“Somebody Told Me” by The Killers

"Somebody Told Me" was the second official single from Hot Fuss, the Killers' 2004 debut, and it's a sleek, jittery dance-floor rocker, all twitchy disco hi-hats, synth sparkle and Brandon Flowers wailing like a man who's had one drink too many and lost his nerve. Flowers told Rolling Stone it's about trying to meet somebody in a club, and it moves like one, pulsing in B-flat minor under a strobe.

Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. wrote it together, the band produced it with Jeff Saltzman, who also recorded it, and Alan Moulder mixed it for Island Records.

In Britain it first reached 28 in March 2004, their first top-40 hit there, then climbed to three when it was reissued in January 2005. In America it stopped at 51 on the Hot 100, while in Australia it made number four on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004, and in 2009 it came in at nine in XFM's vote for the top 100 songs of the decade.

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