“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.
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 2 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
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Old song? Us middle aged Americans?
My teenage angst has returned, thanks.
dmention7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Has it paid off well?
frankdew@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Now I am bore and old
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Exhibit A: I’ve never cared for Smashing Pumpkins but I know every note and word in this song as if I wrote it.
gregorum@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Right there with you
onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 months ago
Makes this more of a USAian meme than a science meme.
Anti Commercial-AI license
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Because it references a band that was popular all over the world?
Or just because you specifically hadn’t heard of them?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 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.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their grunge was their best work.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Siamese Dream
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 2 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.