sex on fire is the first single released from american rock band kings of leon 's fourth studio album, only by the night Kings of leon released their fourth album later the month on this release, their second in successive years, and by rights the nashville quartet would’ve be running short on ideas The song was supposed to be set us on fire, but as we were playing, one of the sound mixers in the studio strolled in and said, 'sex on fire, huh? and we continued to joke about it as a sort of running gag Sex on fire was just kind of a little lyric just to fill in to kill some time until we could actually write something that wasn't about sex and fire. the video was directed by sophie muller, whose credits include smile by lily allen and grace kelly by mika. Remaining illusive to music scribes, with its elusively abstruse lyrical quality and refusal to reveal its thesis on first or 1,000th listen, king of leon’s sex on fire is perhaps the form’s most densely compacted and complex song, pregnant with hidden meaning But now the band has finally broken its silence on its masterpiece.
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