The Killers’ “Somebody Told Me” has joined the Spotify Billions Membership. The second single from the band’s multi-platinum 2004 debut, Scorching Fuss, has been filling dancefloors for over twenty years.
“This is the story of trying to meet someone in a club,” frontman Brandon Flowers mentioned of the music, which options an androgynous refrain: “Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend/Who looked like a girlfriend.”
Forming in 2001, the Las Vegas quartet gigged relentlessly within the US and first gaining a world foothold when an early model of future hit “Mr. Brightside” premiered on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 present in August 2003. The band signed with Island and commenced engaged on their debut album with producer Jeff Saltzman throughout that very same yr. An encounter with The Strokes’ Is This It made Flowers rethink the band’s method: “When we put it on in the car, that record just sounded so perfect. I got so depressed after that, we threw away everything, and the only song that made the cut and remained was ‘Mr. Brightside.’”
Each “Mr. Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me” had already cracked Prime 10s on either side of the Atlantic when Scorching Fuss was launched on June 7, 2004. The album went to No.7 within the US and No.1 within the UK and shortly gathered a sequence of Grammy and BRIT Award nominations. The Killers’ subsequent album was 2006’s Sam’s City.
In 2023, “Mr Brightside,” was named the most-streamed music on Spotify within the UK. Final yr, Guinness World Information acknowledged’ “Mr. Brightside” for its extraordinary chart success in the UK, turning into the longest keep by a bunch. Additionally in 2024, The Killers celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Scorching Fuss with a particular Las Vegas residency, performing the file entrance to again for the primary time ever.
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