The radio presenter started making it a staple of his DJ sets in the mids "just to get that adrenaline rush of watching people sing it back at you". And those moments become something that you hold dear to you," he told The Guardian in Pretty soon, the song began to reappear in the lower reaches of the charts. It made number in the first week of , as fans spent their Christmas record tokens remember those? Once downloads started being counted towards the countdown in July , Mr Brightside would pop into the charts every time The Killers played a festival or toured the UK.
Meanwhile, the song became a staple of wedding parties and student discos. Ed Balls shrugged off his defeat in the Labour leadership race with a karaoke version; and Coronation Street star Andy Whyment made it his party piece on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
In December , Mr Brightside reached the landmark of one million pure sales ie downloads and CD sales. But its unparalleled chart run truly began in , when the Official Chart Company incorporated streams into its calculations.
Since then, it's taken up semi-permanent residence in the lower reaches of the countdown, with million plays, making it the most-streamed song of any track released before At the time of writing, it features on 20, separate Spotify playlists. The company says it's most likely to appear on playlists designed for road-trips, although it also features on compilations called: " Darts: All the walk-on songs " and " Songs that never fail to make white people turnt ". While some bands would grow to resent the idea of being forever associated with their debut single, Flowers says he's proud Mr Brightside has "stood the test of time", insisting that: "I never get bored of singing it.
Asked about the song's record-breaking chart run in , Flowers told the BBC: "We get little glimpses of stuff like that and it's just incredible.
But it's really cool. Last year, he capitalised on the song's success to encourage people to wash their hands during the pandemic. But this is. But according to the band, we've been singing it wrong for the past 18 years.
Who knew? You've all been singing it wrong. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment. Brandon Flowers interview: 'I have a knack for pop'. How Mike Tyson inspired The Killers. Glastonbury: Killers joined by Pet Shop Boys. Image source, Getty Images. Everyone — literally everyone — loves The Killers' roof-smashing hit.
But is its permanence in the UK Top proof that the system is a bit, well, knackered? The musical equivalent of someone having a secret cellar in their house where they keep all the people who stayed too long at parties, letting them argue over the last dab between themselves for all eternity.
Come the pandemic, it virtually acts as a global national anthem. It has charted times and counting. This January, it reached number 49; its highest position in three years. We have thought long and hard about this and come up with a few theories about what might be prompting this return to glory, which we are going to share with you below, because we care. It's May which means it's probably near the end of the uni year. This, in turn, means it's very much time for student houses and accommodation blocks across the land to become sites of revelry unlike any seen during the rest of term.
And, at night, there are parties, which always start with a huge game of Ring of Fire, and are always 'DJed' by a lad called Paddy who won't give anyone else the aux and fucking loves "Mr Brightside. If you're in university now, you are probably just a little too young to remember "Mr Brightside" on its first go-around. You're potentially only familiar with the song because it's one of the three tracks that gets played during the rock bit on a Friday night at the club in your hometown the other ones are "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "All the Small Things" , so its s indie kid nostalgia cred is lost on you.
But that's okay, because to you, "Mr Brightside" means something different—maybe even something better. For you, "Mr Brightside" has always been that sort-of-cheesy-but-ultimately-unbridled-joy-inducing song that comes on near the end of the night when you start hugging people you sometimes see in lectures and shouting in their faces about how you "should totally get coffeeeee?
But can we actually though like this isn't even a drunk thing" even though it absolutely is a drunk thing. As you're saying that, you hear that Paddy's dropped the opening guitar picking of "Mr Brightside" and both you and the person you've slung yourself around throw your arms in the air in recognition, warm beer leaping out of the American-style red cups you're holding and onto the back of some poor twat in front of you.
Immediately, you're compelled to the nucleus of the party, just like everyone else, to dance to this amazing song that, to you, has never really been cool or uncool, it's just made you feel good. You associate it only with having fun, which is exactly why every student in the UK wants to hear it at their end-of-year rager, just after "Tubthumping," and a bit before "Wonderwall. Buried within its sound is the feeling of people loved and lost yet also the thirst to do the same thing all over again with someone new.
It's a tune with two poles: of wettening faces on a dance floor, punctuated silences in a heated car speeding down the motorway during voided hours. Chests filled with the weight of days upon days of pouring rain, flashed smiles and yearning for something more, sick, fucking alibis—all of these things taking control as the song slides back into the Top It's hard to say why this has happened really. Do we need to know? The only answer I have is that Yves Saint Laurent quote about "fashion fades but style is eternal.
0コメント