"Mr. Brightside" is the debut single of American rock band The Killers.[11] It is taken from their debut studio album, Hot Fuss (2004). Written by band members Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning, it was one of the first songs the Killers ever wrote.[12] Two music videos were made for the song: the first one was shot in black and white and features the band performing in an empty room and the second one was based on the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!.
The song was first released on September 29, 2003. It became more popular when re-released in 2004, peaking at number 10 in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It is the Killers' best-selling song in the US, where it has sold over 3.5 million copies.[13] In the United Kingdom, it is the 3rd biggest selling/streaming song of all time and is the longest-charting single on the UK Official Singles Chart Top 100, having spent over 408 weeks (nearly seven and a half years) on the chart as of 2024[update], and is the most streamed track released prior to 2010.[14][15] It is also one of the top fifteen most downloaded rock tracks ever in the United Kingdom[16] and is the most successful single to never top the British charts.[17] It is one of only two songs (the other being Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You") to have been certified 10× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for 6 million units.
"Mr. Brightside" was named "Song of the Decade" by UK radio stations Absolute Radio and XFM, and in April 2010 Last.fm revealed that it was the most-listened-to track since the launch of the online music service, with the track being played over 7.66 million times.[18] It is the most streamed song on Spotify from the 2000s.[19] In October 2010, it was voted ninth in the Greatest Guitar Riffs of the 21st Century so far by Total Guitar magazine.[20] Additionally, in 2010 Rolling Stone listed "Mr. Brightside" as the 48th-best song of the 21st century,[21] and in 2021, it was ranked number 378 in the same magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.[22]
Recording and production
Lyrically, "Mr. Brightside" depicts a true story of Flowers' jealousy and paranoia when he walked into a bar in Las Vegas and found his girlfriend cheating on him.[23] "I was asleep and I knew something was wrong," he said. "I have these instincts. I went to the Crown and Anchor, a bar in Vegas, and my girlfriend was there with another guy."[23]
Guitarist Dave Keuning composed the music before meeting Flowers. Flowers then wrote lyrics and composed the chorus after hearing Keuning's ideas. Flowers credits the speed of the song's creation to its having only one verse. He says, "We went in and made demos pretty quickly after that, and it took a ton of time. That's also why there's not a second verse... I just didn't have any other lines, and it ended up sticking."[24] Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. is credited with creating the fast-paced drum beat in the first twenty-two seconds.[25] The "calling a cab" section of the song has both a musical and textual similarity to the middle section of the song "Queen Bitch" from David Bowie's album Hunky Dory (1971).[26][27]
The song was mixed for its inclusion on Hot Fuss by Mark Needham, along with business partners Braden Merrick and Jeff Saltzman. The song was first created as a reference mix in just over half an hour "on an 8-input console, with no automation" according to Needham. Despite several subsequent remixes, the members of the Killers preferred the original one, which then made it onto the record. In recording the vocal effects, Saltzman used Echo Farm, sticking with the default vocal effects setting. Needham says it "overdrives the vocal a bit and sets an 84 ms delay."[28]
"Mr. Brightside" is written in the key of D♭ major[29] with a moderately fast tempo of around 148 BPM.
History
In their first performance together as the Killers, Flowers and Keuning played "Mr. Brightside" as part of a two-song open-mic night set at Las Vegas' Cafe Roma. Of the performance, Flowers says "It was terrible, awful."[30] In November 2001, the group had recorded "Mr. Brightside" along with three other demos including "Desperate", "Replaceable", and "Under the Gun" at Mike Sak's Kill the Messenger Studio in Henderson, Nevada. They handed out a demo of the song for free during their shows in 2002. After signing with UK indie label Lizard King Records, the track was sent to radio as a buzz single[clarification needed] and it was frequently played by BBC Radio 1 DJ's Zane Lowe and Steve Lamacq as well as being play-listed by XFM. Just one week after its April release, MTV2 secured a deal to air the song for a week.[31]
In one of the song's first reviews, The Washington Post stated, "dashing through the tune as if it were a power ballad on speed, Flowers and company had the capacity crowd pulsing along with glee."[34] "Mr. Brightside" became a popular song within the Las Vegas music scene with one reviewer calling it a "feel-good anthem that ranks as one of the best local tracks in a long time".[35] In positive reviews, NME said the song was filled with "ambition, sex, and noise"[36] while Rolling Stone described the song as having "swelled with anthemic majesty".[37]The Guardian considered "Mr. Brightside" to be the most overplayed song, and noted that it has been played "on the radio. In the supermarket. In the pub. The office. In a cab. Thrumming through your neighbours' wall. [...] Blasted out at every party or wedding you'll attend for the rest of your life."[38] In 2020, Paste ranked the song number three on their list of the 20 greatest Killers songs,[39] and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number one on their list of the 10 greatest Killers songs.[40]
Commercial performance
"Mr. Brightside" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 40 on February 12, 2005,[41] and peaked at No. 10 on June 11,[42] thus making it a sleeper hit. The song reached 3.5 million in sales in 2016.[43]
In 2005, "Mr. Brightside" was the sixth most downloaded song on iTunes.[44] To this day "Mr. Brightside" still has the highest popularity rating that iTunes offers, even after being available for purchase for nearly 20 years.[citation needed] Additionally, sales of Hot Fuss album reached over 5 million sales by 2006.[45] The online music streaming service Last.fm reported in 2010 that "Mr. Brightside" was the most downloaded song on the website.[46] By July 2014, the song sold more than 820,000 copies in the United Kingdom,[47] making it the UK's No. 12 most downloaded rock track of all time.[16]
As of April 2021[update], "Mr. Brightside" has spent 260 non-consecutive weeks, or five years, on the UK Singles Chart, the most out of any song.[48][49] As of 2017[update], it had charted on the UK Singles Chart in 11 of the last 13 years,[50] including a 35-week run peaking at number 49 in 2016–2017.[51] On January 5, 2024, the song re-entered the UK Official Singles Chart Top 40 exactly ten years after its last week on this part of the chart. According to the data from the Official Charts website, there have now been three periods when the song has been in the Top 40 chart. It was the UK's most streamed pre-2010 song, until it was surpassed by Oasis' "Wonderwall" in late 2018,[52][failed verification] and continued to be purchased for download hundreds of times a week by 2017.[53] In March 2018, the song reached the milestone of staying in the Top 100 of the UK Singles Chart for 200 weeks.[53] Explanations have included the song's popularity at parties, its popularity on streaming services, and the continued presence of the Killers as a popular live band in the UK.[51][53] According to the Official Charts Company, the song has been streamed 281 million times in the UK and has sold 3,520,000 copies there as of April 2021.[48]
In October 2023 "Mr Brightside" reached 300 weeks in total on Ireland's singles charts, despite never having been in the Irish top forty.[54]
In May 2024, "Mr Brightside" overtook Oasis' "Wonderwall" to become the UK's most successful song of all time that had not reached number one.[55]
Music videos
There are two videos for Mr. Brightside: the first version (also known as the UK version) was filmed in Staten Island, New York, and was directed by Brad and Brian Palmer under their studio Surround. Later on in the year and following the success of debut single "Somebody Told Me" the label decided to create a higher budget video for the US market: the second video (also known as the US version) was filmed in Los Angeles, California. Directed by Sophie Muller, the video stars Flowers, Izabella Miko, and Eric Roberts in a love triangle, occurring within the context of a burlesque show.
The US version won an MTV VMA in 2005 for Best New Artist in a Video, beating other nominees such as John Legend, Ciara, The Game, and My Chemical Romance.[56]
The photos featured on the inner sleeve of the album Hot Fuss were shot on set during the filming of the UK version music video and were inspired by the black and white look of that video.
Releases and cover versions
In 2005, Stuart Price released a remix of the song under his pseudonym Jacques Lu Cont. Reviewers were generally negative: for example, Michael Paoletta said this version "depletes the song of its energy and intensity". That same year, this song as well as two others by the Killers (Smile Like You Mean It and Somebody Told Me) reached the Billboard Top 20 single chart.[57][58] An extended version of the Stuart Price remix of the song was featured on the Killers' 2007 B-side and rarities compilation, Sawdust.[59][60] During the tour for Brandon Flowers's solo record, he performed the remix version with Stuart Price during his show at Brixton Academy and has since performed it on his tour as the show closer, again in the remix form.
An early demo of the song featured Dave Keuning on bass and Matt Norcross on drums, before Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci were members of the band. The original demo was officially released on the 2013 compilation album Direct Hits. On the Killers' 2012 album Battle Born, they released "Miss Atomic Bomb", which is considered a companion song to "Mr. Brightside" lyrically.
The song has also been covered by the Vitamin String Quartet, Boyce Avenue and on the UK television show Orange Unsigned Act by contestant Tommy Reilly. Additionally, a cappella versions have been produced by groups including Wheaton College's Gentlemen Callers, MIT's Resonance[61] and Boston-based Overboard. Flowers performed the song during his solo tour in 2010. Indonesian hardcore band Thirteen also covered this song. The Wanted covered the song as part of a medley of the Killers songs during their summer 2013 live shows.[62]Kelly Clarkson covered the version live on The Kelly Clarkson Show.[63] An acoustic version of the song covered by British singer-songwriter Charlotte Campbell was played during Love Island series 7 in 2021.[64]
In the episode "The New Era" of the teen drama series The O.C., which aired on December 2, 2004, the Killers play various songs from Hot Fuss, including "Mr. Brightside", "Everything Will Be Alright", and "Smile Like You Mean It" during a scene involving a double-date in the Bait Shop.[66][67][68]
In the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday, Amanda Woods (portrayed by Cameron Diaz) sets the CD player to play the song, then ironically dances to it and shout-screams the chorus while drunk and holding a glass of red wine, to avoid remembering the infidelity of her boyfriend.[69][70][71][72][73]
The song is part of Chantelle's best bits on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
"Mr. Brightside" is also briefly featured in the 2007 romantic comedy Rabbit Without Ears.
The song is also briefly featured in the 2013 film About Time.
"Mr. Brightside" is the opening theme to the 2020 BBC Wales mini-documentary A Special School.
In the British TV sitcom Bloods, the lead characters sing along to "Mr. Brightside" in the car in the opening episode of series 2.[74]
In December 2023, the song was released as a purchasable track in the video game Fortnite.[76]
Use in sporting events
The song has become a crowd favorite among Michigan Wolverines football fans at Michigan Stadium, where fans in excess of 110,000 sing along to the tune when it is played in the fourth quarter.[77][78] While a hit in 2016, the tradition rose to prominence in 2017 when the crowd sang the second half of the chorus a cappella during a rain-soaked Michigan State game.[78] It rose to further prominence during the resurgence in fortunes of the program in the early 2020s, including during the team's run to the 2023 national championship, their first since 1997. The ritual has inspired "Mr. Brightside" Michigan-themed merchandise.[79]
The 2017 football season saw the song being sung in unison by the student SuperFans at Alumni Stadium during Boston College Eagles football games, and has become the unofficial go-to song for Boston College fans during sporting events.
English darts player Nathan Aspinall uses "Mr Brightside" as his walk-on music, often resulting in raucous sing-a-longs with the usually energetic audiences.
The Buffalo Bills play the song in the second half of home games, leading an energizing sing along as Bills players play air guitar, riling up the legendary Bills Mafia for the final stretch of games. The emergence of "Mr. Brightside" as a Bills anthem began in full earnest in 2024 after the song had been played at Bills tight end Dawson Knox's wedding, after which the Bills players began using it as a hype song during regular season games.[83][84]
The Killers paused a concert in London in July 2024 to allow the fans to watch the end of the UEFA Euro 2024 semi-final match between England and the Netherlands. As the match ended, a series of red and white streamers were fired from cannons, with the band immediately launching into a rendition of Mr. Brightside.[85] The band later posted on their Twitter account that they "played for England",[86] with some referring in jest to the song as now being the "alternate England National Anthem".[87]
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^Rolling Stone Staff (June 28, 2018). "The 100 Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 31, 2023. Except "Mr. Brightside," a frenzied mash of jealousy and paranoia, New Wave and post-punk that achieved chart success the Strokes could only dream of.
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