• Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Its a reference to Bullet with Butterfly Wings - by Smashing Pumpkins. An old 90s song all us middle aged Americans heard on the radio so much that even people who don’t like that band would probably recognize it

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        5 months ago

        If this is the only pumpkins song you know it’s not really representative. This is the most angry teenage angsty song on there, that’s plenty of melodic songs.

        I think people buying the record after hearing only this song would have buyers remorse.

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          5 months ago

          I actually loved this album. This is just the song that got most of the radio play. Tonight, tonight and 1979 are the other radio play songs which represent the overall band better, in my opinion.

    • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      “The world is a vampire” is the opening line from the Smashing Pumpkins hit “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”

      The meme rejects the notion of flat earth by instead asserting that the song is literal and not metaphorical. This was not the expected mode of argument, hence comedy.