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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I am so confused.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Makes this more of a USAian meme than a science meme.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Because it references a band that was popular all over the world?

Or just because you specifically hadn't heard of them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their grunge was their best work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Siamese Dream

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Old song? Us middle aged Americans?

My teenage angst has returned, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Has it paid off well?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Now I am bored and old

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exhibit A: I've never cared for Smashing Pumpkins but I know every note and word in this song as if I wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Right there with you

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 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.