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September 11, 2006
Very Strange Part 1: The Name Jesus Deleted Out of the Killers' Song?
On Sunday night my wife and I were at the movies at The Grove in Los Angeles. And we showed up about 30 minutes before showtime so we decided to go grab our seats early. And as we were sitting there the theatre was scrolling through all the advertisements on screen and playing music in the theatre. Pretty normal stuff for theatre going. Then as we were listening to the music the Las Vegas band The Killers began playing their hit song When You Were Young. Here are the opening lines of the song:
"You sit there in your heartache, waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways".
"He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, But he talks like a gentlemen, Like you imagined when you were young".
Why am I telling you this? Not because I think it's some Christian song, or some instance where a secular band gets it right, or because I think it's cool that they mention Jesus in their song. Rather, I'm telling you this because everytime they mentioned the name "Jesus" in the song it was deleted out from the music. Bleeped out, whatever you want to call it. When Jesus' name was supposed to be in the song you got nothing instead...silence, then a pickup with the words following it. This wasn't a band editing their work, but the movie theatre, or some other powers that be.
So weird. Why would that happen? Is it the theatre? It's not some proclamation from some Christian band that the secularists would fear being allowed to play in the theatre. My wife and I thought we were hearing things, or in this case, not hearing things. But no, we listened to the whole song closely, and every instance of the name "Jesus" was taken out.
Very strange. I wish I could shed some light on this, but I can't. I just wanted to share. I like the song so I was wondering why it would have been edited.
The Killers, music, Pacific Theatres
Posted by rhett at September 11, 2006 11:36 PM
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