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"She was the low person I saw when we came on stage," guitarist Jamie Hince tells Spinner.
"Someone told us that she had been listening to our ['Blood Pressures'] record and that she was going to get to our show."
After the show, the pop star went backstage to talk her praise to Hince and bandmate Alison Mosshart - and, it turns out, the passion is definitely reciprocated. "Her music's awesome!" says Mosshart.
Although the two sound nothing alike, musically, Hince says he sees similarities.
"If you mind to 'Single Ladies,' there's definitely a similarity to playground songs, and that was my big inspiration - all those playground songs - for [our 2008 record], 'Midnight Boom.' So when I heard 'Single Ladies' afterward it was like, 'Oh, she's doing the 'Midnight Boom'! It's similar!"
Hince also adds that the both of them share a mutual concern in the use of drum machines. "I like rhythm, I wish drum beats and I like her claim on R&B; she has a round to her vocal delivery that's amazing."
If you're looking for an impressive show, Hince recommends Beyonce over rock bands.
"You see all these rock bands and you mean they're really it and really happening but they just move onstage, with their nonchalance and not caring," says Hince. "Go and see Beyonce and Jay Z and every one second has been taken charge of where there's something going on; they put rock bands to shame."
The Kills aren't particularly sure what they personally contribute to their own shows ("I don't love what we get to live shows because I can't actually see us," Hince says) but surely, they're not bringing you the same point as Beyonce.
"It's not the like kind of thing," says Hince. "It's not choreographed like a Beyonce show or a James Brown show used to be. Our record is like soul music; it only feels like we're acting from our souls and we pass to go around."
Categorize the Kills however you care but, whatever you do, don't liken them to an indie band.
"If you're an indie band, you're generally self-conscious - that's what I see when I see an indie band," says Hince. "Conscious of what they are doing; conscious of how they occur across; conscious of the way they've chosen. With stone and wind bands, you only do it and you comprehend the theatrics of it; you embrace rock and cast as a performance."
The component of spontaneity plays a key part in the Kills, both lively and on record, but Mosshart admits that it can be hard to achieve.
"It's practically impossible with a drum machine but it's more of the position or the brain than it is a reality half the time," she says. "You just kind of go up there and decline to repeat yourself in a sure way."
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