People Are Sharing Their Fave Music Conspiracy Theories And Turns Out Brandon Flowers Is Dead?
Coming out of his grave and he's doing just fine.
A few years back, I rounded up some of the more batshit music conspiracy theories peppered across the dark corners (Reddit) of the internet.
From the classics — the real Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by someone called Melissa, Elvis is still alive — to some that really still haunt my nightmares: Katy Perry is a grown-up JonBenet Ramsey, for instance.
Thankfully, there are now even more theories to chat to my sleep paralysis demon about: over the last few days stacks of people have been sharing their favourite tall music tales on Tiktok, from benign pop affairs to Kurt Cobain suicide note allusions to a baffling one about Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem that we cannot make head nor tail of.
One, in particular, has gone viral, in which TikTok user @lordfordbored outlined his theory about the Blink-182 track ‘Adam’s Song’, namely how the suicide note that reportedly inspired the song was Cobain’s:
He was forced to defend the theory in additional videos, as some Blink fans in the comments then argued that the song is supposedly written for a real-life Adam that Blink’s Mark Hoppus knew.
The song does contain direct references to lyrics in Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’ — “I took my time, I hurried up/The choice was mine, I didn’t think enough” — so Hoppus obviously was considering Cobain while writing the track, but Hoppus has confirmed in the past that the real story behind ‘Adam’s Song’ is he was moved by the story of a teenager leaving their family a suicide note.
Another theory looked at the widely whispered, and very alleged, affair between Lorde and Jack Antonoff during the recording of the singer’s 2017 album Melodrama. Elsewhere, a user is convinced that Jared Leto just simply isn’t a real human, and another reckons The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers actually died and was replaced by a lookalike back in the mid-2000s.
Have a gander over them below — and just for the record, Music Junkee does not officially endorse any of these theories.