We have an early contender for Twitter beef of 2017, and it's served with your choice of brown or white rice.
I'm thinkin' orange chicken for life and we'll let you off the hook for using our stuff.
Over a decade after their hit album Hot Fuss, the Killers spotted what they claimed as their lyrics in a pretty unexpected place: inside a Panda Express fortune cookie.
"Smile like you mean it," the fortune said, in what the band took as a reference to their song of the same title.
The band tweeted the fortune on Sunday and demanded royalties in the form of "orange chicken for life."
People are living for the ~drama~.
@thekillers
The band I love most blackmailing the restaurant I hate most...this is one of the most satisfying days of my life. https://t.co/TrmLhjEfkv
and someone is calling my name from the back of panda express https://t.co/XEkJRWFYEi
And rooting for them to get their lifetime of free Panda Express.
Oh my gosh imagine getting free Panda express for life tho https://t.co/Jj8hZj9FqN
Just make your next single "Honey Walnut Shrimp" and call it a wash. https://t.co/XcUfULiRhv
Though others don't think the band has much of a case.
You don't own the words Smile like you mean it & I think you'd find them hard to copyright tbh. https://t.co/ThUCF1IJZu
this just in: the killers invented every generic phrase ever https://t.co/e9mVA71SkB
Panda Express later responded to say that "when it comes to #OrangeChickenLove, we always mean it" — though no word as to whether the Killers' demands will be met.
.@thekillers When it comes to #OrangeChickenLove, we always mean it.
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Panda Express to find out if they'll be paying up.