So there's this new song out by The Killers that makes my brain go to the strangest place. It's called "Read My Mind," (lyrics here), and it doesn't make me think of killing or mind reading or Main Street USA, or anything like that. Instead it makes me think of . . Sanjay Leela Bhansali's .Devdas.
Yeah that's right. These guys:

make me think of this:

What the hell? This has been bugging me for days, perhaps weeks. It's specifically the main choral chord of the Killers song which reminds me of Devdas. (Killers YouTube video here.) And I've been convinced that it's the same as a specific chord or theme that runs throughout the soundtrack of Devdas, which I haven't heard in months or weeks--so much so that when I heard it on the radio tonight I wanted someone to make a mashup of the two. But when I dug out my copy of the soundtrack, I realized I couldn't quite find it--it was in neither of the spots in the movie I thought it was in, though something slightly similar is. (YouTube videos after the jump.) Now maybe it's somewhere in the movie in some form more similar to the Killers song. Or maybe they really are different but still deeply similar. Or maybe they are similar in only that superficial and common way that musical amateurs are often overly impressed by, as described in this New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell. Maybe the Killers use a major version and Devdas uses a minor version? Or maybe I'm totally crazy. But even though the Killers' chord isn't in any of the clips I've found, it still reminds me of Devdas. Is there a term for this kind of auditory confusion? Anyone have a similar experience with some other odd pairing of musical sources? And is there any hope for a decent mashup? (The lyrical themes are not totally contrary.)

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