Vegas rockers the Killers have just released a new single but their 2004 debut, Mr Brightside, is remarkably still in the charts, having clocked up 326 weeks in the Top 100. What’s the hot fuss about this anthem of overcoming betrayal?
Killers devotees Tim Chapman and Hannah Follows investigate its legacy in their party-starting comedy that reaches a crescendo to match the song’s. They start (how else?) by climbing out of an actual cage, with Follows sporting a polka dot tie and gold waistcoat like frontman Brandon Flowers. Chapman is clad in a claret smoking jacket in homage to Eric Roberts’ devilish character in Mr Brightside’s baroque and sublimely silly video, which gets affectionately lampooned here with some rewritten lyrics.
