“Mr. Brightside”: The Jealousy Spiral That Never Lets Up The Killers’ breakout single turns a split-second suspicion into four minutes of pure, clenched-teeth momentum Some songs don’t build to a breaking point — they start there. “Mr. Brightside” hits like a door kicked open: guitars chime, the beat locks in, and Brandon Flowers is already mid-thought, mid-panic, mid-obsession. There’s no warm-up, no scene-setting. You’re dropped straight into a mind that can’t stop replaying what it thinks it saw, and the track’s genius is how it never loosens its grip. It just runs the loop harder. At its core, “Mr. Brightside” […]