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The song is in the verse-chorus form. The first time through the chorus, the last F chord is cut off. Billboard called the song "wildly infectious", and "as addictive as nickel slots". Blender asserted that the single is a "superb blaze of synthesizers and guitars that builds to the year's best one-liner: 'Somebody told me you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend I had in February of last year.

Entertainment Weekly hailed the single as "three smashingly punchy minutes of garage pop so tightly wound that singer Brandon Flowers seems to be accusing his girl of cheating on him with another woman.

Michael Paoletta of Billboard praised the remixes done by, respectively, Josh Harris and King Unique for "maintaining the original song's integrity" but recommended readers to buy the album, Hot Fuss , rather than the single. Chance May 17, at pm. Read My Mind. The Killers. Contact News About Privacy Policy.

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The single peaked at number 51 on the United States Billboard Hot In the United Kingdom, it charted at number 28 upon its first release in March , becoming the band's first hit in the Top 40, it was then re-released in January and reached number three.

In Australia, the song was ranked number four on Triple J's Hottest of Sin city, The Strip. It shows the Killers performing their song in the moonlight of a desert location, with a giant LED screen displaying rolling, and flashing images of their logo, as well as an alternate version of the video shot during the day.

The imagery in the video pays homage to that of " Crystal " by English alternative dance group New Order ; the Killers named themselves after the fictitious band performing in the New Order video. The band performed the song during an appearance on an episode of Saturday Night Live , hosted by Topher Grace in They also performed the song at the Sideshow Lollapalooza in June The song appears as a master track in Rock Band 4.

The song also appears in the background in a bar in a scene from the movie Rocky Balboa. In , American metalcore band Motionless in White released a cover of the song. Alternative rock post-punk revival new wave dance-rock disco. Island Lizard King. Brightside " " Somebody Told Me " " Mr. Brightside re-issue " This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture.

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