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What song did you love until you found out what it was about? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Schal330@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago

Mr Brightside by the Killers. The tune was good and felt energetic when it came about, but it's about a guy being cheated on. Having had someone cheat on me around the time it came out it hit really close to home and I just don't enjoy listening to the song.

The problem with being in the UK is that it's so overplayed and I just have to tune it out.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 weeks ago

It's not. It's about a guy who can't beat jealousy and believes he's being cheated on "except it's all in [his] head"

[-] Schal330@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah my bad. I thought the song was written by Brandon Flowers after catching his girlfriend cheating on him in a bar in his hometown of Las Vegas.

https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/the-killers/what-is-the-killers-song-mr-brightside-about/

During lockdown in April 2020, the frontman looked back at the video and noted: "It's just a song about betrayal. I was betrayed and I was able to turn it into a masterpiece".

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

From the article "The lyric is about a man who is obsessed with a girl that is seeing another man… and the thoughts that go through his head, imagining what they’re doing behind closed doors…" I guess I was wrong, it's envy not jealousy.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's a song about a nice guy not getting his crush.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

I second one of the other commenters who says that the song is about the perception of being cheated on. It's funny, after the first day I ever went on with my partner that song played and for a little while we considered it our song, then eventually kind of faded as they both realized the song didn't relate to us very well. Now I can look back years later, after going through a lot of therapy and self enrichment and I can realize that those kind of paranoia really did plague our early relationship. I'm glad that we were able to move on from it

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