{"id":974240,"date":"2020-01-03T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=933244"},"modified":"2020-01-03T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:23:48","slug":"franz-ferdinand-are-trending-after-suleimani-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/franz-ferdinand-are-trending-after-suleimani-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Ferdinand Are Trending After Suleimani Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Franz Ferdinand<\/a> frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group\u2019s namesake, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the United States\u2019 assassination of Iran\u2019s top military commander, Qassim Suleimani.<\/p>\n

Suleimani was killed in a drone strike, which President Donald Trump authorized, at Baghdad International Airport Friday morning, as The New York Times<\/i><\/a> reports. The move came after months of mounting tensions between the United States and Iran, and the assassination of Suleimani has sparked fears that tensions will continue to escalate, if not prompt an actual war. Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has already promised retaliation after a period of mourning.<\/p>\n

As such, people on social media began comparing the assassination of Suleimani to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose 1914 death is widely cited as the catalyst for what would eventually become World War I.<\/p>\n

On Twitter<\/a>, Kaparos responded to this surreal mix of events, saying, \u201cThis is not how I wanted to see the name of my band trending on Twitter #FranzFerdinand.\u201d When a user suggested they maybe should\u2019ve seen it coming when they chose such a name, Kaparos replied<\/a>, \u201cI naively presumed that history was something best learned from rather than repeated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is not how I wanted to see the name of my band trending on Twitter #FranzFerdinand<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u0391\u03bb\u03b5\u03be \u039a\u03b1\u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 (@alkapranos) January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the band\u2019s main account added, \u201cFor the record, we think #WWIII is a bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For the record, we think #WWIII<\/a> is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Franz Ferdinand (@Franz_Ferdinand) January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Franz Ferdinand released their most recent album, Always Ascending<\/i>, in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group\u2019s namesake, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the United States\u2019 assassination of Iran\u2019s top military commander, Qassim Suleimani. Suleimani was killed in a drone strike, which President Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 08:22:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}