if that's the way that you feel, then that's the way that you feel

[hardparade]

A Kills!spam because...just because. It's short though, I promise! :)






♥


Are...are those matching jackets? I think they are. Also, Alison should wear her hair up more often.






WHAT? I don't even know.








...You can never have too much guitar!sex.



Before I start involving Kate Moss in this, can we talk about this quote from an interview in 2005? I'm pretty sure it's the most they've ever talked about the onstage dynamic between them, and it's so interesting.

JAMIE: This tour, more than any tour before, people are just coming up because they're fans. Whereas before that, you had people who talked about how someone had namedropped us, or about how there was this sexual chemistry thing. They'd say, IT WAS LIKE FUCKING ON STAGE!
INTERVIEWER: Can you deny that though? Because it IS like fucking on stage! It's the most fucking I've ever seen on stage in my life!
JAMIE: (chuckling)
INTERVIEWER: WHAT? You're laughing now, but—
ALISON: I can't deny it, because that's what people see. But you know, that's the beauty of performance, that's the beauty of being on stage and feeling free to do whatever you want. The stage is the fucking line. That's your space, and all those people on the other side are, well...it's you against them. And they're thinking what they want to think.
INTERVIEWER: Can you honestly say that you didn't expect that reaction when you were writing and rehearsing these songs?
JAMIE: Yes, I can honestly say that.
ALISON: Look, we don't know what we're like, to other people. We write everything, and it's just the two of us, in a room. We play it on the stage like it's just the two of us in that room. We don't even look at anybody. We never knew, for a really long time, what people were thinking. I don't think you can plan on that stuff. You can't just decide to be that way. On stage, I can't control any of it.
INTERVIEWER: So what's going through your heads, when you're up there, fucking on stage—haha, okay, as people see it. What are you experiencing?
ALISON: It's like daydreaming.
JAMIE: I've already cut off the rest of the world, really. We spend 24 hours a day together. We work together, we live together, we socialize together. And everything, to me, that one hour of being on stage, is just a build-up to that. We just try to get lost in it. We really don't even know what we're doing. I don't build any sort of sexual thing. For people watching it, well, if that's what they get then that's what they get. It's definitely not going through my head. I'd love to be able to, some days, to just go off the stage and just walk all over everybody and just beat a couple of people with a guitar, but I don't do that, so it just comes out in weird ways.

I find it so fascinating that they just...don't see it as sexual. I mean, I like to see it as sexual, I like my theory of a build-up of sexual tension and the stage being the only place they can safely let it out without hurting their relationship. But I like that they see it as more than that, that Jamie apparently puts some violence into it, that it's just an explosion of feeling for each other, that they get lost in. That's so powerful. Gahhh. I really want to know how it was when that first happened. And why they kept doing it. It's so interesting.

But anyway, Kate Moss.


I still want Alison/Kate.


Just saying.


Kate wearing Alison's shirt. They share clothes, you guys!


NEW FAVOURITE PICTURE.

I still have no idea if Kate's involvement interests anyone but me. I had a giant crush on her when I was like 13 and I guess my interest in her has kind of stuck. Also, femslash is awesome??

Comments

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Aww, yay! I guess it's worth checking back at the moment, lol. It's (obviously) become a weird fascination of mine too, and it sucks that there's so little out there in terms of actual discussion. I will happily take the blame. XD

I totally agree, there's definitely sexual tension there. What's so interesting is that they don't see that themselves! It's almost like they REFUSE to see it, because they don't want to deal with what that would mean? Or something?? I don't even know. But I mean, the positions they get into onstage, regardless of whether it actually has any sort of sexual effect on their bodies...it's definitely sexual. Their denial of that is endlessly fascinating, lol.

I'm glad you're interested in Kate's involvement too, and omg I love the idea of her being the bridge between them. I've been toying with the idea of writing a Jamie/Kate/Alison threesome, and the way I saw it working was for Kate to interact sexually with both of them at once. Sort of willingly being that bridge? And giving them what they can't give each other. I just love the idea of Jamie and Alison being together in a sexual way without it being in the normal sort of conventional way. I mean, that's kind of how it is already with the way they are on stage, and there are just so many possibilities!

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yeah, that's a really interesting point about sex making the relationship TOO intense, even for them. Because I mean, it's crazy intense as it is, but they can cope with it, you know? But they might think that if they had sex, or even kissed, it might just double all of the feelings. It makes sense, too, because when they first met she was so young and the age difference probably seemed a lot more of a factor, and so he just didn't think of her in a sexual way, and by the time he might have started to, their relationship was already too important to risk anything. Risk ruining it, or risk making it even MORE important and therefore dangerous.

Lol, they probably do just have fun denying it. It's interesting in that interview snippet I posted though, because it was fairly early on in the band and they just genuinely seem so...oblivious, you know? The interviewer even thinks they're a couple at first and mentions it in passing, and they have to correct him. I think over time they started to like playing with the 'are they/aren't they' angle more, though.

:D It just seemed oddly romantic to me, in a way that's kinda hard to explain. They'd be together, naked, having sex right beside each other on the bed, but it wouldn't seem as dangerous to their relationship because they wouldn't be doing anything to each other. It's so hard to explain! It just makes sense in my head somehow.

[starrlit-eyes.livejournal.com]

YOU LIKE THE KILLS?!
I am so late to this news. You just keep getting more awesome, by the way.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

SO LATE. Well, only like a week or so but did you see my giant post about them??

Yaaaay more Kills fans on my flist. ♥

[sagee-x3.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm definetly interested in Kate's involvement in this. I used to have a bit of a girl-crush on her as well when I was younger. Actually...I think I might still do.

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

I kind of still do, too. She's just...really sort of effortlessly awesome. The same way Alison is, really. And her involvement is so interesting. The only way I can make sense of the three of them actually genuinely getting along all the time is by deciding she's sleeping with both of them. ;)

[mnamanarayana.livejournal.com]

They're being disingenuous.

"ALISON: Look, we don't know what we're like, to other people. We write everything, and it's just the two of us, in a room. We play it on the stage like it's just the two of us in that room."

So Jamie rubbed his guitar against her crotch as she knelt and laid back writhing in "a room" while they "wrote" the songs? I don't think so. Of course it's a performance on stage and of course they expect the reaction they get. It seems like they are pretending to blame the audience for having dirty minds. I know pole dancers who are a lot more honest about what they do. They don't claim they're just expressing themselves artistically and it's the audience's fault if they read something else into it. Except when there's a police raid.

Mind you, although it's hard to believe, YouTube only started in February 2005. There was pretty much nothing on there until 2006. The Kills probably didn't see their own performances until then. Having the fans hold up a mirror to the band from cellphone videos and blog posts seems to have hit bands hard. The Dead Weather's new album title, "Sea of Cowards" apparently refers to bloggers and commentators like um...us, on LJ and elsewhere.