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Brandon Flowers admits he keeps his shaved facial hair in a bag

by Nicole Villeneuve

Killers singer Brandon Flowers released his second solo album, The Desired Effect, this week. It’s another catchy pop effort, a sound certainly not lacking in his solo work or much of the Killers’ catalogue. In a recent interview with the Independent, Flowers reveals that he actually keeps a bag of his own facial hair clippings to remind himself of those very pop roots.

Wait—what?!

Apparently, around the release of The Killers’ third album Day & Age in 2008, Flowers “started keeping the shavings in a bag.” Apparently the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, a hero of Flowers’, had expressed his dismay over the Killers’ abandonment of pop and foray into Americana rock on Sam’s Town.

“Neil was dead-on with his observation,” Flowers said. “And putting the hair in the bag has sort of become a ritual, I guess. It makes me think about where I stand. There’s always gonna be a part of me that is pop. And I shouldn’t forget that. That’s important. Because there’s nothing wrong with pop. So I keep this bag in a drawer by my sink in the bathroom.”

“And I still do it,” he grins. “I have a Ziploc bag full of hair. I’ll grow five or six days growth, make sure that the sink is dry, use an electric razor, catch it in the sink, and then I’m able to just scoop it into the bag!”

“It’s compacted. And it doesn’t smell. It’s all black but about half way up you start to see some greys. I don’t know what to do with it yet. It means something.”

[via The Independent]