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In doing so, it topped the US Dance Club Songs listing. Here, it did exceptionally well, where it appeared on seven different Billboard charts. One of these countries was the United States. This song proved to be a really big hit critically and commercially.
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It served as the lead single from “Day & Age”, i.e. Island Records put this track out on 22 September 2008.
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We therefore have the full songwriting credits to this track looking like the below: The Killers, a band from Las Vegas, produced this track alongside British musician Stuart Price. And the members of the Killers are individually credited as the writers of “Human”. So all in all it would seem that The Killers are encouraging the audience to be more critical of what’s going on around them, instead of merely doing what they’re socialized to do, as many of said acts and practices are actually contrary to the finer qualities of “human” existence. a person who is afraid to step out of line?Īnd this is not to say that the singer himself is a model of revolutionary fervor, as he admits that he is in fact shook. But still, he’s “looking for the answer”.
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someone who is able to make his own choices in the face of questionable mainstream practices, or “are you dancer”, i.e. Or phrased differently, “are you human”, i.e. However, we really don’t think that this is necessarily the case. This isn’t only about modern society itself being messed up but also the fact that we, its citizens, tend to just go along with the flow. Some have also referred to the issue of moral decadence in today’s society as the thesis statement of this track. To give an illustration, that line where he says “ so long to devotion” was actually inspired by the fact that at the time, Flowers’ parents had been married for 45 years. But as for us younger generations, you rarely hear of people staying together for that long. So that is what he is speaking to, what some have referred to as as a reduction in moral values of people. The second verse is more critical of society itself. After all, if a person decides to give in to the powers-that-be, ultimately that’s their choice. But this time around, Brandon is drawing attention to society at large as being an institution which, most simply put, is devoid of any “good”. But what is obvious is that he is “nervous” or concerned about their wellbeing, seemingly because they are on the verge of following the same path to robothood that he has. compelled to capitulate), he is “kind”, in that he does not put up any type of resistance.Īnd there is also an unidentified addressee alluded to near the end of the verse. It’s not abundantly clear what Flowers is saying to this individual. So with that foreknowledge, we can say that in the first verse the singer is presenting himself as being akin to an object on a factory “line”, so to speak. And as he’s ‘brought up to the platform of surrender’ (i.e. So with that idea in mind, it becomes more apparent that Brandon is not literally singing about the act of dancing. Rather the primary inspiration behind that quote centers on the masses being socialized to blindly comply, with the mention of dancers only being a metaphor or allegory. And as confusing a line as “ are we human, or are we dancer” may be to many listeners, therein lies the secret of deciphering the meaning of this song. That is to say that said line was inspired by a quote which, in its entirety, reads that we are “ raising a generation of dancers, afraid to take one step out of line”.