around all sweaty like they have a fever from the STD’s they caught from Kim Stewart? Caleb does not have a comb over, he has a really weird low hairline. If he wasn’t so hot he’d actually be kind of weird looking. But no, hot instead. I’d take an STD from him, there’s always antibiotics. While I don’t think the *only* reason guys hate on this group so much is jealousy, I think that is definitely a contributing factor. It’s ok for a band to be hot as fuck as long as they don’t seem to realize it, but it’s obvious as hell that KOL are fully aware of their looks and it’s all very calculated. Those shoulders? They spend time in the gym, trust. That pisses dudes off, or at least the kind of dudes who frequent this website. No offense guys but come on, how could you not be jealous? I’m jealous and I’m a fucking chick. These guys are dirty, dirty sluts, so it makes sense that they’d make cock rock. I truly don’t feel they are selling out because I’m not sure they ever intended to be anything other than mainstream. Caleb began as a country singer, you can’t say he’s just totally loyal to one sound or another. I do feel the vests were a calculated attempt to look all early 90′s U2 but is that such a bad thing? As long as they don’t start sounding like present day U2 everything will be ok.
Sex On Fire is all about delivery. The lyrics began as a “joke,” whatever, but the way he delivers them is, in fact, ridiculously sexy. Don’t hate, you know it’s true. My favorite recent song by them is still The Charmer.
But to weigh in on a question posed earlier, I think they all pass around a mirror on the tour bus and jack off individually. But I can’t really blame them.
Fab-uh-lous! Her-kuh-leez! Her-kuh-leez! I’m so glad these boys are coming out and not being afraid of deep-throating chickens (that would be a euphemism for cock, hello!), or showing an affinity for black cocks (hence the black rooster and the ones hanging on the chains in the long-view shots–low-hangers, ya know) and letting out that inner cosmic fabulocity! That’s right’! Not since Flashdance have we seen a better moment than our Little Drummer Boy looking at us as if to say, “Yeah, I’m a bottom and you want to hit my man-jay-jay so lets’s drop the water and get to it!” And the hands on the poles…Mmm-hmm! Mama knows what you buyin’ at “the specialty store.” Go boys! Good symbolism. You can almost feel the heat from the unbridled man-sex that is bubbling up like a Paula Deen recipe. Perhaps it is their tent-rival roots that suggested the whole pray-the-gay-away moment in this video. And little Caleb is struggling–well, not struggling too hard, let’s be honest–and just seeming to say, “Out demon! Quit holding me back and let me be me!” The desecration of the Bible may be a bit much, but all artists are allowed their Sinead O’Connor moment. Somebody get these boys to a gay bar in West Hollywood pronto! I’ll be right there to share a drink or twelve. Go boys! It’s about time!
the girl in the use somebody video is caleb’s girlfriend
LMFAO………. The songs about a Blow Job and the video is well a bit on the gay side. Love the song.. He has a wonderful voice.