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How and Why Has "Mr Brightside" Never Left the UK Charts?

An Important Roundtable Discussion.

Nobody outside Las Vegas gave a shit about The Killers in 2003 when they first released "Mr Brightside". However, when the single was re-released in 2004 there was a global change of heart and ev-e-ry-body suddenly gave an enormous shit about The Killers. As a result, four lads in business casual attire rapidly became one of the biggest bands of the 21st century off the back of an indie club night closer about infidelity, paranoia and jealousy – or a secret same-sex relationship resulting in passionate murder, depending on your sources.

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For reasons unknown, "Mr Brightside" is currently in the UK charts. Coming out of its cage and in at number 93 (ha ha), doing just fine (somebody stop me) between a song by The Vamps and that collaboration ZAYN and Taylor Swift did for 50 Shades Darker, Brandon Flowers is once again, as the saying goes, "at it". But why this song? And why now? Usher's "Yeah!" came out in 2004, where's that? Why not "Hey Mama" by Black Eyed Peas? Or "Drop It Like It's Hot"? What forces have catapulted NME's fifth best track of 2004 back into relevance above all other totems of the past, causing it to once again to reside among the most lucrative hundred songs of the moment in 2017?

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