What do you think of Brandon Flowers new face?

Horrific.

He used to be so adorable and cute.

Now he looks like The Joker.

…That can’t be real? Why would he do that to his face, he was a handsome guy.

It's real, r2.

Why is he wearing Jessica Fletcher's pantsuit?

Wow, so many teefs!!!

He's only 42! Now he looks like a 62-year-old who had work done to look 52 again.

Wow, those teeth! He was already quite cute.

I don't...

He looks like a closeted televangelist.

Ozempic!!!!!!

Maybe he is +

Elton John’s kids look concerned at the concert. Wonder what they are thinking?

[quote]Elton John’s kids look concerned at the concert. Wonder what they are thinking?

They're wondering why their father is performing alongside Batman's number 1 enemy!

Kim Carrey? Is that the love child of Jim Carrey and Kim Carnes?

Oops, Jim Carrey!

Thanks, r14!

Hideous!

Wow @ R16.

Not even a trace of his old self.

Replacing Ryan Cumcrust on Kelly?

He's older than I thought, then I remembered that The Killers became big in the early 2000s - Hot Fuss was released 20 years ago.

Love The Killers! That face is tragic!

He's no Wayland Flowers, that's for sure!

He got new teefs!

A lot of them, r22!

what did he do specifically to his face?

Maybe he fell on his face and needed to have it reconstructed.

It's the closet curse!

Contractors are rich cunts, don't ever think they are poor.

I know quite a few and one of them is foreign born and he owns a fucking hotel in his home country. He makes all the money in the US and send back to his family. His family manages the hotel in a resort beach area of his country.

He's from Vegas right? He will fit right in going home and playing a casino at the far end of the Strip. Someone has to replace the old guard. The Newtons and Humperdincks of the world aren't getting any younger, and we need new ghoulish blood to take their places.

He was so fucking cute, no need to mess with his face and teefs.

You think a contractor did that t his face, r27?

He's giving love child of Alex Moffat's Eric Trump and Mkey Day's Don Jr.

Just an overdose of Botox. He’ll recover.

[quote]He's from Vegas right?

No, he's from Utah and is very mormon.

He danced around disavowing the mormon position on gay people, causing DL and other to believe he was anti-gay. I stopped listening to them and following them because of this. However, he's clearly modified his stance since the group initially hit big. From an article in 2021:

[quote]Many of the songs are inspired by real-life people Brandon knew in his youth. Among them, the 40-year-old said, will be a song dedicated to the queer men in Flowers’ life that felt unable to come out in 1990s Nephi, Utah, where Flowers grew up...The album’s third song will be “Terrible Things” and is described by the outlet as a “dark” number that “centres on a gay teenager who is contemplating suicide”.

But, even in 2015, he danced around the mormon/gay conflict while maintaining his mormon faith.

What with this, the Roseanne Holocaust revelations, the "man" who had a baby, and people picking on Greg without remorse or reprisal, I declare that Datalounge has lost its cotton-pickin' mind. It's all just a little too much.

Brandon, those teefs.

[quote]What with this, the Roseanne Holocaust revelations, the "man" who had a baby, and people picking on Greg without remorse or reprisal, I declare that Datalounge has lost its cotton-pickin' mind. It's all just a little too much.

Oh, the humanity...

He looks like his aunt, Madame Flowers.

At least, with a face like that, now he can go to all the gay bathhouses of WeHo without ending up being the obvious answer to, yet again, another blind item on agcwebpages along the line of "which rock band frontman was seen walking along the corridors of a gay bathhouse, thinking no one recognized him. They all did."

I see a little Matt Gaetz in there.

That’s so sad. He was very hot

[quote]which rock band frontman was seen walking along the corridors of a gay bathhouse, thinking no one recognized him

Please, tell me more!

Gay face….

One emoji, 🤡.

Sweet jesus that is awful. He used to be so hot.

His face has changed so much over his career. He started like this.

Then grew into this gorgeous mug! Uh, take me now.

Now, he looks so different again.

Flowers is a fag name.

Why did he turn himself into John Davidson (of the John Davidson show and That's Incredible) ?

Brandon was a very cute twink but in denial, oh, how much. Now he looks like one of the Righteous Gemstones.

Girrrrrrl!

So mascular, r48!

There's no way he hasn't had a dick in his mouth.

I am LIVING FOR the über-frau decor in r45's pic. Was that pic taken at Brandon's meemaw's house?

R50 And/or in his ass.

Who has deflowered him?

He was so fucking adorable back in the 2000s, I would've licked every inch of him and then made him breakfast.

R45 Assuming this shot was from granny's house. That border is sweet.

I don’t know her.

[quote] He got new teefs!

[quote] He was so fucking cute, no need to mess with his face and teefs.

Apparently, he was heavily into drugs in the early days of The Killers.

Also, he was a bit heavy and bloated when he was younger.

Then Brandon sobered up and lost a ton of weight. Ever since then, his face has changed.

Perhaps the drugs made his teeth rot, so he had to get veneers. So that part is understandable.

But there's absolutely no reason for him to get plastic surgery at his age, because he looked better than most rockers his age.

What a fool.

Also, Brandon credits "his faith" for his sobriety, which made him "more wholesome."

[quote] The Passion of Brandon Flowers: On His Solo Album, Kicking Booze, and Mitt Romney’s Mormon Shame

Brandon Flowers is mid-rant. If you’ve had the distinct pleasure of meeting the placid, incredibly soft-spoken frontman of The Killers, it’s a rare sight. His publicist is desperate for him to stop, waving her hands in the air, but something has struck a serious nerve.

“When I listen to a rock radio station in Las Vegas, I don’t hear rock ’n’ roll,” he says, shaking his head in frustration. “I don’t even hear fragments of it, and it’s frustrating. I’m not in the most rock ’n’ roll band on the planet, but you can trace what we do to those roots, and I can’t hear it on the radio anymore. And I don’t hear anything that’s good. I’m not being a dick, but I don’t hear anything that’s good.”

He pauses to take a breath. “Everyone goes into their living room, fires up their computer, and are just putting stuff out, and they haven’t earned the right to be where they’re at. These kids that make these keyboard records, it drives me nuts! It’s like, ‘Do you hear New Order? Do you hear it? Because yours is not as good as that! Go back and work harder.’ It’s so strange to me, and there’s so much of it.”

The new wave artist isn’t done. He declares “DJs’ names should not be on songs,” and points to his own dealings with DJs in the past. For years, he says, numerous DJs have tried contacting him through various avenues with the hope of having him sing a hook on one of their dance songs—only the songs aren’t theirs, just the beats. “They don’t write any of their own songs!” he says incredulously. “I’m on the phone with some random guy in Norway who actually wrote the song, talking it through. It’s crazy.”

But Brandon Flowers does write his own songs, thank you very much. He’s written 10 of them for his second solo album, The Desired Effect, which hits stores May 19. Variegated and often sing-along worthy, it’s a big step forward from his previous solo effort, 2010’s Flamingo. Heck its catchy lead single, “Can’t Deny My Love,” has even received the Lorde’s blessing.

We’re seated at the Club Room of New York’s Soho Grand Hotel—a venue that bills itself as “melding downtown style and old New York gentility,” and is filled with leather chairs and a massive framed photo of a circa-1960s Sean Connery in a bathtub hanging on the wall. The 33-year-old singer, meanwhile, is slim, clean-cut, and all-American, like the mild-mannered little brother to Jason Sudeikis (with whom he shares Lithuanian roots).

The previous evening, Flowers turned in a rousing performance at New York’s Webster Hall, wowing the crowd with a mix of newbies and Killers classics like “Mr. Brightside” and a reworked “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine.” And while Flowers has a Jimmy Stewart-aw shucks persona in person, onstage he transforms into a galvanized, wildly gesticulating performer.

“You know, it took a long time,” he says of his stage presence. “I’ve probably done over 1,000 shows now. I just learned to enjoy it more and more, and that’s started to show, and you feel like you’ve earned your place there. There are people who come out onstage and feel like they belong, but it’s taken me a bit longer to get there.”

That journey began in Henderson, Nevada. Flowers is the youngest of six. “You can forget that a person you’re listening to or a person on a marquee has real-life experiences,” he says. “I have four sisters who are all much older than me, so I grew up with the whole plethora of experiences that people go through—divorces, and all these things that go on. I’m not removed from these things.”

One of his biggest life-changing experiences was the transformation of his father, Terry, from a third-generation alcoholic to a loving father—a change he credits to the Mormon faith.

“My dad converted to Mormonism when I was 6, and he smoke and drank. His dad was an alcoholic, and his dad’s dad was an alcoholic, and I saw him turn his life around,” says Flowers. “It had a big impact on me, so as I got older and was coming of age, I came to that same realization of, ‘I don’t know if I want that in my fridge, and I don’t know if I want that stuff around.’ My dad became a better person when he stopped doing all that stuff, so it was a big lesson for me.”

Flowers had just turned 22 when The Killers blew up in 2003 with their single “Mr. Brightside.” When they first tasted fame, Flowers says he gave in to some of the trappings that come with it, smoking and drinking regularly—and sometimes to excess. “It’s so attractive when you’re young,” he says. “You hear the stories and all the rock ’n’ roll mythology, so it’s all there in the palms of your hands. It’s enticing. I never went to rehab or anything, but I drank and smoked.”

He married longtime girlfriend Tana Munblowsky in August 2005, and the two started a family shortly thereafter. Around 2007, with a wife and a son on the way, he decided—like his father before him—to kick booze and cigs and commit himself more fully to the Mormon way of life.

“When I stopped smoking and drinking, instantly the shows started getting better,” says Flowers. “I sang better, I had more longevity, and I felt better. That was about eight years ago. And being committed to my wife and family, I can’t think of a downside to it. There are people in the past who’ve done the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll thing and made it happen for them, but I knew even when I was young that that wasn’t going to work out for me.”

He adds of sobriety, “You’re more yourself, and you’re more wholesome. I believe in God, so I believe it’s the way that He intended us to be.”

Mormonism, of course, became a very hot topic during Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential run. You had not one, but two Mormon presidential candidates (Romney and Jon Huntsman), the opening of the Broadway smash The Book of Mormon, etc. The Killers even held a private lunch with Romney back in February 2011. And there are many high-profile celebs who were raised Mormon, but have since distanced themselves from the faith, including Ryan Gosling and Katherine Heigl.

“The redheaded girl, what’s her name? Amy Adams,” adds Flowers. “A lot of them have nice things to say about it, but none of them practice it anymore. I went a different route.”

And because Romney is a Mormon, his faith came under attack during election season, with many questioning whether a person who believes in the tenets of Mormonism could hold the Oval Office. But the fact that Romney tended to dodge questions about his religion left a very sour taste in Flowers’s mouth.

“It’s still a very misunderstood thing. There’s weird rumors, and somebody just needs to clear it up!” Flowers says of Mormonism. “I think Romney would even admit that he wasn’t a great ambassador for it. His answers weren’t great, and it made it even worse; it seemed like he was hiding something. But there’s really nothing to hide. You can find out what you need to find out! It’s all there.”

As someone moderately familiar with the principles of Mormonism, I ask Flowers about the LDS Church’s stance against same-sex marriages. He pauses. “Do Catholics perform same-sex marriages?” he asks, taking another moment to ponder the query. “I doubt our church ever will perform them. I doubt it. But I was always taught that everyone on this Earth is my brother and sister, so maybe from an outsider’s perspective it looks worse than it really is, but we don’t teach fire and brimstone.”

The LDS Church also doesn’t allow drinking and boozing, but Flowers says he had a bit of “a rebellious streak.” Thankfully, he managed to get a lot of his partying out of his system during his teenage years. Though the family had moved to Utah when he was 8, as soon as Flowers turned 16, his parents let him move to Vegas to live with his aunt. The reason? “Golf,” he says.Flowers’ cousin is on the PGA Tour and his brother is a scratch golfer, so he wanted to go pro. But Utah winters weren’t exactly conducive to a golfing career, so his parents allowed him to move to Vegas where he could play year-round. He got a job on a golf course (“it was like Caddyshack almost,” he recalls) and played for his high school team. It was working on the golf course where he met an eccentric fella by the name of Trevor, who introduced him to music.

“He turned me onto the idea of starting a band,” says Flowers. “And then my car got stolen with my clubs in it, and it was a transitional moment for me because I had just started getting into making music. It was a crossroads if there ever was one, and I just never bought another set of golf clubs. I ended up going into music. I’m thankful for Trevor.”

Now, he’s fronting one of the biggest rock acts around in The Killers, who’ve released four studio albums that have sold over 25 million copies. And he began recording The Desired Effect on Super Bowl Sunday 2014 at L.A.’s Vox Studios with Ariel Rechtshaid, who’s produced for Vampire Weekend and Haim. It took about a year to put the album together, and Flowers says he was influenced by “the dynamic between a man and a woman as you get older, and not being afraid to go into that territory, and the responsibilities I have of being a dad and a husband, and not being prepared for that.”

Despite his recent, impressive solo album, Flowers insists that The Killers are not over. “No, everything is cool!” he says. “This is born out of them wanting to take breaks, so this isn’t, ‘Hey guys, I want to make a solo album so find something else to do for two years.’ This is them saying, ‘We want to take a break.’ I made a record before, and then we made Battle Born. As soon as I finished this record, a text went out to [Killers guitarist] Dave saying, ‘Hey, send me some stuff!’”

As for Flowers’ marriage and family life, he says things are going great there, too. “I’m really happy,” he says, flashing a teethy smile. “I would suggest my route to others.”

Now the outside matches the inside. He's just another creepy Mormon.

Baby Billy!

Mary Louise Wilson’s and Ryan Seacrest’s love child.

I love The Killers, and his solo work. I just don't care about his religious beliefs or appearance. Plus, the real sexpot in the band is the drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr.

^^^ Solo work? Send me the video link, pls.

Yeah that is a teethy smile.

Did he get those teeth done in Turkey like all the British celebs?

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He has Ozempic Mormon Jocelyn Wildenstein Cat Lady face!

I don't know her.

There were two singers who, the minute I saw them, I knew they were gay. And then the next minute I hear that they are somehow married to a woman. I was gobsmacked and I was pissed and I was incredulous. Both guys were the front man of their respective band and both bands had met global success. The first guy was Darren Hayes from Savage Garden and we all know how things turned out for him (and confirmed that my gaydar still is at least somewhat reliable. The second guy is Brandon Flowers and I'm still waiting and waiting and waiting but he might stay in this marriage, I still think he's gay. And now he looks more and more like Liberace.

R71, re: Darren Hayes. "Feels Like It's Over" is a gorgeous song. Brings me to tears every time I hear it. Great video. Very relatable and just a beautiful song. Thank you for reminding me.

He looks like the guy from Lazy Town.

R73!!!!!!! Yes exactly!!!!!!!!! Which is a weird fucking choice. But he went there.

The closet fucks you up.

And he’s only 42?

What’s crazy about The Killers is they were for people my age. I listened to them religiously as a teenager.

Then suddenly they became a Dad band. Lost touch with millennials.

They’re like a younger U2 to me.

Do we think he trolls for cock on tour? Ever so discreetly? Or is he a good little Mormon who gives his balls electric shocks from a taser whenever he starts to fantasize about getting railed by the bellboy? He is really selling this "I'm just a wholesome family guy and everyone should be like me, too. Everyone should be like my born-again Mormon dad."

I’m way way better looking

R74

I happened to be in London during Glastonbury and watched Elton’s set live on BBC so when Brandon walked onstage, it’s all I could think of.

He must’ve spent some time as a meth head…which explains the veneers.

He went to the same surgeon as handsome Squidward

At least he doesn’t look this bad

His wife looks rough kind of like a bulldagger

I really like his name.

I know a Chef named Joey Flowers, and he's cute too.

R6 That’s exactly what he looks like. Still one of the greatest bands ever.

Mormon Boy needs to leave his sermons at home.

[quote]The Killers have apologised after lead singer Brandon Flowers was booed for bringing a Russian fan onstage at a concert in Georgia – the former Soviet state that Russia invaded in 2008 – and urging the crowd to think of each other as “brothers and sisters”.

[quote]After the song, Flowers addressed the incident to further boos from concertgoers. “You can’t recognise if someone’s your brother? He’s not your brother?” he asked. “We all separate on the borders of our countries? … Am I not your brother, being from America?”

Plastic surgery is rarely done well, so I often wonder why they do it themselves. Especially men, as they can generally get away with a hair transplant/dye and a bit of botox.

Terrible veneers.

Way too much Botox.

Lost too much weight.

A story as old as time.

R88 The weight thing is true. It's hard because if you're fat you're criticised, so you make sure you keep your weight down, but then it's easy to overdo and that makes you look haggard/ill. Life's tough!

He was dull before, he's dull now.

These celebs need to remember that when they get drastic plastic surgery, it just reminds everyone how OLD they are. And they probably looked younger prior to the surgery. Madonna, Brandon Flowers, etc.

He has history here. I stopped paying attention to derivative hackery after they went after Green Day.

And then Richard Dawkins dunked on his Mormonism.

"Brandon Flowers" is just the gayest name ever.

The goal of cosmetic procedures used to be “I just want to look well rested. I don’t want anyone to be able to tell I had something done.”

Now apparently it’s about flashing your terrible Spencer’s chattering teeth all over the place.